#superman 282

[mermamotel]

well that's one use of the cape

[comicsclex]

Maggin introduced a lot of things into Superman canon, but one thing that hasn’t been acknowledged is that despite writing scenes like these in the comics:

Maggin was trying to introduce nuance to the lab fire origin in his prose stories.

In Maggin’s novels, Lex wasn't creating a cure for kryptonite like in the silver age. He created a "living protoplasm" and it was destroyed when Superboy put out the lab fire, and it's the protoplasm burning which creates the fumes which killed his hair follicles.

Blaming Superboy for losing his hair is secondary to blaming him for the death of his creation.

It was a revolutionary scientific discovery but it also mentions he kind of considered it his baby. This justification for him turning on Superboy was intriguing.

Last Son of Krypton also says that people in-universe reduce Lex's fall to the lab fire but that "it was coming for a long time".

And we saw that demonstrated throughout the flashbacks showing his time in Smallville. Lex was always unstable and emotionally damaged, but never unsalvageable.

[luthwhore]

petition for this to be the lex they use in my adventures with superman

[comicsclex]

Superman and Lex Luthor working together.