I finally got around to this issue, and American Alien keeps being great. Really enjoyed how Lee kept toying with the visual reveal of Luthor, he's certainly not the most interesting-looking guy out there and still the movement when he stepped into the light felt powerful. Probably had a lot to do with his first appearance in the awesome panel of the helicopter landing, some great composition in there. However, Landis also definitely missed a super obvious opportunity by not having Clark say "You owe me a MacBook, you rich *******" to Batman when he smashed him against that wall and revealed him to be Bruce Wayne...
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Really awesome issue. This series has been pretty awesome sans one issue, #2.
Yeah, I'm surprised more aren't talking more about Dick in this. He's definitely introduced as a more complex character than other versions of him that I've seen and he's a kid still, I'm definitely really feeling that. I agree that the conversations between Lex and Dick was what implanted the idea of being a hero.
I think seeing Batman and easily overcoming him was like, "anything you can do, I can probably do better." Haha, I do love that as humble as Clark is, I liked that smirk he gives Batman as he pins him to the wall, because he knows you can't easily **** with him.