Action Comics #972 Storytime

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Oh my godddddd

THIS VARIANT IS PRECIOUSSSS

>>89399810
Thanks for the story time.

>>89399864
Waaaait did powerless Supes become a ninja?

>>89399907
Is it just me or is Lex starting to admire Superman now that he doesn't have powers?

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JLvSS: >>89399980

>>89399953
Well, ain't that something.

>>89399974
aww shit based hank

>>89399819

He looks like he's about to fly off with the cat

>>89399912

Yeah he stopped crime when his Metropolis was bottled and he had no powers

>>89399886
Why is this clark kent so spooky and weird.

>>89399953
What the fuck is happening.

>>89400079
No one knows but people think he's Superman Prime.

>>89399974

God dammit. I want Lex to stay good

>>89400003
Yeah...pretty hard to give a guy a chance when his duplicate gave up total omnipotence that could've saved everyone for all time just to try and kill you.

But then, he's Superman.

this was so boring

Cyborg Clark Kent?

>>89399819
>we'll never see this on the big screen
Hurts

>>89399819
Iconic Superman right here.

>>89400754
In the DCEU the kid would scream and the mother would spit on Superman's shoes to show how PUNISHED he is.

>>89399864
>Supes doesn't agree with punishing someone for a crime they might commit
Unintentional slap at Captain Fascist. Go Supes!

>>89399912

He know's Bat-Jutsu, Kryptonian Martial Arts, and as a teenager he studied with the greatest martial artist of the 30th/31st century(though that's probably all muscle memory due to repeated memory wipes) also he's seen multiple universes' catalogs of Kung-Fu movies.

Ninja doesn't even come close.

>>89399886
Anyone know what time it is?

>>89399912
>>89400072
>>89400823

And also yeah, he did the hooded crime-buster thing, but I remember the outfit being a little less Tenchu: Super Assassin.

>>89399873
>>89399886
fug

>>89399953
well I'll be damned that's cool

Thanks for sharing Anon.
So this is definitely Henshaw Supes coming back? Is he the REDACTED of the April solit?

>>89400156

Well that scene could mean that Supes rescues Lex from Darkseidification

>>89400156
He'll be replaced by old 52 Lex. What was the last of him, I don't remember what happened to him after he lost his God powers prior to flashpoint.

>>89400845
NA NA NA NA NA Prime Time!

>>89401130
>New-52 Lex and Superdad vs pre-52 Lex
>New-52 Lex sacrifices himself to save Superman
We don't deserve him.

>>89399974
who is this character in the visions with long hair?

>>89401130
That makes no sense New 52 Lex should be Pre New 52 Lex.

>>89399864
MURDERCAROL BTFO

>>89401179

Nah nu52 Lex is completely different. He might still be an asshole. Old Lex was a sociopath megalomaniac that rathers lose godlike powers just not to see a happy superman.

>>89401221
That would rather lose godlike powers WHILE OMNISCIENT AND ABLE TO SENSE THE JOY AND HAPPINESS HE WAS ABLE TO GIVE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

He was something special.

>>89400126
PC Anti-Matter Clark Kent

>>89401232

I really love both Lex's. They're both fucking great!

>>89401179
>>89401130
pre-fp lex was outside the universe when fp happened so he might have escaped like clark and his family did

Would somebody be able to link to the other action comic storylines please

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>>89399974
OH FUCK THAT'S POST CRISIS CYBORG SUPERMAN!

>>89399953
I feel bad for Lex. In normal circumstances he should have become the Superior Superman with his own ongoing after the death of Superbro, instead we got PostCrisis Superman stepping in and Kenan becoming the legitimate heir of new52 Superman.
However I'm not complaining since I'm pretty satisfied with the Superman line right now

>>89400126
Nah, he's Post-Crisis Cyborg Superman.

>>89401221
Personality wise yes they're different but they should be the same person according to Rebirth.

>>89399953
>Superman: Stop stealing my imagery, Lex!

Kinda petty.

>>89401655
Well, it is his family crest.

>>89399846
i like when show that Superman is not just superpowered guy.

>>89400812
This entire arc has been a strawman for Civil War II

>>89399846
Luthor really doesn't give Superman much credit, does he?

>>89401169
Isn't this the non-kryptonian dude from another dimension Superbro helped/captured? Ulysses or something.

>>89401712
No it's Superbro's family crest.

>>89399944
>>89399953
>>89399964
plz don't end Superlex

Damn, I actually liked lex being superman. Sad that storyline is over now. So now Lex is just gonna run the daily planet and someday take control of Apokolips? Hell, Superdad is dumb for not just letting Lex continue to act likes supes. It would have stopped him from having free time to do evil things.

>>89402719
I would say he served his purpose as Superman he wanted to be Superman pay tribute to him and he did but now there's another Superman flying around so he doesn't need to be Superman anymore.

>>89402738

He still will be using the armor, just dropping the cape. There's a solicit that mentioned Lex fighting.

>>89402344
Who?

>>89399964
bag milk, wtf, Superman is an evil Canadian clone!?!

>>89402804
>Not knowing the Superbro name
Check out more Superman threads newfag.

>>89402811
technically Joel Schuster was born in Canada, but he moved to America when he was 10. However Canada still tries to claim him because they have nothing.

>>89402867
fuck your 52 shitbag Superman

>>89402867
There's only one Superman now :^)

>>89399962
Powerless Superman exhibits qualities that Lex prides in himself without the filter of "it's easy to bee confident when you've got god powers"

>>89402906
Technically 2 counting Kenan Kong who has the powers of Suberbro he's carrying on Superbro's legacy.

>>89400754
Except we did. 40 years ago.

>>89402888
Dude, Metropolis is explicitly based on Toronto.

But that's part of the whole story of Superman. He's an immigrant that came to America in his childhood, who lives up to its highest ideals while not rejecting his original heritage.

Not many (non-douchebags) try to claim Superman is totally Canadian. But trying to claim there's no Canadian influence is just as douchebaggy, right?

>>89403102
Metropolis is based on New York, where the hell do you even see Toronto influence?

>>89403102
It was originally based on Cleveland in the Golden Age, but it's been New York by day (as opposed to Gotham being New York by night) for decades now.

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>>89399974
The time has come and so have I

>>89401502
No, this is better. Lex has the chance to be his own hero, not stealing the name of another one. Luthor should create his own identity, anything else is beneath him, he has too much class for it. This comic was Lex overcoming his jealousy of Superman.

>>89402076
Based on his experience with Superbro, of course not.

>>89403173
>>89403102
Cleveland because he grew up in Cleveland, it's where he moved to from Canada.

>>89399864
Clark worked at a KFC for 2 years.

>>89403142
"The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, where he was born and lived until he was ten.[1] Since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City.[2][3][4]"

[1] ^ http://www.supermansupersite.com/metropolis2.html
[2] ^ Fleisher, Michael and Lincoln, Janet E. The Great Superman Book (Grand Central Publishing, 1978), pp. 223–225.
[3] ^ MacDonald, Heidi; Peter Sanderson (2006-01-30). "New York Is Comics Country". Publishers Weekly. Reed Elsevier. Archived from the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
[4] ^ Bridwell, E. Nelson. "Metropolis Mailbag," Superman #306 (Dec. 1976).

Over the decades, obviously, New York's had a massive influence on the way Metropolis is depicted as well, but DC actually does set comics and base heroes in NY as well, so it's not a replacement or carbon copy, naturally.

>>89399907
This is like that episode of JLA

>>89399810
Fairly average cover.

>>89403284

Was it always "Metropolis"? Or, like Gotham, did is start out as NYC?

>>89399819
Awesome variant though.

>>89403401
The seven issues of Action Comics (1938) Superman was in didn't actually name the city he operated out of, but that's the thing, he rarely ever actually did much in his home town in that series. He flew all over the world, taking on problems all over America, and the world, with no real consistency from one issue to the next.

The actual city he lived in at the time was just called "The City", he was in Washington DC in the second issue, fighting corrupt arms dealers and military commanders, corrupt mine owners, a phony "Superman's Manager", etc.

It wasn't until Superman #1 (1939) that he actually started living and working in a defined city, which was, from the first issue, Metropolis. We get a new re-telling of the origin story, Clark getting a job at the Daily Star, all of it, as if it was a brand new series with no Action Comics history behind it.

So technically, no, Action Comics #1 didn't ever say "MEANWHILE, IN METROPOLIS", but it didn't say "MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK", or "MEANWHILE, IN CLEVELAND", or anywhere else, either.

As of Superman #1, it was Metropolis from the start, and from then on, though.

Thanks, OP.

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>>89403284
This is the only image of his I can find that has anything resembling a skyline

It's just generic buildings

>>89403401
Started out as Cleveland.

>>89403620
IIRC it was referred to as Cleveland in issue #2 (which was the second half of the same story).

>>89401362
Can't be an Anti-Matter Clark Kent, pretty sure Superman touched this guy and they didn't destroy each other/become Superman Thought Robot.

>>89403680
yeah but he said the guy is 100% human and the only Clark Kent that was 100% human was Anti-Matter Clark Kent.

>>89403693
And don't they annihilate each other if they touch, so touching each other should confirm he's not anti-matter Clark Kent?

Or am I getting my alternate universes confused?

>>89403620
>>89403674
>>89403664
Cool beans.

>>89403844
Anti-Matter You should annihilate Regular Matter You on contact.

>>89403844
different Ultraman

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Ultraman_II_(Antimatter_Universe)

This guy is Anti-Matter Clark Kent

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Clark_Kent_(Antimatter_Universe)

>>89399974
Jesus. There was a good concept here, but the decompression was insane. This story could have been told over 2 or 3 issues, and instead it was what, 8? This is why I drop so many books.

>>89403916
Ooooh, different Ultraman it probably is, then.
Damnit, I was pulling for Prime.

>>89404084
I suppose he could be a version of Clark that was split from Superman

>>89399819
This triggers /pol. Just wait.

>>89404636
Everything triggers /pol/. They're the biggest bunch of thin-skinned crybabies the world has ever seen.

>>89400754
geoff johns is here now,anon, we'll be okay.

>>89399974
> the original Cyborg Superman lives again.

Jurgens you magnificent bastard!!!

>>89399819
looks like he's stealing the cat desu

>>89399886
If this was Prime, or Pre-flashpoint Cyborg Superman, shouldn't they be able to hear what Lois and Jon are saying after he left (and before he arrived, for that matter)?

The only way out I see is that it's Prime and he's depowered for some reason.

>>89399846
I miss Superbro... That was a god time.

>>89399974
Well then it's settled, creepy Clark is Cyborg Superman.

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>>89405476

If Creepy Clark is the original Cyborg Superman. The answer goes back to one of Jurgens old Cyborg Superman stories.

Hank after escaping the Source Wall via Superman's Electric Suit decided he missed being human (being locked in the Source Wall he kept reliving memories of his past human life).

So he stole supplies from Star Labs and crafted himself a humanoid body. He made sure to hide this form by not using his kryptonian powers. But what got him busted was he didn't fully know the extent of Superman's powers at that time. Superman busted him.

>>89402811
Looks more like a poorly drawn carton to me

>>89399886
You know he's creepy but he hasn't really done anything wrong yet. And he has good reason to be suspicious of lois considering this lois has just hijacked dead lois's life.

>>89402902
How people like you can honestly call yourselves superman fans I'll never know

>>89404783

Is he too late to save Justice League?

>>89401169
It's Ulysses.

>>89402111
I did not expect see Ulysses again.. His Super enemy is death..

>>89404636
We're fine with it

Nice too see Lex and Superdad being on good terms now.
But how long will that last (if it even transfer between books and writers)?

>>89409300
Depends on whether Darkseid Lex is NuLex or Pre-FP Lex.
>>89399810
Man I really enjoyed this. Jurgens isn't doing too bad a job.

>>89400156
my hope is he sticks around for a while. It would be cool if they did a thing where he gradually goes bad, thinking he's doing it for the better. he still has his superman suit in that future. So im guessing he goes like, good evil or something.

>>89405876
No he isn't. He's there in one of the bubbles too

>>89404783
I hope you're right.

>>89404636
doesn't seem to, /pol/'s existence clearly triggers you though :^)

>>89399873
Jurgens writes the entire Superman family as so paranoid and lonely.

Thank you

>>89413165
Not really. Lois was cool at DP. Only ones they were paranoid about are Lex Luthor and Clark Kent. And you can't really blame them.

>>89404636
What do you mean, it's not disgusting that a bunch of ungrateful thugs are going to spit on the White man who helped them? They spit on us for bringing them Christianity, they spit on us for bringing them out of African squalor, they spit on us for giving them work, and housing, and food, and they even spit on us for giving them White seed to relieve them if their endless, deprived, sick genetic squalor. They want us dead, and what's about to happen when they attack the symbolic Superman is what will happen when the slavering hordes of murderers, rapists and thieves splatter against the iron of armed, White America.
That's what Superman is about, and that's what you desperate, traitorous liberal scum can no longer deny.
Those death camps your traitors built? They're still there. Superman is in the White House now, and you're all going on the trains, in the trucks, and if you're particularly egregious you'll just go in a ditch.

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>>89402936
remember when superdad was young and used to suck without powers?

>>89399810
Cool

>>89416844
It was pretty great.

The fact that he applied himself and studied and worked hard to make himself an asset even when powerless was a great part of his character growth. Just like the classic Captain Atom arc from his solo series where his own powers were unreliable, at best, and Batman and Nightwing helped train him to be Superhero Street-level competent (though Nate's being an experienced military operator was a big plateau to work off of that Clark didn't have).

>>89403844
Common misconception. Antimatter Ultraman only annihilated with Superman in Final Crisis because he was pulled directly from the antimatter universe instead of going through a polarity reversing process. The latter is why Ultraman and Supes could go toe to toe in their first meeting without issue.

It's a moot point, though, because antimatter Ultraman was turned into a vampire and later resurrected as part of the Blood League of Earth 43.

>>89399810
>finale

ayy

>>89400754
>>89404783
>>89403040
>>89400793
>>89412014
>>89406923
what do you mean? We got lots and lots of Superman just saving people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZHndMQ-6E


Do you specifically want to see a cat? Really?

>>89425750
>smiling
>interacting with people
>looking like he actually wants to help people
We got none of these things please don't fucking link me some slowed down, zoomed in clip of him totally smiling for 0.2 seconds when he saves the girl from the burning building or any DCEU defense essays

>>89399895
if they only want to kill Lex why would they split up to chase after Superman

why wouldn't they both just go kill Lex

>>89399810