Clark Kent: Crap Reporter

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Something Huk said in another thread got me thinking - that SUPES SHOWCASE story where Clark Kent decides that sitting in a bottle for a day is a really great news story made me scratch my head, especially as at the same time Jimmy is running around saying things like 'I've turned into a lizard for a day! What a scoop!' More of a scoop than 'reporter sits in glass container for 24 hours' certainly, but still pretty dire compared with the escalating East-West tension. "No Comment From Kruschev On Lizard Jimmy"...

Was Lois carrying the whole paper at this point? And do we prefer this simpler era of newsgathering to the go-getting, award-winning, brie-eating Clark Kent of more recent years?

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

That was the exact story I was thinking of when I posted that CK was a crap reporter!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I like how Lois, Clark and even Jimmy are always trying to scoop one another. Perry White must be a terrible assignment editor if he can't keep his staff out of each other's hair.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Perry White thinks that Jimmy riding in a giant cheerio is a good story. He's the worst editor ever and the Daily Planet is a cheap supermarket tabloid.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

hahaha we already did this! the thread that won me over to ILC!

Is Superman A Good Writer?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

So we did! I think that was before we knew about the bottle story though.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i guess my main concern about clark kent as a writer is that all of his stories about superman are EGREGIOUS conflicts of interest! quality of his journalism aside, he's completely unethical!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

It's true, it's interesting how he's always taking the moral high ground except for when it involves creating pro-Superman propaganda in the press.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

But without Superman stories, he'd be fired in a day!

"Perry, please! I'll do a story from inside a giant tea cup - an oversized Kool-Aid jug - a can of Dr Pepper grown to freakish size! Anything!"

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Superman is a very "write what you know" sort of guy, huh?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

See: "Superman's Hunt for Clark Kent" in Showcase Presents, where Superman has amnesia and doesn't know that he's Clark Kent, but creates a new secret ID that is exactly like Kent in every way, only British, and he gets a job at the Daily Planet by getting Superman Exclusives.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Say...did Lois even write a story about what it was like when she was black for a day?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

that british clark kent was awesome! with that amazing mustache and everything...anyways, don't forget the showcase story which shows how he got the job - he posed as a freaking gorilla to get a story! also he used his super-ventriloquism to make it sound like he was starving, so it was sort of a pity hire...

― dave k, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I'm totally buying Showcase.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

The bit where British Clark needs to change to Superman and does it on the pretext of needing a cup of tea is fantastic. Why doesn't Clark do this every time? "Oh my god, Brainiac! And that reminds me, it's my turn to get the tea in. Pass me your mug, Lois."

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

The British Clark Kent would probably work for Heat or Chat... and actually, there's a story Batman story at the bottom left-corner of this week's issue.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

See, now if Lil' Bruce had the moxie of that tot, there never would have been a Batman (which reminds me of those Superbabies, which I've never actually seen in story, just as decorative whatzits, but, I mean, cripes, the Batbaby would have to be fresh from the funeral...talk about grim!).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2917/964/400/gay%20place.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3390/1346/1600/World%27s%20Finest%20178-29.0.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

"Yeah, keep on working here, Clark. We love it when our top reporters take a week off because THEY HAD A MASSIVE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN BY THE SOUND OF IT."
"Why thanks Lois! It's good to be back! And good to not be Superman at all!"

― Vic Vetko (Vic Fluro), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.ijpc.org/comicbooks%20tom%20henderson.htm

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 4 February 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

further reading (listening):
http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2007/01/05

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 4 February 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

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