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7. Oh, Right, We Need to Have Villains at Some Point

(Pages 9-12)

Nine pages into this fourteen-page story, the comic finally realizes that it needs an actual plot.

So Lois runs into Dave Stevens again. Dave sort of hits on her a little, but he’s distracted when he spots some teens head into an alley with stolen goods. He chases them, and Lois follows. In the alley, he sees the teens as they meet up with two of the most ridiculous-looking gangsters I’ve ever seen. MF-ers look like they stepped out of Bonnie and Clyde. We don’t learn who they are, what their plans are, or anything else. They’re just bad guys.

They open fire on Dave and Lois, and they shoot Dave in the chest. Far too late, Superman flies in and beats up the gangsters. He then flies Lois and Dave off to the ER, where the doctors explain that Dave needs a blood transfusion.

Thankfully, he and Lois have the same blood type! How nice. So she gives him some blood, and he watches, humbled by the kindness.