I mean, back in the 1990s Lex's first response to hearing about Superman's death during his fight with Doomsday was to find the female martial arts instructor (Sasha Green) who had embarrassed him during a sparring session, strangled her to death, and then dumped her body in a landfill* just because Lex wanted to demonstrate that without Superman around he could do whatever he wanted without consequences.

So, yeah, I'd say that Lex is evil in most of his interpretations, yes.

*She got better, resurrected by aliens or something and got superpowers too into the mix. She ended up hanging around with Tommy Monaghan from Garth Ennis' Hitman book for a spell.

Just because some versions of the character may have the pretense of good intentions, Lex is still a bad guy 99.9% of the time. Like the time he invented a cure for cancer just so he could lull Superman into a false sense of security that Lex used to successfully murder him.

Luthor is not just ruthless and power hungry, he is the worst combination of cruel and petty. Especially when he keeps going about he could help the world if it weren't for Superman..

See All Star Superman #12, where he has basically augmented himself to be like Superman for a limited time and saw the world the way Superman does, but it ran out faster than he's expected.

Supe's has a point.

But his MOST petty and cruel moment was, IMHO, Adventure Comics #6 from 2010, when Superboy challenged Lex to cure his own sister Lena of a debilitating illness. To take the chance to show he was BETTER than Superman by curing an illness Superman couldn't. And Lex accepted the challenge..

Lena walks and thinks clearly for the first time in YEARS!

I remember a story where Lex had a guy fired *AND* blacklisted from all jobs in his field in the country because the guy suggested that Lex’s calculations may not be 100% accurate (and they likely were wrong, but Lex was too stubborn to acknowledge it). The guy was the sole breadwinner of his family and had several small children, so he panicked over suddenly losing his whole livelihood and punched Lex. In response, Lex had him gruesomely murdered in front of his children.

Yeah, that was from Paul Cornell’s Action Comics run, and yeah he had the guy shot to death in front of his family in the middle of a family meal.

...And this was in the middle of a storyline where Lex was trying to gain god-like power to save the world... which he manages to get. BUT, the one rule for keeping the power is that he can only use it to make people happy... which means he couldn’t use it to kill Superman or harm Clark’s loved ones. This makes Lex lose the power almost immediately because even the choice of being a god who was making everyone everywhere happy forever AND KILLING SUPERMAN... he tries to pick the latter because he can’t help himself.

And the thing is every billionaire is Lex. Everyone has decided to let ppl die and kill the world over help

It’s kind of like the time that Elon Musk said that he was going to pledge $6 billion to end world hunger, and instead just gave the money to his own foundation? Lex like Musk is aware that he could save the world, but he’d rather take the good publicity and get a tax write-off than do anything constructive.

Though Lex actually makes things that work, and he never hired a corrupt PI to try and find dirt on a guy who had saved a bunch of kids because the diver had the audacity to save that the billionaire’s own proposed means of rescue (and again, a publicity stunt) wouldn’t work. Both hate immigrants and refugees though, apparently.

Oh you mean the hero Elon called a pedo because of that?

Yup! Even hired a private investigator to try and find truth to the claims after the guy, understandably, sued him for libel. Case got thrown out though, as an American jury ruled that Musk did not “defame” the guy by calling him a pedo (and, again, hiring a PI to prove that he was).

Admittedly the PI knew a rube when he saw him and used the opportunity to squeeze Musk for more cash, but still.

Jesus...

The ironic thing is that Musk keeps trying to block a picture of him with that    Ghislaine Maxwell woman on Twitter as it reminds people how he and Epstein used to socialise (Epstein supposedly helped Musk secure his purchase of Tesla, which considering his connections seems likely). Musk for his part has denied any involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, but he once tried to pay a fight attendent with a horse to have sex with him, so I find his denial unconvincing.

My Adventures With Superman - Episode 10 Review (Actual Season Finale!)

Yeah, after my confusion last week, turns out that we got another full episode (and on air confirmation that production of season two is already underway), yay!

Great way to cap off the season, with an excellent balance of humour, emotion, resolved plot threads and the establishment of a new status quo for our main trio. Aw man, sad that it might be potentially another year until the next ten episodes.

Great job by the actors, as always, and also neat to see more of the Kents, a bit more nuance for Sam Lane, with even Ai!Jor-El getting a tad more to do. I can definitely see where Clark some of his more doofy attributes from, seeing Jonathan Kent at home (and Martha being where a lot of his positive character traits come from also).

Side-note: I've not really spoken about the music much in this show, but in this episode especially they did an awesome job. Very atmospheric, very impactful.

Thoughts on Spoilers behind the Cut

I mean, back in the 1990s Lex's first response to hearing about Superman's death during his fight with Doomsday was to find the female martial arts instructor (Sasha Green) who had embarrassed him during a sparring session, strangled her to death, and then dumped her body in a landfill* just because Lex wanted to demonstrate that without Superman around he could do whatever he wanted without consequences.

So, yeah, I'd say that Lex is evil in most of his interpretations, yes.

*She got better, resurrected by aliens or something and got superpowers too into the mix. She ended up hanging around with Tommy Monaghan from Garth Ennis' Hitman book for a spell.

Just because some versions of the character may have the pretense of good intentions, Lex is still a bad guy 99.9% of the time. Like the time he invented a cure for cancer just so he could lull Superman into a false sense of security that Lex used to successfully murder him.

Luthor is not just ruthless and power hungry, he is the worst combination of cruel and petty. Especially when he keeps going about he could help the world if it weren't for Superman..

See All Star Superman #12, where he has basically augmented himself to be like Superman for a limited time and saw the world the way Superman does, but it ran out faster than he's expected.

Supe's has a point.

But his MOST petty and cruel moment was, IMHO, Adventure Comics #6 from 2010, when Superboy challenged Lex to cure his own sister Lena of a debilitating illness. To take the chance to show he was BETTER than Superman by curing an illness Superman couldn't. And Lex accepted the challenge..

Lena walks and thinks clearly for the first time in YEARS!

I remember a story where Lex had a guy fired *AND* blacklisted from all jobs in his field in the country because the guy suggested that Lex’s calculations may not be 100% accurate (and they likely were wrong, but Lex was too stubborn to acknowledge it). The guy was the sole breadwinner of his family and had several small children, so he panicked over suddenly losing his whole livelihood and punched Lex. In response, Lex had him gruesomely murdered in front of his children.

Yeah, that was from Paul Cornell’s Action Comics run, and yeah he had the guy shot to death in front of his family in the middle of a family meal.

...And this was in the middle of a storyline where Lex was trying to gain god-like power to save the world... which he manages to get. BUT, the one rule for keeping the power is that he can only use it to make people happy... which means he couldn’t use it to kill Superman or harm Clark’s loved ones. This makes Lex lose the power almost immediately because even the choice of being a god who was making everyone everywhere happy forever AND KILLING SUPERMAN... he tries to pick the latter because he can’t help himself.

And the thing is every billionaire is Lex. Everyone has decided to let ppl die and kill the world over help

It’s kind of like the time that Elon Musk said that he was going to pledge $6 billion to end world hunger, and instead just gave the money to his own foundation? Lex like Musk is aware that he could save the world, but he’d rather take the good publicity and get a tax write-off than do anything constructive.

Though Lex actually makes things that work, and he never hired a corrupt PI to try and find dirt on a guy who had saved a bunch of kids because the diver had the audacity to save that the billionaire’s own proposed means of rescue (and again, a publicity stunt) wouldn’t work. Both hate immigrants and refugees though, apparently.

Oh you mean the hero Elon called a pedo because of that?

Yup! Even hired a private investigator to try and find truth to the claims after the guy, understandably, sued him for libel. Case got thrown out though, as an American jury ruled that Musk did not “defame” the guy by calling him a pedo (and, again, hiring a PI to prove that he was).

Admittedly the PI knew a rube when he saw him and used the opportunity to squeeze Musk for more cash, but still.

I mean, back in the 1990s Lex's first response to hearing about Superman's death during his fight with Doomsday was to find the female martial arts instructor (Sasha Green) who had embarrassed him during a sparring session, strangled her to death, and then dumped her body in a landfill* just because Lex wanted to demonstrate that without Superman around he could do whatever he wanted without consequences.

So, yeah, I'd say that Lex is evil in most of his interpretations, yes.

*She got better, resurrected by aliens or something and got superpowers too into the mix. She ended up hanging around with Tommy Monaghan from Garth Ennis' Hitman book for a spell.

Just because some versions of the character may have the pretense of good intentions, Lex is still a bad guy 99.9% of the time. Like the time he invented a cure for cancer just so he could lull Superman into a false sense of security that Lex used to successfully murder him.

Luthor is not just ruthless and power hungry, he is the worst combination of cruel and petty. Especially when he keeps going about he could help the world if it weren't for Superman..

See All Star Superman #12, where he has basically augmented himself to be like Superman for a limited time and saw the world the way Superman does, but it ran out faster than he's expected.

Supe's has a point.

But his MOST petty and cruel moment was, IMHO, Adventure Comics #6 from 2010, when Superboy challenged Lex to cure his own sister Lena of a debilitating illness. To take the chance to show he was BETTER than Superman by curing an illness Superman couldn't. And Lex accepted the challenge..

Lena walks and thinks clearly for the first time in YEARS!

I remember a story where Lex had a guy fired *AND* blacklisted from all jobs in his field in the country because the guy suggested that Lex’s calculations may not be 100% accurate (and they likely were wrong, but Lex was too stubborn to acknowledge it). The guy was the sole breadwinner of his family and had several small children, so he panicked over suddenly losing his whole livelihood and punched Lex. In response, Lex had him gruesomely murdered in front of his children.

Yeah, that was from Paul Cornell’s Action Comics run, and yeah he had the guy shot to death in front of his family in the middle of a family meal.

...And this was in the middle of a storyline where Lex was trying to gain god-like power to save the world... which he manages to get. BUT, the one rule for keeping the power is that he can only use it to make people happy... which means he couldn’t use it to kill Superman or harm Clark’s loved ones. This makes Lex lose the power almost immediately because even the choice of being a god who was making everyone everywhere happy forever AND KILLING SUPERMAN... he tries to pick the latter because he can’t help himself.

And the thing is every billionaire is Lex. Everyone has decided to let ppl die and kill the world over help

It’s kind of like the time that Elon Musk said that he was going to pledge $6 billion to end world hunger, and instead just gave the money to his own foundation? Lex like Musk is aware that he could save the world, but he’d rather take the good publicity and get a tax write-off than do anything constructive.

Though Lex actually makes things that work, and he never hired a corrupt PI to try and find dirt on a guy who had saved a bunch of kids because the diver had the audacity to save that the billionaire’s own proposed means of rescue (and again, a publicity stunt) wouldn’t work. Both hate immigrants and refugees though, apparently.

I mean, back in the 1990s Lex's first response to hearing about Superman's death during his fight with Doomsday was to find the female martial arts instructor (Sasha Green) who had embarrassed him during a sparring session, strangled her to death, and then dumped her body in a landfill* just because Lex wanted to demonstrate that without Superman around he could do whatever he wanted without consequences.

So, yeah, I'd say that Lex is evil in most of his interpretations, yes.

*She got better, resurrected by aliens or something and got superpowers too into the mix. She ended up hanging around with Tommy Monaghan from Garth Ennis' Hitman book for a spell.

Just because some versions of the character may have the pretense of good intentions, Lex is still a bad guy 99.9% of the time. Like the time he invented a cure for cancer just so he could lull Superman into a false sense of security that Lex used to successfully murder him.

Luthor is not just ruthless and power hungry, he is the worst combination of cruel and petty. Especially when he keeps going about he could help the world if it weren't for Superman..

See All Star Superman #12, where he has basically augmented himself to be like Superman for a limited time and saw the world the way Superman does, but it ran out faster than he's expected.

Supe's has a point.

But his MOST petty and cruel moment was, IMHO, Adventure Comics #6 from 2010, when Superboy challenged Lex to cure his own sister Lena of a debilitating illness. To take the chance to show he was BETTER than Superman by curing an illness Superman couldn't. And Lex accepted the challenge..

Lena walks and thinks clearly for the first time in YEARS!

I remember a story where Lex had a guy fired *AND* blacklisted from all jobs in his field in the country because the guy suggested that Lex’s calculations may not be 100% accurate (and they likely were wrong, but Lex was too stubborn to acknowledge it). The guy was the sole breadwinner of his family and had several small children, so he panicked over suddenly losing his whole livelihood and punched Lex. In response, Lex had him gruesomely murdered in front of his children.

Yeah, that was from Paul Cornell’s Action Comics run, and yeah he had the guy shot to death in front of his family in the middle of a family meal.

...And this was in the middle of a storyline where Lex was trying to gain god-like power to save the world... which he manages to get. BUT, the one rule for keeping the power is that he can only use it to make people happy... which means he couldn’t use it to kill Superman or harm Clark’s loved ones. This makes Lex lose the power almost immediately because even the choice of being a god who was making everyone everywhere happy forever AND KILLING SUPERMAN... he tries to pick the latter because he can’t help himself.

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

I do think that it’s funny that the dude wrote multiple stories about the dangers of capitalism, but his one book about global warming was that it was hoax by left-leaning social progressives or something, with one of the villains being based on one of the vocal critics of his novels at the time.

I mean, back in the 1990s Lex's first response to hearing about Superman's death during his fight with Doomsday was to find the female martial arts instructor (Sasha Green) who had embarrassed him during a sparring session, strangled her to death, and then dumped her body in a landfill* just because Lex wanted to demonstrate that without Superman around he could do whatever he wanted without consequences.

So, yeah, I'd say that Lex is evil in most of his interpretations, yes.

*She got better, resurrected by aliens or something and got superpowers too into the mix. She ended up hanging around with Tommy Monaghan from Garth Ennis' Hitman book for a spell.

Just because some versions of the character may have the pretense of good intentions, Lex is still a bad guy 99.9% of the time. Like the time he invented a cure for cancer just so he could lull Superman into a false sense of security that Lex used to successfully murder him.

Yeah, let's go! :D

Well, I’m hyped. :)

Yeah, I think that it's pretty clear by this point that Bruce isn't meant to be in the right in this storyline (even if in the prologue Selina had to resort to bad faith Twitter arguments as to why Batman is bad at his job).

Yeah Bruce, intentionally hurting folk who are deliberately taught to not use violence while burgling insured rich people (especially as Roland, the dead guy, was murdered by someone who he thought would be on vacation deciding to "Stand Their Ground" him and throw him out their apartment window) totally puts you in the right here.

At least the preview has Tim hearing about this, immediately realising that Bruce isn't in the best place mentally/emotionally at the moment after three major back to back storylines... remains to be seen how violently Bruce reacts to Tim's "condescension".

Just sayin’, if James Tynion IV’s Batman met this version he’d probably start a fight with him to defend those thieves.

Giovanni Zatara in a wax museum sound like the most horrific idea I've ever heard.

I’d say that I’m surprised that this side of her dad hasn’t been brought up in relation to Zatanna more often, but then I remembered he once turned a man into a ventriloquist dummy in front of her as a kid (dude was robbing the charity show he and Zatara had been performing at, and when a four or five year old Zatanna saw him he decided to murder her to cover his tracks... which considering who her dad is, went about as well as you’d expect), which ended up leaving her with a phobia of puppets that lasted well into adulthood (up to the point where her guest appearance on Sesame Street resulted in her having a panic attack despite her attempt to power through it).

lest we forget

dream car

Ah yeah, I had a toy of that car as a kid.

Ennio Morricone got a Razzie for his score for the Thing (which was also slanted upon its initial release), even though that anti-award is kind of meaningless.

I keep mentioning him but Blaze Foley had songs telling cops to kiss his ass, had Anti-Reagan songs, had Anti-War songs, had Pro-Weed songs, etc. Country Music was not always the music of the Conservative. Its a shame the genre has gotten that reputation in recent decades.

It’s 9/11′s fault, as I understand it. The War on Terror’s jingoism led to a lot of American media taking a hard right turn (see 24 glorified the use of torture, for example), but country music especially got taken over by the “Garraahhh, I LUV M’TRUCK ‘n’ M’FLAG! GARRHAHAHHFFFLLLFFF“ lot.