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Tweak says, "ALBATROSS!"

trelas (trelas) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-11 00:07:00

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char: batman/bruce wayne, char: flash/kid flash/wally west, char: superman/clark kent, creator: michael green, title: superman/batman

The Life Mistaken
I was a big fan of the Green/Johnson run on Superman/Batman, as while they weren't perfect, they had a certain charm and fun to them, while staying true to the main characters and their relationship, actually saying something about it. So, as they are now officially, well for a while now actually, moving on to bigger and better things from the title, I thought I'd post certain scenes from their first issue, which had me laughing at several points.

Before the explanation for the story arc, let's just begin with the first pages of that issue, which were just too awesome to put in to words.

The movie Batman is a blond himbo, who is easy to read emotionally, can not keep a secret and took the name Batman after his mother beat his sister to a coma with a baseball bat. How is that not awesome. Oh yeah, and he also has a base on the moon.

So, what does the real deal think of this?

Things get complicated when Livewire hits a prop with a lightining and turns out they were using real kryptonite at the movie shoot. Thus, she accidently takes out Superman. Batman calls JLA for backup while taking out Livewire with ease. Who shows up to handle the situation but a certain scarlet speedster.

That 'Standing right here'? Priceless.

So Superman takes a few days to heal, with the aid of Alfred, pondering things before returning to Batman to discuss things.

There is a great discussion of things, which leads to the two deciding to clean Earth from kryptonite. I really enjoyed the overall storyarc, as it did explore in great depth Superman hubris, how none of them truly understand what it means to be Batman, the trust for the symbol of Superman and why people might not want that weakness removed. But that was more heavy stuff and I wanted to limit this post to the funny. Hope you liked it as much as I did and that it was worth of at least a few chuckles.

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jaybee3
2009-10-10 10:51 pm UTC (link)

The opening of this arc was very funny (notice the raised S-Shield on the actor ala Superman Returns which the real one doesn't have or the Tim Burton all black rubber Batsuit on the Bats actor) but it fizzled out at the end as it turns out .... spoilers .... the Big Bad is Lana Lang(!) who in her role as LexCorp chairman has been stockpiling industrial strength kryptonite to sell to the military.

When Supes calls to eliminate it, she refuses and says it's necessary for the company and the employees and the LexCorp bottom line ("nothing personal") and then says if he tries anything she'll release the K-Dust in the atmosphere ("don't make me do this") making the Earth too toxic for Clark, Kara, PG, Krypto and Chris Kent to ever live on. He calls her bluff and she stone-faced does it (no explanation on why she destroys her own product that she just said she's only using/needs to make money just to prove a point/poison the man she still loves).

Hiro/KidToyman clears the atmosphere with nano-bots foiling her plans and then Supes harangues Lana that the difference between her and Lois is that Lois would never have pushed the button which is why he married her and not Lana (harsh) and when Supes flies off it's insinuated that Lana has been controlled/maninpulated into doing this. End of story arc. Never really brought up again and obviously not in any kind of continuity because there is no way Supergirl would be rooming with Lana (and taking her last name as her secret identity) in her own book if Lana had really tried to kill her and her entire family. Nor would Lois be seemingly on friendly terms with Lana if she had indeed poisoned the atmosphere and caused Clark to leave Earth for 1000 years (presumably without Lois). Clark would eventually forgive something like that but Lois? Never. But like I said never brought up again after this arc.

So this storyline goes from promising (the scene above) to wall-banging (its ending) very quickly. A big let down for me.

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	daningram 2009-10-11 02:12 am UTC (link)
	I dunno, I think it went to walbanger when Batman and Superman decided that the United States government had no right to kryptonite and Amanda Waller ordered some regular soldier turned into a kryptonite Doomsday. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jaybee3 2009-10-11 04:52 am UTC (link)
	You're right. That too. The whole ending of that arc made no sense. But nothing Waller does in-story surprises me anymore. But Lana Lang of all people trying to kill/poison Clark and his cousins and his dog and his SON (just a little older I guess than her son, Clark Ross) and never following up on that? Nothing banged my wall more than that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-10-11 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	The K-Dust wouldn't have affected Peej, since she isn't from the same Krypton. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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