Quote Originally Posted by MythicBrawn View Post
IMO, Lois was acting like she and Clark were in a committed relationship. She's all mad because Jimmy was told before her. They may be friends, but Clark did not feel she was the kind of friend to tell this big secret. He is in no way required to tell her any of his secrets, regardless of what they are. If they were dating, then anger justified. Lois was quick to point that out to Condesa when Condensa called them "love birds". Seeing as they're not dating, she can go kick rocks.
Lois wasn't suggesting she felt that Clark was required to tell her his secret, just that it hurt that he didn't. As you say, because he didn't tell her one (she) can conclude that he didn't "feel she was the kind of friend to tell this big secret." Learning that that is how your friend feels about you is painful.

Given how their New 52 relationship has played out, I don't blame Lois for her frustration. She and Clark were close as colleagues and friends until she got promoted and he found out she had a casual boyfriend, Jonathan. After that, Clark became more and more distant with her. His starting a new relationship with Diana further put distance between them. Lois demoted herself at work and made attempts to get closer with Clark, but he kept drifting further away. His only stated reason that the audience knew for this was he didn't want to get close to Lois if he wasn't going to be able to tell her his secret, since it would put her in danger, and because he was essentially running away from his problems by quitting his job and rebounding with Wonder Woman (Lobdell's first issue covered this).

So when Clark says he lied to have a normal life and later says on the train in this issue that he's happy to have her as part of his life now, it stings Lois because the implication is he lied to her and kept her at a distance not for anything noble, but because he didn't see her fitting into his normal life yet is pleased to have her know now. He's not making sense to her. His reasons for keeping her in the dark and at a distance come across as selfish and capricious to her rather than something sympathetic. This is where the writing of this issue falters, I believe. It doesn't allow Clark and Lois to have the time or the point of view to fully express the complicated history and feelings at play during this very delicate and important moment.

Making it worse, is the New 52 writers' sporadic and superficial use of Lois most of the time; there's not enough memorable or substantial history for readers and writers to bring to the table to make this moment feel properly developed or earned. It just sort of happens, and both characters aren't given much to say about it. Consequently, readers end up having to project a lot onto the blank canvas that the powers that be have created, causing a wide range of reactions including hating Lois in a way that I don't believe even Yang himself intended to inspire with his writing.

It's just a mess, really, and that's unfortunate.