Fuck you and your signal watch.

[seriousfic]

So that Superman: Earth One write-up I talked about has been published: "Olsen is Superman's bromantic superfriend and Lois wanks in from the sidelines." (Fun fact: I actually do not come up with the titles.) I'm just really disappointed here, since in writing Spider-Man JMS did a lot of work in elevating the Peter/MJ relationship marriage. Here, all that creative energy goes into fucking Jimmy Olsen.

I might've gone a little crazy with the scans, but it's important to get across that that's pretty much the sum total of Lois's involvement in the story. There's a difference between saying that Lois is a background character in a Jimmy Olsen story and showing that most of her dialogue is "What're we gonna do, Jim Olsen?" But here's one insanely writerly scan I left out. From a not-at-all-cliche public sampling of opinions on Superman...



I love that. "How do I show people are nervous about Superman? I know, I'll have someone point out that Nazis also called themselves supermen! JMS, you've done it again!"

And this is more of an inside baseball criticism, but if you're going to have someone responsible for destroying Krypton, shouldn't it be Darkseid? Since he's unofficially a member of Superman's rogue's gallery, you might as well give the two a reason for not liking each other besides "He's the most powerful superhero, he's the most powerful supervillain, fight!" By that rationale, in the Marvel universe, Hulk and Thanos should be arch-enemies.

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Nicely done.

You've actually verbalized most of what I disliked about this but couldn't put into words.

What's sad is this could really work as the origin of another character. Superman, though... not so much.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it would. It is an origin story where the hero doesn't choose to... origin.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That critique was amazing and you should feel amazing. I can't even pick which paragraph is my favorite. There's truth all up in that shit. Well done, you.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Remember to link it, you never know when a bit of extra traffic could come in handy.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm on it now. I tried doing it last night, but Facebook really doesn't want to accept FemPop's site, for some reason, and I was too sick with the flu to try doing it manually.

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

I think part of the problem is the writers have taken Clark's world traveling from Man of Steel and Lois & Clark and making it a sign of him searching for himself in an angst filled way, instead of him just trying to figure out the most efficient way to help.

I didn't really notice the pushing of Jimmy or diminishing of Lois(partly because I totally overlooked Clark naming Superman himsefl when I read it). She ran head long into danger and has extremely strong opinions. I can see Lois writing articles as editorials as a continuing trait the way she's unable to spell became a recurring joke.

I do think Jimmy is more than comic relief. He's a type of character who's become pretty common though I'm not sure what to call it. Lois is sort of if there's a story who cares if there's danger. While Jimmy is danger means there's a story.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

JMS should probably stop writing other peoples' characters.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

THIS.

Well, with sole exception in recent memory possibly being the Brave and the Bold issue that revealed that Aquaman and Etrigan secretly team up every year to fight back Cthulhu.