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people irl: hi hows it going

i never got around to reading his comics during my big comics phase but whenever u post about him i find him very interesting and am curious to hear maybe less common things about him

if i ever do get back into comics he is at the top of my reading list🎉

Hi sorry this took me all day. I DO HAVE A VERY FUNNY NICHE JAY FACT AND ITS THIS:

According to the DC Book of Pride by Jadzia Axelrod, Jay's favorite/most liked food is the Metropolis Hot Dog.

What is the Metropolis Hot Dog, you ask?

Its uh, this.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

superman (2023) #37

He knows he's being flirted with. He KNOWS HE'S BEING FLIRTED WITH and he is DELIBERATELY BRUSHING HER OFF. He is dealing with his complicated feelings right now. He is trying his hardest to be good. He is constantly under surveillance. He's experiencing flashes of disassociation and he is a supervillain that has killed a world before. He does not want to blindly involve a civilian in this and get an innocent, nice girl who likes him killed because he can't control himself. He doesn't feel like he 'deserves' a girlfriend right now. He's flinching away from having a relationship and at the end of the issue he decides that he's going to risk putting himself out there. It's good characterization! He's not dumb about this!

The main reason I ask you is because to me you're like a superboy prime elder fan and I wanted your opinion on this. Also I rarely saw the issue (JLI #4) on reading lists for him even tho this would be affecting his actions.

(just for clarity: not accusation just asking an opinion on this! Love your art!)

Oh huh. This is actually news to me, thanks for bringing it up!

JLI was released a couple years after Prime's redemption in Death Metal, and by that time I had already tuned out of DC fandom because my favorite guy got his happy ending already! Or so i thought...

For anyone curious, Prime shows up in this panel in JLI #4:

Lengthy thoughts under the cut but TL;DR: I genuinely hope it's not canon or mentioned again because it won't help him redeem himself in the current Superman run.