Lex Luthor’s Cake-Stealing Is Official DC Canon
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?Gods bless The Mary Sure for pointing this out this panel from Superman #709 , which came out today. Many of you know that it’s a direct reference to this:
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…a famous (well, famous on the internet) picture in The Super Dictionary, a 1978 superhero-laden children’s dictionary, for the definition of “forty.”
And now Luthor’s extravagant, terrible cake-stealing is DC canon.
And that is not terrible.
That is awesome.
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