Johnathan | August 8, 2011
In response to my recent post about Lois Lane’s dentition and its implications for the larger DCU, extremely funny commenter damanoid had this to say: Oh for god’s sake man, do you realize what you’ve done?! This could take YEARS to sort out! First there’ll need to be a Dentistry Crisis, to explain that Lois [...]
Johnathan | August 4, 2011
The other day, I was reading some Silver Age comics (natch) and I came across this plot point in Lois Lane No.50, from July 1964. At first I was going to merely point this out and mention that from my experience with people of the generation that Lois would have been sliding through at [...]
Johnathan | January 15, 2011
Janie is one of a whole series of comics about teenaged girls, the collective message of which was that teenaged girls are completely insane. This one is my favourite of the lot, though, partially due to Janie’s smooth recovery in the final two panels but mostly due to the presence of "Har-umph!" From Lois Lane [...]
Johnathan | October 23, 2010
Cora the Car Hop is a true champion of the Unfunnies: not only do her comics frequently end on a completely impenetrable punchline, but they rely on knowledge of a profession that has basically disappeared but that at the time was fresh and new and worthy of some level of comment. Here’s a taste: Man, [...]
Johnathan | May 22, 2010
Lois Lane No. 27. 1961. "The Last Days of Lois Lane." There are three interesting things about this story, and one of them pretty remarkable. The first of these things is the setup: Clark Kent and Lois Lane are on location covering a story. Now, I’m not saying that there is no place in this [...]
Johnathan | May 1, 2010
I was originally going to write about this story (from Lois Lane No 20) for one of our recent theme weeks, but since the funniest in the story – as well as the reason that it was appropriate for the week in question – came at the very end and would have been telegraphed too [...]
Johnathan | April 18, 2010
I noticed long, long ago that the lyrics that musicians in super-hero comics sing are rarely… less than awful. Now, I could simply be biased due to having read too many issues of Teen Titans featuring Bob Haney-style mod-rock ("Yeah yeah yeah! Rock rock rock!"), but I’m still almost physically shocked when I encounter a [...]
Johnathan | February 27, 2010
Hip-Happy Hero: Jimmy Olsen It was pretty much inevitable that transformation-prone Jimmy Olsen would eventually end up as a big ‘ol tubb. 1. How’d He Get So Big? Well, it’s like this: Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter, is visiting the lab of Professor Potter, omniscientific genius and weird situation generator for the Superman family. The professor [...]
Johnathan | February 25, 2010
Hip-Happy Hero: Superman Ah, Big Fat Superman. I had never read the story in which he appears before looking it up for this series of writings, but I was somehow positive that he existed, somewhere, in some extremely chubby form. Big Fat Superman is my new symbol for everything that is right about comics. [...]
Rachelle | October 7, 2008
Here’s a little story about a time where Supergirl gets tired of living in an orphanage and resorts to drastic measures in hopes that she can get the hell out of there. It’s from Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #14 (1960). Oh, calm down Lois. It’s Superman. What’s he going to do? Take all those waterskiiers [...]