Superman General

The only attempt to formally get Clark with Lana in recent memory ended... badly. But then again it was Chuck Austen.

Right. But I mean it was never really a contest. They tried to make it one but it was always gonna be lois.

Also I have never seen Smallville past the first season but was Lana really that bad?

That's what I'm curious about; you'd think in eighty years of publication there'd be some character who could provide a contest, and yet there... isn't.

well lana was the closest, but usually first girl wins. or something happens to her and second girl wins. especially when something goes on this long. it took a reboot to get a superman and lois that werent together, and even then their love was so strong they punched the original crisis away with their supposed to be impossible son, and moved to a new earth.

There are fans of Clark and Diana that exist.

There's a character in the current Action Comics run who seems to be building up as a love interest. I forgot her name but she's a police officer and her initials are L.L.

Seriously? Writers, you do know it's the 2010s, right?

edited 7th Jan '16 6:54:16 AM by windleopard

So New 52 Clark and Diana are broken up now?

Yep, and Diana looks to be getting closer to Steve Trevor again in JL.

Interesting. Is the Superman/Wonder Woman comic still running?

It is.

As is the Batman/Superman comic last I checked.

edited 7th Jan '16 11:06:23 AM by LordofLore

Is SM/WW now non-romantic? I know it was originally launched to try to hook teen-romance fans.

edited 7th Jan '16 2:13:13 PM by HamburgerTime

I've been away for a while, damn.

Yeah, specifically the Twilight crowd.

Hitching your wagon to a trend already on its way out - always a recipe for success!

yeah superman nd wonder woman are pretty much done, diana is still in love with steve, and will probably get back with him because she broke up with him for a dumb reason. and clark should get with lee the new double l romance.

Why don't they just do away with all pretenses and get Clark and Lois back together already? They don't even need to be married again, but it's obvious by this point that Lois is still both fans' and pop cultures' one true-blue Superman love interest, and that she and Clark are going to get back together at some point anyway, so they might as well as just get it over with.

Of course, I also ask myself why they don't just get Spiderman and MJ back together already, and yet I've been asking myself that for the last 8 years or so now...

edited 7th Jan '16 8:59:06 PM by kkhohoho

That would be them admitting they screwed up and we can't have that.

because they wanted them to be broken up for years. there was a group back around like infinite crisis of morrison, millar, and someone else who wanted Lois and Clark to break up, and for her to not know he was Superman anymore because them being married was too much like a soap opera. They were also gonna bring back the clark/lois/superman love triangle because they didnt understand that was 10 times the soap opera.

but hey we still have the best lois, and best clark married and together and happy with a kid that shouldnt have been able to be born.

Peter and MJ have remained married in the newspaper strip, so I often wonder just how "all powerful" that editorial mandate is in regards to not putting them together. They even brought the couple back over the summer of 2015 for the Secret Wars event, which I think is pretty much the reason the "Lois and Clark" book exists now as a way of DC capitalizing on all the good-will that came out of that series with their own power couple.

edited 8th Jan '16 1:52:54 AM by Zarius

So basically, the writers are afraid of, you know, actual meaningful growth and change? Because if you're so upset with the current status quo that you want to outright revert it to the Silver Age, than what else can it be? (Other than wanting to relive your childhood all over again.) It's probably the same reason Barry's alive again and Wally West got exiled from continuity replaced with a black kid, or why One More Day was even proposed to begin with. Is it that hard for the writers and executives to let their characters grow up and move on?

edited 8th Jan '16 7:50:38 AM by kkhohoho

That's exactly what they're afraid of - for some reason, comic company executives seem to feel very strongly that making big changes to classic characters will scare the market away.

Even though OMD for instance was panned so terribly and sank sales so badly that the Spider-Man books still haven't fully recovered from that low.

OMD seemed to be based moreso on Quesada's personal opinion that spider-man was more interesting as a bachelor or something.

of course, instead of taking this as an opportunity to let peter grow up even further by making him a divorcee, he opted for the hideously contrived Deal with the Devil mandate he enforced instead. Because apparently, divorce sets a bad example, but deals with basically satan are a-ok.

also complaining about it being a soap is kind of funny to me considering that's an accurate description of most superhero books :'p

Exactly. Really, if anything, letting the characters marry/divorce and move forward would make comics less soapy, whereas having them make deals with the frigging devil just makes them moreso.

Let's not forget Marvel have tackled issues of divorce in their books plenty of times with well known heroes. Hell one of their top movies last year dealt with a divorcee superhero in Ant-Man.

It's really a lose-lose situation...Peter divorcing goes against the themes of responsibility he was taught, and dealing with the devil is the same. It's little wonder why Marvel can't quite make up their mind what to do with him, and that even now, they're stuck with the marriage in one form or another, and these days fans predict it'll only be a matter of time before it's back full time.

edited 8th Jan '16 9:33:46 AM by Zarius