I feel kinda bad about getting praised for the Lois Lane commentary in my Earth One review

[seriousfic]

Since in my AU, Lois Lane is the middle-aged editor of the Daily Planet (it's on a twenty year sliding timeframe) and is "Admiral Kirking" the desk she's riding. The focus is still on her being a badass journo, but more about how she's become more mature, even-handed, and impartial than she used to be. The storyline I was thinking of was her getting some shade to throw at Lex Luthor, but after examining the evidence carefully deciding that it's inconclusive and she won't embarrass the Planet by presenting a story she can't stand behind.

(That makes me wonder, are there are second-or-third-generation DC characters who would fit as go-getting young reporters in a future-y Daily Planet? I just realized I'm not at all familiar with what the current "young" generation of superheroes do. Peter Parker is a photographer, Tony Stark is an inventor... what would Tim Drake or Cassie Sandsmark do in their secret identities?)

By the way, all this "Jim Olsen" mockery is reminding me, was there a reason Jimmy showed up as the "voice of reason" in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again? Was that actually the start of a trend of trying to elevate Jimmy Olsen (because God forbid a male character not be on equal standing with his female equivalent, or holy shit inferior to her TOTAL PHOTONIC REVERSAL) or did Lois Lane show up at some point to be a badass? I will take any answer that does not require me to reread DKSA.

Comments

[milleniumrex.livejournal.com]

I think Tim is the de facto head of Waynetech now. At least, he was before the reboot. He was basically this globe-trotting teen businessman.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure Cassie dropped out of high school after Superboy died, and never bothered to go back. Which means her secret identity is a high school dropout.

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

most teen superheroes these days are either students or full time superheroes