My huge Elseworlds kick...

[shankie]

Must inevitably result in sharing! :D

Starting with just one shot from Red Son.

Because everyone knows Clark looks good in a uniform, right? Well, he looks even better in that kind of uniform.



Batman was a crazy terrorist in that one. You know. Like half of Elseworlds, only a little crazier than usual.

Now.

You know what really surprised me those most out of anything in a while? True Brit. Superman if he was raised in England. There are multiple references to Monty Python, and the whole thing shifts from farce to realism left and right. It's pretty darn funny.

This is just a little. Bat-Man revealed, farming with super-powers, and a suit-shot. Just because.







Next, Kal. A medieval setting in which Clark is generally shirtless/naked.

Seriously? The point of this book seems to be beefcake. So, here's some half-naked Kryptonian for you all.











Lastly, Act of God. The lack of Wally in Elseworlds (for the most part) had me going back to this, because I really liked his part.

The superheroes of Earth have all lost their powers. In the middle of what they were doing, which is disastrous as you can well imagine. Flash was in the middle of stopping a bullet.









So, a few de-powered heroes go to Batman for training; to learn how to be heroes without powers.

Unsurprisingly, Wally and Bruce get into a huge fight where he stalks out all huffy.



But he does come back. Joins merry band for battle in their dubious costumes. I guess Wally's is alright. He ends up kicking a super-powered Joker's ass later, so, he must be doing something right.



And what are Clark and Diana doing? Well, going insane. Clark leaves Lois for Diana, then leaves Diana for booze once she gets all... Christian and pious, but with skin-tight mini-skirts.





Clark is later found drunk in an alley.

Jeeze.

Comments

[vespa331.livejournal.com]

Mmm, those medieval scans are luscious. You should send them to http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspot.com/ !

I love the training scene in Act of God. That's...quite a different take from Clark's usual "Whee, it's fun to be human! Even though I kinda miss flying."

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I have a bunch I could, I'll have to scrape them together...

Yeah, Clark going complete bum-style? Different.

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

Clark looks rather like Elvis in that last scan. Huh.

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

...you're right.

::snicker::

Kinda not in a good way.

[sasha-anu.livejournal.com]

First set of scans, totally hilarious.

Second set of scans...purrs. Who says that DC can't do beefcake?

Although the one scan has Clark in a pose rather reminiscent of the the ladies of DC with his chest puffed out like that.

The last set. Ouch.

That would be harsh and it's sad to see that so many of the heroes turn into lushes. It nice to know that the only thing keeping the heroes from turning into drunks is their superpowers.

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah; that particular story was like, trying to destroy them all.

I actually felt bad for Lois. Clark was a prick.

[sasha-anu.livejournal.com]

You felt bad for Lois?

Wow, the story must have been *really* harsh then.

[bariman1987.livejournal.com]

(Sorry this is two months late, I completely lost track of everything.)

Act of God sucked overall. There was some good stuff, like the Phoenix Group (and I liked that Linda became a cop), and Wally freaking out about not saving the cop (an understandable traumatic event), but there were just so much bad characterization (not to mention the plot holes) I can't imagine this happening in the main DCU:
--Clark would never go into a spiralling depression from losing his powers (just look at 52 and OYL, he actually enjoyed it because he could spend more time with Lois and rebuild his journalistic reputation).
--Kyle would never get crazy-obsessed over his ring and become self-destructive. And his ring is technology, so it should be working, and the only reason I can thing of why it didn't is that is was necessary to the plot.
--I always thought the Atom's powers were based on his super-technology belt, but they were portrayed as being natural. I know Black Lightning "internalized" his belt's powers thanks to his metagene, but I didn't know Ray Palmer had as well.

Erg. Anyways, I'm making not of "Superman: Kal" as part of a future Comics Beefcake post I'll do at some point. I didn't read far enough into that book to realize it had good material, so thanks!

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I don't get how J'onn's powers would stop working, either. Or Clark. I mean, it was their natural biology. Meh. It's so dumb.

Clark being all drunken is so OOC I laughed, but, I think Kyle really would go insane about the ring. Just... not like that. I think Divided We Fall nabbed what would happen with that pretty well as far as he's concerned, actually. Drawing all over the walls...

Even the painfully bad stuff I'll generally at least browse; I find that any book, no matter how terrible, will have at least one little gem somewhere. :D

Go check out how the fight with Luthor ends, too. Naked Superman draped over his body. Ha.

[bariman1987.livejournal.com]

Well, I think whatever shorted out the powers was only supposed to work on "natural" powers (regular biology like Clark or J'onn, or metagene powers). Magic users like Zatanna and Dr. Fate simply disappeared; and I thought Wonder Woman's powers were magic-based, or at least god-based, but she lost the powers without disappearing.

Technology-based powers, like Steel's armor or Booster Gold's stuff, still worked. The same went for the villains, like Captain Cold's cold gun and Sonar's cybernetic implants. But this should have also meant that a GL ring would still work, along with the Atom's belt; but Kyle's ring stopped working for no apparent reason, and in this universe Atom's powers were natural, not tech-based. It's inconsistent.

Wasn't there an outside force in Divided We Fall making Kyle crazy? I've only seen stuff on scans_daily, so I could be wrong.

Thinking about it further, Clark, Wally, and Kyle all lost their powers while trying to help or save people, and the writer was trying to comment on their reactions to failure. He didn't do so well, but it's a nice attempt.

I could do without the constant Superman/Wonder Woman shipping that seems to go on in most Elseworlds. They're good together, but I like Clark/Lois more myself; it probably helps that I grew up on the TV show Lois and Clark. (And notice that Lois got top billing in that...)

*checks the end of Superman: Kal* *dies laughing* Oh yes, that is so going in the post. I might have to call the post "Naked Supermen Everywhere!", given the amount of scantily-clad Supermen, Superboys, and Super-Soldiers that will be in the post. (The Super-Soldiers are from a Marvel What If where Captain America saves the scientist, so a bunch of other soldiers, including Nick Fury and the Howling Commandoes, get the serum. Cap is introduced to them when they're all in underpants and working out.)

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

The thing in Divided We Fall was that the League separated into two parts; their civilian half and their superhero half. So the Green Lantern side becomes brute force without any finesse and the Kyle side is unable to express himself in the nigh infinite way his mind became accustomed to and goes crazy. He starts drawing all over everything and losing it because he can't get out all the stuff in his head.

The only one who doesn't go totally bonkers is Eel, who steals the show of that book, let me tell you.

When I think Lois/Clark Elseworlds, all I can remember is that one time where their child accidentally hugs her to death. The angst was black and dripping off everything in that one.

Naked Supermen Everywhere! Nice! :D

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, Wally and Clark don't go crazy in Divided We Fall either, but their marriages do go down the toilet fast enough to make me a little irritated at the reporters.

[bariman1987.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was confusing Divided We Fall with the arc where R'as al Ghul gets Batman's "kill or main the Justice League" plans. Tower of Babel? Kyle was hypnotised in his sleep, and his ring made all his nightmares real.

JLA: Created Equal was the one, where all the men die except Superman and Lex Luthor. I kind of liked that one. While there was a lot of angst about the accidental death-hug and Superman having to leave Earth, I couldn't help but laugh at the though that Superman spent several days masturbating into a cup, and he managed to get several hundred women pregnant without actually having sex with them.

And Power Girl! She was one of the women who got pregnant, and named her daughter after herself. I bet she was one helluva wet nurse. And Babs became the new Green Lantern! Awesome.

And then they hint at Clark/Diana at the end of the book. Feh, fine, but I still think the Lois/Clark beach scene was one of the best things in the book.

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

I think Kyle was just blinded in Tower of Babel; it was Diana that got the real nightmares. She was fighting Artemis I think? Kyle's was the only non-fatal one, if I remember right.

Yeah, that's the one! Haven't read that in a while. I totally forgot about Babs, heh.

The only thing about Clark/Diana that really appeals to me is all the damage they could do having sex. Shaking the planet, etc. Once that's all done? Meh.

[bariman1987.livejournal.com]

The plan for Superman was kind of non-fatal, at least extremely painful. He would be exposed to a sample of red Kryptonite that would turn his skin transparent, thus removing any regulation of his sunlight absorbtion.

I might have to do a scans_daily post of the Green Lantern Barbara Gordon stuff.

The only thing about Clark/Diana that really appeals to me is all the damage they could do having sex. Shaking the planet, etc.

Hee. "Oh yes, Clark! Change the course of my mighty river! Yes, change it!" "Oh Diana, build my mountain, build my mountain!"

There've been a couple comics where Lois and Diana got along rather well. Given that Diana's most likely bisexual (if you can assign sexual orientations to a demigoddess), I can't help thinking, why not just have a three-person relationship? And think of the role-play! Clark and Lois slready have Batman and Robin costumes; Lois can wear Diana's Wonder Woman costume, Clark can be Batman, Diana can be Robin!

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Way to feed the porn-factory that is my brain. ::laughs:: Oh man. I'd think that it would be Lois and Diana starting that little threesome, too.

That would be something awful nice for Clark to come home to, I think. Ha.

I think Plastic Man's was also non-fatal, seeing as he's impossible to kill. Being shattered into a million pieces also kinda sucks, but I wonder how one would actually be able to accomplish killing him for good.

During the Rock of Ages storyarc Desaad puts J'onn in a particle accelerator and destroys him atom by atom; I think it'd have to be something like that.

Lit up Vegas for a month. And Batman had to watch. Good gracious.