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trelas ([info]trelas) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-11 19:04:00

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SuperTripping
Yesterday I posted scenes from the first issue of Green's run on Superman/Batman and realized that it would be a crime to not post a certain scene from the third issue of the storyline. At the end of the first issue, Superman has convinced Batman to help him round-up the kryptonite on Earth, so it won't stop him from helping people. It just turns out that there is a lot of it around after the Kryptonite meteor in the first storyline of the title. While they are doing this, Batman receives a weird signal from the satellites, indicating a location of Kryptonite in a certain bar. What bar? The Oblivion Bar, which is basically the hangout for magic-users, so Supes and Bats are simply thrilled in going there. At the bar they do find the kryptonite in a medallion sealed way and are confused by it being silver and so old that Krypton was still around when it was made. At that point Clark picks it up and it goes bam.

Clark goes unconcious and is taken to the satellite to study, with Zatanna there explaining that the kryptonite probably caused an enchancement on Supes, Bats claiming there is no magic, but rather areas not yet studied and Wally names the silver Kryptonite Magic-K. So what did the silver kryptonite do?







Yep, Superman is h- Highly unstable. And it is awesome, even if smell doesn't work that way.

When Zatanna finally sees the amulet which caused this, she recognizes it as a magical artifact used to enslave the mind of an enemy and the only way to remove the curse is through it's sister amulet. Where is that amulet? On Dinosaur Island. They actually poke a lot of fun on the existance of the island.

Zee and Bats learn from a tribe on the island that the other amulet is located in a volcano, but that no one with godly powers can enter it as it is guarded by enchantments left by a jealous god. That leaves pretty much Batman to be the one to retrieve it. Meanwhile, at the satellite...



That 'Stupid Batman' line just cracks me up. A small word warning at this time as the story now transitions to a sadder tone.





Okay, Batman's stand on magic is pretty hilarous, but still.



I realize some people will disagree with me, but to me those last few panels were just so powerful and in a way sad in how Supes didn't get that about Bats, even though they were close enough to be brothers. With that I end this post, once again hoping that the people enjoyed these pages as much as I did.


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[info]jaybee3
2009-10-12 01:16 am UTC (link)
"He barely tolerated me."

Yes, Clark. He barely tolerated you so much that he gave you and Lois your current (hard-to-get waiting listed) apartment as a wedding present. He barely tolerated you that (as mentioned) he was the only one of your Superfriends to go to your Pops funeral (in civilian clothes naturally) even though Gotham isn't anywhere near Kansas. He barely tolerated you that he bought the Daily Planet (a dying medium and a paper that barely makes a profit according to most writers) to foil YOUR arch-enemy and so you and Lois could basically do what you want without getting fired. All this and more because he barely tolerated you.

Really. Bruce Wayne doesn't have a lot of friends. And by that I mean close friends. I'm sure most of the JLA who are on a first name basis with "Bruce" ala John/GL, Vixen, Kyle, Wally etc. are not really close to him. Ties with members of the older group are strained - for various reasons particularly the mind-wiping. MM/J'onn is currently dead. He's really not that close to Diana (outside of the super-heroing) and the only one he hangs out with in civilian clothes is Clark. Babs is like a sister, Leslie betrayed him with Steph, Alfred is a second father, Gordon has distance because of the secret between them. Dick, Tim, Cass (and Jason) are his children not his pals. And Selina and Talia and Vicki and Silver and Sasha and Julie Madison have all been pushed away at varying points (though Silver left on her own).

Bruce Wayne,one of the richest, smartest, most powerful men on Earth, is an isolated, sometimes disturbed, individual who keeps his demons bottled up. That's part of the appeal of the character to me. I keep waiting for a writer to take advantage of this and have someone in his life call him on this stuff and for it to stick - particularly Clark. But no.

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