#general lane

[amozon28]

Ok but General Lane genuinky being taken aback at this almighty threat hes captured breaking down in tears. And him actually pausing to think rationally and thinking over what superman said, that he grew up on this planet, which means if he ages the same or similar to humans hes too young to have been involved with the invation.

Ultimately while currently General Lane is still an antogonist, hes shown us that hes a character that is willinh to reflect on his actions and change his opinions with new information. Which is a stark contrast of Amanda Waller, who doubles down when faced with the possibility of being wrong.

Im very interested to see Lanes arc in this story

[the-irreverend]

Good to see that DC and Marvel are still copying each other's homework after all these years.

[toweringclam]

The fact Task Force X's holding facility is directly under the spot where they all ganged up on superman is hilarious. That means they loaded him up on a helicopter, flew him to someplace outside city limits, loaded him onto a secret underground transport, and brought him back to the exact same fucking spot.

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 9 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

(SPOILERS if you haven't seen the show yet):

We start things off with Jor-El and Clark meeting and like the last time, Jor-El speaking in Kryptonese much like how Jor-El in the comics did in Man of Steel #6 (1986)...

as seen in this panel (W&P: John Byrne, I: Dick Giordano, C: Tony Zuiko, L: John Costanza) where Clark meets a ghostly projection of his father at night speaking Krypton's native tongue to him. BTW Man of Steel (1986) is a fantastic read. Highly recommend finding it at your local comic shop.

After Lois, Jimmy and Clark get promoted from interns to reporters at the Daily Planet we see the three of them will be having Thanksgiving with the Kents. Ma Kent shows Lois the newspaper she framed that all three of them wrote much like how her comic book counterpart made a scrap book out of the newspaper headlines of Clark's various heroic adventures in Man of Steel #1 (1986) as seen here in the panel (W&P: John Byrne, I: Dick Giordano, C: Tony Zuiko, L: John Costanza).

The camera then moves and see see kid Clark and the things he did back then. The baseball photo kinda reminds me of this fantastic moment in Batman/Superman #3 (2013) by Greg Pak, Yildiray Cinar, Matt Lackey and John Kalisz, and Rob Leigh:

On Earth-2 Clark and Bruce met as young kids after the car, Alfred drove broke down and both had some fun playing baseball. It's a very cute flashback that highlights no matter where in the multiverse, a Superman-Batman friendship is constant.

Lois's father shows up to the Thanksgiving dinner and I got double confirmation now that it is General Sam Lane. I talked more about his deal here.

Later in the episode we have the awkward parents and their children who are dating each other moment and General Lane here asks if Clark was in the military. In one non-canon series, Superman Year One by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr., Clark signs up for the military after high school. Kind of a weird miniseries, not the best Superman comic, not the worst at least.

Things go from bad to worse when the area where Clark landed activates thanks to the presence of Kryptonite from the League of Lois Lanes sphere that held it and we see that symbol on the robots that the giant ship sends and on this person at the end of the episode. If you know your DC universe, that symbol belongs to Brainiac and we can conclude that the one with the symbol on their head is Brainiac as well.

Brainiac makes his first appearance in Action Comics #242 (1958) (cover art by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye). At this point Brainiac was a "twelve level" intellect alien who shrunk cities for his collection to help repopulate his dead planet, one of the cities is Krypton's capital city, Kandor. Several retcons later we learn that Brainiac is a robot created by the Computer Tyrants of Colu, Brainiac's home planet to spy and conquer worlds. The Brainiac that has a closer connection to Clark and his Kryptonian people kinda like what MAwS is doing was in Superman the Animated Series...

where Krypton was very depended on their AI, Brainiac who then screwed them all over when the planet was about to explode and saved his metal ass and has then became a thorn at Superman's side in the cartoon ever since. MAwS is doing something similar as we see Brainiac's symbol on the robots that were deployed from the ship and the very robotic looking body Brainiac has at the end of the episode.

As we see Clark try to stop the portal and ship, he breaks into the hull and battles the robots in it. As he's getting pummeled, AI Jor-El helps neutralize the robots. It's kinda the same idea that what Man of Steel (the movie) was trying to go for when Lois was on Zod's ship and AI Jor-El was helping her navigate throughout the place. As I said before in the last post, Shin Ultraman is a better Superman movie (and a highly recommend watching) than what Zack Snyder was trying to do in Man of Steel.

We wrap up episode 10 with the Kents, Lois, and Jimmy enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner and we see that Jonathan was able to get the turkey to temperature so Clark heats it more with his heat vision. Superman sometimes does this do heat very mundane things like coffee as seen in this panel of Super Sons #9 (2017) (W: Peter Tomasi, P&I: Jorge Jimenez, C: Alejandro Sanchez, L: Rob Leigh). Highly recommend reading Super Sons and watching the animated movie too!

Congrats to Jimmy on selling Flamebird for $5.6 million. I talk more about flamebird here. Missed opportunity to have it be $5.2 million cuz DC's love of the number 52, but whatever.

The final scene of the episode gives us this moment where Brainiac tells this Kryptonian Warrior a planet they can conquer. The warrior then states that Earth will kneel. The most infamous Kryptonian that likes to mention conquered people kneeling is General Zod and so this character here might be Zod. No confirmation yet but I'm like 99% sure. When we get a confirmation, I'll talk more about Zod later.

And with that we are done with season 1 of My Adventures with Superman and if you made it this far be sure to check out my other easter eggs post:

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 9 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

[jasonhall5795-blog]

Yeah I don't know if this already obvious to everyone but I think this might be Lois's father, when he was shown in the second episode with Amanda Waller and Slade Wilson I thought he was going to be Rick Flag but now yeah I think he's her father

[el-ffej]

It's probably a good thing Martha didn't find out that General Kent had been trying to kill Clark.

A vivisection on Thanksgiving is never pleasant. (And does not promote a healthy appetite.)

[epickiya722]

Jimmy: Do you have something to tell me?

General Lane: I don't know who you are.

Jimmy: ...

[dumblr-account]

MAWS Finale Be Like

Everyone else: Yo, you’re not going to believe this, Lois’s dad is the General!!!!

Tumblr: yeah no shit.

[idknwhatputhere]

I knew this moment was coming but i wasn't Ready

[kal8elle]

[starlightbelle]

If that General guy in My Adventures with Superman is General Lane (like I suspect he is), do you think the show will have a scene like in Spiderman Homecoming where Clark goes to meet Lois’ family dad and he walks in and

IT’S THAT GENERAL GUY

The whole scene is underscored with this uneasy, anxious, tense vibe because we as the audience knows he’s Vulture, and Peter has just found out. Peter now knows he’s Vulture but he doesn’t know Peter is Spiderman, and it understandably freaks Peter out

Tell me this scene wouldn’t be CRAZYYYY with it being Clark, General Lane, and Lois (her mom wouldn’t be there but we can omit that):

[wheelybard]

I'm happy they gave The General a conscience. Unfortunately that gave Waller a chance to usurp him.

[alukardtheabysswalker]

At this point we're all in agreement that The General is General Lane right?

Like it's been set up and is clear that the emotional conflict is gonna be that Clark's first Arch Nemesis is gonna be Lois's Father

[toweringclam]

Y'all... handing a disgraced soldier a loaded gun is basically Amanda Waller telling General Lane to kill himself. That shit still happens in the US military. I literally had to clean up the results when I was a medic in 2009.

Sure, she's giving him another out, but the implication is he should use the gun on himself if he doesn't like her orders.

[dm-stands-for]

I haven't seen too many posts about this and if you don't know that much about Superman lore it's SPOILERS for My Adventures With Superman but...

What the hell is Clark's reaction going to be when he finds out the general is Lois's dad?

This guy who's been basically hunting him for most of the season who just let him go and was almost killed by his people way back and all that stuff. It's gonna be insane. He's going to be caught halfway between "hello sir I'm dating your daughter, I'll have her back by 10" and "AHHHHHH"

[camo-wolf]

I have a comic story concept where in an alternate world lois is from krypton and Clark is from earth

Lois becomes superwoman (maybe Lucy is in Kara in this scenario and is supergirl)

It could be in a way where it’s like all star or superman red and blue where one issue is a story

Maybe a classic Superman story about its with lois and how she would have delt with the situation

It would also be a great way to show lois backstory and show how she wanted to be an investigative reporter

Even some great lane family stories like with her father and why he decided to adopt and protect them it would just be and interesting concept to me