Consume All Media! Superman: "Chapter Twelve: Blast in the Depths"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, television episode, commercial, motion comic, and web series based on a comic book. Now they're watching them all. Previously, Joe watched the eleventh chapter of Superman. This time, they continue with the twelfth.

Superman: “Chapter Twelve: Blast in the Depths” - 16:28 (Available on Amazon)

They squeeze in some extra footage and we see that Jimmy wasn't closing the crate. Superman swapped places with him.

Surprise!

Superman ties the henchmen up and flies off, leaving Jimmy to comically try and move these heavy henchmen.

Superman returns to his cell and fixes the bars on the window just in time for Clark to be released.

Later, the Spider Lady’s henchmen try to find some actual mono-chromite and wind up shooting a guy in the process.

Perry sends Lois to check it out. She picks a lock and goes through the dead man’s office. She finds a map.

The henchmen return to the scene of the crime and catch Lois. They go through her purse as she scratches a message onto the window behind her.

After scratching her message, she runs and throws something through the window, breaking it. I believe this is to clue someone into looking at her message, but it could just as easily have destroyed her message? Seems sloppy.

Anyway, the henchmen knock her out and roll her up in a rug.

Perry sends Clark and Jimmy to see what’s taking Lois so long. On their way, Jimmy and Clark walk by two men clearly moving a body in a rug.

Inside the office, Clark uses his really good vision to find the clue Lois left for them.

Look at how close that is to being damaged!

Clark is very good at puzzles and figures out that it must mean Lois was taken to Question Crossing.

I guess the production crew ran out of money and couldn’t afford a sign.

Jimmy and Clark see the henchmen loading up the mono-chromite from a mine. They go inside and split up.

Clark tries to change into Superman, but is grabbed by henchmen before he gets the chance. They handcuff him to Lois, then set up some explosives. On their way out, they also knock Jimmy out for good measure.

Lois and Clark look for a way out when the entrance to the mine explodes.

Should you watch it, though? I love Lois leaving clues and Clark figuring them out. And the serial gives us all of the clues to figure it out ourselves, as well. I like it!

Tune in next time for Superman: "Chapter Thirteen: Hurled to Destruction" (Available on Amazon)

A version of this article was previously published on The Dipp.

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