This blog is dedicated to celebrating the legendary love and partnership between Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and his superhero alter ego, Superman, in all of its incarnations.

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Alex Antone (@Alex_Antone): From this Monday’s #AdventuresOfSuperman by @JoshFialkov @Joelle_Jones! Classic Lois & Clark banter! Don’t miss it!

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SFX: Man Of Steel Producer Talks Lois Lane and more... 

• SFX: With a summer blockbuster everyone focuses on the visuals and the spectacle, but what’s the heart of this story, emotionally?
• DS: Someone said to me it’s the greatest adoption story in all of history. I think that’s an interesting way of looking at it – maybe because I was just in the process personally of adopting my two children. The people of Earth adopt him and he adopts us, as well. A lot of the messaging in this film is about family, and who makes you who you are. Clark is on this journey of self discovery, trying to figure out who he is and where he fits in, and in the end he comes to see what Jor-El, his Kryptonian father, has sacrificed and given for him. And he also realises how his Earth parents made him who he is. All those themes and notions follow him throughout the whole film. That’s something that resonated with me, even from when we started reading the script and started talking about doing this film.
• SFX: What about the Lois and Clark relationship? How does that relate to previous incarnations of Superman we’ve seen?
• DS: I think that our Lois is a little feistier and stronger. I think both characters are more realistic to us, to society now. Clark to me was always too good to really relate to. He was a little too much this perfect boy scout, and although Lois was feisty and strong she was still always the one being rescued. Not to say that she doesn’t get rescued in our movie, but she rescues him right back, in so many other ways, emotionally. And in our film, in our last setpiece, she has a very strong position. There’s something that she needs to accomplish in this plan in order for it to work. I like seeing that she’s a really strong female character, and very proactive.
• SFX: So she isn’t just falling off skyscrapers?
• DS: No! (laughs) And her apartment is a little more realistic to her job, I think. With the Richard Donner films I was always like “Wow, that apartment – how could she afford that? It’s amazing!”
• SFX: What were you looking for in the person that would bring your Lois to the screen?
• DS: Amy [Adams] is an amazing actor. With all the casting we tried to get the best actors we could, because it just gives it credibility. In so many ways we didn’t look at it as a genre superhero movie – we looked at it as a great story that we were telling, and we wanted to get the best people. Amy embodied so much of Lois – she’s feisty herself and she’s so versatile, and she was really just perfect for the role.

The fifth chapter of Smallville: Season 11’s fourth episode arc, “Argo,” is available today for only $.99 on ComiXology and the DC Reader App. While Lois Lane is in Africa catching up with the “Angel of the Plateau” (Lana Lang), Clark is on an adventure of his own when he’s zapped to the 31st century with Booster Gold. To read about Superman, the Legion of Superheroes, Supergirl, New Krypton, and to show support for a universe where Clark and Lois are a couple, please download the latest chapter, previous chapters, and purchase/subscribe to the monthly print editions (place an order, locate a nearby comic shop). Thanks!

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"Superman. It’s always been Superman and it always will be. A good Superman story is hard to find. They’re rare to the point that I can make a comprehensive list of them off the top of my head. But when one does come along… A good Batman story is entertaining and bad ass. And it makes you think “Batman is cool.” A good Green Lantern story is generally fraught with emotional peril but, at the end, you’ll wish you had a power ring. A good Superman story fills you with awe.
It’s the mythology of a sun god who wished he was a man because he saw something so great in us. It’s the story of a hero who could move whole worlds and see through stars and hear a whisper on the other side of the planet… who fell in love with a storyteller. It’s about a man and his dog.
Every single day, you can turn on the news and hear about something bad happening. People do terrible things to each other all the time. And, on the worst days, you might just sit down and get cynical, thinking thoughts like “maybe we are inherently evil. Maybe there’s just something wrong deep down in our hearts.”
And then there’s Superman. Looking down at the world with an unfathomable sadness. Waiting for us to join him in the sun. All the while, truly believing something only an impossible man could believe.
“If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again.”
There’s a psychology to storytelling. It’s really quite simple. When presented with something light, we look for darkness. When presented with darkness, we look for the light. It gives a story depth. In a world without a Superman, we made one for our fiction. To guide us and make us feel brave. To let us hope.
You will believe a man can fly."

CBR: I want to go back to the love part of that quote. Clark and Diana have been romantically linked in the New 52 — does that come into play in “Smallville” or does Lois have nothing to worry about?
BQM: Her ‘love’ refers to her respect and connection to all living things. It’s where her fire for social justice burns brightest. Regarding Lois, she and Clark are engaged and have already been through the wringer. They’re stronger than ever. There is a triangle that softly comes into play during “Olympus,” but it isn’t quite the one people might expect.

CBR: You also teased that she comes to Smallville with a very specific mission. Is there anything that you can tell us about the story?
BQM: She has her own agenda that Superman and Lois wind up stumbling into while on their own mission in Washington, D.C. Different interests that wind up being more aligned than they initially think. That’s about all I can say.

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Amy Adams, photographed by Jan Welters for ELLE, July 2013.

Superman: The Animated Series (“Apokolips…Now!”)

Lois Appreciation Begins!  

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Thanks to a series of strange and unfortunate events (some involving me weeping on the floor of a server room–the less said, the better), our celebration is getting off to a bit of a late start. But don’t worry, we’ve got a week of awesome Lois Lane posts queued up, and a blog carnival to share with you.

When I was putting together this week’s guest posts, I asked my aunt, a Lois & Clark superfan, if she wanted to contribute something. She sent me this email: 

Thanks for asking me about Lois.  I’d just like to share with you that Lois always seemed to me not dumb about recognizing Clark but subversive.  After the second world war, the American-British culture slammed women back into the box–housewife and mother, not career.  The removal of options was brutal in its pervasive, unexamined invasion of women’s rights.  Lois could work, and incidentally have a voice as a reporter, only as long as she was single. Why would she want to give that up?  So as long as she “failed”–ie refused–to recognize her “super” man, she could continue to be a real person.  Lois & Clark was great to me, because it recognized the cultural change that made it possible for Lois to see and acknowledge the whole man but still have her life.  The most cultural troglodyte of my acquaintance at the time of Lois & Clark only liked the first year when Lois was unable to see both Clark and Superman.  Some people work hard to not grow.

Much love, 

Claire Hess. 

There is something more to Lois Lane, than being Superman’s girlfriend, or the archetypal plucky girl reporter. There is something more to her than her 75 year publishing history, or numerous screen and animated portrayals. She’s a character of tremendous cultural and personal significance for so many women, and we’re going to explore that, and celebrate it, this week. 

(On the blog).