Line #95 ComicBook/LoisLane


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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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