End of a Friendship
September 16, 2016 6:56 PM Subscribe
That was a roller-coaster of emotions. That felt very real. Only thing missing was Krypto.
posted by Fizz at 7:03 PM on September 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Fizz at 7:03 PM on September 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
That was at times really good and then really irritating. They were acting like teenagers, which is not the way adults should be when developing their relationship. Geeze, it's not that complicated, either you like each other or your don't and if you do, then you go for it. The whole "oooh, we should, no we shouldn't, but I want too.." is just an overdone cliche.
The art was really nice though.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:07 PM on September 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
The art was really nice though.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:07 PM on September 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
It's 2am and she has a flight in the morning. Just finish the wine and drunk dial her at 3:30am like a normal guy.
posted by adept256 at 7:11 PM on September 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by adept256 at 7:11 PM on September 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
This is exactly what adults who are developing their relationship are like...when both adults have separate reasons why being together would be explosively destructive and wrong but keep coming back to the fact that they are impossibly drawn to each other...I, uh, may have heard about it from a friend who might be in a similar situation. This was very believably good.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:40 PM on September 16, 2016 [26 favorites]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:40 PM on September 16, 2016 [26 favorites]
I literally *just* deleted her from my contacts because I can't deal with the tension anymore
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:47 PM on September 16, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:47 PM on September 16, 2016 [8 favorites]
... And a few minutes later
Stjepan Sejic is so great. Here's another DC-themed strip.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:01 PM on September 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
Stjepan Sejic is so great. Here's another DC-themed strip.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:01 PM on September 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
Been there, done that. That was good.
posted by joycehealy at 8:03 PM on September 16, 2016
posted by joycehealy at 8:03 PM on September 16, 2016
This was awesome. The watercolor went well with the storyline.
"It's from the late '90s. Everything sounded like the Goo Goo Dolls" haha and "I feel like you're about to kill me" was cute.
posted by Become A Silhouette at 8:09 PM on September 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
"It's from the late '90s. Everything sounded like the Goo Goo Dolls" haha and "I feel like you're about to kill me" was cute.
posted by Become A Silhouette at 8:09 PM on September 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
These are my favorite kinds of Supe stories. i have been waiting to read American Alien once it was in omnibus form (still have to wait but i did preorder). thanks for the post.
posted by OHenryPacey at 9:46 PM on September 16, 2016
posted by OHenryPacey at 9:46 PM on September 16, 2016
Reminds me of a short essay I read in the 80's
posted by boilermonster at 9:55 PM on September 16, 2016
posted by boilermonster at 9:55 PM on September 16, 2016
I read this at work semidistracted, so I totally missed the CK/LL bit. It read much like... things. Goo Goo Dolls, ha ha who likes that except for me
posted by Tad Naff at 10:26 PM on September 16, 2016
posted by Tad Naff at 10:26 PM on September 16, 2016
Maybe this is a ritual they go through all summer, after every dinner party.
posted by poe at 12:03 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by poe at 12:03 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
They were acting like teenagers, which is not the way adults should be when developing their relationship. Geeze, it's not that complicated, either you like each other or your don't and if you do, then you go for it.
Well, this IS a guy who can't tell the girl he likes that he's a super-powerful alien, and the woman who can't tell he's that super-powerful alien when he wears glasses.
posted by happyroach at 1:16 AM on September 17, 2016 [11 favorites]
Well, this IS a guy who can't tell the girl he likes that he's a super-powerful alien, and the woman who can't tell he's that super-powerful alien when he wears glasses.
posted by happyroach at 1:16 AM on September 17, 2016 [11 favorites]
Why do people put up with this?
posted by effugas at 5:32 AM on September 17, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by effugas at 5:32 AM on September 17, 2016 [1 favorite]
I love the way Stjepan Sejic draws Wonder Woman.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:07 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:07 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
Lois needs to be concerned about how all those holes in the ceiling over Clark's bed got there.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:32 AM on September 17, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 6:32 AM on September 17, 2016 [6 favorites]
There should be a whole Superman series that's just this stuff. Let the kids have the punch-em-ups in Action and Adentures and suchlike, and then there's this watercolor one without the big yellow S in the cover that's just called "Clark", and bring in any writer who can tell a good story that only barely involves Superman.
posted by Etrigan at 7:09 AM on September 17, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by Etrigan at 7:09 AM on September 17, 2016 [10 favorites]
There should be a whole Superman series that's just this stuff.
Busiek and Immonen: Secret Identity (2004).
posted by bonehead at 8:07 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
Busiek and Immonen: Secret Identity (2004).
posted by bonehead at 8:07 AM on September 17, 2016 [3 favorites]
There should be a whole Superman series that's just this stuff. Let the kids have the punch-em-ups...
I would read the hell out of this. It might make me buy a comic for the first time in aeons.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:06 AM on September 17, 2016
I would read the hell out of this. It might make me buy a comic for the first time in aeons.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:06 AM on September 17, 2016
Didn't realize it was Clark and Louis till after I read it, which made it 8 times better.
posted by es_de_bah at 1:37 PM on September 17, 2016
posted by es_de_bah at 1:37 PM on September 17, 2016
On that 'series of just this stuff' idea, I think it was Dan O'brien on the Cracked podcast who mused about what it must be like to be a citizen of Metropolis and have a loved one die in an accident. Or to be Supe's ex-girlfriend, tying herself to railroad tracks and weeping.
posted by es_de_bah at 1:42 PM on September 17, 2016
posted by es_de_bah at 1:42 PM on September 17, 2016
There should be a whole Superman series that's just this stuff.
Lois & Clark. Good gravy, that's a terrible cover, ignore the cover, the copy I have is much better. And the book is about how some problems are difficult or vexed or wicked enough that superpowers don't help much: problems of love, or of carrying an annoyed milk cow.
posted by clew at 3:48 PM on September 17, 2016
Lois & Clark. Good gravy, that's a terrible cover, ignore the cover, the copy I have is much better. And the book is about how some problems are difficult or vexed or wicked enough that superpowers don't help much: problems of love, or of carrying an annoyed milk cow.
posted by clew at 3:48 PM on September 17, 2016
That was good, but I tend to agree with Brandon Blatcher that it was a bit overwrought in the execution - I tend to prefer depictions of both characters that are more confident and grounded.
(I miss the DCAU dynamic between those two. My favorite moment was probably this, followed closely by their date in Question Authority.
Disclaimer: everything comic book related makes me miss the DCAU.)
posted by mordax at 4:07 AM on September 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
(I miss the DCAU dynamic between those two. My favorite moment was probably this, followed closely by their date in Question Authority.
Disclaimer: everything comic book related makes me miss the DCAU.)
posted by mordax at 4:07 AM on September 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
"Lois, I have something to tell you... I'm actually Superman."
"What? No, of course you're not Superman. If you were Superman, it'd mean you were secretly reporting on yourself all those years, which would be an amazing breach of journalistic ethics, enough to finally give Rupert Murdoch enough media grist to use Fox News to destroy the Daily Bugle."
"What?! Oh, um, I'm not Superman."
"You're damn right you're not, and don't you forget it."
posted by JHarris at 11:08 AM on September 18, 2016 [8 favorites]
"What? No, of course you're not Superman. If you were Superman, it'd mean you were secretly reporting on yourself all those years, which would be an amazing breach of journalistic ethics, enough to finally give Rupert Murdoch enough media grist to use Fox News to destroy the Daily Bugle."
"What?! Oh, um, I'm not Superman."
"You're damn right you're not, and don't you forget it."
posted by JHarris at 11:08 AM on September 18, 2016 [8 favorites]
Daily Bugle
Clark Kent was Spider-Man all along!
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:10 PM on September 18, 2016
Clark Kent was Spider-Man all along!
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:10 PM on September 18, 2016
Ah, dammit. Actually, that might be a relic from a prior edit of the comment where, instead of Rupert Murdoch, I toyed with putting in J. Jonah Jameson. But I don't think J3 is actually evil.
posted by JHarris at 5:48 PM on September 18, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 5:48 PM on September 18, 2016 [2 favorites]
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