Thanks for the comments!
Ann - I'm glad this left you hungry for more, because there's most certainly more coming. hehe! Two more parts. Heeee!
I mean, look at Jason Todd: when DC gets tired of a character, DC kills off that character.
Oh, Ann, Ann... I wish you hadn't said that. You should really get your facts straight, girl, because that's not the case at all. The fact that Jason Todd became Robin in the first place was not well received by the public at all. I don't know if they disliked the character himself or simply the fact that Batman had a new sidekick who wasn't Dick Grayson, the fact remains that readers did not like him. And DC did not actually decide to kill him off. They didn't know *what* to do with the character and so they asked the readers. There was a poll. Readers asked for him to be killed. DC gave the readers what they wanted. And *that* is what really happened.
Secondly, as of right now, Lois Lane has been the major love interest for Superman/Clark Kent for nearly 70 years now. She's been around as long as he has. Hell, they killed HIM, but never her. She's just as important to Superman as the big red S on his chest - she's part of what makes him Superman. Not to mention, Lois Lane sells comics. She attracts movie-goers and TV audiences.
Besides, I hardly think it's fair for you to compare Lois Lane to Jason Todd! She's been there for decades. He was there for months only. People love her. They hated him.
This said, please - I beg you - stop coming back over and over with this argument that DC is just waiting for the right moment to kill Lois Lane. If only because we are not DC Comics; these are the Lois & Clark fanfic boards - we LOVE Lois, here, Ann. There is no Lois & Clark without Lois. End of story.
Oh, but Lara, I was a little disappointed that Clark didn't see anything at all that referred to himself - to Superman, I mean - in the Batcave. Guess that just goes to show that old Bats considers himself above Superman, so that he doesn't need to concern himself with the Flyboy in Blue. Back in the sixties, when Superman had his Fortress of Solitude, there was a statue of Batman in there.
I didn't say there was nothing about Superman in there. I didn't say there was nothing about other superheroes.
Clark has seen his reflection in a glass, but not a mirror - I'm not sure that he's really able to tell what he looks like. It would stand to reason that he might not recognize his face if he saw himself in a picture.
Besides, at this point, he's convinced he's Batman, he's not trying to figure out if it's possible he might be someone else instead. Not to mention that, as per the show, he doesn't remember Superman at all - even when his parents showed him the costumes he did not believe he was Superman... I have him convinced he's Batman - he's not likely to think he's really another superhero from another city.
So I didn't read Knightfall, because I can't get worked up over a broken back that will heal so splendidly!
I take it you didn't read any of the Death of Superman, either? Or did you read that anyway? ...because, I don't know about you, but resurrecting a character who was *dead* is a lot less logical to me than healing a broken back. BTW, if you'd read the story, you might realize that it was a long journey from injury to recovery and - imho, anyway - the way they healed him made enough sense to me as a reader to be believable.
(Hey, Linné forgot to classify Clark! What would he have called him? Krypto Sapiens? Homo Kryptoniensus?)
LOL! He'd been dead for 160 years by the time Superman showed up.
But I love the names you came up with for our Kryptonian friends, though. Wonder what a Klingon might be called....
"My" Robin is Dick Grayson - I don't really have a thing for Time Drake....
Same. But I'm going with the timeline and at that point, Tim is Robin... Besides, I need Nightwing for something else.
(But imagine having a waterfall in your Batcave - should make the place unpleasantly damp. Ah, but what do I know - maybe bats like dampness?)
LOL! It's not *in* the cave. It's sort of "in front" of it and blocks the way in and out of the cave... It's the way Batman exits when he's in the Batmobile, for instance. It's just one of the many ways to get out of the cave. Clark hasn't found the others yet - they're well hidden.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You don't know how grateful I am that you spared us Jean-Paul Valley!
Who needs him when I can have Clark Kent instead. Besides... Clark will be happy to give Bruce his costume back - unlike Jean-Paul who went off the deep-end with all that Saint-Dumas stuff. *sighs heavily*
Hey JD! Hey JoJo! Thanks for the comments, girls! I'm glad you enjoyed this part.
You'll see more of Clark running around in a Bat-suit in the next part. And more of Lois trying to find him, too.
Hey Lisa! Thank you!
I'm so happy that you found the whole orchids conversation amusing! Bruce Wayne is usually portrayed as a rich dolt who cares a lot more about material things - and girls - than anything else and who's pretty clueless as to how "the other half" lives. I'm having a lot of fun with this character!! In a comic I read, he's having a discussion with Lex Luthor and you'd swear that the man has an IQ of barely 70 the way he makes dim-witted comments. It's so freaking hilarious.
....and I loved that it annoyed Lex, too. hehehe! But that's another story.
Thanks again for the comments everyone! Most appreciated!
I can't wait to see Batman... err Superbat... err Clark in action!
