In the story where the hard-nosed news editor is the protagonist, refusing to let the CEO pull strings to leapfrog their favored assistant past all the people who paid their dues in J-school or lesser news organizations, and basically daring them to fire him, would be an applause moment.

Terri Hatcher and Dana Delaney were both pretty close to the Byrne take on Lois Lane, I thought.

How they didn't snap him up when they decided to introduce a male clone on Orphan Black…

By the 60s, at least, they had punctuation. E.g., https://repository-cache.cu…

Shifting the seasons-long slow burn temptation of power arc to a heavy-handed drug metaphor pretty much ruined it for me. (And they clearly thought better of it, what with Giles showing up to say "magic isn't a drug, it's a part of who you are" in the next season's premiere.)

:-) And I don't really disagree— I prefer Superman on the more idealistic end myself. But I think a lot of adults can smile at a little light retribution, when the person goes well out of their way to bring it on themselves. (Trying to punch Superman? Really?) But it should be used sparingly, and there should be…

I got a few birthday telegrams for that reason, though not a lot. I was recently reading that telegrams still have that sort of importance in some countries, and so are still an active business there for wedding and funeral messages, etc.

There are portable downloads of Wikipedia that will fit into a tablet's storage. That's a start. Add a Project Gutenberg download for a small research library, then add recent history ebooks as appropriate.

Lucy still has a picture of a sister who was never born. Presumably the plutonium core likewise becomes an originless object that nonetheless persists.

By 1961, given competition from the phone, telex, etc., telegrams weren't quite so expensive. They did charge by the word (after a base rate for the first fifteen, and some adjustments for distance), but it looks like it was on the order of a penny or two a word.

Plus, I know the glasses is a beloved contrivance..but c;mon, Supergirl standing right next to Cat and she doesn't see it?

I.e., the same thing that lets Kara lift and carry an airliner on a few square inches of palm surface and have it hold together, or makes someone falling from a skyscraper at high speed into her steel-hard arms a rescue instead of homicide, also ensures that the car and its contents stop as a unit, rather than causing…

I'm guessing that either he destroyed it and they'll turn out to need it, or he stored it somewhere "safe" (the Fortress?) from which it will ultimately be stolen.

Batman has Kryptonite. Does Superman give him shit about it?

I'm glad to see some of These Kids Today are getting educated in the basics.

Though using his powers to get back at bullies really goes back to his 1938 roots. He's become much more of a responsible citizen since then, but letting bad guys mildly mess themselves up by underestimating him, or even dealing out a bit of deserved retribution, is something of a constant through the Silver Age, the…

I'm not sure that Superman III was a big influence on, e.g., the various evil/corrupt versions of Superman in the animated series (Brave New Metropolis Superman, Brainwashed Son of Darkseid Superman, Justice Lord Superman). And in the comics, I think Earth-3 Ultraman has tended to be the main dark reflection,…

And the tar kryptonite itself is red K.

I think the depth is in the relationship between the characters: the fact that what Superman really wants isn't to jail Lex but for him to reform and put that massive intellect to good use (and be friends again), and what Lex really wants isn't whatever the plot of the week is aimed at, but to show that musclebound…

Let's say I have some issues with recent portrayals of Waller generally. (Ostrander's Waller wouldn't have done that.) Murdering subordinates is pretty much villain (or antihero) territory no matter who does it.