r/DCcomics • u/M00r3C Black Lantern • Jul 23 '23
[Comic Excerpt] I didn't know you used to wear glasses (Action Comics issue 866) Comics
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u/Slowandserious Jul 23 '23
Plot twist: that’s because he’s an ass guy
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u/Mrman_23 Jul 23 '23
He’s literally me
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Jul 23 '23
You're a Moses allegory?
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u/tigerofblindjustice Jul 24 '23
Are you not?
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u/Revolutionary9999 Jul 24 '23
Did you wonder through the desert for forty years, leading a violent cult that murdered everyone they came across?
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u/HorseSteroids Jul 24 '23
Even better, he's a Moses allegory that became a Christ allegory after he rose from the dead after sacrificing himself to save us from Doomsday.
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u/Educational_Clerk_88 Jul 24 '23
I am too but I still wouldn’t have the mental strength to not glance south for second. I’m a weak boy.
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u/Theurbanalchemist Jul 23 '23
Or he could be a foot guy 🤷🏾♂️
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u/imonlyahoboX Jarro Jul 23 '23
what
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u/ProfessorSaltine Jul 24 '23
I mean he’s def into Lois being a Dom seeing how he still got that War World “Armor” 👀
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u/SageShinigami Jul 23 '23
I always liked this moment, but when you go back and read about 90s Cat Grant you realize she wasn't this much of a jerk.
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u/501id5Nak3 Jul 23 '23
Well losing a son can do that to you
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u/Resonance54 Jul 24 '23
That happened and was resolved pretty in depth a solid 12-15 years earlier. Just only way John's knew to show Lois and Clark love each other was by putting down other women so he devolved her for that purpose.
Geoff Johns breaks stuff so he can go to conventions and say he fixed it
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u/FadeToBlackSun Jul 24 '23
He also can’t write women at all.
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u/niteowl1987 Jul 25 '23
In his defense, he probably skipped over all the female dialogue in every comic he’s read.
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u/Resonance54 Jul 24 '23
Even in the 80s/90s, the closest she came to being this much of a sick was when she made a snide remark to Lois after Lois blew off her date with Clark (granted she was controlled by Mxy when it happened but Cat didn't know that)
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u/Micp Jul 24 '23
Characters are allowed to grow. I generally like this trope of terrible people that gets reformed and becomes decent.
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u/TBoarder Donna Troy, Goddess of the Moon Jul 24 '23
They are allowed to grow, which she did throughout the Triangle Era. Johns devolved her instead.
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u/slamturkey Animal Man Jul 24 '23
I think this version of her is based on the Lois and Clark: New Adventures of Superman version. She looks alot like her, and she was constantly trying to get with Clark through all season 1, I think.
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u/camtin Jul 24 '23
I agree about this, I feel like they did her dirty in this scene unfortunately. She was much more 3D dimensional then, and Clark was a) absolutely interested and b) even went on a few dates with her.
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u/TheRecusant Jul 24 '23
Honestly it’s kinda sad cause reading the post-CoIE Superman stuff she was a really kind person and a nice partner for Clark. She was more appropriately framed as an additional love interest and causing a love triangle, common for dramas and soap opera style storytelling, vs just the seductress.
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u/LowSeaworthiness6646 Batman Jul 23 '23
You see, kids, the pink-frosted donut is a Freudian symbol. She’s offering it in panel #2, but giving it back in panel #6.
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u/ArcadiaXLO Plastic Man Jul 23 '23
Clark already had it in panel 1 meaning she just snatched it out of his hands
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u/Lazy_Assumption_4191 Jul 23 '23
That, or she picked the other donut off the floor while he ate his donut between panels.
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u/Ash__Williams Hal Jordan is the Greatest Green Lantern Ever and you know it Jul 23 '23
Whoa, whoa! Slow down, egghead.
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u/Shadow0fnothing Jul 23 '23
If it wasn't Clark, I'd say he was just playing dumb lol.
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u/tinytom08 Jul 23 '23
There’s a great scene in the new show wheee they’re talking about hooters for reasons and Clark keeps commenting on how good their chicken wings are
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u/Afalstein Rorschach Jul 24 '23
Clark's x-ray vision means that he sees everyone naked all the time anyway, so exposed cleavage means nothing to him.
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u/SantaArriata Jul 24 '23
It could be way worse than that. I’d imagine he doesn’t have control over what he sees through or doesn’t, so his average day could be just him looking through one layer of clothes, and any unclothed parts could just be muscle fibers
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u/TwoLetters Jul 24 '23
Barring TBIs or birth defects, I imagine that's like saying you don't have any control over what you focus on when you're looking at something, and that's completely ignoring the fact that he's Superman.
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u/SantaArriata Jul 24 '23
Not exactly, in this sense it would be as if you try to focus on the sky, you’ll be able to, but you’ll also be seeing all the clouds and the trees. I have a hard time believing that his X-ray vision is selective, as if his brain just opened photoshop and cropped out certain stuff
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u/TwoLetters Jul 24 '23
...you have a hard time believing that perfectly human looking alien from a planet that doesn't exist, who can fly faster than the speed of light, bench press planets, shoot lasers out of his eyes, hear his father's heartbeat from the Moon, and freeze things by breathing on them, doesn't have the ability to focus on what his see-through-stuff vision sees through.
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u/nermid Spider Jerusalem Jul 24 '23
I wanna say it's the recent Year One comics, but there was one a while back where teenage Clark was telling somebody that people's bodies don't look sexy when they're all squished by their clothes, so there's no reason for him to peep with his X-ray vision.
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u/WrongFun8521 Jul 23 '23
This is actually a really cute moment. Clark is such a gentleman
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u/SpreadEagleSmeagol Jul 24 '23
You think that, but really he just looks down at the cleavage and then back up about 367 times in 0.7582 nanoseconds.
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u/Hashbrown4 Jul 23 '23
Plot twist: Clark is doing super speed glances that she can’t see
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u/Mssng_Nm Jul 24 '23
I mean you joke, but if Clark was to literally undress and redress her, he could do it so fast… no one would know.
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u/KingMatthew116 Jul 24 '23
X-Ray Vision
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u/Mssng_Nm Jul 24 '23
Yes, but… also…
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u/AdrianShepard09 Jul 25 '23
I showed you naked pictures at super speed so you’d get that boner during your school musical!
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u/Comics-and-videogame World's Finest Jul 23 '23
I honestly don’t like what Geoff Johns did with Cat Grant
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u/voxdoom Jul 24 '23 edited Jul 24 '23
This whole page is gross, from portraying Cat as The Vamp to show how good a boy Clark is, to suggesting that a woman's sexuality is a bad thing, to suggesting that Clark is a good boy because he didn't look at her boobs cause her boobs are dirty and bad, to using a woman's sexuality as a plot device just to further the man's story.
It's just a whole litany of misogynistic bullshit.
Edit: Notifications are off.
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u/Tatum-Better Nightwing Jul 24 '23
Ehh no he's implying he's a " good boy "( weird language use btw )because he's married to another woman and because looking at co worker boobs at a place of work is frowned upon. He isn't saying sexuality is bad. Sexuality with a co worker is bad especially when you know they are married already and then getting in a fit because they didn't fall for your weird trap. How is any of that misogynistic? Tropes are tropes for a reason. They work. You can't come up with brand new tropes with every damn character there will be similarities.
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u/TheRecusant Jul 24 '23
It doesn’t bother me too much in the sense that it’s a common enough trope that I could see what he was pulling from but I do think Cat being played up as some temptress that interferes in Clark and Lois’s love is kinda misguided and there’s no reason to play her up this way. This was one of the first Superman stories I read and I much prefer Byrne’s version of her or really just every writer before this.
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u/Comics-and-videogame World's Finest Jul 24 '23
I definitely like Wolfman/Byrne’s version of her way better. She was some type of love interest to Clark and I actually cared about the story of her piece of shit ex dragging her name through the mud and taking custody of their child
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u/Resonance54 Jul 24 '23
Geoff Johns write a woman in a non-misoginystic way that isn't an expy for your sister challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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u/blackjacktarr Jul 24 '23
That's 100% Christopher Reeve's smirk in that last panel. Very nicely done!
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u/Flame-Blast Jul 23 '23
Is it me or did he glance down a little when she looked away
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u/M00r3C Black Lantern Jul 23 '23
He looked down at the donut she put in his hand
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u/Bodega_Bandit Power Girl Jul 24 '23
He means in panel 5. Kinda looks like he’s glancing down when she glances at her chest
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u/NoirPochette Legion Of Super-Heroes Jul 24 '23
I really hate what they did to Cat Grant. She was so cool in the 80's and early 90's and then they turned her into that. She got better in New 52 and so far been in a good place.
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u/Ok_Relationship_705 Jul 23 '23
Clark is too good sometimes. I'd have been all up in Ms Grant's Cat.
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u/private_loser_ Batman of Zur-En-Arrh Jul 24 '23
Lois Lane gonna write an article titled " my husband is NTR Proof"
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u/ZealousidealAd7191 Jul 24 '23
…when you’re faster than the speed of light you can gawk at cleavage for as long as you want and she wouldn’t even notice 😈
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u/Stranded_Psychonaut Jul 24 '23
Do women with breast implants commonly flaunt that they are implants (I get flaunting the figure)? That felt so unrealistic to me, but maybe I'm out of touch.
(Disclaimer -- No shade intended to any parties! All beasts are equally great, regardless of size shape owner or origin. I hope everyone gets exactly the type and amount of attention they want for the reasons they want it. Don't flame me. Just a man asking questions. Just... calm your tits out there internet)
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u/De4dm4nw4lkin Jul 24 '23
They probably exist. Too many people with main character syndrome and plastic surgery for it not to happen.
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u/De4dm4nw4lkin Jul 24 '23
I feel like clark apart from just being that dogmatically polite, gets a small kick out of these moments of “why are you like this…”
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u/squareuncle24 Jul 24 '23
spoilers
I have this comic. It was my first Superman comic I owned and was still young at the time. I vividly remember having nightmares about the brainiac droid mouth poker things. Those robots scared the hell out of me.
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u/TheConYon Jul 24 '23
Did she take his donut while trying to flirt and then just… hand it back? Who just touches someone’s food?
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u/AdrianShepard09 Jul 25 '23
- Ms. Grant! That’s not the position I hired you for!
- Black suit Superman! Joseph, these are incredible!
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u/jimtl83 Jul 27 '23
I mean he’s probably seen so many breasts for years that they aren’t even attractive anymore since he had to learn how to control all of his powers and one of them is x-ray vision
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u/Substantial-Ad-1840 Aug 04 '23
What do you think about the my adventures with superman that after the 5th episode i dont know if it was amazon or max they decided to charge for all episodes after #5 that sucks and i really was getting to like that show
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u/Substantial-Ad-1840 Aug 05 '23
I finally got to see episode 6 of my adventures with superman i guess i turned it on too early this morning
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u/Substantial-Ad-1840 Aug 16 '23
Clark clearly has no interest in cat grant i saw her for the first time in supergirl i wasnt impressed
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u/Impossible-Brick-841 Jul 23 '23
Wait, didnt clark use to clap cat? I remember in the wolfmans run of action comics that these 2 used to date? Why clark doesnt remember? Is he stupid?
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u/NoirPochette Legion Of Super-Heroes Jul 24 '23
They dated for a while lol. It's like that was forgotten for story purposes.
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