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Superman: One-Shots
Superman: Lois Lane (2014) #1
Lois Lane is known for chasing down stories — but what happens when the story is her family? As her father gains more power in the government, Lois’s sister Lucy has become involved with a deadly drug scene! Meanwhile, Lois thought she was rid of the influence of Brainiac, but now she finds that the the computer tyrant of Colu is calling out to her again!
40 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 26, 2014
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November 13, 2020
(B-) 68% | Satisfactory
Notes: Half-baked, ham-fisted, humdrum claptrap: a miserably maudlin, ditzy endeavor, it loses the plot trying to be clever.
Notes: Half-baked, ham-fisted, humdrum claptrap: a miserably maudlin, ditzy endeavor, it loses the plot trying to be clever.
September 30, 2014
Not what I expected.
I found this one-shot single issue comic book in my local comic book store and since I noticed that indeed was one shot story, so I thought: "What the heck, why not? It's not like one more comic book will ruin my finances."
CREATIVE TEAM:
Writer: Margueritte Bennett
Illustrators: Emanuela Lupachino, Meghan Hetrick, IG Guara & Diogenes Neves
Special participation: Kenneth Rocafort, doing the cover art.
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
Some wounds don't leave scars.
It's not a bad story but definitely not what I expected or even hope to be. I thought that a good story using Lois Lane alone without the support of Superman, should be something down to earth, something quite fitting in the realistic side of an universe where exist flying men. Metropolis isn't only supervillains and sci-fi stuff, it's a city with elements quite similar like any other city, real or fictional, and I hoped that this could be a story about a day in the life of Lois Lane doing her investigative journalist job in a topic related to something realistic.
Sadly, wasn't the case, since the whole deal is about a new drug which is causing problems in the city, but it's a drug provoking mutations, which even that, isn't that original since there was something quite similar in the animated TV series of Batman Beyond and I can mention another similar thing from a competitor comic book company to DC Comics, but I suppose that I could spoil a bit doing that.
Even Superman has an apparition, brief, without even dialogue, but why did they need to put him in this comic that should be only for Lois Lane? And hey, I am huge fan of Superman, but he has already too much titles and TPBs, I think that one single comic book issue featuring only Lois wasn't too much to ask.
...I suppose that everyone is a bit blind about family.
There is a great family angle, presenting the sibling relationship of Lois with her sister, Lucy, and how was their childhood when her mother still was alive and also commenting how was to live with their father, before and after of the demise of their mom. That was certainly what made me satisfied of having bought the comic book.
And even it was great to see Lois working throught her leads, showing the wide range of contacts and types of informants that she needs to use to do her job as reporter.
The story is well written with remarkable sentences, so it was after all a good investment.
No, every wound leaves a scar, not everything is beheld at a glance.
However, I still think that they didn't need to put sci-fi stuff in a Lois Lane story to make it "interesting" to the average buyer of this particular comic book.
I found this one-shot single issue comic book in my local comic book store and since I noticed that indeed was one shot story, so I thought: "What the heck, why not? It's not like one more comic book will ruin my finances."
CREATIVE TEAM:
Writer: Margueritte Bennett
Illustrators: Emanuela Lupachino, Meghan Hetrick, IG Guara & Diogenes Neves
Special participation: Kenneth Rocafort, doing the cover art.
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
Some wounds don't leave scars.
It's not a bad story but definitely not what I expected or even hope to be. I thought that a good story using Lois Lane alone without the support of Superman, should be something down to earth, something quite fitting in the realistic side of an universe where exist flying men. Metropolis isn't only supervillains and sci-fi stuff, it's a city with elements quite similar like any other city, real or fictional, and I hoped that this could be a story about a day in the life of Lois Lane doing her investigative journalist job in a topic related to something realistic.
Sadly, wasn't the case, since the whole deal is about a new drug which is causing problems in the city, but it's a drug provoking mutations, which even that, isn't that original since there was something quite similar in the animated TV series of Batman Beyond and I can mention another similar thing from a competitor comic book company to DC Comics, but I suppose that I could spoil a bit doing that.
Even Superman has an apparition, brief, without even dialogue, but why did they need to put him in this comic that should be only for Lois Lane? And hey, I am huge fan of Superman, but he has already too much titles and TPBs, I think that one single comic book issue featuring only Lois wasn't too much to ask.
...I suppose that everyone is a bit blind about family.
There is a great family angle, presenting the sibling relationship of Lois with her sister, Lucy, and how was their childhood when her mother still was alive and also commenting how was to live with their father, before and after of the demise of their mom. That was certainly what made me satisfied of having bought the comic book.
And even it was great to see Lois working throught her leads, showing the wide range of contacts and types of informants that she needs to use to do her job as reporter.
The story is well written with remarkable sentences, so it was after all a good investment.
No, every wound leaves a scar, not everything is beheld at a glance.
However, I still think that they didn't need to put sci-fi stuff in a Lois Lane story to make it "interesting" to the average buyer of this particular comic book.
October 2, 2016
Not really special, but I liked seeing Lois as a person in her own right, actually competent and passing the Bechdel test with flying colors and the art wasn't bad either. It's a one shot so there's not much to judge on - they obviously needed a simple story with simple emotional connections but that's ok too.
I'm not sure I'd give it 4 stars otherwise but I'm just joyed that there's a comic about a superhero girlfriend actually having her own life and priorities that have nothing to do with the superhero in question and I'm feeling happy and generous at the moment. Also, the childhood images about sisters having their own language are really sweet. I liked that it's all about the sisters and their relationship.
A side note: I'm not a fan of Superman and don't really read DC comics all that often, so I don't know how they portray Lois in other media, I'm treating this as just a single story with no connection to any others it may have...
I'm not sure I'd give it 4 stars otherwise but I'm just joyed that there's a comic about a superhero girlfriend actually having her own life and priorities that have nothing to do with the superhero in question and I'm feeling happy and generous at the moment. Also, the childhood images about sisters having their own language are really sweet. I liked that it's all about the sisters and their relationship.
A side note: I'm not a fan of Superman and don't really read DC comics all that often, so I don't know how they portray Lois in other media, I'm treating this as just a single story with no connection to any others it may have...
March 21, 2014
This has all the marks of being an issue to test the waters for a possible Lois Lane series. If that’s true and things are similar to this comic, that is going to be a terrible collection.
This is a female-centric issue. It has one of the most visible non-superhero characters of the DC universe, and the writing and most of the art are done by females, too (Bennett and Lupachino). It an easy assumption to say that this is intended to draw female readers into the DC fold. With this material, you might attract them, but you sure won’t be able to make them stay.
I don’t have any problem with female-led comics, but I have a lot of problems with crap writing and strange hidden agendas.
I don’t even know where to begin with this wreck. The story is shit, and the characters make no sense. It all feels like a waste of paper to be honest. Lois Lane’s sister (Lucy) has a flatmate who has been abducted by some bad man. Lois investigates (sorta), discovers fishy things (not really, she doesn’t do a single thing), gets saved, end. That’s the quick recap. To go into detail, things get derailed from the first second.
In the first page, we already have an example of lazy writing when all the text is in brackets, and we got an explanation in a text box saying “translated from a blend of languages used as a code for two sisters.” Is that necessary? Does it add anything? Not really. You either write the thing or just leave it without a notice. It’s not like they are talking a real other language that might need to be translated. It’s just a bad way to trying to show us the bonds between the sisters, instead of doing it with actual writing. Then, there is an helicopter crash for no reason other than to have an explosion in page 2 and to add crap drama to the flashback story of the growing sisters with a sick mother. Jump to the future and Lucy runs to Lois’ house after the bad guys captured her “flatmate”. Will she knock the door down or ring the bell? No, she break a window instead! The excuse? “I didn’t want to wake you up.” Yeah, right.
After this we get the less subtle hints that Lucy and her flatmate are lesbians. Basically everything screams it, but it remains unsaid. Is there any reason for that? Lois is not stupid (even if in this comic she’s quite close to that), and it’s not like we’re in a 50s comic. These characters are supposed to be contemporary, young and urban, so it shouldn’t be an issue, right, but it is. The explanation will be there later, so let’s put this aside.
Lois goes to investigate, great! That should be the lion’s share of the comic. She’s pretty good at that and a good comic about an investigative journalist would be welcome. But we’re wrong again. We don’t get a bit of her investigation; instead, we get badly cobbled together drawings with boring descriptions where more or less everything is laid out clearly for Lane. There is no investigation, but a crumb trail. As I said, lazy writing.
Then, with Lois knowing there is something related to monsters and powers and shape altering drugs in the mix, she decides that the best course is not to get any help from we-know-who, because she can manage. Really? Lois is supposed to have a ton of common sense, but either she’s stupid here or her ego gets the best of her. She’s well over her head and that is never shown in the entire comic. She never repents and never says anything about how much she messed up and made things worse.
She gets captured by the “bad guys,” shady government agents, and taken to an abandoned ship (don’t ask why government agents don’t have a better base, that one is pretty shitty.) Then we are shown one scene that takes you totally out of the comic. It’s a whole 4 page exposition that doesn’t make sense, but the worst thing is that Lois Lane overheard that conversation after having climbed around 6 or 7 meters while being tied to a chair. I would believe she has the will to do that by herself, but on a chair? No way. It might be nitpicking, but that was the moment that had my hands thrown in the air.
Anyway, monsters break loose, there are bad action scenes, the flatmate who was casually at hand gets released and a huge monster comes out of who knows where to take them and fly somewhere else. The monster is supposed to be the cat of the sister (let’s not count all the other mutations that were quite close to their original size, and this one looks like a flying whale…and it’s supposed to be a cat).
In that moment, we get our eyes opened about why the lesbianism of the characters was not referred to before. In an argument between the flatmate and Lois Lane about exposing the shady government agents, the flatmate goes on to say the following:
What do you think will happen if you put the face of every one of us “changelings” on a headline? You think they’re gonna give us any peace? knowing what we are and what we could do?
It’s deadly, to pass for something else. Everyone thinks you’re a liar or a coward or a spy. Like you’re deceiving them if you don’t announce yourself on sight.
Yes, this comic basically said that it’s better to remain closeted instead of being open. Thanks for that DC. I’ll add it to your prohibition to gay weddings. You’re on a roll there. It is patronising, and it is insulting.
After that the comic keeps piling stupidities and Lois proves to be the worse investigative reporter in the city when she is surprised by the big flying thing being her sister (oh my! she’s a “changeling” too!).
There are other things I could tear apart, but I think it’s enough.
A quick shout out to the art. It is good but unremarkable, and having 4 artists for just one comic doesn’t make it look better. But not even someone like Dave McKean would have saved this mess from mediocrity. So in the end, the art is very unimportant.
Sorry for the long recap of the whole comic, but this one got under my skin. Avoid at all costs.
This is a female-centric issue. It has one of the most visible non-superhero characters of the DC universe, and the writing and most of the art are done by females, too (Bennett and Lupachino). It an easy assumption to say that this is intended to draw female readers into the DC fold. With this material, you might attract them, but you sure won’t be able to make them stay.
I don’t have any problem with female-led comics, but I have a lot of problems with crap writing and strange hidden agendas.
I don’t even know where to begin with this wreck. The story is shit, and the characters make no sense. It all feels like a waste of paper to be honest. Lois Lane’s sister (Lucy) has a flatmate who has been abducted by some bad man. Lois investigates (sorta), discovers fishy things (not really, she doesn’t do a single thing), gets saved, end. That’s the quick recap. To go into detail, things get derailed from the first second.
In the first page, we already have an example of lazy writing when all the text is in brackets, and we got an explanation in a text box saying “translated from a blend of languages used as a code for two sisters.” Is that necessary? Does it add anything? Not really. You either write the thing or just leave it without a notice. It’s not like they are talking a real other language that might need to be translated. It’s just a bad way to trying to show us the bonds between the sisters, instead of doing it with actual writing. Then, there is an helicopter crash for no reason other than to have an explosion in page 2 and to add crap drama to the flashback story of the growing sisters with a sick mother. Jump to the future and Lucy runs to Lois’ house after the bad guys captured her “flatmate”. Will she knock the door down or ring the bell? No, she break a window instead! The excuse? “I didn’t want to wake you up.” Yeah, right.
After this we get the less subtle hints that Lucy and her flatmate are lesbians. Basically everything screams it, but it remains unsaid. Is there any reason for that? Lois is not stupid (even if in this comic she’s quite close to that), and it’s not like we’re in a 50s comic. These characters are supposed to be contemporary, young and urban, so it shouldn’t be an issue, right, but it is. The explanation will be there later, so let’s put this aside.
Lois goes to investigate, great! That should be the lion’s share of the comic. She’s pretty good at that and a good comic about an investigative journalist would be welcome. But we’re wrong again. We don’t get a bit of her investigation; instead, we get badly cobbled together drawings with boring descriptions where more or less everything is laid out clearly for Lane. There is no investigation, but a crumb trail. As I said, lazy writing.
Then, with Lois knowing there is something related to monsters and powers and shape altering drugs in the mix, she decides that the best course is not to get any help from we-know-who, because she can manage. Really? Lois is supposed to have a ton of common sense, but either she’s stupid here or her ego gets the best of her. She’s well over her head and that is never shown in the entire comic. She never repents and never says anything about how much she messed up and made things worse.
She gets captured by the “bad guys,” shady government agents, and taken to an abandoned ship (don’t ask why government agents don’t have a better base, that one is pretty shitty.) Then we are shown one scene that takes you totally out of the comic. It’s a whole 4 page exposition that doesn’t make sense, but the worst thing is that Lois Lane overheard that conversation after having climbed around 6 or 7 meters while being tied to a chair. I would believe she has the will to do that by herself, but on a chair? No way. It might be nitpicking, but that was the moment that had my hands thrown in the air.
Anyway, monsters break loose, there are bad action scenes, the flatmate who was casually at hand gets released and a huge monster comes out of who knows where to take them and fly somewhere else. The monster is supposed to be the cat of the sister (let’s not count all the other mutations that were quite close to their original size, and this one looks like a flying whale…and it’s supposed to be a cat).
In that moment, we get our eyes opened about why the lesbianism of the characters was not referred to before. In an argument between the flatmate and Lois Lane about exposing the shady government agents, the flatmate goes on to say the following:
What do you think will happen if you put the face of every one of us “changelings” on a headline? You think they’re gonna give us any peace? knowing what we are and what we could do?
It’s deadly, to pass for something else. Everyone thinks you’re a liar or a coward or a spy. Like you’re deceiving them if you don’t announce yourself on sight.
Yes, this comic basically said that it’s better to remain closeted instead of being open. Thanks for that DC. I’ll add it to your prohibition to gay weddings. You’re on a roll there. It is patronising, and it is insulting.
After that the comic keeps piling stupidities and Lois proves to be the worse investigative reporter in the city when she is surprised by the big flying thing being her sister (oh my! she’s a “changeling” too!).
There are other things I could tear apart, but I think it’s enough.
A quick shout out to the art. It is good but unremarkable, and having 4 artists for just one comic doesn’t make it look better. But not even someone like Dave McKean would have saved this mess from mediocrity. So in the end, the art is very unimportant.
Sorry for the long recap of the whole comic, but this one got under my skin. Avoid at all costs.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 21, 2021
Lois Lane is one of the best characters ever and I love her. This isn’t the best story; fairly short and some loose threads are left at the end. But it’s nice to get a peek into Lois as herself and see what she can accomplish by herself. No real complaints, but I’d prefer if this was the first chapter of a much longer run.
October 18, 2024
The monster designs in this were fun. Was like seeing Lois dropped into the MonsterVerse.
March 11, 2014
I'm a Lois Lane fan but I have to be honest, this was not very good. I was hoping that Lois Lane would get an amazing story instead she's featured in a generic slightly weird sci-fi story that has Lois investigating Lucy's missing roommate and its ties to a new mystery drug.
I gave this two stars because I love seeing Lois back out there investigating and I love the scene between her and Jimmy in the park.
I really wish this had been better because Lois Lane is a great character and deserved a much better story than this.
I gave this two stars because I love seeing Lois back out there investigating and I love the scene between her and Jimmy in the park.
I really wish this had been better because Lois Lane is a great character and deserved a much better story than this.
March 4, 2014
This was enjoyable and I hope to read the next issue sometime once it has come out. I like seeing Lois Lane at the center of the action and as a heroine in her own right. A fun comic that also has depth. I would recommend it, especially to people wanting to read about a female protagonist, or a comic written by a female. Pretty cool!
December 29, 2014
I am happy to see Lois Lane as the main hero in this story and she gets to have her own story indepedent from Superman, which is great to see Lois Lane's character deeper.
However, the story itself is not very interesting apart from seeing two sisters bond and hold on to each other.
I wish this won't stay as a single issue. I would love to see more of Lois Lane in action.
However, the story itself is not very interesting apart from seeing two sisters bond and hold on to each other.
I wish this won't stay as a single issue. I would love to see more of Lois Lane in action.
March 20, 2014
Mediocre one-shot, hobbled by poor writing. Shame.
July 11, 2016
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