BOOM! My Headcannon just went off: This entire series as is now fits into any interpretation of Lois Lane I see because: I now see the entire series of Lois Lane Superman's Girlfriend as happening in like year One After Her Famous Interview with Superman. These stories are the the random daydream musings of Lois Lane as she is coming to grips with the fact that she is actually falling in love with Superman. So considering that a bullet proof flying man whos an alien swept her off her feet, her daydreams of the men who could compete with that keep getting crazier and crazier. AANNNDDD all of her daydreams reveal Lois' deep down mistrust of men with power, which is why every guy ends up being a stalker, creep mad man and Superman has to save her.
goodness. didn't it just. Give it a couple of minutes, I'll go and get a kleenex before it dries everywhere. All things being equal though, I do like your nicely twisted interpretation of Lois' reality 🙂
Oooh or... all these stories were written by Lois and published in the paper (earning her some real $$ and fame) while at home she's actually in a healthy relationship with Clark who's so confused where she's getting all these ideas XD
@@amandak.5967 well, she could make a series of fantasy tales outside the newspaper. Considering the young adult and romance books made better known in recent years...
Lois: With the many wigs she has, she's just too handsome for me to reject. Clark, catering food at the wedding: I never made videos about Lois, this is just how it's meant to be.
Someone needs to make a full length one-shot fan comic in the writing and art style of this where Lois peaks into Earth-Prime and sees these, leading to that.
Why is it that nearly EVERY man that wants to marry Lois has a whole room dedicated to her? Like, who has the time (most of them have the money)?? The DC male writers back then..... WHEW!
Why is Silver Age Lois's reaction to being stalked, spied on and obsessed people having secret rooms with mannequins of her always being flattered instead of getting scared and trying to run away?
I don't know, but when I told my best friend about these stories she didn't seem to mind having a room around her, though she said the palace would be better.
Because these stories were written in the 50s and early 60s. Values were different then. Plus the “stalkers” were handsome millionaires or other handsome super-powered men. I don’t think even contemporary women of today would mind so much if guys like that pursued them.
I feel like whole story is a great Gatsby homage... right up until the end. Also this version of Lois is shockingly tragic; the sheer amount of gaslighting she goes through would break most people.
@@lordhirudo5311 head-cannon: this Lois is actually interred in Arkham Asylum, doped out of her mind as she snapped from the sheer amount of gas lighting she experienced.
So this is what Lois wants in a man: - Handsomeness. A lot of handsomeness, very important. - Power. This can either be power through great wealth or literal superpowers. - Basic human decency. If you have the first two, you really don't have to try much. - An unhealthy obsession with her. You have to love Lois as much as she loves herself, and if you have an entire room dedicated to Lois, that'll warm her somewhat narcissistic heart.
"A random handsome man has been stalking Lois for years and has of automated mannequins that he *uses* at night" Me: seems legit "Superman is wearing a blonde wig" Me: that's weird
I don’t like the implications of Superman helping out a rich capitalist friend who owns a private island... I’m just saying, there’s probably a couple of union leaders who have “mysteriously combusted” for “reasons”.
I wonder if they were going to go for the "the emeralds are actually kryptonite!" and have Lance be a villain but then decided to add a twist... but maybe I'm giving them too much credit. Oh Clark, please, go save a cat from a tree or something
Lance Fortune having kryptonite fueled automatons of Lois feels more like a 90's kinda thing. But no it's Superman going for the deep troll. Yeah, you made your friend that clearly loves you cry a few times for a joke...
This might be the most f’d up one yet. It’s a hard call though. Not a wedding but the time comet tricked her is the only other one that was this much manipulation.
Superman comes across as incredibly possessive and insecure here. This story all but states outright that he expects Lois to be always passive and available to him.
Maybe I've been doing the dating thing all wrong. I've never made a "theme room" for a crush. Maybe I need to start pasting pictures of my crush on my wall, making statues, and buying mannequins and pasting her picture on the faces. You know, that sounds like the big reveal in a horror movie. Or that Seinfeld episode The Opera. I'llll....Just stick to compliments and light flirting. Seems less psychotic. But I could be wrong...
Me: *in the Community tab* I wonder if he has a Lois museum? *watches video* "I have a room of mechanical maniquns exactly like you" Me: I FREAKING CALLED IT!
Lance Handsome spends an hour every night in a room full of automated manikins made to look like a woman he has the hots for, though he's never actually met her and it's romantic. I do it and I get hauled away in handcuffs.
I wonder how normal this seemed. Like, I'd imagine a child reading it wouldn't notice, but was it weird for adults? Because it's played so straight. And I don't mean whether it's creepy or not, because that was skewed, but whether it was bizarre.
My wife buys me comics because she loves me--but she has no idea which comics I like. About a year ago, she bought me a book called "Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years". I haven't even removed the shrink wrap, yet but I feel it's just going to be marriage after marriage.
Silver Age Superman scares me. In one comic he smashes up a room because he hears about Lois getting married to a man who isn't him and now he pretends to be a millionaire obsessed with Lois so she'll realise she loves him. Mind you SA Lois also scares me what with her going back in time, dating Jor-El, nearly becoming Superman's incestuous mother then going a bit forward in time, finding child Clark and kissing him while moaning sexually.
So does Lois just have no concept of what normal men act like? She just assumes if you like a woman you have a room full of statues and clothing for her. A shrine is standard in all relationships for her.
Good point, and I'm now wondering about the standard of her journalism if she's so poor at understanding such a large proportion of the general population.
"STALKER ROOM" ♥️ COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER. ♥️ WHAT DOES LOIS LANE HAVE THAT LANA LANG HAS? SHE A REDHEAD, AFTER ALL, AND REDHEADS ARE HOTTER. ♥️ "FOR THE CHILDREN..." ♥️
Manikin and mannikin are also acceptable spellings. Sometimes manikin is used to specify medical anatomical models while mannequins are for clothing, but the words get used interchangeably.
Yep. The word was originally derived from a Dutch word for "little man" then got adopted by the French as "mannequin" later on. By then English speakers were already using manikin/mannikin in the same sense, having taken it themselves from the Dutch "mannekin" spelling somewhere in the 1600s. If anything, manakin is closer to being the original form, and the French mannequin only came along later specifically as fashion terminology. As you said, the spellings have become synonymous over time, barring a few pedants. Nice to see someone who knows their etymology. :)
I know it was the Silver Age, but, seriously... NO ONE was like "We can't marry Lois Lane off AGAIN. Its the 946th time this week. Maybe she can take a salsa dancing class?"
Silly Lois. For one, she'll never get old and two she'll end up with Superman anyways. PS It just occurred to me that DC could have a couple of online newspapers. The Daily Planet one could tell all the DC news while The Central City Citizen could tell fictional news of the actual DC universe.
I really appreciate the energy you put into these 'retro' Lois lane stories seen through the eyes of a modern reader. On Superman's past association with Mr. Fortune; Supes saves, and protects folks all of the time, it may have just been some volcano, or hurricane, or earthquake that "big blue' save this guy some monumental loss in personnel, or finance, so he thinks that he owes Superman a personal favor. The way he treats Lois?..........yeah,.....he's a diq, but that is what they were teaching preteen boys to do,.......I doubt that they realized that back then, but who knows??? Thank you for taking us on this Comic Book Journey, PEACE, and God bless.
These men with Lois Lane trophy rooms have to be permanently damaged (even further) by her eventual rejection. Also, isn’t this the plot to several reality shows on nowadays?
As both Clark and Lois, quite literally, use their words for a living, I forgive them for not knowing the word 'consent' only because it hadn't been invented yet in their timeline.
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Dream room?!? Automated mannequins? Full wardrobe of Lois clothes? Superman wearing a Lance Fortune mask? Clark/Superman is really terrible in these stories. Welp at least Lois didn't get married again!
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