DC Sends Clark Kent And Lois Lane To Divorce Court
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I find the title of the thread to be misleading, perhaps you should change it so people stop jumping to conclusions?vansau said:DC Sends Clark Kent And Lois Lane To Divorce Court
OK, not really, but DC is breaking up the marriage of its most iconic couple.
The recently-announced DC Universe reboot has met with a mixture of criticism, disbelief, and controversy. Many of the problems that fans have had with the decision is over what the editorial overlords at DC are keeping as part of the canon storyline and what they're planning to axe. However, this latest reveal is surely going to anger a lot of comic readers: DC has all but officially confirmed that it'll be doing away with the marriage between Clark Kent and Lois Lane.
Speaking to NBC New York's PopcornBiz blog, DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio spoke about the future of Clark and Lois as a married couple. "Let's just say it's being reexamined," he said. "Because it's something that I think is something that is so valuable to the character's story that you really want to explore all facets of it. Not just as it exists currently."
Superman and Ms. Lane were married in 1996, and it's been one of the longest-lasting story events in DC's continuity (it even coincided with the episode when the same characters were married on ABC's show <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Lois-Clark-Adventures-Superman-Complete/dp/B00080ZG2O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308360258&sr=8-1>Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. However, the new relaunch of Action Comics by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales is apparently going to begin "a new chapter" for Superman and will "refresh some ideas that have maybe become so well known that people think they've got it all figured out." Apparently one of those well-known ideas is how Superman got married to the woman he loved from afar for over fifty years.
I never had a problem with Superman being married to Lois, and I'm not entirely sure that this part of his past needs to be retconned. On top of that, this is also a really brave (or stupid, depending on how you look at it) move for DC, since Marvel did the exact same thing with Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson in 2008 with its <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day>"One More Day" storyline; fans and critics still haven't forgiven the comic publisher for that decision.
Rumor has it that the marriage is being dissolved so Superman can start getting some super-powered love from Wonder Woman. If that's the case, I'm sure I'm not the only one whose mind went to a bad place when I thought about the Amazon Princess using her lasso on the Man of Steel.
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DC, I must ask, WHY?
Really, can you at least give a reason for this?
And why are you retconning everything recently? Are you trying to get new readers? What is going on?
Really, can you at least give a reason for this?
And why are you retconning everything recently? Are you trying to get new readers? What is going on?
I'd like to get Moviebob's take on this coming reboot. I think he'd have a lot of righteous Nerd Rage to shed on this.
NOOOOOOO. I like Superman with Lois.
And Batman already had claim to Wonder Woman! I didn't go through episodes of JL and watch they awkwardly cute antics for nothing!
You bastards!!! Let them get back together! It's the only super-powered man falls for badass normal woman that I can stand without gagging! PLEASE!
DON'T DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEE!
'sadface'
And Batman already had claim to Wonder Woman! I didn't go through episodes of JL and watch they awkwardly cute antics for nothing!
You bastards!!! Let them get back together! It's the only super-powered man falls for badass normal woman that I can stand without gagging! PLEASE!
DON'T DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEE!
'sadface'
Some of you guys are over-reacting. It's a reboot, so expecting them to still be married would kind of silly. Hell, for you know they could get married again, but under different circumstances. Rage after you see where they take the characters, not before.
Eh, it's hard to "rage" - or feel much of anything, really - when it comes to DC "line-wide continuity shakeups" at this point. They've pulled it too many times, and there's NO way it's sticking around.sir.rutthed said:
I give it a year (TOPS!) before some character in some book starts "getting a feeling" like "something isn't right;" probably in the form of dreams and/or hallucinations culminating in a SHOCKING!!!!!! last-page reveal of someone/something from the "old" continuity that shouldn't exist anymore, illiciting from the dreamer/hallucinator some variation on "Y-y-you!?" or "I... I remember... I remember EVERYTHING!!!" This will, of course, lead in to some sort of "event" that will bring the "real" DCU back - the only question after that being whether or not they take the five or six "new version" things people decide they like and fold it into the "real" continuity OR keep the line going in some kind of "Ultimate DC" side-project.
See, you're not alone. If anything needs to be changed, it's that Batman needs to FINALLY get an official relationship, either with Wonder Woman (like the cartoon hinted) or with Catwoman.LordOfTheDance said:
DC, if you break up the ONLY couple that has survived the horrors of comic book romance (Green Arrow and Black Canary, Starfire and Nightwing, Raven and Beast Boy, Donna Troy and her husband, Spider Man and Mary Jane, Cyclops and Jean in The Last Stand) then I will hate you for the rest of my life. Why is it that comic writers seem to think that having any long lasting relationship--not just marriage--is something that drags a character down? Idiots.
So he started out with just the ability to run fast. How long did it take for them to turn him in to another God Mode Sue?Dr. wonderful said:
...he can Vibrate through wall and he fast. Other then that, he haven't been made into a godmode sue.008Zulu said:
Donna troy on the other hand...
I hardly read flash and when I do. It's for Bart Allen.
Wait, I did had a old Flash comic in which Wally loses his speed back in the 90's and there was this drug that made people have super speed but it killed them (or made them commit sucide)
Anyway, he pulled a peter parker. You know, moving to a crappy neighborhood and talking about how he gotta get a job and shit like that, They even had a villain from a previous comic lend him some money. Since he found honest work for his powers.
Oh, and some guy dressed up as the flash and beat the ever loving shit out of wally.
Typical 90's shit.
Interesting. I knew comic story lines were almost always convoluted and that's why I never even tried to get into them, but it's really kinda sad when even someone like you who knows the ins and outs of so many different comics can predict such strange plot devices/twists. I wonder why they even feel such a large scale reboot is necessary. I can understand trying to modernize or make them more relateable but completely redoing everything almost seems to me like they're trying to cover up something they're ashamed of. As for the Super breakup, I guess that can go back to modernization but I really don't see why they'd just decide to erase such a rich mythology.MovieBob said:
vansau said:
I'm not going to lie, that man managed to pissed me off more Frank miller ever did.
Oh hey, peter should be a 30 year old man living in his aunt basement!
What about his job as a teacher....
IT NEVER HAPPEN >:d
But! He was coming onto his own...he was enjoying his double life...
NO, THAT IS NOT SPIDERMAN! HE SHOULD SUFFFER EVERY DAMN ISSUE! Next issue he going to mope about not saving a puppy from a house fire!
You see where I'm going with this. Anyway, I'm going too leave my post with a image:
And a Hearty FUCK YOU Quesada.
HAH Joke is on Lois.
See what the divorce does to embitter Supes, and watch what he does the next time she's falling to her death, or going to be killed by a supervillain.
That episode of Superdickery may actually be valid.
See what the divorce does to embitter Supes, and watch what he does the next time she's falling to her death, or going to be killed by a supervillain.
That episode of Superdickery may actually be valid.