Justice League #17 Discussion/Spoilers

[Photon Torme]

Awful. Hurts my head. What is this desperation to Jam Lex into the Jla? Did this come before or after all the Doom as Ironman idiocy. The big 2 seem to just blatantly copy each other pretty frquuently these days.

[BatmanJones]

I am a little weary of the 'everything is connected' narrative, but I appreciate how Snyder was able to reconcile the great Lionel Luthor character from the Smallville TV show with the abusive drunk loser that Johns used for Superman Secret Origin. I also like how it allows Lex to start off as a sympathetic kid, which is something that Secret Origin did away with. Lex isn't particularly compelling to me if he's always been a rotten egg.

I still like the story in which Lex turns evil because Superman blows out a fire in his lab which results in his baldness. Why'd they have to retcon that?

[Agent Z]

I still like the story in which Lex turns evil because Superman blows out a fire in his lab which results in his baldness. Why'd they have to retcon that?

It was kind of dumb