World of Metropolis #3 (October 1988)
World of Metropolis #3 (October 1988)
Clark Kent remembers the first time he came to Metropolis as a wide-eyed young hick. This was before he became Superman, obviously, so he spends most of the issue flying around in a brown suit and a tie and stopping crimes without being seen. I kinda that wish he’d kept that outfit as his official uniform.
Young Clark is trying to get into Metropolis University, but he arrives late to his admission test (because he was saving a woman from getting run over by a car) and the mean old dean gives him an impossibly short time to complete it. Naturally he uses his super-speed to finish it anyway and aces the test. To support himself, Clark starts working as a cook at a hamburger joint, where he hooks up with an older waitress called Ruby. He comments that Ruby was “responsible for turning a farmboy into a city dweller,” if you know what I mean (she taught him to use the subway). They have some fun together, but the relationship was doomed from the beginning because her initials aren’t LL.
The issue ends with present-day Clark visiting Ruby in the suburbs, and we see that she now has two kids. I wonder if they can turn coal into diamonds by pressing it really hard.
Character-Watch:
The lady Clark saves from the car happens to be Lois Lane in her early twenties, who is being chased by mob members as part of an op-ed piece on being chased by mob members for the Daily Planet. Since we saw eight-year old Lois in issue 1 and teenage Lois in issue 2, this miniseries is turning out to be Lois Lane: The Unauthorized Biography.
As for Ruby, someone correct me if I’m wrong but she has Character We Never Saw Or Heard From Again written all over her face. Maybe she threatened to go on a talk show after she saw her ex boyfriend’s face on the biggest superhero in the world and died under mysterious circumstances (someone dropped a subway cart on her).
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