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sailorlibra (sailorlibra) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-15 19:07:00

Entry tags:

char: lois lane, char: superman/clark kent, creator: amanda conner, creator: barbara kesel, creator: jimmy palmiotti, publisher: dc comics, series: clois

Clois Goodies
A quiet moment for Clark and Lois. Drawn by Amanda Conner a.k.a. she of the adorable drawing.

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	harmoner 2009-08-15 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	Aww. I adore Clark/Lois. (Reply to this)

	sistermagpie 2009-08-15 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	There's something so cute about him lying across from her there in his outfit with his cape. (Reply to this)

	magus_69 2009-08-16 12:22 am UTC (link)
	Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris, Lex Luthor, and now Lucy Lawless! Clark, you SLUT! (Is the LL thing some kind of Kryptonian fetish embedded in his genes?) ETA: Is it just me, or does Lois kinda look like Lucy Lawless in these scans? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-08-16 12:30 am UTC (link)
	and Linda Lee and you can make a case for lightning lad too by clark's own admission. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zordboy 2009-08-16 01:00 am UTC (link)
	"...lightning lad too by clark's own admission." Wait... what? I'm sure I must've missed this somewhere. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkknightjrk 2009-08-16 03:04 am UTC (link)
	He...had a thing for Linda (Matrix Supergirl, right?) and Lightning Lad? ...Go on... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-08-16 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	Linda Lee was pre-Crisis Supergirl's secret identity, when she was living in an orphanage. (Yes, pre-Crisis Superman dumped his teenage cousin, the only other survivor of Krypton, off in a orphanage, because it might compromise his secret identity.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cricharddavies
2009-08-16 10:05 pm UTC (link)

Um, in fairness, he was single and his adoptive parents had been dead for years. It wasn't as though Clark could take a teenage girl into his apartment building home and not have it raise eyebrows. People would have asked questions. Would you really have prefered to have her be a domestic maid in the Fortress of Solitude?

Also, I suspect that when she showed up, the memory erasure of his meetings with her as Superboy (when they were both in the Legion) started to wear off, and so he knew that he had to put her there for her to meet the Legion under the circumstances that she did.

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bariman1987
2009-08-17 03:44 am UTC (link)

People would have asked questions

"Hi neighbor, this is my cousin Kara. Her parents recently died in a car accident, so as her closest living relative in a position to provide for her, I've been made her legal guardian. She's moving in with me, and I'll be enrolling her in high school next week after she's settled in."

Okay, I'll admit, I'm biased against the whole "dumping her in an orphanage" thing having read PAD's excellent "Supergirl: Many Happy Returns" arc. There were editorial reasons for keeping Superman and Supergirl apart (the whole "secret weapon" thing, and Kara was supposed to be for girls to read), and it would look strange to people at the time if an bachelor was living with a teenage girl, but in-universe it just seems needlessly cruel of Superman.

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cricharddavies
2009-08-17 03:51 pm UTC (link)

"Hi neighbor, this is my cousin Kara. Her parents recently died in a car accident, so as her closest living relative in a position to provide for her, I've been made her legal guardian. She's moving in with me, and I'll be enrolling her in high school next week after she's settled in."

Do you really think Lois -- professionally suspicious Lois -- would have just accepted that explanation? Without checking up on it?

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	bariman1987 2009-08-17 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	If Lois could check up on it, Clark could just as easily fabricate papers "proving" his explaination. And well, this is Silver Age Lois we're talking about here, it's not like it's hard to fool her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-08-17 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	But then he'd be shown committing a crime, not just engaging in silly trickery. Do you want him to be more of a dick, or less? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluefall 2009-08-16 12:38 am UTC (link)
	I seem to recall something about the kryptonian symbol for L, when doubled, making some kind of significant shape for Clark, hence it showing up in his life all the time. According to Rucka-via-Mxy, at least. I'll see if I can't dig up the scans for you. It's always hilarious when writers try to justify the meta in-story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-08-16 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Why would Kryptonians have a symbol for L? It's a completely alien phonology. It'd be like ants having a pheromone for wedding ring. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-08-16 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Who says the phonology is completely alien? Their alphabet lines up one-to-one with our own, it seems fairly clear they use basically the same phonemes as English. It's not like "Krypton" or "Kal-El" or "Zod" are particularly difficult for the average American to pronounce. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-08-16 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Yup. It makes no sense apart from laziness, but most "alien" alphabets in comics are simple substitution ciphers for the Roman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-08-16 07:38 am UTC (link)
	It's so readers can have fun deciphering them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

seriousfic
2009-08-16 05:08 am UTC (link)

Well I suppose a phonology that happens to be exactly the same as ours is more plausible than an alien species that looks exactly like us, but still, it gulls me that somewhere along the line, DC just threw up their hands and declared a no-contest on world-building.

And Krypton, Kal-El, and Zod could always be English transcriptions of Kryptonian vowels. Given how hard it is for, say, an American to pronounce Japanese, I doubt Kryptonian is something you can pick up with a correspondence course (though, as noted, world-building fail).

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arbre_rieur
2009-08-16 08:03 am UTC (link)

It's not laziness. It's so readers can figure out what the Kryptonese dialogue is saying, by replacing the letters. (The Kryptonese sentences are just English with the letters replaced.)

But pre-Crisis, the Kryptonese alphabet was more along the lines of what you're looking for, if you're into that sort of thing. It had 118 letters.

There's actually an interesting story behind it. There was a letter in a letter column asking DC to publish the Kryptonese alphabet. The response from E. Nelson Bridwell, DC's Superman continuity keeper, was that it'd be difficult, because the Kryptonese alphabet had 118 letters. Some time later, he actually set about creating a Kryptonese alphabet. However, Bridwell was *such* a stickler for continuity that he felt obligated to hew to his earlier letter column comment. And so it really did wind up with 118 separate letters.

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	arbre_rieur 2009-08-16 08:12 am UTC (link)
	It'd be more like ants having a pheromone for leg. Since Kryptonians' mouths seems to have the same structure as humans', it's not a huge stretch for them to have an 'l' sound. And if they have the sound, they could easily have a letter corresponding to it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherkahn 2009-08-16 12:24 am UTC (link)
	"Clark, why did you fly all the way up here?" "Well, duh, I'm horny. Some investigative reporter you turned out to be." (Reply to this)

	jelly_ace 2009-08-16 12:30 am UTC (link)
	I was always indifferent to the whole Clois thing. But ever since I read Birthright (and discovered S_D) the pairing kinda grew on me. That Lucy Lawless crack makes this so dated. Haha. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-08-16 12:40 am UTC (link)
	Don't forget, she's also mentioning the Electric era. Does that mean she had threesomes with both Super-Sparkys? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jelly_ace 2009-08-16 05:15 am UTC (link)
	Wahahahahaha. You are so right! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-08-18 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	One is rather reminded of that scene with Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, isn't one? Although Supes would have to provide certain... enhancements to his robots... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zordboy 2009-08-16 01:01 am UTC (link)
	This was from the 'Girlfrenzy' series spot-lighting on female DC characters, and this one was all about Lois. I really enjoyed it. Because, yeah, Lois and Clark are absolutely adorable here. (we also get Lois versus killer polar bears, and Sergeant Steel in naught by a skimpy bikini later on in the issue, so yeah) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-08-16 01:13 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I always sort of thought the motto of the story was "it sucks to be Sarge Steel." Recent events in Wonder Woman have made me wonder if that an official motto for the whole DCU. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seriousfic 2009-08-16 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Lucy Lawless is someone's Lois Lane dream-cast? Well, at least she wouldn't have to worry about Superman cuckolding her for Wonder Woman. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-16 02:00 am UTC (link)
	I gotcher 'warrior princess' RIGHT HERE! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liarashadowsong 2009-08-16 02:12 am UTC (link)
	I adore Clark and Lois. When it's written well, of course. And it doesn't mean I don't like other pairings involving them. But stories like this are so completely awesome! Such a cute couple. (Reply to this)

	jaybee3 2009-08-16 03:00 am UTC (link)
	I love Amanda Conner's art here and in Power Girl and in Wed. Comics, yet I hated it (a lot) in the GA/BC Wedding Special. Maybe it was the influence of bad writing? Also, in what universe could Lois ever pass as Lucy Lawless? Even in terms of body type, she looks nothing like Xena. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	floetcist 2009-08-16 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	How tall is Lois is supposed to be? Because Lucy Lawless is almost 6ft tall. Erica Durance seems to be the tallest Lois Lane, at 5'8. I thought the 'I'm not a warrior princess' was funny, but not for their humorous intent. Xena isn't literally a princess. I didn't know so many people were under the impression that she was. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-11-07 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Well, it's called Xena: Warrior Princess. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timemonkey 2009-08-16 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	The one where stupid people want to meeta celebrity and won;t let go of the idea? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-08-16 04:01 am UTC (link)
	Oh my. I love this so much. I love that first panel of the last page, where it's like he's waltzing her on the bed or something. Also, "Winston, Manitoba"? Is that what Churchill, Manitoba is called in the DCU? (Reply to this)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-08-16 08:40 am UTC (link)
	Somebody has to icon Clark's "hmmm?" expression and Lois' flying kiss. Amanda Conner's art is priceless! (Reply to this)

	mysteryfan 2009-08-17 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Incredibly adorable. Always fantastic to see them like this. Thanks for posting! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-08-17 09:33 am UTC (link)
	I agree,it just makes you smile! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-08-17 06:24 am UTC (link)
	Wow, Lois is really rockin' the femme fatale look in that first panel, isn't she? And incidentally, just what kind of pants is she wearing? I'm far from an expert on women's fashions (being, uh, not a woman), but I've never heard of pants that come with built-in spats. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-08-22 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	Stirrup leggings. They do exist! Mostly a dated article, and if used now surely either for wacky couture/street fashion or extra warmth (i.e. skiing). (Reply to this) (Parent)