![]() ![]() Lois has heard this all before, and apppears to be tuning out a bit. Superman muses about what a great team they are, and how great it would be is they could get married, but of course they can't. Actually, they are relaxing after wrapping up whatever happened last issue. ![]() ![]() Yeah, I'm sure Lois wouldn't want diamonds, diamonds you could make yourself, you lazy jerk! Ahem. There's a box of candy on the coffee table that looks like he picked it up at the convenience store on the way home. This story opens on Valentine's Day, and Superman and Lois are spending it on the couch. The closest comparison I can think of is Q from Star Trek, except Mxyzptlk doesn't teach anyone a goddamn thing. Superboy finds out Mask Man was really a descendant of Mxyzptlk's, tricks him into saying his name backwards, and everything pops back to normal, all the Legionaires alive and well. For example, there was a Legion of Super-Heroes story where Mask Man kills all the Legionaires except Superboy. So, there were two kinds of Mxyzptlk stories: one where he was up front about his trickery the other where something odd would occur, then Superman would have to figure out Mxyzptlk was behind it and outwit him. And everything is always back to normal in the end, because when Mxyzptlk gets sent back, all the effects of his magic go with him. Yeah, but then Superman can rearrange continental plates to spell Mxyzptlk's name backwards. I know some fans enjoy his antics, and that Superman can't just punch him out, he has to work out the puzzle. The splash page and the cover overlap a bit, setting up the riddle for the issue: in a reversal of character, Mxyzptlk wants to be sent back to the fifth dimension, and Superman wants him to stay. This was Superman #335, "Mxyzptlk spelled backwards is T-R-O-U-B-L-E," written by Martin Pasko and art by Curt Swan and Frank Chiaramonte. Arrgh.Īnyway, why am I admitting my Marvel bias, when we're talking Superman today? Because I think these issues may have made me a Marvel fan. X-Men seems the obvious one, but I might've picked a bloody New Universe book. Marvel's sub department offered me two bonus issues if I switched to a different book, and I wish I remembered what I picked. Eventually, I got a subscription, which I had through the last issue, #107. Can we blog about Star Wars comics, or would that be a legal quagmire? Because I love those comics more than the last three movies, and I always will. I started at issue #10-not a high water mark for the series, Marvel, or comics in general it was honestly, the Magnificent Seven with Han Solo and Chewbacca fighting Godzilla. Yet another confession: I really am more of a Marvel fan at heart. Mxylptk splash, originally uploaded by googum. Also, I've added more links, so if you're done here, hit them up!) Read more! (Housekeeping note: I accidently lost three days worth of posts! Oh, I'm redoing them, but if they seem harsher than usual, well, that's why. The Daily Planet's office supplies had a better view than you do. When you sit in your cube and wonder if it's sunny or rainy or light outside, think of the golden age, when even storerooms had windows. Couldn't he just take the makeup at superspeed, without wrecking Lois' purse?Īlso: as I'm sure others have pointed out, Clark was coming out of that windowed storage room, a fixture of old Superman comics. Seemingly in retaliation, Supes uses heat vision to snap the strap of her purse, and at superspeed uses her pancake makeup over the green. Best case scenario, security pats you down for stolen post-its. (Try it though: come out of your stockroom at work, hand in pocket, guilty look on your face. Hand in pocket, Lois spots him coming out of the storeroom, and rags on him a bit. Switching to Clark to put in an appearance at work, Superman discovers that his hand is turning green and scaly and then he still goes out as Clark. Mornin' Clark!, originally uploaded by googum. ![]()
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