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DC High
So the Superman and Wonder Woman Deviant Art Group (an acronym would have helped so much there) are holding this competition, the premise being to reimagine Supes and Wondy as Disney characters.
Well I recently saw the movie “Sky High” and couldn’t help smiling at the similarities between the Commander and Superman, as well as Jetstream and Wonder Woman. And then Lynda Carter showed up as the principal and I was all ＼(^o^)／
Anyway, since Sky High is a Disney movie, I decided to adapt it for my entry, but instead of casting Supes and Wondy as the parents, I cast them as Will and Layla instead.
In my mind the backstory goes: Jor El and Lara left Krypton along with little Kal and set up house on Earth. Cause of the yellow sun they both develop super powers and become heroes and adopt the secret identities of Jonathan and Martha Kent. Kal becomes Clark but doesn’t show any sign of powers during his childhood, leading to some angst just like Will’s.
Meanwhile, Diana moved to the neighborhood with her mother and has been Kal’s friend since they were little. She’s already got her powers, and I can see her being just like Layla as she objects to the school’s hero/sidekick dichotomy.
The scene above is when Will and Layla are on the roof after their first day of high school, having a supportive chat like good friends do.
Oh, and why am I posting this on Tumblr and not on Deviant Art? Cause I am currently without a computer or scanner and am relying only on my phone, which Deviant Art, unlike Tumblr, won’t allow me to upload photos from.
Sorry for the Deer of Teal.
Clark and Lois are NOT inevitable - Matt Idelson Superman Editor.
Superman Comicdom is in tumult.
Matt Idelson, Editor of Superman has a feature over at the Superman Homepage
Ask Matt, where fans ask Matt questions.
So the short of it is this Will Jones asked…
“After reading the latest interview with Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens, whose plans honestly gave me a sense of ‘been there, done that’, along with the disturbing implication that Lois and Clark are inevitable, which to me is another word for lazy and unimaginitive”
Now I’ve got to say I’m with Will on this one. For me retreading a story line that was done in the 1990’s until last year, wouldn’t feel fresh. YMMV
And Matt answered… “Matt: Hey, Will! Despite what you took away from that interview, Clark and Lois are NOT inevitable, and in fact it isn’t going to happen, at least while I’m on watch duty”
Now I could write at length ( and I have ) about why Matt is correct in this sense - Lois didn’t date Superman or Clark Kent successfully until 1990. Since 1938, the story had been about a dysfunctional relationship - a doomed romance. That the super-marriage in canon is limited to the last couple of decades.
I appreciate many fans will have only read stories from the modern era. So this doomed romance dynamic will for some seem very different,
However for me, who is fan-boy enough to have read a lot of old comics, all Action, all Superman and whole lot of others, it was the 90’s and onwards romance/marriage that feels odd and out of step when the whole seven decades are considered.
In the comments on ask Matt jensmith writes
Jen is right - Fans of Clark and Lois are lucky, they’ve two decades of Canon Lois and Clark relationship in the funny books. They have the old “Imaginary stories” and Classic Earth 2 before that.
They have Smallville.
DC has reintroduced ( thank Rao ) the multiverse.
This decision introduces uncertainty, we don’t know what will happen, and of course post Matt Idelson - another Editor might take the decision to revisit the Lois & Clark romance. Okay it maybe years hence, but that’s the nature of long lasting episodic stories.
Meantime I’m interested to see where they take these characters.
Marilyn as Supergirl
Or was it the other way around?
hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman:
Cary Grant and Sophia Loren painted as Superman and Wonder Woman
hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman:
More Earth 2 Superman and Wonder Woman.
Oh my, when I said that I was broadly looking forward to Earth 2, there was I hope in my using the term broadly - as a caveat, enough clarity of meaning to imply I was worried.
On the face of it, and I said as much, that I was worried about the genocidal fridg’ing of the Amazons, that along with the death of Lois Lane, seemed to invite the inevitable accusations of misogyny.
That said. No comic book fan should ever expect any character super or human to stay dead.
That said II. While I understand the narrative reasoning behind removing DC’s big three from Earth 2 - and I believe it would be something like this - let’s shine a light on these new characters with old names, Jay Garrick, Alan Scott - to name two, let’s force these characters to the forefront by removing the big guns from play.
It doesn’t mean I like it. Take Lois Lane for example, what is now gained by her death? She could have been without Earth 2 Superman a strong independent female protagonist ( an opportunity lost in Flashpoint ). The same is true for the Amazons, take Diana out of the story, and this has been done before, and another Wonder Woman arises.
The question I am left asking myself, is how interested am I in a world without the big 3 - more over - without their worlds. Baring in mind Metropolis is gone, Themyscira is gone, and as Helena Wayne notes, she has lost everything too.
It’s as if Robinson has set out to excise, with a bloody blade, Siegel/Kane/Marston ‘s worlds from this corner of the DCU.
Not only is the book creating new characters with ( unknown outside of fandom ) old names, soremoving any real connection with the those golden age stories, but he’s also - it seems - taken the headline characters and their supporting casts away too.
On the plus side I like the idea of doing something very different - that’s enough on balance to hold my interest, but equally I can’t help but feel - on the face of it - this seems a missed opportunity.
hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman:
From here to Themyscira
Super-Flynn-Man? - or - Clark ‘Eugene’ Kent, or Super Ryder?
Still working on the Challenge.
how do you make me love superman even more? give him greying hair………
feeling bad so i drew superman
y’all should try it, it works
Good gods, he’s fabulous.
I think the best take on Superman’s ageing process is that it should slow down and too all intents and purposes stop when he looks like Cary Grant in his Silver Fox years. Maybe in a billion or so years he can go white, sport a beard, that kind of thing.
Emily - 5 years old said Dianapunzel should be blonde
What do you think?
I think it’s much better to know what they’re planning to do, in this case not do, than sit around trying to read tea leaves and hoping for something that isn’t going to happen.
Really, this isn’t anything new, DC’s line has been in the New 52 Clark & Lois are not going to be together. Now it’s been stated in no uncertain terms. So be it. All the cards are on the table and now it’s up to the individual consumer to make their decisions.
I think fans of the Clark & Lois relationship, which I am, are lucky because we have somewhere to go. We have the Smallville season 11 book with Clark & Lois together and happy. Wally fans, Stephanie Brown fans, Oracle fans, and so many others don’t even have that.
Money talks and if the Smallville book continues on the trajectory of the last 3 weeks I think we’ll have a strong voice in the continuing debate because we’ll have a successful book on the open market competing with DiDio’s reboot vision of the character.”