Poor Impulse Control

[perzephone]

So we're eating pizza & hotwings, & watching the series finale of the Justice League cartoon. I wasn't really paying attention, mind you - something about Darkside coming to earth to destroy Superman, & the bad guys, headed by Lex Luthor, all showed up on the Justice League's doorstep to warn them of imminent doom. Wonder Woman wanted to lock all the baddies up while the JL saved the earth, Batman was saying something about needing all the help they could get & trying to hold Superman back from killing Lex, & all of a sudden, Superman just hollers, "Come on! It's Lex flippin' Luthor!"

I about had a chicken wing pop out my nose I was laughing so hard, trying not to die a horrible choking death.

This will no doubt stick with me for some time.

"Come on! It's Lex flippin' Luthor!"

I don't know about the likelihood of me & Rob making it to the Ren Faire tomorrow. All of our carefully laid plans often go awry due to insomnia... I was awake til 1 this afternoon (mainly because I fell asleep in the tub around 11am), & slept til about 8. Rob went to bed waaay earlier than I did, like 9 or so this morning, but he didn't get up til I did. I had originally wanted to stay up today so I could sleep tonight & we could get up earlier tomorrow & head out by like, noon or 1 & get a good 3 or 4 hours in at the Faire.

Comments

[akiima.livejournal.com]

blush

How sad is it that I know almost all the lines of that particular episode of that show?

I love Batman. He's my hero.

A close second is Lex Luthor, who is *supposed* to be the villain.

Kam says I'm disturbing, but that he loves me for it anyway.

Lex Rules!

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

The end of that episode proved to me that Lex Luthor is indeed, the shit. I've always thought that he had a lot more to him than everyone believed, & when he went through the Sourcewall & came back with Light in his hand, I was poking my husband & saying, "See! See! Lex really is the bomb!"

Re: Lex Rules!

[akiima.livejournal.com]

I am of the opinion that Superman wouldn't know what to do with himself if Lex truly died. The same as Batman with the Joker- cruelty, tragedy, intelligence, insanity. Such are the things of legendary enmity.

And it is always better, stronger, and harder to let go of when it started out as friendship.

I agree with you- Lex Luthor is truly under-appreciated for his intelligence. That, and in cannon he's psychic... and they leave that out a lot, in the animated series. When he creates a clone, Kon-El/Superboy, using his and Superman's DNA, it inherits more of him than it truly does of Superman: in the form of a tactile telekinesis and extendable aura.

Re: Archetypes

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I think many comic writers are influenced by the deep mythic strains running through human life - the things Joseph Campbell wrote about in 'Hero With A Thousand Faces'... Superman/Lex Luthor, Batman/The Joker - it's all that Light Twin/Dark Twin, the Holly King & the Oak King, striving eternally against one another.

I'm only a surface-scratching comic reader/fan. I like the cartoons they're coming out with more recently better because the writers can get away with so much more - and there's a lot less of the wartime patriotism mixed in.

Re: Archetypes

[akiima.livejournal.com]

I'm almost ashamed/pathetically proud of how comic obsessed I am.

I love literature, the "classics" especially...

But well... I guess it's okay to like both? Shakespeare and Batman share space on my shelves.

I suppose it's because of my family- I'm so odd, an orphan who got fostered back into her birth family after a few years of house hopping. When I finally got to meet my father, he was very super-hero focused. You should see his toy collection. I tried to connect with him by reading what he read, which didn't actually work very well as he found it "inappropriate for girls", but eventually came to see in them characters I empathized with.

And, well, Batman... holds a special place in my heart. He's Iconic. And I identify with him, for more reasons than I could share.

As for the new issues, they are so much *prettier* aren't they?