Looks like the "The Last Days of Lex Luthor" is an elseworld story separate from the main line of comics. Lex is dying due to his own screw-up and is banking on Superman finding him a cure . The story also uses the shared time in Smallvile as friends bit of continuity.
this is like 2 months late but i love that lex gets fucked up by his own actions & he's like "my ex boyfriend will come to save me. bet"
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SPOILER WARNING ⚠️
This is pretty cool tho
Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor (2023) #1
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Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #1 variant covers, by Evan Doc Shaner & Yannick Paquette
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You know, I think Clark and Lex’s relationship really could have benefited from a safe word. Something either of them could have said to the other to communicate “your current line of inquiry is infringing on my privacy in a way I cannot elaborate on without further compromising my privacy, so I need you to redirect or drop it.”
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Chris Samnee - Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor
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Hi, yes, guess who got impatient and bought the Kindle version of Last Days of Lex Luthor even though reading comics on Kindle is the worst?
I AM WELL PLEASED SO FAR. This is definitely pre-Crisis Lex, complete with a giant killer robot painted green and purple. His method of asking for help is absolutely deranged. Clark has the exhausted, teeth-clenched vibe of a man trying to bring a furious feral cat to the vet to save its life even though it has destroyed his entire garden repeatedly. THERE ARE FLASHBACKS TO WHEN THEY WERE BOTH LITTLE NERDS IN SMALLVILLE.
Also, Lex confirmed as incredibly high-maintenance:
(You can tell they're not fighting because Superman is carrying him like a teddy bear rather than scruffing him by the neck like a naughty kitten.)
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I'M SORRY WHAT. WHAT.
Superman is a walking fMRI?? You're measuring the BOLD contrast in real time?? You're an EEG?? You're measuring the electrical charge of neurons??
Leaving the ridiculous overpoweredness of that aside, this is just not how it works! You can't criticize polygraphs for being unreliable because they measure pulse rates or skin conductance responses, which are just an indication of arousal states and not valence; they can indeed mean intense reactions for a myriad of different reasons, not just anxiety induced by lying. And then, present yourself as a more exact measuring instrument for lying, because the same argument regarding unreliability applies to amygdala activity! It isn't active just for fear or threat, it's part of a much bigger neural circuit and contributes to so many other psychological processes. For instance, there's many studies showing that amygdala encodes emotion more broadly, not just fear, and is highly important for conditioning and creating habits. And don't even get me started on dopamine, it's one of the most important neurotransmitters and its signalling is similarly related to many brain regions, circuits and processes-- including motor control, emotion processing, memory. You can't just say "Aha, dopamine in this guy's brain, he's lying!" when the guy might just be existing.
I haven't been this annoyed since Snyder's introduction of the drug Diaxemene, that apparently makes a psychopath's amygdala more active and suddenly cures their lack of empathy. I'm not even gonna start rambling about that one.
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the francis manapul cover of last days of lex luthor #2 is finally up and. the size difference. the expressions. lex being absolutely caked up for some reason. it’s absolutely amazing.
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