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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Lois Lane looking annoyed at Superman's blatant SigilSpam.]] |
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4 | ''Lois Lane'' is a 2019-2020 12-issue maxi-series (collected as ''Lois Lane: Enemy of the People'') written by Creator/GregRucka with art by Mike Perkins. It is a spin-off of ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' books, taking a greater focus on Lois Lane and the work she does. |
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6 | The first issue sets up the two main plots: first, the White House is separating illegal immigrant children from their parents and housing them in "care camps" that Lois exposes as the owners of said camps having [[CorruptPolitician paid White House officials millions of dollars.]] |
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8 | The other plot is when Lois learns that a Russian colleague of hers, Mariska Voronova, has "committed suicide," i.e. she was murdered due to her criticizing of the Kremlin. Lois knows that she had a big story in the works and she even knows where she kept her notes...she just needs someone to go to Russia to get them. |
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10 | The book also picks up plot threads from Bendis's ''Action Comics'', such as when a picture of Lois and Superman kissing was published. |
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12 | Compare ''[[ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane]]'', Lois's ongoing from the '50s to the '70s. |
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14 | !!Tropes included in ''Lois Lane'' include: |
15 | * BadassNormal: Lois and [[spoiler:Renee Montoya.]] |
16 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Lois is a great reporter and ''terrible'' speller. After Perry White asks her if she turns off spell check, she says that she merely ignores it until it simply gives up. |
17 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Renee Montoya as the Question.]] |
18 | * CameraSniper: Exaggerated in issue #7, when a paparazzo setting up his camera with a huge telephoto lens is initially misdirected as an actual sniper assembling a rifle. |
19 | * ContinuitySnarl: In the final issue, [[spoiler:Renee has started a romance with Elicia Sanchez, a character from the pre-Flashpoint era she had a brief fling with in the ''Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood'' miniseries]]. However, [[spoiler:Renee had been in a relationship with Kate Kane since the end of ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'']] almost two years prior, with no indication of any problems between them, and no other mainline series (including this one) [[spoiler:indicated they had broken up]] prior to this. Within a day or so after the issue was published, Rucka clarified that [[spoiler:Kate and Renee are essentially in an open relationship, and that they're the OfficialCouple as far as he's concerned. According to him, Elicia is only a "passion" for Renee, while Kate is the one she loves.]] |
20 | * DrivingQuestion: What's the secret that Lois is keeping from Clark? |
21 | * IntrepidReporter: Lois, of course. |
22 | * MysteriousInformant: Lois has one whom she insists on meeting similar to Deep Throat meeting Woodward and Bernstein. It's just so happens that her informant is [[spoiler:the Question -- Vic Sage ''and'' Renee Montoya.]] |
23 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: It's clear that Lee-Ann [=McCarthy=], the White House spokesperson, is heavily based on former White House spokepersons Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway. |
24 | * RippedFromTheHeadlines: As of 2019, illegal immigrants ''are'' being separated from their children and those children are kept in various "detention facilities." And it turns out that a lot of those for-profit detention are run by "DC Capital Partners" who has as a member of its board of directors John F. Kelly, Trump's former White House Chief of Staff. Basically, everything Lois Lane said within the DC universe ''absolutely happened in real life''. |
25 | * SlutShaming: As they walk down the street, Clark overhears someone mutter how Lois is a "slut" due to a picture published of her and Superman kissing. Lois tells him that he can't do anything, even though he expresses how much he hates that people blame her and never him -- and Lois says ''of course'' people don't blame him ''because'' [[DoubleStandard he's a him.]] |
26 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Renee]] gets key information on the case by incorporating JackBauerInterrogationTechnique types of tactics against a man. When Lois hears the tape of the interrogation, she says she can't use it for her story because the information was obtained under duress. |
27 | * SnapBack: [[spoiler:Renee Montoya's return as the Question]] was not explained in the series. |
28 | * VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Renee, Jessica Midnight and Sister Clarice (who was Radiant, the incarnation of God's mercy in the previous continuity) have all had visions of their pre-Flashpoint selves. [[spoiler: Elicia Sanchez]] also has one, triggered by recognizing Renee. |
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