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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-27 21:46:00

Current music:	Jesus C "I hope your happy, Thatcher "
Entry tags:	char: jonathan kent, char: krypto the superdog, char: martha kent, char: superman/clark kent, creator: john byrne, publisher: dc comics

Krypto,when Gold K was fo'real !

Who's a good boy...

Krypto had a long tradition of chasing comets (not THE comet)

This story takes place during , that awful "pocket universe superboy" thingie...

Aw, its just like the end of Ole' Yeller.

Pa' Kent approves of Super on super marriage !

Their talking about sex right ? LOL

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	pyrotwilight 2009-05-27 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	Never saw this before. Where's it from? (Reply to this) (Thread)

aaron_bourque
2009-05-27 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Byrne's run on . . . Action Comics, I think? Nearish the end of his run, he had Superman travel to a pocket universe created by the Time Trapper so the Legion of Superheroes could still have been inspired by Superboy, because the real Superman never was a Superboy . . .

Anyway . . . this Superboy still had the Silver Age level stength, speed, etc., and so was quite capable of wiping his ass with the real Superman without much effort. In the end, Pocket Universe General Zod killed everyone in the pocket universe and Superman then executed Zod and his lackeys (always two there are) for his crimes in an example of 80s-era grittiness and the biggest difference between Silver/Bronze Supes and the post COIE Supes.

Which eventually led to Gangbuster and Superman have psychotic episodes, that sent him into self-imposed exile . . . which never had any effect on anything ever again, and we should just stop talking about it.

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	pyrotwilight 2009-05-27 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	Nono I know all about the Pocket Universe stuff but where was this Krypto story from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-05-27 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	This is from Action Comics #591. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-05-27 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, thanks! Should've figured, it's one of the two Pocket Universe issues I don't have, it and Legion of Superheroes #38. It was such a sad story too. At least the Pocketverse Superboy popped up a bit after that like in Hypertension and Zero Hour. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-05-27 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Presumably from Kyrpton, just like the silver age. The whole Uni was created by the Time trapper (whoever he was at that point) It is never truly stated, but since Gold K took it's super toll that's my guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-05-28 06:32 am UTC (link)
	What would be twisted is if he were Prime, given the Pocket Universe was created by the Time Trapper(which is NOT available from Mead, but all this sounds like it should be, doesn't it?) who in turn is Prime. Oh, the paradoxes and loops! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	superfan1 2009-05-27 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	So Krypto did all that for nothing at the end, nice effort but bad results for the poor dog. You can only hope so. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	halloweenjack 2009-05-28 03:28 pm UTC (link)
	He's better off this way; at least he won't be conscious of his lack of genitalia. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-05-27 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	I thought that was a kangaroo at first. (Reply to this)

	sd_mouser 2009-05-27 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	I kept thinking he was Prime. Certainly would have made more sense in the long run... (Reply to this)

	randyripoff 2009-05-28 12:09 am UTC (link)
	It's very simple...Krypto is teh awesome, so full of win even Vanna White has to bow down... (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-28 01:53 am UTC (link)
	"I'll have to carry the Gold K out in the open, where he can see it! The lead container will block his X-ray vision... If only these containers were clearly labeled!" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-05-28 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Who's a dumb dog? Who? Who? And another thing: just why were Ma and Pa keeping every kind of Kryptonite? Well, if you can't ground a kid, I guess you gotta have SOMEthing... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-28 05:07 am UTC (link)
	No, Superboy kept those around. In his underground lab, see? Just like every other earnest young boy inventor/scientist in those days, experimenting with stuff that could kill him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-05-28 06:34 am UTC (link)
	In unlocked containers less secure than his Mom's preserves. Hmm. He was a teenager. Sometimes they get depressed... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-05-28 06:58 am UTC (link)
	Superboy had his "fortress of solitude" Under the Kent house at the time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-05-28 09:44 am UTC (link)

I say that he liked to expose himself a bit. Like any teenager, he'd be curious and engage in risky behavior. Especially given how few friends he had in his century.

In the case of green that'd be kind of like cutting.

In the case of red K, of course he's getting high. No matter what the effect of red K I think we can assume it's not a normal feeling.

And again re: Krypto: "super-intelligence?" Only enough to be darkly amusing, apparently...But that's like any dog too.

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	kenn_el 2009-05-28 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	Smallville (TV series) Clark actually DOES treat his Red K in that way, making for some of the best episodes of that series.(Of course, "best' is relative.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-05-28 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	super-intelligence for a dog. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-05-28 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Wait, so Krypto was no longer a superdog after this? Oh, boy! Yipe! Yipe! Yipe! indeed! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-05-28 09:01 am UTC (link)
	Well, it is an interesting point. One would then assume Krypto was just an ordinary dog on krypton . It wasn't until he hit the yellow sun of earth that all his abilities,including super intelligence kicked in. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sistermagpie 2009-05-28 09:09 am UTC (link)
	At least we know Clark will probably still be a good buddy to a regular dog! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkcarrier 2009-05-28 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Something about this story never quite added up. Krypto scans Superman and identifies him as a Kryptonian. But then the Kryptonite doesn't work on him because Post-Crisis Kryptonians are a totally different species from Pocket Universe Kryptonians. So why didn't Krypto see the difference right off? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-05-28 09:37 am UTC (link)
	I would say it was kinda like how Krypto didn't expect the cape to tear. The original outfit was made out of the three blankets from Kal-el's rocket. Of which I recall,the yellow must have had alot of material left over, wonder what became of that ??? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kenn_el 2009-05-28 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Lana's Insect Queen outfit? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-29 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Well, that was... sad. And unnecessary - Krypto could've just SHOWN him the container of Gold K, and it would've had the same effect. For cryin' out loud, Byrne, you were about to off the whole universe anyway - would it have killed you to have given poor little Krypto a noble death in battle or something, instead of being mindwiped? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bruinsfan 2009-05-29 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	Eh, he probably lived a nice long life being petted and fed bacon treats by the Kents, and went to that great Dog Park in the Sky before Zod and his cohorts showed up and deep-sixed the whole planet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-05-29 03:24 pm UTC (link)

No, he didn't - if this is part of that same storyline, then I'm presuming Zod's (and the planet's) demise happened within the next issue or so. If he's going to be turned into a charcoal briquette anyway, he should at least get a chance to go down fighting as the Krypto we all know and love. Look at his takedown of the Kryptonite Man in 'Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' - THAT was a good 'heroic sacrifice' moment.

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	bruinsfan 2009-05-29 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	The part of the Zod storyline we saw (quite a few issues after this) was set in the present, with adult versions of Lex Luthor, Oliver Queen, Hal Jordan, etc. It was supposed to be at least a decade after the meeting Superboy story. I'm not sure exactly when between the two stories Zod, Zaora, and Quex-Ul did their big planet devastating move though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-29 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	Oh - all right. My bad. It still sucks about Krypto, though. (Reply to this) (Parent)