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If you haven't had a chance to see it, here's a copy of the recently completed and terrific cover art KatherineKent made up for me for Wrong Clark:



You rock, KK!

I think Rat’s gotten bad teeth. He’s lisping.



Double L? The one who wrote Tainted Love?
CLARK: :Dizzy: Great now I have nightmares. And I'll never be able to look at cockroaches the same way again.

Jimmy? Huh…wait, Bobby’s not talking about Lois, is he?

Just like Lex!

LEX: Why I did away with my kid brother.

Boy’s got a dirty mind, doesn’t he?

Douche Bag #2.

Yeah, but would someone smart but not alpha join up on a team lead by a dumb alpha?


LOIS /dancing around/: Kill it! Kill it! Octopusssssssssssss! Kill it! Eeeeeh! Eeeeeeh!

I think you’re missing an ‘a’ in there. Also, I did find an extra ‘e’.

Funny, I can see them acting the same way with the fairer sex.

Oh look. He’s not the smart brother after all.

PETE & STUB: 50?

Charge 50?
LOIS:
JACK: No, I don’t do that kind of stuff. I’m into girls, not rich, old dudes.

Some fiction authors who now also have their material produced by HBO don’t make the distinction between wife and daughter.

LOIS: There goes my repudation…

He *does* realize that the food’s free, right?

Also, not that bad the taste…

Yeah, but when Lex finds him, the food won’t keep him healthy.



Maybe wild bats?

LEX: I was hunting. Why?

Lois didn’t want to be stalked. Well…more stalked.

He’s a tad self-absorbed, isn’t he?

I don’t think he’ll make a very good husband for Lois. No chocolate. No sex. No patience.

And he thinks it’s a good idea to join the father of the bride and her Neanderthal brothers on a hunting trip?


LOIS:

So, Cat thinks she will need to fixate Lois for Clark to have a good night with her?

Funny thing. The same’s true for Lex.

Like they do with shops that suddenly catch fire?

Wouldn’t it be awkward if they could tie him to the insurance fraud but not the murder?



I call foul! Smell, that is.

Caught up again!

Michael

Don't know what to comment on this chapter. I enjoyed it but don't remember much on it.

Just wanted to comment on the cover art.

It has a lot of curious things to it. The asteroid for one. Is that going to be a recurring subplot? I suspected Padre Carlos would be a major recurring theme, as does the dynamic between the alternate uni Clark and Lois.

Darth Michael: Thank you for the FDK! I'll get back to you in queue. /i.e. when I finish responding to your earlier FDKs./


Christina: More FDK!

Don't... remember...?
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Just teasing you. I completely understand. My stories work better when read as a whole, than piecemeal. I know that some parts are just build-up for later action. This was one of them. (Don't mind the writer behind the curtain; she's just tiding up some dangling threads...)

Bet you'll remember what happens in the next part, though.

It's terrific, isn't it?! Worth every donation penny!

DISCLAIMER: KatherineKent, the wonderful designer of my cover art, knows as much about the upcoming plot points of Wrong Clark as you do.

Nightfall HAS been an important and reoccurring plot in these last... cough...100 parts, right? It's when Lois FINALLY figured out Clark's secret. There was that big subplot about Lex-C, Dr. Brenda Muldoon, and the LUCkies (Lex's underground psych experiment). The whole ruining of EPRAD and Superman's reputation due to the Nightfall Virus (represented by all those computer screens and since Eugene discovered the Nightfall Virus...). The Red/Green Kryptonite watch which resurfaced and knocked out Clark's brains... er... memories. So, while I can't say Nightfall will be a strong focal (plot) point once Lois's in-depth investigation of Lex has come to a conclusion, it has been an important and reoccurring theme during this middle act Investigation arc.

And, yes, Padre Carlos will be a story long recurring character. The Jimmys and Cat aren't done yet, either. Eugene, not so much, any more. Does that vaguely answer your question?

Thanks for your comments.

I love the cover. Any chance we will see on a story within our lifetime. I just looked and you started this beast two years ago and from the sound of your comments it has quite a life ahead of it. I haven't started reading it due to being quite overwhelmed by the number of parts. I have read a couple of parts and it seems like a great story. However stories this large I prefer reading in e-book format. Actually I prefer reading most in e-book format...

Anyway just trying to gauge which year (decade) this one might end up there and whether your ??? might move to ????

Thanks

Mike

Mike M: I've answered most of your question over on that other thread, where you initially asked it, because I know this thread contains spoilers (so don't read my response to Christina above). But, for my readers, who might be wondering the same thing as Mike, I will copy what I wrote him at the end of this post.

Me, too! KK is the greatest!

Um... you're looking at it right now. Oh, you mean *completed* and posted on the Archive. If you or I don't die soon... yeah. Totally! I'm one of those horrible people who hate to leave things unfinished. Clearly, I'm also one of those types who doesn't realize how huge a chocolate bunny of a story an idea can be until she's already started posting it.

I know. I've been a horrible writer. Writing new parts instead of prepping my older sections to submit to LabRat on the Archives. /hangs head in shame/ I plan on remedying this error this summer.

I no longer make predictions as to when I'll be finished writing Wrong Clark. But since it is almost 2/3 completed, it will not be heading into the quadruple ? arena. Then, again, it IS only the second book of my three book trilogy. So, never say never, right?

Thanks for you interest and I hope I've answered your questions.

For everyone who might have missed my Wrong Clark essay over on the other thread, here it is now:

Thank you so much for your interest in my little vignette. This summer, when I take a hiatus from writing Wrong Clark (well... posting it, at least. I can't stop myself from writing it...) besides taking a family vacation, cleaning and repainting my office (and hopefully finding my wedding ring, which I lost 5 years ago), I have promised LabRat to prepare Sections I & II of Wrong Clark for G.E. Section I is roughly the first 100 parts on the boards, and Section II will be slightly less than that (she says crossing her fingers and knocking on wood). Both those sections will be complete on the boards before I take a pause in posting, (she says crossing her fingers AGAIN and knocking on wood AGAIN) even if it means I have to up my posting schedule to make it so. I'm also hoping to catch up on my cushion and make it more comfortable than the current 5 parts it is at now. (I had a 20 part cushion when I started posting in 2012.) That will give many people time to catch up with the story, should they wish. I have made it (and will fix the links, so they can do so again) as easy to read as possible. Firstly, I've broken the story up into smaller story arcs (See TOC for more details) and, secondly, I've added a link to the next part at the end of each part.

You can see why updating all the links for this story is an arduous process. Each Part has at least 4 links in it: the *previous* part, the *next* part, the *TOC* link, and a link to FDK thread. I finished fixing all the broken links (and apparently the non-broken ones as well) in the TOC the other day and now I'm working on correcting all the broken links within each individual part and FDK thread. As of this morning, I've updated everything *after* Part 103. The Find/Replace method has been very helpful in this process. I wish I had stumbled across it a week ago.

I am no longer making predictions as to when I hope to be finished writing this story (and I'm just talking BOOK 2 here, people, there's still a BOOK 3 of the trilogy) as I've demolished all the limits I've set for myself. (That it wouldn't be longer than Missing Lois, that I would finish by the end of the first year, that I would finish by the end of LAST summer, that it wouldn't be longer than 150 parts). It is what it is. It is an outlined story and I'm approximately 2/3 of the way through it... believe it or not. Luckily for me, there is a lot of fun stuff coming up to write about, including an Nfic chapter or two which some Reader made me promise to write, so I'm hoping that means it will be easier and quicker to write. The darker (Lex POV, Lois and Clark fighting) scenes can be depressing, which doesn't inspire my muse. She loves fun banter to heavy angst. Don't get me wrong, there *will* be angst in Section III, just a different kind of angst than there was in the darker Section II. Although, I have to admit today's scene wrote itself much faster than I was expecting. Speaking of which, I better get back to it, if I'm going to post tomorrow night. Thanks again for your interest, Mike.

AND now you know what it takes to write an epic: a tendency to ramble like a babbling brook after a heavy week of rains, an inner editor on vacation, and the ability to type quickly.

Virginia,

Thanks! I was just curious as this thing was looking like a lifetime project and I was looking at the TOC and saw you were kind of following the series and then realized you were just passing the end of season 1... It just got me curious. I really don't mind spoilers as the real interest to me is the journey and I don't mind knowing where the journey ends which led me to my question, if it was EVER going to end . That and my discovery that I really get more reading done on the kindle app than the browser and wondering if thing was ever going to get to that stage. I am constantly amazed at people who can write the epics but sometimes also at the people who read them .

Anyway thanks for your response (in both places). It looks like around another year of this one but no worries re-doing the TOCs is giving a chance to find a huge number of stories I never read and so my reading list is growing everyday. And thanks again for your tip now that I can edit the TOC postings to put more of them in the finished column. The only real problem with the global replace is that I was finding the additional stories to read by hitting each part and picking up on the progress by reading quickly the "in the previous part" section and now I never get to that but we are getting through the TOCs faster anyway

God I just woke up a bit ago and saw your message and decided to respond and this has gotten out of hand. Time to go back to

Thanks again for all you do (and write).

Mike

Mike, the story starts out with answering "what if Alt-Clark from S4 was dropped into Metropolis arriving at the same time canon Clark arrived", so it kind of needed to follow along the same plot points as S1. Things have shifted a bit, since he handles things differently than canon Clark does and it kind of has a ripple effect on some things.

It WILL end, someday. My stories are often about the journey.

As I tell my hubby, it okay to turn your phone off at night. Sleep is important. (And then he replies, so why do you stay up half the night writing?)

Golly. Thanks, and you're welcome. You're ever so kind. The thing with us writers is if we don't write it down, we'll just burst. So, it's less messy if we write.

Darth Michael: I made it! Phew. Just in the nick of time.

Ooops. You know I think there was an "r" in there when I sent it to beta.

In an earlier part, Bobby suggested they call Lex Luthor "Double-L" in case anyone overheard them talking; he didn't want it getting back to the Boss that Bobby was talking about him.



JACK: Double L is *not* my father!

Hmmmm.

Nice pun on landfill.

Yeah. Whichever one wasn't in jail.

Would someone dumb realize that is a drawback? Or perhaps someone smart might consider a coup.

No, but EW might be doing that.
CLARK: I thought it was funny.

Thenks. I mean... Thanks. Fixed.

JOHN: Pete'd have to have the nerve to talk to 'em first.

He already knew that. Denny's in the Smart group being considered for the Beckworth School. Jack was only qualified for the School of Hard Knocks.

Pretty much. But for a kid who has nothing $50 for a 1/2 hour's work, isn't bad.

Not those kind of professionals.
LOIS: And I charge multi-million dollar newspapers to get some of this action.
CLARK: Too rich for my blood. Phew.

Are you trying NOT to sell me on GoT?

CAT: She thinks she has a reputation left?

Jimmy at Clark's? Not free.
JIMBO: Yeah! CK's always telling me to clean stuff up and wash dishes and do my laundry. Geeze. I should have just moved back in with Ma.

I like broccoli myself. But Jimmy is of that age where if it isn't deep fried or comes on a pizza, it isn't food.

Why is Lex looking for Jimbo?

BRUCE WAYNE: I did not kill Monique Kahn. Anyway, I live on the *other* side of Gotham City from where she was found.

Good answer.

LOIS: It couldn't have been worse than being stalked by Lex, could it?

*two months earlier*
CAT: So, here's the code to the tracking device on the watch that Lex gave Lois...
CLARK:
LOIS: Sup...
LEX: That's strange. Lois seems to be visiting the moon, no Mars, no... what's that next planet past Mars, Nigel?
NIGEL: Jupiter, sir?
LEX: Hmmmm. Do you think Superman found out about her watch?
LOIS: /slaps Clark in back of his head/ Good going there, Sherlock!

Lois-centric? /and yes./

DAN: I can do the first two!

No, these are the good brothers. Her brother Peter isn't going and neither is her dad (who BTW is THRILLED that his daughter is married.)

CAT: So, I found this guy who sold me this stone which will let you have sex with Lois.
CLARK: Really?!
CAT: Yeah, I just need to hold it between our hands and look into her eyes.
CLARK: What's the catch?
CAT: Um... no catch.
LOIS: So, *not* happening. I'm not holding your hand and looking deeply into your eyes, Cat.
CAT: /swears under her breath/ So, close.

PHIL: Really. I've NEVER met the man.

LEX: /counting money/ Huh?

That happened once on an episode of CSI. Apparently the insurance company required a much less burden of proof.

I guess that load needed a second wash then.

Me, too! Time to post again... well, in a couple of hours.

I looked at the beginning the premise is what makes me want to start but 240 parts?? (I am actually giving you credit for keeping to the 2/3 done statement which probably is not wise...) Tolstoy's got nothing on you



And more fun to clean up I bet.

Thanks again

Mike

Now that you’re mentioning it…

He’s cute, isn’t he?



Only if he’s an alpha. Mentioned someone smart but not alpha, though

So, John not bought Pete a hooker, yet?

LOIS: /hands out free introductory offers to very select clientele/

Ooops?



True.





Duh! He won’t have an unwed daughter with a grandchild.



Michael

I'm not making any promises on this story's length. Also, it isn't a fair fight because Tolstoy's dead and he can't write anymore.

You've got to remember that in this story, Jack and Denny were raised by their single father until a couple of years ago, so they still remember what he looks like. Oooooh. I just thought of another Headline... Excusie...

Not, John told his brother he'd have to pay for them himself.

CLARK: Well... um... you see... um... Hey, you feel like some coffee? I feel like some coffee.

Right. Although, Lex could have knocked the mother up, twice, and then left before Jack started to develop long term memory.



Wonderful older brother. Not.

LOIS:

Michael

True, but I think I said somewhere /too tired to double-check at this moment/ something about the mom splitting when Denny was about 5 and being raised by the dad ever since.

JOHN BLACK: What? Uncle Truman never paid for Dad's ladies either, even though we all know he's rich as Midas being a Senator and all.

The boy does not have a clue what kind of things a senator must do in order to get rich only after he becomes a senator, huh?
JOHN BLACK: You mean hold out a hand and then make morally questionable voting decisions?

Michael

Who do you think taught him?

TRUMAN BLACK: Only the best for my nephews. I sent them to the Lex Luthor School for the Criminally Gifted. Only cost $10K a year.

JOHN BLACK: They told me that I didn’t get in!
HEADMASTER:

Michael