It was always Mike Carlin’s plan to have them married whether the TV show did it or not. He wanted to move the story forward rather than just rehashing the triangle aspect of the prior 50 years.

All the Lois and Clark show did was make DC slow down the plan to have the two marry so that they could tie it into the TV show.

I did the same thing with Marvel after BND and I haven’t bought a single one of their books since so if this goes through then that will leave all of my comics money free for Dark Horse and the other independent publishers.

Great post. I passingly knew the penciller who “modernized” Power Girl and though her assets were kinda of a joke to him, it was actually kinda creepy to me.

Part of the reason I think a total reboot would effectively modernize the DCU is to reset stuff like Lois/Clark and write it in a way that wouldn’t make a modern woman puke.

K-Box, have you ever *met* the average comic book reader? Have you seen the average comic book’s female characters? A new Supergirl who seems to only exist so artists can flash her panties or appear on panel as a pair of breasts without a head. The Witchblade “costume.” The brutal assault and/or murder of any woman Daredevil nods at.
I wouldn’t have a *big* problem if the marriage went away (I would prefer it didn’t.) but I would definitely give up on DC if they decide to go back to the “triangle.” I agree that there’s nothing charming about it. (Gail Simone did a great throwaway bit on Lois Lane when she did an article on what Wizard would have been like if it had been around in 1938.) The fact is, it makes Superman a cruel, patronizing liar to keep his identity a secret from Lois Lane, especially if he claims he loves her. The concept was created by a couple of teenage boys more than 70 years ago and seems based on the idea that boys want to play in their clubhouse and have adventures while stinky, ol’ dumb girls want to make them play house. Acceptable for disposable pop culture in the late 1930′s but really not okay in modern society.
The funny thing about this to me is that “Smallville” seems to be the Bible for DCnU and that show really demonstrated how unwieldy and dishonest it was for Clark Kent to hide his true self from people he loves. Which is the one thing that’s giving me a small bit of hope … that I’m sure DC will crush.

If they want to really do this right, then we should see the fun, juicy drama that happens when these people strike out into the modern world and fight crime for the first time. The REAL modern world. Like the “Bourne Supremacy” modern world.

That’s part of the reason Superman Returns didn’t work. It all just felt like 1953 instead of 2009.

That’s just me.

I didn’t think the lawsuit was the issue in the revamp when it was first announced (and it’s certainly not the only thing they’re dealing with), but when the Superman family books were revealed, it was hard to deny that those big four elements are now up in the air. The new SUPERMAN #1 even asks what his new status quo means for his friends and his job at the PLANET.

With the whole “The world doesn’t trust its first superhero” thing, it’s clear Superman is getting one of the bigger overhauls in DCnU (along with the Justice League and Wonder Woman), so I think the marriage is kind of a minor issue at this point. It’s looking like the DCnU may introduce us to an entirely new Superman, not merely a newly single one.

Even with OMD though, its like, yes, they could force their writers to be less ‘lazy’ and work harder to make the marriage compelling, but you’re still admitting that it’s something that doesn’t really work that well anymore.

I am interested in the DCnU, but I don’t see why the marriage would have to be undone as part of it. If you want to tell love triangle stories with Clark-Lois-Supes or have Superman and Wonder Woman hooking up, then tell it in the past (if indeed Action Comics is set retro) or in a flashback.

I agree with the posters who think a married Superman with Lois as confidant makes for great stories and honors the history of the characters. To me it’s lazy/unimaginative storytelling to think otherwise.

No Wally West + no JSA are the final nails in the coffin for me with DC.

Now here we are in DCnu-ville and it’s DC’s turn to continue their recent trend or marriage-death it seems. So far in the recent years we’ve had the Dibny’s killed off, Hawkgirl die once more leaving Hawkman a crumbled anti-hero it seems, Ollie and Dinah act as if they were never married in the first place, and now it seems all the married members of the JSA just may cease to exist. Here we have a comic company claiming to have titles with real characters people can empathize with and we seem to have a new DC WITHOUT ANY married couples.

I’ve had hopes for DC’s new direction until realizing that somehow DC’s idea of reaching out to a younger demographic doesn’t include young MARRIED COUPLES. Think hard Mr. Didio, in trying to relate to a new generation of readers you’re not only alienating a lot of older readers but now it seems your missing entire circles of possible new readers by eliminating a well-known staple couples can easily relate to.

Also, in today’s world it’s getting harder and harder to buy into the fact of a love triangle with Lois, Clark & Superman. We readers take a lot on faith and I can even buy Lois not figuring out his secret when she keeps a distance from Clark… but to be close to both? I don’t think it’s easy for readers to go with the fact that she’s about to marry Clark but doesn’t know that he’s Superman. Times have changed. Next thing you know Clark will be dating a mermaid!

Anyway, lets just say there may be a way to update the relationship to keep it both new and interesting. I’m curious to see what they have in mind.