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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-04 20:21:00

Meeting of the L.L.s
The World of Metropolis was a mini-series John Byrne wrote detailing the post-Crisis backstories of its famous citizens (Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, etc.)

From its pages, here is the first meeting between Lois Lane and Lex Luthor...

This was one of John Byrne's less remembered (thank goodness) alterations to the Superman mythos.

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	queenanthai 2009-04-04 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Oh...ew... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-04-06 11:04 am UTC (link)
	Ew strongly seconded. I don't like this at all. It's sexist and yucky and very, very offputting. Makes me not want to read the writer's other work. (Reply to this) (Parent)

fungo_squiggly
2009-04-04 11:18 pm UTC (link)

How old is Lois supposed to be here? Whatever her age (and she looks damn young), pervert!Lex leering at the video of her being strip-searched is insanely creepy. As is the off-panel spanking.

Still, I kind of have to admire how Lex apparently keeps a special ass-spanking stick in his office, and how he apparently uses it frequently enough that his molls know to bring it without his needing to say so.

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	ashtoreth 2009-04-04 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	The ass-spanking stick moll is dressed like a magician's assistant. O_o (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-04-05 12:11 am UTC (link)
	Fifteen. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thanekos 2009-04-05 12:21 am UTC (link)
	" Mister Happersen, you have failed me again. Miss Parker, bring me the stick. " (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-04-04 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	She's wearing sneakers on the cover, and heels inside. CONTINUITY, PEOPLE! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-04-05 12:01 am UTC (link)
	They took all her clothes away. I would imagine that inclues shoes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-05 12:16 am UTC (link)
	No, look at when she first snuck into the building. SNEAKERS, I SAY. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-05 05:24 am UTC (link)
	The sneakers appear on the cover, not the story inside, so the internal artist was consistent. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-04-05 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	I know, but it was either comment on the lack of continuity between the cover and interior art shoes or the fact that Lex likes to force women to strip and film it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xlineartx 2009-04-04 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Creepy and NOT OKAY. I am so glad this has been retconned into oblivion. Lex is not a pervert, godammit! (Reply to this) (Thread)

In fact...

besamim
2009-04-05 09:54 am UTC (link)

There was a late-80s Rick Veitch Swamp Thing issue featuring Superman and a very definitely perverted Luthor. We see him telling his security advisor, an attractive young woman, "You may get dressed now." Later, when she displeases him, he orders her to undress again. (She gets her revenge, however, by short-circuiting the security panel. Not quite Lorena Bobbitt, but still.)

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	thanekos 2009-04-05 12:20 am UTC (link)
	FEAR CORPORATE LUTHOR HE WILL PLAY TRANSPARENT GAMES WITH PEOPLE, MAKE IT ALL BUT OBVIOUS HE IS A TOTAL ASS, AND DO NOTHING BUT THROW MONEY AT THE KILL SUPERMAN PROBLEM ... i mean, atleast science luthor built cool shit. (Reply to this) (Thread)

box_in_the_box
2009-04-05 12:27 am UTC (link)

The problem, though, that you can't really accuse this version of Luthor of being "unrealistic," because he's based on the '80s corporate tycoons of the Donald Trump mold, and if you want to talk about people who play transparently obvious asshole games ... well, Trump makes Luthor look sedate. I mean, at least LexCorp turns a PROFIT - HOW many times has Trump declared bankruptcy, again, and people STILL do deals with him?

No, I'm afraid this is one of those cases where reality itself is an even worse writer than Byrne.

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	aaron_bourque 2009-04-05 12:37 am UTC (link)
	I don't care about The Apprentice, but if they did an Apprentice: Luthor edition . . . (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-04-05 03:30 am UTC (link)
	I would so watch that, if that could be real. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-04-05 05:30 am UTC (link)

I don't know which version I'd prefer...

"Samuel, you're fired... Miss Jenkins, fetch my flamethrower"

or

"Samuel, you are devious, underhanded, would sell your own grandmother for the price of a pack of gum and have the morals of a rabid, sex-starved alley-cat. You remind me of myself at a young age... and that makes you dangerous. You're hired, until the first time you challenge me"

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-05 04:51 am UTC (link)
	Landslide (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-04-05 09:49 am UTC (link)
	Oh, come on. They searched and shredded her clothes but didn't think to search her mouth and other body cavities? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-06 02:06 am UTC (link)
	Given the condition that scrap of paper was in, it was probably hidden way back in her mouth, tucked behind her gums somehow. It's not inconceivable that it could have stayed hidden - the mouth has a surprising amount of small crevices inside it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-04-06 03:07 am UTC (link)
	I thought she had swallowed the paper, and was vomitting it up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-06 03:28 am UTC (link)
	I think that would have been a little messier than portrayed... (Reply to this) (Parent)