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'Lois Lane' Comic Mirrors Real-World Migrant Crisis
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | July 28, 2019 | Graeme McMillan

Posted on 06/29/2019 1:24:46 PM PDT by Bratch

DC's new series launches next week.

Superman is far from the only member of the Kent household who crusades for truth, justice and the American way. Sometimes, Lois Lane goes for bigger targets (and hits harder) than her superpowered husband, as Heat Vision’s exclusive preview of next week’s debut for Lois’ new solo comic book series makes clear.

The new 12-issue Lois Lane series by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins sees the most iconic reporter in comic books — not to mention the most fearless — do what she does best: Search out the truth behind a story that, as can be seen below, doesn’t feel too removed from certain current events in the real world, in which a debate is raging about the U.S.' treatment and incarceration of migrants crossing the border. 

Lois Lane is part of an expansion of DC’s Superman line of comic books; later in the month, the publisher will launch a 12-part Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen series by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber, while Superman and Action Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis has recently launched the six-issue Event Leviathan series — in which Lois also plays a leading role — spinning out of Superman-related storylines.

The series launches in comic stores and digitally July 3. Read on for a glimpse at Lois’ latest adversaries.

 

 

 

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comics; popculture; propaganda
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To: Bratch

Back in the 50s I loved Superman and Superboy comics. Now I wouldn’t touch one with a 10 foot pole.


21 posted on 06/29/2019 2:26:50 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Bratch

I was always amused by the fine-print disclaimer in comics*: ...depictions do not represent any real person, past or present...

*Not verbatim: It was at the bottom of the first/splash page in the comics I bought as a kid. I do not know about now.


22 posted on 06/29/2019 3:03:19 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: yarddog
Oh yes, every scientist, Dr, judge, and top person in their field was Black. Well not every one but close.

Player by Morgan Freeman in the upcoming movie...

23 posted on 06/29/2019 3:20:37 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Bratch

Monetizing the separation of children...

They could have stayed home, instead of their parents (?) dragging them thru drug cartel infested Mexico, deserts, scorpions, rattlesnakes, banditos and human traffickers.

But that’s not endangering children to Lois, huh?


24 posted on 06/29/2019 3:24:05 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Bratch

So Stuperman married Lois? Huh. Next your gonna tell me that Matt Dillon married Kitty.


25 posted on 06/29/2019 4:45:38 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

I actually got to meet Miss Kitty in Dodge City. She was helping push some TV movie they hoping to do.

A couple of guys told me they thought she looked good. I thought she looked awful. She died from aids not too much later. She got it from her husband.


26 posted on 06/29/2019 5:30:31 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Bratch
US Journalists always imagine themselves as heroes, but they rarely challenge their own assumptions and agendas. They never ask tough questions of those they agree with. They are generally spineless, bland and conformist to the point of embarrassment.

In other countries, the threat of imprisonment or death will not make journalists veer from the course of truth. In the US, the threat of a lessened social status is enough to keep them in line.

27 posted on 06/29/2019 5:38:35 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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28 posted on 06/29/2019 5:39:17 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: HighSierra5

He was married to her on Earth Two back in the 1960s.


29 posted on 06/29/2019 6:41:45 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Dr. Sivana

10 cents. 1961 or earlier, I assume.


30 posted on 06/29/2019 6:44:21 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: yarddog

I recall that one, and avoid it. The series became aggressively PeeCee in its final (10th) season, in particular with vilifying a proxy for Rush Limbaugh as demonic, and more.


31 posted on 06/29/2019 6:48:15 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Dr. Sivana

P.S.

In other words, being ten cents puts it as early Silver Age, likely before Marvel became Marvel.


32 posted on 06/29/2019 6:49:31 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy
In other words, being ten cents puts it as early Silver Age, likely before Marvel became Marvel.

Yup, smack in the Mort Weisinger era. Freud would have a fun time with Lois Lane stories from that time.


33 posted on 06/29/2019 6:58:19 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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“...watch old movies from when Hollywood was patriotic.”

Yes. The flavor of movies made before 1955 or so is certainly more loving toward America. And more respectful about our military, fathers, Christians, virtues...


34 posted on 06/30/2019 6:10:55 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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And when pubic school teachers were patriotic.


35 posted on 06/30/2019 6:12:40 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser

I love movies from the 30’s. When guys were ‘’mugs’’ and people said things like “Get me?’’ And “Listen sister...’’.


36 posted on 06/30/2019 10:53:09 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: HighSierra5

not the first time in 80 years.


37 posted on 07/01/2019 4:57:00 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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