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75 Years of Lois Lane: A Chat with Bryan Q. Miller
This month marks 75 years since Action Comics #1 landed on the newsstand. In that issue Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel introduced the world to one of the most important women in comics - Lois Lane (Superman made his debut in that issue, too). To mark this anniversary I’m chatting with some of her creators to get their thoughts on the character and her place in comic history. You can see the previous pieces here. Today I speak with Bryan Q. Miller who has written Lois for both TV and comics. Miller was a write and executive story editor on the Smallville TV show and last year launched the digital only (and now print and traded) comic SmallvilleSeason 11.
So Bryan, what’s your first memory of Lois Lane?
Richard Donner. Superman: the Movie. Margot Kidder. The cigarette smoking at the typewriter. And how nervous she made Clark, who we had seen be and do the Incredible for about twenty-five minutes prior.
Who is Lois Lane?
She’s an icon. She’s Susan B. Anthony and Rosie the Riveter’s non-sensical, cross-temporal, sapphic love child - bearer of the eternal flame that is Woman… who also happens to have trouble spelling “sapphic.”
What is it about her you like? What are her strengths?
She’s a self-made person who takes the best pieces of her past and uses them as a strong foundation for her future. Life as an army brat could break most folks. Not our Miss Lane. Lois also has a mission - to expose the truth, no matter the cost to herself or others. Honesty, to Lois, is more paramount than anything else. The exception to her rule is Clark/Superman - his identity staying secret is for the greater good of the entire human race.
The other thing about Lois is that, if she suspected the moon landing was a fake, she’d find a way to go to the moon to prove it.
LOIS: “Go straight to the source, Chief."
PERRY: "Then just get NASA on the phone!"
LOIS: "THE MOON CAN’T LIE!”
What role does Lois play in the Superman mythos and what’s her importance?
Lois embodies everything about the Human spirit that Clark aspires to protect and preserve. She’s his grounding element - the thing that reminds him not only what he’s fighting for, but why. Regardless of the state of their romantic involvement, Lois Lane is the person that motivates Superman in his day-to-day life. The Kents built him from the ground up. The House of El gives him his legacy. Lois Lane gives Clark Kent his future. It’s because of all of this that I think so many Elseworlds stories focus on Clark jumping the rails if Lois is murdered/taken from him - in a streamlined way, yes. For sure. But to say that Clark would permanently and irrevocably go dark with the loss of Lois is a discredit to both Clark Kent himself and to what Lois stood for in his life. She’s his symbol. If she leaves (and at some point, time will take her from him), her memory will burn just as brightly in his heart as her presence does in his life.
Lois Lane is Clark Kent’s Superman.
What role does Lois play in comics/pop culture as a whole?
Aside from “Alfred,” I think she’s the only DCU hero recognizable by name without needing a symbol on her chest. PLUS, she’s a hero without needing a secret identity. Or a past trauma. She does what she does because she’s compelled to to the right thing. She may experience angst from time to time (on our show, we delved a bit into what the loss of her mother at a young age meant to her), but it’s normal, human-level, emotional angst. It’s baggage that doesn’t change her, but challenges her. Lois Lane is relatable to both men and women, while at the same time presenting as an ideal to inspire to and draw inspiration from.
Though, I suppose if she DID have some sort of symbol, we’d see more t-shirts or tattoos.
Okay, what’s your favorite Lois moment?
Lois fighting the orange juicer in Superman II, celebrating the benefits of Vitamin C while a cigarette dangles from her lips.
Yes, smoking is bad for you, but the fact that Lois wants to quit, tries to quit, and just quite can’t is a reminder that she’s utterly human, just like the rest of us. It’s part of why Clark adores her so.
So then who is your favorite Lois actress?
All bias aside, Erica Durance. All the strength. All the vulnerability. And there was the added advantage of Erica having enough time with the role to really make it both her own and an iconic.
If you had to pick one “L” word for her what would it be?
Lioness.
And what’s a good anniversary gift for her?
A self-correcting typewriter. No, not a “computer.” She can throw a keyboard across the room when she gets mad at her computer; that typewriter isn’t going anywhere! (Also, that typewriter is haunted).
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