#superolsen

[cashmerecorey]

WHICH DO I DRAW

clois

clois x jimmy

lindamae

cass and tim siblingisms

parts of the We Are Robin polycule

Voting ended onNov 27, 2025

edit: ITS POLYWAR as of now so theyre the ones i’m drawing

i might draw whatever actaully wins the poll after them though

[caskeullt]

hashtag

i dont know

[sarksarkos]

Super-Friends '59: The Lois Lane Extended Universe

I remember when Discourse happened in Season 1 of My Adventures With Superman, and my partner was like "THIS Lois/Clark is "toxic"? Clearly you've never read a Silver Age comic." This is Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #7. Welcome to the Gutters.

That's right, it's another fleeting Lois Lane/Lana Lang crossover. Once again, Lois refuses to take a hint that her man is clearly not interested in her and makes the like of being Superman's "girlfriend..."

Ugh, I'm sorry. These comics do Lois Lane so dirty. A lot of the time she's portrayed as such a stalker that she drives Superman to extreme behavior just to get her out of his hair.

In fairness, she is being depicted as a brave and clever investigative journalist who will go to great lengths to expose corruption. But so often she's also written as a damsel in distress or an emotional burden for Superman, and not a capable person in her own right.

While as children, Lois and Lana's only common ground was their mutual ladyhateboners for Superboy, when they meet as adults they are a lot more chill with each other. Lana has come to Metropolis looking for work, but crashed out so badly she lost all her money and became homeless. She was too proud to go to Superman for help, but Lois refuses to leave her. She takes Lana in, lets her stay in her apartment, and even gets her set up with a job at the Daily Planet.

They spend the night talking about their pasts with Superboy, and knowing what kind of comics these are, I expected there to be jealousy between the two. Instead, Lois is the perfect host to Lana, and their respective crushes on Superboy only bring them closer together. It's genuinely sweet to see them bonding like this.

Naturally, it doesn't last. Once Superman makes a ring for Lois to match the one he gave to Lana, Lana starts making the moves on Superman. At first Lois is willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, but it gets more and more blatant until she catches them making out in their apartment. This gets her mad enough to throw away her ring, which is what the whole dang thing was about.

It turns out that whatever the ring was made of was violently explosive, and Lois was in danger as long as she was wearing it. Really feels like this comic could have been an email. The three of them all make up and Superman does his best to keep this toxic love triangle upright. That note could refer to at least four women in Superman's life, one of whom is a mermaid and another is his cousin.

We meet a few members of Lois Lane's family around this time. In Jimmy Olsen #36, we're introduced to her younger sister, Lucy Lane, who works as an airline stewardess. Jimmy Olsen falls for her, and tries to charm her by dressing up in a bunch of silly costumes and acting like a big shot. We don't really see in Lucy's head but I like to imagine she sees right through this and is just having fun with it. Jimmy and Lucy have a much better relationship than Clark and Lois.

Meanwhile, in Lois Lane #13, we meet the Lane parents, Sam and Ella Lane. In more modern comics, Sam Lane is a US Army general, and the Lanes are military brats. In the Silver Age, the Lanes were just a carbon copy of the Kents. They really only had one character archetype and kept stamping it out whenever there was a blank space in the narrative.

Also in Jimmy Olsen #36, we get the story of how Jimmy and Superman first met. I expected this would just be a workplace comedy where Jimmy helps Superman out of a snag, but it turned out to be absolute silver age nonsense.

On his very first day in Metropolis, Jimmy answers a classified ad for an assistant with a time machine. Having no sense of self preservation, Jimmy steps into the time bubble and is shot back into the fourth dimension. The first flight of the ship was meant to go back some 20 years, but he winds up back on pre-explosion Krypton.

Jimmy is such a krypto-weeb that he can fluently speak the language and immediately ingratiates himself with Jor-El and Lara. He gets a job as baby Kal-El's babysitter and helps save the precocious little boy from Kryptonian security agents trying to silence Jor-El. It's interesting to see how even when Krypton was unironically presented as a science utopia, they still have their thugs around willing to beat up scientists and kidnap babies.

Because whenever you time travel you always wind up at the most historically significant events, Jimmy is there right on the very day that Krypton goes asplody. He makes it back to his timeship but when he returns to the present he has no memory of anything that happened, because of the dumb rules of time travel.

Superman does remember, because of the dumb rules of superpowers, and as soon as Jimmy arrives back in the present, Superman flies in, slaps a signal watch on him, and declares that they will be best friends. This is... honestly, I've read slash fiction that started the same way. Jimmy is lucky that Superman didn't slap a collar on him and start calling him his pet human.

...I have to go write something completely unrelated and not at all horny. Until next time!

[jkaart]

Superman: Are you OK, Jim?

Jimmy, buried in Superman's obscenely large pecs: Let me have this Kal. Please.

[mysticwayfinder]

I took down the previous post I did on this because I forgot an extremely important ship.

Behold! The four most valid ships for Kara!

What's that? You think James shouldn't be here? Well, here's an apology video. Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[scy010]

Damn seeing a couple who love and support each other and knows how to communicate. That healthy relationship thats not all rainbows, bubbles and balloons but real af. aNd with the extra dose of good chemistry with that height difference. SIGN ME TF UP MY MAN.... SIGN ME UP

[thegabi182]

I'm deeply sorry to inform you that lifeisbellark found out about karamels and this has joined forces so I'm calling all Clexas, superolsen and Supercorp shippers to level the playing field

I'm also calling bellarks and karamels the Templars so we Clexas and Supergirl + healthy romantic interest are the Assassins Creed.

[time-does-not-exist-here]

Supergirl rant

Look, I ship supercorp with all my gay heart BUT, if Kara is going to be paired with a male then why isn’t it James Olsen? There has been build up from the moment they met, hints that yes they will be endgame, and truthfully I lowkey shipped it. Why toss James off to the side? He had character, he’s charming and they had decent chemistry. All that build up led up to “we’re better as friends”??? Explain to me why you decided that a typical, misogynistic dudebro was the best choice for a love interest? Kara and him have zero chemistry and I’m not even sorry.