Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark TOC can be found Here

Still behind on my parts cushion, I'll be posting the next part late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Hopefully these next few parts will write themselves (as I've written them already in my mind) and we can get back to every other day postings again soon. I just know if I let my cushion lapse, it will disappear completely and then you'll be REALLY waiting days between postings.

Thank you for continued patience and for reading my convoluted story.

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think of Ms. Wishy-Washy and Mr. Stubborn.

Wow that was a close call with Superman, I can't believe he didn't cave! And Clark and the sweets! Makes sense, very creative! And poor Lois is still trying to remember her real Clark, why isn't this one exactly right. Sheesh! You are driving us crazy! LOL. More soon!

Is a bit confused about what’s going on. But that’s okay.

Oh? Trouble in paradise?



Ooooh! Thin bedroom walls?

That’s what the angry-Lois sticker is for, with the word ‘Mine!’ written below.

No manners. She at least could have given him break-up sex.

Capital offense.

Umm…

They might be right about the sexual orientation thing?

She should do that in the bathroom?



Did he eat so much sweets as a kid that he wasn’t fast enough to rescue his parents?

/points at/
That can’t be good.

Uuuuummm… And was it been three months already? You jumped ahead 6 weeks. He got there a week early. Michael

I like how you've explained Clark's aversion to sweets. Very nice. Lois seems a bit wackier than usual - considering dating Lex to make Superman jealous or cutting Clark completely out of her life. And poor Alt-Clark is so keenly aware that he isn't the real Clark.

Joan

Thanks to all my readers who are sticking with me through the dark patches (and extra Jimmys).

Laura: Clark/Superman has one rule regarding Lois, which he's clinging to (since he's broken all the others): Only Clark is allowed to kiss Lois. And, yes, Lois is making it difficult, VERY difficult, for him to hold onto that one.

Thanks. This was a bonus reveal that Clark gave me for letting him kiss Lois. (If you give your character what they want every once in a while, they'll give you something in return. ) Of course, he was kissing her goodbye because he thinks they'll never be able to have a relationship due to her sweets ultimatum. We shall have to see how that works out.

It's those little nagging doubts that are driving her crazy.

You want me to drive you crazy more and soon? Okay.

Joan: More from Clark's POV on his sweets aversion soon.

Yes, poor Lois is being thrown through a loop, being attracted to both sides of the same man and not knowing it's the same man, all the while knowing that something's off, is sending her through an emotional roller coaster. I did mention that I'd be torturing my characters in this story, didn't I? Dating Lex was the only way she knew to get an obvious reaction out of Superman. Probably bad to use a megalomaniac that way, but well, technically Lex's using her to torture Superman as well.

He knows he's no canon Clark, but as far as he knows the Kal-El from this dimension died upon his spaceship's impact with Earth. He doesn't know he's in competition with the ghost of an alt-canon-Clark.

Michael: A note about this entire part. It was originally a flashback to Lois' Octopus bargain, which I fleshed out a bit and went a little overboard. The scene it was originally tucked into comes up in Part 26, which will clarify some of the references that were never explained in this part.

Well, Superman isn't giving Lois what she wants, so... yes.

stickers always seem to fall off the frozen stuff.

Well, since it was a fake relationship, she tried to give him fake loving, but he rejected her, wanting only the real thing.

Yep.

Just two guys pining over women they've been denied. They've got to do something with their spare time.

I'm guessing that Clark would break his no-peeking in the bathroom rule if he saw her carrying a knife in there.

Oopps. Out of Smilies.

Michael - FDK response - Part 2

Still waiting on the next installment of that one. And I'm putting her on work-out program soon.

No, he went to the DP to work on his story. He didn't know she'd show up.

Nah, she knows Lex really isn't interested. At least she isn't issuing a challenge to Lex by not being interested in him.

Hi Virginia,

I finished reading this this morning.

Disappointing if she decided to completely ace Clark out.

A temporary blip, I reassure you. That's the great thing about us women: the perogative to change our minds.

/imagines Clark performing the Heimlich maneuver.

Yep.



Somehow, I can’t imagine Lois accepting this distinction once she knows the truth. Then again, she might be too busy orking after she knows the truth to care much about past transgressions.

Well, *his* brain. Same brain. Whatever.

Michael

Yes, well, my characters sometimes like to repay me for letting them kiss. But if I let have too much rein they tend to choke me with it and the story gets lost. Then I have to draw it back in, whip them soundly (usually just Clark, but it's a regular whip so it doesn't hurt him much), and point them in the correct direction. (At one point I sent Clark to stand in Sue's closet so I could move the story on... maybe THAT's why we haven't heard from Sue lately.) They still tug me back to letting them canoodle, but I steer them back until I can finally write something with some substance... otherwise my readers would be and asking me which Jimmy is which again, and if it really matters.

I've already tortured Tank enough with the two Jimmys. Do you really think he could handle a baby too?



Oh, dear, I Bill the Cat'd you?

So sorry for the late review! I've been busy the last few days driving to Southfield and Kalamazoo and everywhere in between! But now I'm home and ready to review.


Sorry if my superhero-ing is interfering with your breaking and entering, but I'm trying to keep you alive xD


Survey says....yes you do.



Not cool

He would

Great idea!



Huh?

Ahh, that explains the aversion to sweets.

He's coming back though, right? He can't just leave...

X Phile: I hope you had a great vacation!

It's only mid-July. The next time-machine won't arrive for a month, by then...

This was a running point in the Silver (and early Bronze) ages of the Superman comics. In one of them, I distinctly remember one where (depending on the outfit he was wearing at the time) Clark became "normal" (meaning he had no powers) and decided to test a hypothesis that he might be able to leave well enough alone in the world for a week and nothing major happen. It was during this time that Lois and Clark's relationship took a major step forward and (it was implied but the authors of the story have since said it was true) began a more serious relationship (complete with the implication that Lois stayed over for the night. This point was also carried out with the Earth-2 story where Clark (no longer knowing he is "super") gets married to Lois. If Superman wasn't there he wouldn't hold back. Of course this is slightly different for the two Clarks of the series as they always attempted to live the life of "Clark" through and through and not as a "cover" (although I have to say your Earth-2 one is living it as more of a cover than the original one did but that has more to do with the fact that there is no evidence of a Clark Kent other than a burial plot on private land.)

Oh the call of rich, dark, creamy chocolate.

Tease. Just not the sort of tease he needs right now. I just wish he didn't have this phobia over junk food.

It almost sounds like it's almost a turn-off for this Clark.

You know Clark, you don't have to hold this one back at least. It's not like she's ever going to meet the Kents.

I hope she does do this. Although something tells me this may be one of those thoughts that slips her mind.

Well the reading thoughts thing is fairly accurate but not for the reason she thinks. As for the "Communicate with him" thing... if he happened to be two different men, Superman could still do that considering his ability to be telepathic. Is she seeing Superman as some sort of super-voyeur??

Christina: Thank you for the lengthy FDK.

Those sound like an interesting plot. Too bad this was probably in the 80s when Superman looked

Don't worry she'll soon discover that there are other and better ways to tease this man.

Actually, it is.

He'll start opening up more, very soon.

It's not that it slips her mind, she decides that Clark is too much of a temptation with Superman holding her off. She's got all this pent up, let's call it energy, and Superman won't let her use it with him. Lois' thoughts on Clark will be clarified in the next part. (As I said before, the scenes in this part were originally a flashback to the first part of Part 26... but then got expanded until they became large enough to be their own part.)

Ah, but neither of them know he has telepathic tendencies.

She hopes not, because that sounds super creepy, but the thought did cross her mind.

Yeah. That’s what I thought. The Michael

Michael: You must have been really tired when responding to that FDK, because you commented on my responses to other people and not to you. Always happy to keep you on your toes.

I always worry about choosing a Tank story at random as I've heard such horror stories about the "Tank Endings". I've been lucky never to come across one yet (that I know of), so I'm not quite sure what they entail besides someone dying (other than Lois' hair or Jimmy).

Is this the line you were looking for?

I like your flasher! I saw a Halloween costume once where a man dressed like that and when he opened his raincoat a bright flashbulb went off blinding the viewer (I don't know if it was attached to a camera, but if it was -- that would be a funny set of photos ).

Michael

Let's see... "Who took the Super out of Superman?" (The first story I mentioned here) was Superman #s 296 to 299 and were first published in 1976. I don't think her hair looked that bad personally.

The original Earth-2 story takes place in 1950 (they were known as the "Mr. and Mrs. Superman" of the Superman Family books of the time.) The comic that this marriage takes place in was printed in 1978 (Action Comics #484.) The story is called "Superman takes a wife," (please remember that the silver/Bronze age titles are often misleading but he does marry her twice over-once when he didn't remember he was Superman and once during a Kryptonian marriage ceremony once he remembered who he was.)

Micahel: You're wide awake by mid-morning? Hmmmm <<thinks it's time for coffee.>>

Christina: Thanks for comics links. No, I wouldn't think Lois' hair in the 70's would look bad... I was thinking 80's, but not as bad as Clark's during "Superman: The Wedding Album". :rolleyes:

If Lois and Clark (and/or Superman) got married before, even if it was Earth 2, why was it such a big deal when it happened on Earth one?

Because while Earth-2 was considered A canon for the Golden Age, it wasn't considered the definitive universe and thus was only occasionally seen (fading out when the Superman Family books were discontinued.) They didn't have to deal with the daily ins and outs of it. It would be like Canon-Clark never marrying Lois (and instead trying to get out of her knowing and therefore marriage) while Alt-Clark getting married and only occasionally seeing him. To most of the readership they weren't considered married (Lois broke off her relationship with Superman when she got tired of his excuses and Clark was dating Lana at the time.)

I think they thought of it as semi-canonical. It wasn't seen as the main universe and thus not "canon." With the 90s marriage it was kind of seen as "official."

Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, wouldn't it have been funny if Lois had thrown into Alt-Dimension back in S1 and Alt-Clark was married to his Lois?

Why doesn't Clark explain to Lois why he refuses to eat sweets? It would not give away his secret. Yes, I see it would be hard, but it seems like it would be better than just not explaining. If he wants her to ever like him he should open up. OK, maybe I underestimate the pain, and it would uncomplicate things, which means a shorter story, but I still think he ought to tell her.

On the subject of Lois taken from S1 to a place where the Clark has married Lois, I am not sure I have ever seen someone do that. I have seen Clark sent forward in time to where he is married to Lois, and I recently read a peace where Tempus stole Lois to alt-dimension before she knew CK=Superman. Since it apears two people of the same type can move into the same universe, this would have disturbing results.

I did once read a Superman Returns/Lois and Clark crossover where Superman and Lois from Superman Returns get sucked into the Lois and Clark dimension. However Lois alone confronting a Clark who actually has more of a relationship with her than she is OK with I have not seen yet.

At the moment he's afraid to tell Lois anything about his past, since his past does not exist in this dimension. He will start opening up shortly. Just hang on.

Technially, THIS Lois hasn't moved dimensions. She is in her own dimension, but the Clark that was supposed to be here died on the day he arrived to Earth. So, technically, there is only one Clark and one Lois in this dimension.

EDIT: To be clear, THIS Lois is not canon Lois. She's an alt-canon-Lois. In every way shape and form, like caon Lois, but not her, therefore, not screwing up Alt-Clark's alt-dimension timeline by moving to this dimension.

I think the story you're referring to is "Through the Window" and there's also the sequel "And Back Again". Very good stories.

Well, that would complicate things, wouldn't it?