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Wowee, zowee!
Spoilers:
All-Star Superman #3 is certainly the Trouble with Boys one, isn't it? "We don't need Superman! And, if you ask me, neither does Lois Lane. You tell me what a spaceman flying around in his underwear can give her that a good old hunk of prime American can't?" Steve Lombard cuts right to it -- how can any man measure up to a Man of Steel? Not that Olsen cares, he's still nursing his crush. Incidentally, the design for the Super-Signal Watch is the greatest thing ever. So utterly a Happy Meal toy and a haute couture accessory.
Samson & Atlas show up, those hot muscle man heroes from Times Past, right out of the Golden Age Flex Mentallo Manly Man comics -- and we're thrust into the foot races for Helen of Troy, clashing up against Helios letting his son Phaethon ride the sun-chariot (except that nothing bad happens). Middle-Aged Silver Age Superman has a crisis of attraction when Lois flirts with Atlas and Samson and he fails to understand -- for her, there's no contest.
Considering this was going to be the Superwoman issue, it doesn't look like much happens with her. She's fought over, she's the prize, she doesn't really use her powers beyond flight and invulnerability. The only thing that seems positive in this regard is her, well, playing at the prize -- Superman doesn't need to win her. The most interesting Lois page is the end when she falls asleep, her powers on the wane: "My birthday gift is starting to wear off...big time. I can't smell the trees in Canada. I can't see all that gorgeous radio anymore...the stars have stopped singing like they used to...but I'll never have to put up with the annoying zee zee zee of Jimmy Olsen's super-watch as long as I live, and for that, I'm grateful." |
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