>>5939992>Directors: Dave Fleischer & Steve Muffati. Animation: George Germanetti, Steve Muffati & Frank Edres.>Alt-text: Screencap of animated Superman from “The Mechanical Monsters” flying and using his supervision. You continue your radio conversation.
SUPERMAN: Lois, did you find anything else?
LOIS: Well “Andi” may have been stumped, but World’s Greatest Journalist Lois Lane wouldn't let that stop her. I looked up the white paper for “The Box” tech. It has just enough detail to show off how smart Reese is without giving away the secret.
SUPERMAN: He’s an egomaniac.
LOIS: You costume types tend to be. Errr. No offense. I doubted anyone with that big a head could stay totally in the shadows, so I asked Friday to see if anything online matched the coding style of The Box.
SUPERMAN: Friday talks to you?
LOIS: He’s made of metal and lives at the North Pole, who else is he gonna talk to? Santa Claus? But that’s not the point. Turns out the coding style of The Box is a perfect match for the E.Nigma hacker group. They were all over the net ten years ago, but they suddenly disappeared, right about the time code with their trademark “flare” shows up in military hardware.
SUPERMAN: Reese was recruited from E.Nigma.
LOIS: Reese <span class="mu-i">was</span> E.Nigma. A one-man coding army, paperclipped to do the feds dirty work. And when I cross-referenced the code with recent shitposts...
Supercorp Satellites beam you a webpage. No machine on Earth can read the radiowaves, but your eyes aren’t a machine.
SUPERMAN: Great Scott! There a thousands of posts. Hundreds of usernames. He’s been online constantly... just to praise himself.
LOIS: Told you he has an ego problem. Which is why I just posted a Le/x/ thread calling him a lowlife scumbag who can shove his penny bin puzzles up his-
SUPERMAN: Ah! You don't need to say it, I'm reading it now. Where did you learn language like that?
LOIS: Never get into an insult fight with an army brat. Now I just wait and...
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s">MOCKINGBIRD</span> !!TeC14048</span>: You low-value, worthless insult to intelligence! If you ever met the Riddler he could end your pathetic existence just by THINKING at you hard enough! Did you see what he did to those loser paper pushers? He could track your IP and have you in a deathmaze before you could figure out how to spell his name!
LOIS: Got him. He probably thinks he’s safe behind his VPN and firewalls.
SUPERMAN: Those don’t work on someone who can <span class="mu-s">see</span> wi-fi. I’ll have a word with him on how to talk with respect.
LOIS: Thanks boyscout.
SUPERMAN: No. Thank you. And Friday too. Tell him I’ll spend more time with him.
SFX: FWOOOSH!!
