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A quick superbat sketch I doodled on my phone instead of writing my research paper 🥲
Milo Manara
Superman
...think he just leaves them floating in orbit or does he toss his blown-through floozies into the sun?
For more on this kind of thing, read:
Man of Steel,
Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven*
Things of the form (*text*) are footnotes in the original text.
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Batman: Urban Legends (2021) #15
regular hero: clark kent! this guy can't help but help people
Sorry guys I'm thinking about new 52 superman. That was really good for me. Well until it got bogged down in the constant and genuinely impossible to follow crossovers but there were some good arcs & I loved fhe concept of an angrier scrappier clark with less support and almost no social net I found it very breaking the character to its bare bones compelling plus the us military was the overt enemy
just started playing batman: arkham asylum for the first time and bruce is literally pulling out solid metal grates that are bolted into stone and bending the grates. and i just think superbat where clark is the one with the strength kink would go triple platinum.
sure, clark could do all that with his pinky finger if he wanted to, but after seeing bruce do it, he doesn't want to.
on one of their first missions together, they're sneaking in to one of luthor's compounds, and batman brings them to a vent. it's solid metal, secured well just like the rest of luthor's building. clark leans forward to peek over batman's shoulder at it.
"i can get that, if you—"
batman cuts him off by digging his fingers behind the grate and pulling. the metal bends under his strength, creaking as it's pulled from the wall, half-inch thick bolts and all. batman glances back at clark, the barest of smirks on his lips. clark's jaw snaps shut so fast he bites his tongue.
and the more he watches, the more he goes insane. batman carries clark over his shoulder once when he's injured, and all clark can think about for a while is the flex of batman's arm around his waist. clark rushes to hold up a collapsing ceiling and protect civilians, but batman is already there, braced against a pillar, and now clark can hardly focus. batman rescues a dozen civilians from a sinkhole, sometimes pulling them out two at a time—clark wishes he could feel batman's iron grip around his wrists, or have his large thighs pressing down on him.
he comes to the cave once when bruce is working out, all slick and flushed and powerful. clark barely stops himself from drooling.
it's the raw physicality of it. the way his muscles tense and bulge with exertion, the little grunt bruce releases after doing something that requires a decent amount of strength, the sharp exhale when he lets go of the weight. it all drives clark wild.
batman catches him watching. clark thinks he's done for, an apology behind his teeth—but bruce only smirks at him, and deliberately shoulders more weight.
i'll always prefer clark having his powers from day one for like, genuine characterization & lore reasons—but also because "baby that's just strong as fuck" is incredibly funny to me:
superman (1939) #1 | superman: the movie (1978) | secret origins (2014) #1
"his goodness isn't born of innocence, it's born of conviction."
Ah yes, Bruce’s passion and desire for Clark to fill his hole. What the fuck is going on here
”Robin would have loved this case… where is he?” 🥺🥺🥺
They’re thinking about their little guy. Nooooooooo. He would have loved weapons trafficking.
Local deity drops by for a kiss
Returning to my roots (sketchy kissy superbat)
best thing about Red K Clark is he really just looks in the mirror and says “bitch, you should be in the club” in response to all his latest traumatic events
Everytime I remember Lizzie exists I always feel better because I remember it could've been worse. Diana could have had a son.
I might delete this I'm scared
“These are the paws of vengeance, Superman”
Something something Superbat where both are yearning and Bruce is driven to madness because he wants to kiss this stupid man so bad he's crazy with it but he doesn't want to forget his first kiss because of the 'super-amnesia' kiss. Bruce doesn't know that Superman can control it. And while Clark is just as desperate in his yearning, he hold back because every time a perfect kiss timing comes Bruce will evade him like a plague.
reference: Superman vs. Meshi #16 manga
#Extra: The last panel is cracking me up like why would you put your crush and whatever situationship you have with Batman side by side like that TT
"The reason to fight"???
Clark I know what you are omfg this stupid man
I work in healthcare, specifically mental healthcare. I used to work at a rehab facility where I would see broken men and women come in time and time again, they'd get clean, they'd come back after a week being out. I now work with the developmentally and mentally disabled. I've worked in this type of field for three years now and it's starting to take a toll on me. You hear things, see things, know things about clients that you have to keep to yourself. For their own privacy and, in some cases, for their own protection. It hurts, and anyone else in any kind of healthcare understands what I mean.
This panel. This scene. It speaks volumes to me, it's a hyperbolic example of what being a helper is. You can't save everyone, you can't really save anyone for that matter. On the best days you can guide someone to save themselves, but the other days...
The other days all you can do is hold someone while you see their life slip away. In my case it's never been an actual life slipping away and I can't begin to imagine how that feels. But I work with dementia patients. I've seen them go from lucid to having to go to higher care due to their mental deterioration getting so bad that they barely know who they are anymore. I've seen people, good people who fought to get healthy and overcome their own demons, come back to me in less than a month. The broken look having returned to eyes that they spent so long getting the spark back to. And every time, every goddamn time they'd look me in the eyes and tell me "don't blame yourself. I did this. Not you".
The amount of times I've gotten home and would "spend the next hour alone in the stratosphere, screaming so loud it knocks satellites out of orbit" hurts to think about. How many times I've just had to sit in my car, knowing I'd have to go home but not having the strength to do it. Somehow managing to drive myself home, all the while feeling numb and knowing that, despite my best efforts, I couldn't actually help anyone this time.
But that's why Superman, and even moreso Absolute Superman, is so important to me. Because I see myself in him, I see who I strive to be and who I want to be. He helps remind me that, sometimes, all a person needs is to be held. Not saved. Just held.
That's what Superman means to me.
In honor of my beloved Clark Kent's birthday/"earthday", June 18th — and acting as an incredibly late celebration of the day that supposedly aligns with his Kryptonian birthday — here's a few Earth-1 issues that mention his birthdays!
Action Comics (1938) #241 — fun fact: this issue has the exact same cover month as Action #1!
World's Finest Comics (1941) #235
Superman (1939) #249 & 263
Superman (1939) Annual #11 (aka "For the Man Who Has Everything")
And here's some other media!
Superboy (1988) S2:E18–19
And maybe give a listen to an Adventures of Superman radio show episode in honor of Bud Collyer, the Superman voice actor who also had a June 18th birthday!
Enjoy!