Superman prequel series Metropolis order by DC's digital service

[Professor Zoom]

They could just use the panels as storyboards!

It's from the Gotham producers, so I expect so.

They sorta have to. What's the point in using Lois and Lex and create everything else whole cloth?

 

[cylkoth]

Would you happen to know what year this was published? Just wondering how far back that could have been written.

 

[Christopher]

Would you happen to know what year this was published? Just wondering how far back that could have been written.

It was the November 1970 issue: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman's_Girlfriend,_Lois_Lane_Vol_1_106

Although it was by Robert Kanigher, who was a relic of an earlier age.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

if you look at the character as she's been defined from at least Margot Kidder onward, a key aspect of Lois's personality is that she was already a great, world-famous, award-winning reporter long before she ever met Clark Kent. So a large part of Lois Lane's formative journey was made on her own, and that is absolutely a story I'd be interested in seeing -- if only it weren't from the Gotham people.

I've said before that I would really love an Amy Adams solo Lois Lane movie. Something like State of Play or All the President's Men or The Post -- Lois Lane investigating the big stories, taking down corrupt politicians, crooked industrialists, and bringing down governments. Give me something like that in this television series -- Lois Lane, reporter, and no super-powers and no super-heroics -- give me Lou Grant in Metropolis, and I'm there. I am so there.

But I don't expect that from the Gotham team.

 

[suarezguy]

This has potential, Lois and Lex can be great characters (and I don't mind the understandable desire to not have Superman in order to not have expensive effects) but them working together and then the relationship breaking down seems a little forced and indeed too much like Smallville again.

With streaming, a lot less interested.

 

[UssGlenn]

I wonder if they will go the route of Lex not being a Villain yet, becoming one only after Superman arrives as a reaction to what he thinks Superman represents. Similar to Red Son, where Lex is a hero in a world where Superman is, if not evil, at least misguided.

 

[TheSeeker]

A Lois Lane comic, however, would be awesome.

Perhaps something a little more... now?

There was a New 52 one-shot a few years back. As I recall, it was pretty awful.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Yawn.

I'm so tired of these prequel series that take place before the only person we really care about.

Bingo. Or, a prequel that makes a million thinly veiled references to "something" or "someone" on the horizon, when everyone knows its referring to the star or biggest plot of the franchise. Yes...yawn. This is what happens when studios (and their hack "writers") cannot invent something new, and have to keep circling, then picking apart the remains of a popular franchise concept in vulture-like fashion.

Personally, I'm holding out for Perry White: Cub Reporter.

...or Ma Kent: Smallville Nights.