The Shattered Prayer

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1. Richard the Previous on July 2, 2007 9:43 pm

   You could definitely get one of these in Chocolate Town.

2. Mojo on July 3, 2007 9:00 am

   When I could eat pecans without serious repercussions, I used to LOVE chocolate pecan pie! Mmmm… pie… If only I could have it again, even just a little slice :drool:

3. Richard the Previous on July 3, 2007 5:04 pm

   Not to be funny or Nothing (as one of the characters on the BBC Robin Hood says repeatedly for no apparent reason) but I don’t actually like Chocolate Pecan Pie.

   I love Chocolate Cream Pie! I like Pecan pie, but the two together seem to cancel each other out in my experience.

   But to paraphrase what they used to say when they wanted me to no longer be gay, maybe I just haven’t found the RIGHT chocolate pecan pie. If I did, maybe I’d convert!

4. Richard the Previous on July 3, 2007 5:17 pm

   I miss the SP at work. I finally got email again, but too many dirty words on SP so it gets filtered out. Sigh.

   Hmm. What to talk about? Mojo is asleep. I’m bored. Maybe I’ll talk about comics. And being gay! It will be the most unusual post ever because I never talk about those two things.

   Did it ever used to bother anyone besides me that they didn’t draw nipples on men in comics when the men had their shirts off. For years while I was growing up, I thought that Hawkman was wearing a very strange pink shirt that went down to his hands because he didn’t have any nipples. I had no idea he was shirtless. If I did, I think I would have liked him better.

   Thank heavens for George Perez. He finally drew some nipples on the men. Kurt Schaffenberger did as well. Superboy had nipples because of old KC. Neal Adams, of course, famously allowed Batman to have nipples on the cover of a comic in the 1970s. Here is a peak in case you are as bored as I am right now.

   http://columns.stlcomics.com/tftlof/VIII/full/batman244.jpg

   I don’t know anything about the website. I just googled the issue.

   I also like that Batman has chest hair. And the fact that his enemy, Ra’s Al Ghul (the Demon’s Head) apparently whipped Batman’s ass, then took off Batman’s clothes.

   Revealing that Batman wears an extra pair of pants and boots under his pants and boots.

   I also marvel that Ra’s didn’t take off the mask. He just wanted to see Batman’s chest.

5. Che on July 3, 2007 7:07 pm

   I really have to wonder, R the P, why you don’t do some posting on Shattered Prayer (main posts - not just comments). I’d read your posts. Then again, I’d have to, because its my blog. But still, I’d read your posts.

6. Richard the Previous on July 3, 2007 11:59 pm

   You’ll have to let me in on the secret of how to do that. It would be like tag team.

7. Richard the Previous on July 4, 2007 1:33 am

   And just because I can, here is a picture of what would happen if Sean Connery and Burt Reynolds had a son, who then killed Lois Lane.

   http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/116/400/116_4_281.jpg

   I love the Silver Age. Comics didn’t have to make sense.

8. Richard the Previous on July 4, 2007 2:31 am

   And before I go to bed, I wanted to leave you with something from Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane. Notice that she isn’t Superman’s Girlfriend. She is his Girl Friend. DC wanted to hedge their bets just in case Superman ended up marrying Lana Lang or Lori Lemaris or Lex Luthor.

   S’s G F Lois Lane ran for 137 issues from 1958 to the mid 70s when it was folded into Superman Family. By the 1950s, Lois stopped being an intelligent reporter who stopped at nothing to get a story. She had instead become a woman intent on nothing more than getting Superman to marry her. Suddenly she had more in common with Lucille Ball than Rosalind Russell. She plotted, schemed, fought with Lana Lang, and did everything humanly possible to get Superman to walk down that aisle with her.

   In other words, she started doing what women should do! No career for you, Lois! You were meant to be Mrs. Superman! A woman just isn’t a woman until she’s a wife.

   I love, love, love this comic. I love the sheer unadulterated casual sexism inherent in the stories. The books practically revel in it. (Not that I love sexism — I love the camp cluelessness of the male writers. It is as if these men never met a real live woman before. And remember, the book was aimed towards girls. This is what the staff of DC were trying to get girls in the late 50s and 60s to be — housewives!)

   I also love the way Superman “teaches” Lois a lesson in EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. Nothing is more attractive in a husband than patriarchal arrogance!

   Just look at the glee Superman expresses when Wonder Woman (in her 1970s “mod” clothes) tossed Lois around

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22855&zoom=4

   I love the way that Superman is far more interested in and loving towards Jimmy Olsen than he ever is towards Lois (both here and in Jimmy’s magazine “Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen.” You’d think Superman and Jimmy should be a couple. After all, he gave Jimmy a watch to signal him any time Jimmy needed to. The most Lois ever got was a spanking.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14942&zoom=4

   And the plots didn’t even have to make sense! In this one, Superman is trying to prevent Lois from teaming up with Pat Boone to make a hit record! That is what a man who can move planets out of orbit should be doing with his time.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=15036&zoom=4

   But most of Lois’ stories involved fighting with Lana over Superman’s affections. She even goes so far as to steal a time bubble (don’t ask) and go back in time to break up Superboy and Lana BEFORE they started dating. And she does it in a fur coat, no less!

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18505&zoom=4

   Even turning into a baby didn’t stop our intrepid heroine on her marriage quest.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=15124&zoom=4

   Sometimes they would let Lois finally marry Superman in an “imaginary” story, and it would always turn out unhappily.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17523&zoom=4

   Hell, it even killed her.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25752&zoom=4

   More than once

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=23600&zoom=4

   In fact, she died quite a bit in her book.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24582&zoom=4

   Part of what made the stories so great was artist Kurt Schaffenberger’s ability to draw faces and the emotions displayed therein (Lois would cry at least once an issue). Just look at this cover where Lois is tricking Lana into passing over Superman for Ideal Man

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=19115&zoom=4

   Eventually Lois grew some balls, so to speak and kicked her marriage quest goodbye. She even kicked Superman out of her magazine (for a little while)

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21605&zoom=4

   After this stories became more “relevant”. For example, Lois became Black for a day.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=23852&zoom=4

   Fought for the rights of Native American babies (who else would stick up for them?)

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24249&zoom=4

   Married Satan (I guess Superman would never say yes)

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=23668&zoom=4

   Practiced domestic violence.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24182&zoom=4

   Did, um, whatever she is doing here. In Africa, one supposes.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25298&zoom=4

   And, as all women do, got tied up in a bikini by tiny members of the Justice League.

   http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24379&zoom=4

   I don’t know why I felt not only that I had to share my love of Lois Lane, but that I had to publicly proclaim it for all to see, but obviously I had to. I hope you enjoyed it.

   Everyone should know the joys of being someone’s Girl Friend.

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