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Steel 14 is a just a regular stand alone issue, that happens to Guest Star Superman.

I don't know why but I absolutely love this comic. I just think it's a fun story with a lame but fun Villain named Fire-Bomb. It also does alot of heavy lifting to set up the next story arc with the return of The White Rabbit.

The art by Roberto Flores, is over the top and cartoony but I think it's absolutely perfect.

The cover for this issue is amazing. Certainly one of the best so far on this title and if truth be told it's one of my Favorite Superman/ Steel covers.

overall nothing super amazing about this issue other then how much I enjoy it.

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Superman & Lois by Vanshpal Singh Kalsi.

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my sincerest apologies to clark's actual existent rizz but every single time i watch this scene this is what's happening in my head

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War of the Supermen // Issue 0

DC Comics

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By @ por_kikopb on Instagram

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An older drawing of my favorite ship

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I saw the new Superman movie and it was great!!!

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Supergirl '60: Vaccines work. This isn't a joke title. They work. Get vaccinated.

This is Action Comics #262, showing Supergirl absolutely stunting on her cousin. How did she get this way? Vaccination. You love to see it. Welcome to the gutters!

So I hear you asking, "Didn't we already talk about Supergirl?" Wrongo-bongo, we were talking about Supergirl specifically in the context of Superboy. Now we're seeing Supergirl as her own protagonist. Totally different things. All Supergirl all the Supertime.

One thing I like about these Supergirl stories is that she's not presented as inherently weaker because she's a girl, and she's not presented as Superman but a girl. She's impulsive and inexperienced and chafing against her restrictions in society, and that can lead her into situations, but she's every bit as capable of saving the day as Superman. She also has her own interests, including Kryptonian science, something that Superman doesn't seem to focus on.

A throughline of the comics that we're going to be looking at this time is Supergirl trying to create a cure or a treatment for Kryptonite. In Action Comics #261, Supergirl finds a small chunk of Kryptonite and begins experimenting on it in the chemical laboratory in her Orphanage. ...gonna move past the question of how come that's a thing that exists. She experiments on the Kryptonite but is seemingly incapable of removing its harmful properties.

After just tossing the radioactive rock into the woods, Supergirl as Linda Lee interacts with the Feline Distribution System and acquires a new cat. The cat has a white streak down both sides of his body, so Linda calls him "Streaky." However, Streaky is still orange, and so he decides it would be a fun idea to eat a radioactive space rock. Luckily, this rock gives him superpowers instead of cancer, and he becomes Streaky, the Super-Cat!

Supergirl has accidentally created "X-Kryptonite," a form of Kryptonite that's capable of temporarily empowering humans and animals with kryptonian superpowers. This is an incredible discovery, and not something that Lex Luthor ever managed. I know that Streaky is a recurring figure, and X-Kryptonite shows up a few times in the Silver Age, but I'm not sure if Supergirl ever figures out what she did here. Either way, I feel like she deserves recognition for her discovery.

In Action Comics #262, Supergirl gets the idea to inoculate herself against Kryptonite. She openly calls out the polio vaccine, a thing that, at the time, was actually somewhat unpopular because of an improperly prepared batch that caused 260 children to contract polio. So, you know, history does repeat. At the time, an oral treatment was being tested in the Soviet Union, which would later become the standard. Having Supergirl support the polio vaccine was probably a controversial move at the time, and I feel like this would be lost on modern audiences, and it's absolutely great to see somebody wearing the S to take an unpopular stand for the greater good. This has nothing to do with the comic, but like, I live in America, our government is trying to make it harder and harder to get vaccines, if I can just take a moment to talk about how important they are, and how we've been here before and we got back, I am going to take it. All of this is going in the final draft. No editors, we die like men. Having been vaccinated against editors.

Anyway. There's some rigamarole with Superman's alien zoo, which seems like filler but I have to include it because it will be important later. Superman tells Supergirl that he's tried to inoculate himself before and it hasn't worked, but Supergirl counters with the idea that she's younger, her body isn't used to kryptonite radiation, so it might work better on her. She flies off to find one of the 17 million lumps of kryptonite on Earth at any given time.

Supergirl rolls the kryptonite into a handy cave, and starts setting up a makeshift dosing setup. She starts trying to approach the Kryptonite, and marks off when she starts feeing the effects of the radiation. Each day she comes back and she manages to get a little closer. This is genuinely a pretty good setup. She's able to safely control her exposure to the kryptonite and measure her progress objectively. I think this and the previous issue are making a clear case of Supergirl as having a clever scientific mindset. Unfortunately, she made one of the classic blunders and forgot to include a control group.

When Superman is trapped by another massive lump of kryptonite just lying around, Supergirl rushes out to rescue him. Unfortunately, when she gets near her cousin, she too succumbs to the kryptonite and collapses. Working together, Superman and Supergirl melt a convenient deposit of gold onto the green K, and somehow their heat vision transmutes the gold into lead. You know what, by comic book standards, this is almost good science.

When they get back to Supergirl's experiment cave, Superman reveals that the lump of kryptonite she was using for her tests was being eaten from within by one of Superman's goofy alien zoo animals. Her tests were faulty from the get-go! I mean, it's a type of radiation, you can't even inoculate against that... So... wait, is this saying that vaccines don't work? Is that... oh god did I fall into the trap? Oh fuck me, comics are bad again. I'm not good at my job! End the blog, end the blog!

Until next time!

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fantastic headline

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Action Comics #97, June 1946, cover by Joe Shuster and John Sikela.

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"You're so fucking crazy!...omg you ARE my girl 😍❣️💕💞"

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Kingdom Come Superman by Alex Ross.

Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #10 (2007)

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Lois Lane ain't no damsel in distress but she sure does get herself into some tricky situations

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Lois didn’t expect Clark to actually listen

(Based on the Archie Comics panel!)

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Superman by Dave Bullock

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DC: Superman: The Official Cookbook: Recipes from Smallville to the Hall of Justice and Beyond

Elena Craig,Jermaine McLaughlin