No. This is a a modern work setting, not a 1940’s workplace. Clark isn’t a 20-something intern. As a man in a white-collar job in the US, if you want to have any sort of career, you learn to keep your eyes above the neck. Even if they aren’t looking, there’s always a chance someone else in the office will see your gaze wandering, and you could find yourself in HR talking about sexual harassment.
No doubt there are men who can’t control themselves; no doubt there are still plenty of hostile work environments. But most men, in most corporations learn to be extremely cautious about behavior. When I was a new manager, I was so paranoid about this I’d leave the door ajar when having 1-on-1s with my women employees. That was excessive, but I was new, and at the company I was at we’d had more sexual harassment training than any other single kind, and it new managers got an extra dose. I was terrified of making a mistake. And forget about flirting.
So this one falls flat for me. Clark here isn’t being inhumanly controlled: he’s just being an average guy in a modern corporate environment who wants to keep a clean record and stay out of awkward HR conversations.
That was explored in The Pro when the female lead had relations with the Superman analogue, and he shoved her off before he shot his shot, which hit a plane.
The rationale I accept for Supermans shot not blowing out the top of Lois’ head is that he consciously has to use his power, otherwise everytime he blinked his eyes it’d blow people away with the sheer force of it, his piss would shoot through walls… and lord have mercy on anyone in the mens room with him after he had Taco Bell.
My personal retrocon was that she decided to skip fleet week and head to the local college for some wimpy pencil necks. Her first client is Peter Parker, the second is Reed Richards, and the last is Bruce Banner. Three close contacts with gamma radiation infused bodily fluids gave her the super powers.
Is this drawn by the guy who is hated for being crap at drawing comics? Liefield or something? Looks like him with the weird lady’s face and ocf the stretched feet.
Let’s also remember that Clark hangs with Wonder Woman, the Black Canary, Zatana, and others. Justice Leaguer Vixen is a a super model when she’s not fighting evil. Cat’s not even a bench warmer on that team.
According to character writer Jimmy Palmiotti, "Okay. When the character was created, Wally Wood was the artist that drew Power Girl, and he was convinced that the editors were not paying attention to anything he did. So, his inker said “Every issue, I’m going to draw the tits bigger until they notice it. It took about seven or eight issues before anyone was like, “Hey, what’s with the tits?” And that’s where they stopped. True story.”
PG has been retroconned more than most characters, but usually she’s a close relative of Supes. I don’t think that Big Blue is going to play Sweet Home Alabama no matter how tempting the target.
It was published in a book called ‘Dangerous Visions.’ back in 1969. It was a collection of all new stories that no publisher or respectable magazine would touch. Some opf the stories are still bleeding edge.
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