The Official Superman Thread - Part 1

[TheCorpulent1]

Not my favorite cover. "This is Brainiac. He's super-smart, so here is a picture of him punching someone!"

 

[Mystirious]

Still looking forward to the next issue with Lex confronting Brainiac

 

[HighFivingMF]

Not my favorite cover. "This is Brainiac. He's super-smart, so here is a picture of him punching someone!"

Would you rather a picture of him correcting an equation on a chalkboard while Lex looks away with a grumpy face and his arms crossed?

 

[BrianWilly]

...Yes? Really, yes.

 

[Drz]

Not my favorite cover. "This is Brainiac. He's super-smart, so here is a picture of him punching someone!"

But Brainiac is just like any other nerd, when he has the superior body he just wants to bully! It wasn't easy at the robot software school for Brainiac you know. :*(

 

[Mystirious]

The other psychotic robots bullied him

Would you rather a picture of him correcting an equation on a chalkboard while Lex looks away with a grumpy face and his arms crossed?

Yes yes i do

are you saying you do not

 

[Watchman]

I always pictured Luthor and Brainiac having a Farnsworth/Wernstrom relationship.

 

[Mystirious]

There going to settle there arguements like men of science

With Deathball!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Would you rather a picture of him correcting an equation on a chalkboard while Lex looks away with a grumpy face and his arms crossed?

That sounds like a f***ing amazing cover.

 

[Frankenmation]

And that's NOT terrible!

 

[fifthfiend]

Would you rather a picture of him correcting an equation on a chalkboard while Lex looks away with a grumpy face and his arms crossed?

Yeah this would own

e: You could even get super old-timey and have Braniac talking some **** on the cover.

"You see Lex, with my TWELFTH-LEVEL INTELLECT, I have MATHEMATICALLY proven that YOU are a *****E!"

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Bwahahahahaha!

 

[Anubis]

 

[HighFivingMF]

Hey! Someone took my idea!

 

[Drz]

Corp you better show that to Paul Cornell!!!!!!

 

[Mystirious]

Bwahahahahaha!

I want this to be the cover with all my want

Brainiac is sciencier than Lex

 

[Watchman]

Brainiac might be smarter, stronger, and more powerful but Luthor will always have the one object of Brainiac's desire that he will never obtain- a decent pair of pants.

 

[Mystirious]

Solomon Grundy want pants too!

 

[Tron Bonne]

Anyone happen to know if The Phantom Zone mini series from the early '80s (I believe right before ICOIE happened) is collected in anyway?

Kurosawa?

 

[Drz]

Lol seems Morrison, Millar and Waid had their own idea for One More Day back in the 1998s:

Memories, as science is only now theorizing and as Brainiac has known for years, are not electrical in nature. They are, in fact, actual chemical deposits in the brain. And what is chemical can easily be turned to poison.
Brainiac has adjusted Lois’s chemical memory of Clark’s secret identity so that it’s killing her.
The poison memory can’t be removed. It can conceivably be masked–Superman has more than one magical ally who could erase Lois’s conscious memory of his identity, who could facilitate a reality in which Clark and Lois were married without Lois being aware of her husband’s double life–but deep down, Superman knows that’s too risky. He can’t live with her, can’t be her husband, can’t share her life. She’s too sharp. No matter what he does, no matter how on guard he is, she’ll stumble onto his secret eventually, and when she does, it will be the death of her.
With no other conceivable option, Superman turns to Mxyzptlk. Sure, says Mxy, I can fix this–
–but only by altering history so that she NEVER knew. So that there was never a memory TO poison.
Unacceptable, says Superman. You have the power to fix this more simply. You don’t have to go that far.
Untrue, counters Mxyzptlk. Despite what I may or may not WANT to do for you…when I’m in the third dimension, I’m INCAPABLE of doing anything BUT mischief.
So the offer’s on the table, the clock is ticking on Lois, and together, she and her husband make their tragic decision. Though Lois would rather spend one day with Clark’s love than a lifetime without it, he swears to her that they’ll be together again when the time is right. For now…they have no choice but to erase their lives together so that Lois might live.
Mxyzptlk weaves his spell. As night falls around the globe, people will begin to fall asleep–and as they do, the world will change and Clark’s secret will be restored. People will awaken without any memory that Clark Kent and Lois Lane were ever married, were ever together. Clark and Lois have until sundown to enjoy one last, perfect day.
And so long as we live, we will never again see two people so much in love as we do that day.
Eventually, however, the violet dust of twilight settles across the city. It’s happening. Their arms wrapped around one another as if they’ll never touch this way again, Lois and Clark begin to fall asleep. With a last kiss, they drift into slumber…
…and when dawn breaks across Metropolis, Clark Kent exits his bachelor apartment at 344 Clinton Avenue and makes it to his Daily Planet desk just in time to catch the latest in a long line of caustic barbs from rival reporter Lois Lane. She has her sights set on Superman, thinks Kent for the millionth time. If only I could get her to love me as Clark…
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/05/swipe-file-one-more-day-vs-superman-2000/

 

[HighFivingMF]

Brainiac and Mxyzptlk make that awesome.

 

[Watchman]

I'm conflicted. On one hand there is no doubt in my mind that Superman 2000 would have been amazing. If it did go through we wouldn't have All Star Superman or What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

 

[Drz]

Red Son and Birthright are probably also things we wouldn't had received, maybe even Millar's Superior and yeah Morrison seems to still have few Superman ideas out there, Mark Waid surely has ideas too since Irredeemable is pretty much "what if Superman became Doctor Doom" or something, right?

 

[Watchman]

More like what if Superman went totally ****ing nanners.

Forgot about Red Son and Birthright those two were also great. So not getting 2000 is not that big of a lost, I guess.

 

[Mystirious]

Glad that comic book story never happened