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2006-02-02

Original: 2006-02-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1 (single panel):

A gray-haired man (addressed as Clark) confesses to a woman with dark hair (addressed as Lois), who is seen from behind.

Clark: LOIS, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT... I WAS SUPERMAN. SO, YOU MAY HAVE THOUGHT YOU WERE CHEATING ON ME, BUT, IN MY EYES, YOU WERE ALWAYS FAITHFUL.

Lois: OH CLARK! SOMEHOW I ALWAYS KNEW...

Clark: I LOVE YOU.

Lois: I LOVE YOU TOO.

[Clark: "..." (silent beat)]

Lois: YOU WERE THE GREEN LANTERN, TOO, RIGHT?

Clark: HUH?

Lois: NOTHING!

Votey:

The woman (Lois), drawn loosely, asks with a slightly guilty/sheepish expression:
Lois: You're positive you weren't Black Canary, too?

Alt text

A single full-color comic panel. An elderly gray-haired man (Clark) faces a dark-haired woman (Lois), shown from behind, in an emotional confession. Clark says, 'Lois, I want you to know that... I was Superman. So, you may have thought you were cheating on me, but, in my eyes, you were always faithful.' Lois replies, 'Oh Clark! Somehow I always knew...' They exchange 'I love you' / 'I love you too,' and there's a silent '...' beat. Then Lois casually asks, 'You were the Green Lantern, too, right?' Clark, alarmed: 'Huh?' Lois quickly backpedals: 'Nothing!' The joke: Lois has apparently slept with so many superheroes that she's trying to retroactively confirm they were all secretly Clark. In the black-and-white votey aftercomic, Lois, looking sheepish and guilty, presses further: 'You're positive you weren't Black Canary, too?' — naming yet another (female) superhero she may have been with.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.