DC Restore Super-Marriage In "Superman: Lois And Clark"

[ZariusTwo]

Old-School Superscribe Dan Jurgens picks up where his well-received Convergence tie-ins left off as pre-flashpoint Clark and his wife Lois raise their young son on a world where the familiar villains Superman faced have yet to be created...but that will soon change. Lois investigates Intergang, and their son is on the verge of discovering his parents true identities.

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07...with-their-son

[Leo656]

Heeeey, well that's somethin'.

Very savvy on DC's part, as the Lois & Clark stuff seems like the only thing anyone actually liked from that Convergence mess. It was definitely the most popular thing. I'm gonna try and get this. Jurgens is one of the only guys alive I trust with Superman, and by far the best of the Modern Age scribes. That and the premise has me intrigued.

[ZariusTwo]

Yeah, I like that Lois also has her own side-quest and putting her investigative side to good use to protect her loved ones, and the idea of Clark having an awareness of the villains before they come into being opens up a rich sense of morality play questions. For a company not too bothered with continuity anymore, I think this book will still serve us with some of that since it informs Clark very much of who he is and what his world had endured under the more fleshed out villains

[ZariusTwo]

Some more details, as Dan Jurgens clarifies a very important plot twist

The Earth Lois and Clark have settled on is post-Flashpoint New 52 Earth

In his newly-announced series Superman: Lois and Clark, writer Dan Jurgens will return to the pre-Flashpoint Superman, his wife Lois and their newly-introduced son Jonathan.

The difference is, unike the hundred-plus Superman issues Jurgens wrote and/or drew in the '80s and '90s, he and artist Lee Weeks will be taking the Kent Family into the post-Flashpoint world, where that Superman has been secretly living for nine years on an as-yet-undisclosed mission, raising his family looking on in wonder at the strange world around him.

Jurgens joined ComicBook.com for a brief discussion on the new title, which is due out in October.

Right around the time you came on Superman the first time, they had launched Adventures of Superman, based on the radio and TV series of the same name. Is Superman: Lois & Clark named for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman?

I think what it really reflects is the relationship between Lois and Clark, and the whole idea is that I understand what you're saying about the TV show. That show was about their relationship. This book is about their relationship, wrapped in the world of Superman and with the addition of their son Jonathan.

And it is how they live on this world. What are the ramifications of living in this universe where we've seen Superman's secret identity outed? That kind of thing. How have they been able to pull this off? How has no one noticed, "You look kind of like that guy?" That's part of the beard right now, for example.

So it's a very different story, but at its core, it's a family book. It's a family unit. It's Lois and Clark and Jonathan and if you go back to the Convergence issues that I wrote, where Thomas Wayne talked to him about doing what he could do -- "whatever you do, keep your child safe" -- that's the core of the book in terms of that part of it.

Superman has had a mission here all along, and we're going to explore all of that.

With Jonathan, what motivated the decision to jump to nine years old, or was it just that you needed Superman's history on this planet in the story?

It's a couple of things. First of all, when you write about an infant, it's not like that infant becomes that character in and of itself. But we have some definite ideas for what we want to do with Jonathan and that nine-year-old timeline sort of fits in perfectly -- in a way just like it did with Damian and Bruce Wayne in Batman.

That nine-year-old timeframe fits great, and it also fits great with this idea that they have been here all along. They have been monitoring events, Superman has been doing stuff behind the scenes and had a very active role all along, and it is how do they react to this different universe for them, where people may have the same names, but they're not at all the same characters?

Now, we really take that on like a head-on question because that's part of the core of the book.

The version of Superman that you wrote for many years had a very different Krypton. Once they changed that around, it changed a lot of the trappings and a lot of his villains. Does this Superman have The Man of Steel or Secret Origin in his rear-view mirror -- or does it not matter?

I won't say that it doesn't matter. I think what's most important to understand is, his background still reflects that very classic Superman background that was of that era. Yes, visually things were changed with Krypton, but still the same basic core concepts were in place, and they're in place here.

This is a Superman whose parents lived on -- and when I say "parents," I mean Jonathan and Martha Kent -- and that makes him different from the current Superman. And it's someone who has this relationship with Lois as such that he would look at this world's Superman and Wonder Woman and say "Everything is different."

http://comicbook.com/2015/07/12/dan-...clarifies-the/

[ZariusTwo]

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[MsMarvelDuckie]

Why couldn' Marvel have done something like this? Im jealous now....

[Martian_Turtlesaurus]

I really like the concept except for the son part. Kryptonians being that biologically compatible with humans bothers me and takes the last of his kind loneliness away from the character.
Also I think the son was a big obstacle (amongst many) for Superman returns sequel. It's a whole new game for Lois and Clark.
It kind of sounds more like dragon ball (I wonder if Jonathan will be more powerful like Gohan was) all in all sounds interesting as they are willing to try something new.
Now if they could only make a comic of Nightwing and Oracle as a marriage I would be very happy.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Martian_Turtlesaurus

I really like the concept except for the son part. Kryptonians being that biologically compatible with humans bothers me and takes the last of his kind loneliness away from the character.

That does'nt need to apply to this Superman, seeing as DC have a new version to pile all that tiresome and outdated angst on.

[Leo656]

I can't stand when they lean on how lonely and isolated he supposedly is. Those are the most boring Superman stories ever. I mean I hate when there's a million Kryptonians, too, I'm fine with like, three or four... but when they keep droning on about how "alone" he's supposed to be... I just check out.

Like, the guy usually goes most of his life before he sees the rocket (it's only in like two or three versions where he's a kid when he learns he's an alien). He more or less grew up thinking or assuming he was born here; finding out you're an alien in your 30s isn't a whole lot different than not finding out you're half-German until your 30s... a little awkward, a bit of an adjustment, maybe, but it doesn't really necessitate an entire abrupt upheaval in your life or way of thinking. I'm pretty much in favor of the versions where he learns of his origins later on, as an adult, so for me, Byrne's glib dismissal of "Wow, I'm from planet Krypton. Neat, I guess. Still the same guy, changes nothing, time to go save some stuff," and goes on with his friggin' life is how I see Clark's processing of his alien origins. Not being all angsty and whiny about it.

As far as biology, they've been doing "Imaginary" or "What-If" stories where Clark and Lois or Lana had a baby going back to like the 50s and maybe earlier, so... I always just assumed humans and Kryptonians were compatible and it just wasn't something they felt like being aggressive about mentioning in print. And in the 90s comics, if you knew exactly where to look there were some subtle but clear hints that Lois and Clark were sexually active even before they were married.

It always confused me when people by default assumed they couldn't hook up or have kids. In my head it was always the opposite. I'unno.

[ZariusTwo]

Not to mention Lois and Clark get pretty steamy in Smallville, both on-screen and in the comics, long before they scratch their seven-year itch to get married in it's canon

[ZariusTwo]

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