#lex luthor
If God is all powerful, He cannot be all good.
And if He is all good, then He cannot be all powerful.
And neither can You be.
SON OF SUN AND KNIGHT OF NIGHT(2016)
directed by Zack Snyder | written by Chris Terrio & David S. Goyer
›››Jesse EisenbergasLex Luthor
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This may have been the best month in fictitious Superman actor Gregory Reed’s entire career, as he was a featured character in not one but two full comics, ones that I bought and read back-to-back. I’d imagine that the fact that the Superman movie was starting up production was the source of this sudden interest in this character–he’d soon enough slide back into obscurity. (And sorry to spoil one of the plot elements of this issue of SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER VILLAINS up front.)
The issue opens with an even more significant appearance, as the shadowy mystery man who broke Copperhead out of prison and invaded the Sinister Citadel last issue turns out to be Superman baddie Lex Luthor. He’s in need of cronies for a job he has planned, and so he’s decided to hijack the Secret Society for his own purposes. Luthor gets both good moments and bad in this story, but the ease with which he humiliates the Society’s would-be leader the Wizard is definitely in the plus column–Lex was a formidable badass, make no mistake.
Seems that Lex is pissed that a Superman movie is being made, one which the Man of Steel himself is providing the special effect for because he doesn’t have anything better to do with his time. So Luthor wants to use the Society’s resources to recruit Felix Faust and the Matter Master to help him destroy the Kryptonian Kid with magic–and he begrudgingly allows the laid-low Wizard to join in the assault as well. The movie’s currently shooting in Sapporo, Japan, so that’s where we find actor Gregory Reed gearing up, unaware that all hell is about to break loose.
Meanwhile, after an uneventful shift on JLA monitor duty, Hawkman takes Captain Comet back to his home in Midway City for a rare Thanagarian meal. The growing friendship between Hawkman and Captain Comet was one of the appealing features of this run. While Katar busies himself in the kitchen, Comet and Shayera see breaking news about the Superman filming being threatened by a rockslide, notice the Wizard in the crowd, and race to the rescue (leaving Katar completely unaware.)
On site, the three magicians are confused by why Superman hasn’t soared into action to save the production, having come in after Gregory Reed donned his lifelike Superman mask. To try to get the Man of Steel into the action, they summon up a huge two-headed dragon. But it’s Captain Comet and Hawkgirl who instead fly into battle with the creature, entangling its two heads so that fiery and icy breath cancel each other out. Back at the ranch, Lex isn’t at all pleased.
Lex has also had about enough of Funky Flashman’s faux-Stan Lee banter, and is about to put the garrulous huckster through a wall when Funky resorts to his ultimate desperation play: doffing his toupee and false facial hair and appealing to Luthor one baldie to another. Back in Japan, the Wizard’s having performance anxiety as his powers malfunction, producing unspectacular results. The trio attempts to kill Superman by creating a volcano under Reed’s feet, but can’t quite manage it–and again, It’s Comet and Hawkgirl that take care of the situation.
At this point, the three magicians decide to attack directly–but Felix Faust’s spell to remove Superman’s powers backfires when he directs it against the powerless Gregory Reed, and the actor and Hawkgirl clean up on the three startled sorcerers, much to the chagrin of the watching Lex Luthor. Faust and the Matter Master are taken into custody, but a few pages later, the Wizard informs Funky that he himself eluded capture and is returning to the Sinister Citadel–where Funky has a new business idea brewing!
And what of Lex Luthor? He storms out of the Sinister Citadel, vowing revenge, after Copperhead turns on him and sides with Funky Flashman. Not the greatest move on the surface of it, Copperhead ol’ sock. But it all turns out all right as Funky calls the cops on Lex, and they’re waiting for him when he leaves the building–and Funky assures the others that they won’t believe anything Lex tells them about a team of super villains operating from that address–that would just be nutty! It’s a sad day for Lex Luthor, he doesn’t even attempt to make a fight of it when the police show up for him
The last bit in the issue contained the latest “Stan’s Soapbox”-style column from new DC publisher Jenette Kahn, this one among other things outlining the timeline under which a comic book was produced by DC back around 1977 as explanation for why she couldn’t discuss all of the mail they’d so far received for her Dollar Comic experiment–because when she was writing the page, no mail was yet possible. The page also included the first of a series of profiles on key DC staffers. These little profiles featured invaluable information, often about industry figures such as Sol Harrison, shown here, who weren’t often interviewed about their own place within the history of comics.
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Lex: You’ve stolen everything from me, my credibility and my fame. What’s next?
Kara: Your sister!
tumblr is making this real small but i’m posting it anyway. shout out to the five of us in this fandom, i still keep a candle lit for u~
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Behold, the superfam family tree! AKA the biggest tree I’ve made so far. Sorry it took so long! There are way more members than I anticipated.
Same message as always, tell me if I’ve missed anyone and message me if you need any clarifications because my handwriting can be pretty awful.
Some facts I stumbled upon while making this, that might also clear up some confusion:
- Mia Kent, otherwise known as Cir-El, was introduced as Clark and Lois’s daughter from the future, but she was actually born to two human parents, with Superman as a genetic template. So she’s a clone.
- Hunter Prince is actually Diana’s son, with the Darkness being his father. Diana gave him up to Clark and Lois, who raised him as their own son alongside Jon.
- Christopher Kent was born originally as Lor-Zod, General Zod’s son. Clark and Lois adopted him in an effort to protect him from the government, and he would later on take on the title of Nightwing.
- Ur-Zod is the clone of both Lord Superman and Lady Wonder Woman, evil counterparts to Clark and Diana. Clark adopts him, but is not married to Lois in this universe
- Joel Kent killed his sister Kara out of rage and jealousy from always feeling like everything was a challenge, a race, with her. He was then killed by Luthor who basically revealed that everything he’d known was a lie and he killed his sister for nothing.
However, he had a son with a woman named Mei-Lai before he died. The son was named Clark Wayne, as he ended up being adopted by Bruce Wayne Jr, who was married to Kara before Joel killed her. He also married Mei-Lai after adopting Clark.
Clark Wayne would then go on to have twin daughters, Lois and Lara Wayne.
Andthen, centuries after all of this, Clark Kent (who is immortal for some reason I can’t recall) has two children with Beautiful Dreamer. Lar-El (his son) and Vara (his daughter)
Crazy, right!? Kinda want to make a second family tree just for that universe because it’s insane
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Lex Luthor and Bizarro
By David Finch
Ironic Movie2: Rescue Social Tech should be Artificial Intelligence that keeps people in Equilibrium online - that means positivesentiment.(Social Bots Scripts of Social Influence 2)
Dramedy? 3rd parties get involved how? It’s a critical juncture of Social Influence…
‘Let’s brag about bot accounts to Twitter,’ sayslobbyist Adam Waldman - *Fastest* to 1 Million followers in *HISTORY* of Instagram… Campaign Bots! ;) ~ Art of Cyber War.
Live and Learn: What’s *training* on Amber Heard’s 21st Century Story? A Movie?
Winston Churchill (fake vs real profile bots, black and white vs color) is another of Worldie’s Symbols… (Worldie is humanitarians, so that means we can work with many sides for GOOD!).
(History, as in how many Social Bot Accounts to go! Let’s obsess over it! ‘How much can we exploit loopholes in America’ vs targets!?)
Since Worldie has mostly *Whistleblower Types* on its board, we know Wickr is another mercenary tech platform - also used byBlackCube -which attacked dozens of actresses.
What was not reported wasBlackCube’s use of Social Bots or Cyber Intelligence.
- 1st Photo is Content Agent Moderators/Founders/Inventors put at the bottom of the ladder (Jennifer Lawrence in Joy the movie - 2015)
- 2nd is a private jet from Smallville - Queen Industries
- 3rd is before Adam Waldman was suspended, attacking Amber Heard with Winston Churchill pic symbolism of him using a cigar (not SirWChurchill1)… Who are also is featured in this moviewe created.
- 4th, “She’s out of control!” - meme of Lex Luthor
Moreover…. No one is interested in a Deli Meat Smuggler!!! Do you really think they should be about dogs?!
“Do you really think the CIA is interested in a Deli Meat Smuggler?!” -Sarah Walker in Chuck, scene seen below.
Care to look at this Propaganda Analysis Project Organization? It’s well-frequented in Moscow and Qatar! (Intro)
“Persuasion Techniques Detection: Propagandist messages are conveyed through a number of rethorical and… techniques”…. (Except this is open-source: news articles aren’t including social media analysis or comments via social bots). Open-source usually provides introductions to more!
Don’t you love it when Europeans come to the Rescue, while Facebook is Signalbook/military book, & well, so are the other platforms. ~ Cyber War 2.
Amber Heard’s case made us dive deeper into social bots. It’s the most severe case, but we’re creating an Alternative Ending/Universe. With Reverse Engineering and Social Network Analysis, it can be exposed…
Live and learn, you might actually think Life is Like a Movie!
I wonder what a grand finale would be? Apparently, they want this to be a 21st century sadism story!
It really frustrates us in the Tech World!
Throw some other Movie Characters, while you’re at it….
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Superman: You may want to reconsider your dating habits, Bruce
Superman: the last person I knew who dated dangerous women ended up becoming a supervillain
Lex: All I’m saying is that we should be concerned about leaving one man to hold that much power completely unchecked
Lex: But does anyone think about my logic? No!
Kon: Maybe because you’re a supervillain?
Lex: Shut up I’m monologuing
Lex: I’m not certain what my type is, but so far it’s proven hazardous to my health
Lex: *looking at the Talon’s light bill*
Lex: Lana, what are you doing over there?
If this is your first time encountering shorthand then you’re in for a treat. What’s shorthand? Shorthand is a technique for writing very quickly.
At its basics you’re writing sounds not spelling and combining simple lines to make full words.
Get it? You’re optimizing for speed of writing not density or accuracy. So it’s hard to read and takes up more space but you can write down notes fast. How fast? Here’s someone writing at 120 words per minute.
The world record is 250 wpm, but even with a little practice you can get a lot faster than cursive or print.
I’ve seen a few people ask if Jonathan is writing assuming Dracula can’t read his notes. I don’t know the answer to that, but I can share exactly that happening with Superman and Lex Luthor.
Naturally a reporter like Kent would use shorthand to quickly transcribe notes in the field.
This is the sort of think Mina is practicing specifically because it’s the language used in business. You can read a great article on the expectations of men’s and women’s writing of the era here:
“Kept in shorthand”: An Analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Narrative Technique
Off topic from what I should be posting, but I think we should have a show like Harley Quinn does at the moment, except it’s centered around Lex Luthor and the Joker. I’m not even joking about this, these guys are pretty funny when they have scenes together in any DC media, ngl.
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Are you planning on running? No. But I’m putting my support and money behind your opponent. You can save yourself a lot of trouble by announcing your retirement now. You can kiss that plant expansion goodbye. I will personally see that it never gets approval. I’m prepared to sacrifice it if that’s what it takes to defeat you.
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at Smallville Nights they had everyone who wanted to perform a line come up and do the “You were right about me all along Mr Kent, I am the villain of this story.” So after hearing it about 20 times, I had to do this
Heroes Against Hunger
If you were old enough (and socially aware enough) you'd probably remember that collaborative charitable campaigns were pretty trendy in the 1980s. This is actually pretty ironic considering the 80s are often remembered as a decade of self-serving greed and decadence.
The collaborative charitable campaign trend kicked off with Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which recieved worldwide airplay in 1984 (it featured an all-star ensemble of UK pop stars releasing a musical single with the intent of raising money/awareness for Ethiopia) and snowballed into the massive Live Aid benefit concert of 1985. Not to be outdone, North America also contributed it`s own Ethiopia awareness/fundraising collaborative single in 1985: “We are the World” performed by the USA for Africa supergroup. The pinnacle of the collaborative fundraising arms race between North America and the UK would result in 1986`s Hands Across America wherein 6.5 million Americans held hands for 10 mins to create a human chain across the USA. If you think that is excessive, I haven`t even mentioned Sport Aid, yet.
Why was the world (well, UK and North America) so intent on helping Ethiopia? Ethiopia was struck by a massive drought in 1983 that saw the deaths of over one million Ethiopians. BBC news was the first on the scene to record the first-hand effects of the famine and televised them. The imagery shocked the UK and inspired it`s citizens to raise world awareness about the plight of the ravaged country. Philanthropist and rocker Bob Geldof was the first to organize a collective of musicians to form Band Aid, and now you know the rest of the story.
As previously mentioned, Live Aid (the massive fundraising concert which featured over 50 cumulative musical acts) started a trend and the 80s would see more collective benefit concerts such as Farm Aid,Self Aid, the Conspiracy of Hope US Tour, Heart Beat 86, and the Human Rights Now! World Tour.
DC Comics weren`t too far behind on the trend and introduced Heroes Against Hunger in 1986. Marvel Comics beat them to the punch one year earlier and published Heroes for Hope in 1985. Actually, it was Jim StarlinandBerni Wrightson who proposed the idea to Marvel Comics and based on the success of theMarvel publication (it got some exposure in Timemagazine)StarlingandWrightson decided to take the idea to DC comics and do it again.
Despite being a collaborative benefit project (all of DC`s top writers, artists, inkers, letterers, and colorists contributed a few pages), Heroes Against Hunger was a pretty solid story - it wasn’t too preachy, featured two of DC`s most popular protagonists (Batman and Superman), provided an in-depth exploration of the Superman/Lex Luthor rivalry, had an epic battle with an alien, and concluded with a brief illustrated history of why Ethiopia was in the fix it was currently in. They even made sure to use the pre-Crisis versions of Batman, Lex Luthor and Superman (Byrne’s Superman reboot would debut later that year). I`m not sure what kind of proceeds this one-shot procured, how many Ethiopians it helped feed or the awareness it raised, but I do know that it’s greatest contribution to comicdom was the all-star cast of artists it contained - each artist did about 2 pages of the story. Did you ever want to compare how Curt Swan,Keith Giffen, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Walt Simonson all drew Batman and Superman? Easy - just flip to the appropriate pages. I think this was alone was worth the price of the admission.
I remember seeing this house ad in my youth and my interest was piqued by the appearance of battlesuit Lex (a Super Powers action figure I also used to own) and I was really curious as to why Lex was torturing these poor Africans to get to Superman and Batman. I was pretty blasé about the whole `starving Ethiopian` thing at that age: to me the hungry Ethiopians were the primary reason my weekday morning cartoon block ended at 9:00am (after Inspector Gadget) and was followed by 2 hours of starving Africans on TV. I am much older and wiser now. It wouldn’t be until many years later that I would get to actually read this issue and discover that Lex on Batman and Superman`s side the whole time and just revealing the truth to them (albeit in a really condescending manner).
P.S. the cover of this issue was illustrated by Neal Adams.
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