{"id":4511,"date":"2022-09-20T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2022-07-30T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T19:04:09","slug":"817-lesla-lars-evil-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/817-lesla-lars-evil-plot-thickens\/","title":{"rendered":"817 &#8211; Lesla-Lar&#8217;s Evil Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-linda-meets-casual-clark.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-linda-meets-casual-clark.png\" alt=\"Linda meets Casual Clark in Action Comics #280, July 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-linda-meets-casual-clark.png 488w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-linda-meets-casual-clark-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-linda-meets-casual-clark-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Linda meets Casual Clark in Action Comics #280, July 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4504\">Speaking of <meta charset=\"utf-8\">Machiavellianism<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4471\">long-running Supergirl story arc<\/a> continues, as a de-powered Linda Lee, having recently been adopted by the Danvers, goes on a school field trip to visit Metropolis&#8217; Daily Planet. There, she meets up with her cousin Clark Kent &#8211; I really like the way they depict Clark here, very casual without a sports jacket. He sadly tells her he has had no luck restoring Supergirl&#8217;s powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesla-Lar continues to refine her evil scheme from the bottled city of Kandor. She swaps herself with Linda Lee again, continuing to keep Linda hypnotized into believing she is a Kandorian. Our heroine watches some Kandorian news reels about Krypton, Jor-El, Zor-El, and how Supergirl came to be, while Lesla-Lar meets up again with Lex Luthor and explains how she will teach him to invent a kryptonite ray to kill Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-luthor-scheme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-luthor-scheme.png\" alt=\"Luthor and Lesla-Lar plan for a kryptonite ray in Action #280, July 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-luthor-scheme.png 538w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-luthor-scheme-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Luthor and Lesla-Lar plan for a kryptonite ray in Action Comics #280, July 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, Lesla-Lar convinces Superman that Supergirl&#8217;s powers have returned. Superman is confused but delighted and plans to finally reveal the existence of Supergirl to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-evil-plot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-evil-plot.png\" alt=\"Super embrace in Action Comics #280, July 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-evil-plot.png 514w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196107-lesla-evil-plot-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Super embrace in Action Comics #280, July 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Machiavellianism, the long-running Supergirl story arc continues, as a de-powered Linda Lee, having recently been adopted by the Danvers, goes on a school field trip to visit Metropolis&#8217; Daily Planet. There, she meets up with her cousin Clark Kent &#8211; I really like the way they depict Clark here, very casual without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,14,740,734,457,43,627],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-dc","tag-evil","tag-lesla-lar","tag-supergirl","tag-superman","tag-to-be-continued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}