Comments on: Just Past the Horizon: Decisions

By: Jalen

Jalen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:49:41 +0000

That’s an apt answer to an ientrsetnig question

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:00:32 +0000

So, Nicky… Lois also thinks President-Elect Obama is Muslim, thinks Obama “pals around with terrorists,” thinks living in Alaska gives one foreign policy experience or that going into Iraq (while bin Laden is still on the loose) has been a positive, successful experience? Certainly she feels the economy has been really strong the past few years, right?

Yeah, very smart and informed indeed…

And to think some Republicans have accused Dems of “drinking the Kool-Aid” this year. More accurately, lots of people just changed to a different, more palatable flavor after eight years.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:11:41 +0000

Thank God Lois is a republican! She’s very smart and well informed so it’s no surprise she would be a Republican.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:04 +0000

Hmmm…that “New England Republican” angle might go well with certain theories on Metropolis’ location on the map of New Earth’s version of the USA…

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:07:27 +0000

It fits quite well with the Margot Kidder version of Lois. And neatly overturns the cliche that every newspaper journalist is a lefty (by US standards).

Can’t see the problem.

By: bjooks

bjooks — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:07:07 +0000

Hasn’t anyone ever heard of the moderate New England Republicans, also known as Rockefeller Republicans, a quickly dying branch of the Republican Party? It’s actually not a bad place for Lois to be on the political spectrum, balancing both her army brat upbringing with a strong sense of social justice. Unfortunately, it’s a horrible place to be in today’s more fundamentalist Republican Party (just ask former senator Lincoln Chafee).

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:26:59 +0000

Without knowing which writer is taking responsibility for which parts, I’d suspect Winnick wrote Lois Lane’s dialog here. Whether he believes the dialog or not isn’t the point here, but it just smells like typical Winnick ‘hit-’em-over-the-head-with-it writing.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:49:29 +0000

Willingham is the the conservative of the two, blame him for making Lois one. This whole miniseries should be pulped IMO.

By: observer

observer — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:58:01 +0000

Lois being a Republican goes against everything established about the character imo. I agree with the poster who said not all military folk are conservatives, although her father has in fact been portrayed that way, and she’s been portrayed as rebelling. She’s a reform minded feminist exposer of truth. George W. Bush would give her gas pains.

I agree with what Evan said, even though that’s how Republicans define themselves, it’s closer to how Democrats are in real life, except perhaps for the “low taxes” bit, but the Republicans are the same on taxes, except if you’re a millionaire.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:08:33 +0000

I predict there will be 50,000 commenters on this comic with only 20,000 copies sold. Everybody’s got an opinion. What they really need is an informed opinion.

By: DIFTL

DIFTL — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:28:03 +0000

Oh and sorry, but Republicans will NEVER be seen as decent, especially after they pulled that ‘Obama is a secret muslim’ crap.

By: DIFTL

DIFTL — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:24:28 +0000

Pretty Mediocre, not horrible like some Winick bashers make it out to be. – My Thoughts on #1 (And Rick Leonardi CAN do better, c’mon)

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:07:46 +0000

Hey! Many thanks for linking to my still-infant blog! (Obviously, one thing I’m going to have to do is keep a closer eye on my typos. Sorry about those [sic]s!)

I agree with Lisa that the revelation about Lois *could* be interesting (if only as an ironic inversion of the “liberal media” meme), but the story as written lives down to her low expectations: Lois’ own dialogue says “You always know who I vote for… I’m a product of my upbringing.” Nuance? Internal conflict? What are those?

(Unlike Matt Morrison, though, I’m not sure who to blame for this dialogue, or any other. Most of it reads like Willingham’s work to me, but I could be wrong.)

I don’t think the plot is as awful as some others do, nevertheless. Yes, it’s a bit odd to see the JLA on point for presidential candidates’ security, especially for what appears to be a non-meta threat, but other than that it more-or-less hangs together so far. Anyway, like I wrote earlier — as both a political junkie and a comics fan, I just can’t help being curious.

By: DK

DK — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:55:12 +0000

We need to be talking more about Superman’s stance on the issues:

“It’s a secret ballot, stop bothering me”

By: Mark Engblom

Mark Engblom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:37:51 +0000

Lois Lane for Sarah Palin! LOL!

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:47:43 +0000

I look at all that and go “sounds like a Democrat to me”. Or at least my definition of what I want.

I don’t think anyone’s going to ever literally SAY a party they belong to. They’ll say enough bout what they believe in that everyone will go “They belong to……”

But I bet everyone’s gonna see something that makes them say its their party over everyone elses.

Which just means its all universal in the end.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:11:10 +0000

I’d consider Lois more a pragmatic conservative. In Canada, she’d likely be what we used to call a “Red Tory”, back when there really were Tories. She’s seen enough to know when the other side of an argument’s got ideas worth acting on.

Looking forward to seeing how the rest of this plays out…and how a meeting with Icon and the Rocket would go for her.

By: kwaku

kwaku — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:38:18 +0000

I hope all these people realize that there are probably as many people as they who think Lois being a Republican makes perfect sense.
I know people who I always imagined were Republican actually turn out to be Democrat and the other way around.

Isn’t this part of the greatness of America?

I really feel sorry for anyone who is alienated by Lois because it turns out the character is Republican.

By: Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:29:41 +0000

I haven’t read the material, but if Chris J. Miller’s description of it is accurate, it doesn’t sound to me like Lois is a Republican. Rather, it sounds like she’s a Libertarian. And that would go well with a career as a journalist, with marrying an illegal alien, and with supporting her husband’s vigilante tendencies.