Aided by fellow student journalists - all of whom work, as she does, for the Daily Planet's teen Web page, the Daily Scoop - and a secret online friend she knows only as SmallvilleGuy, Lois investigates a possible case of cyberbullying involving a sinister-looking group of online gamers. And Michigan.)' She breaks that rule fast. Having moved often to accommodate her army general father's career, Lois enters East Metropolis with a reputation for troublemaking and a new list of personal rules, such as, 'Don't swim with sharks … (Even if they're jerks, and you're just standing up for someone they're tormenting, like in California.

Yet given the DC Comics character's long tradition of ass-kickery, it's more accurate to compare Veronica and Buffy to her. One can't help comparing Bond's Lois to TV's Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. author Gwenda Bond carries these traits over into a contemporary teenage Lois, whose first day at East Metropolis High School presents her with a mystery she refuses to leave unsolved. Now, in this first volume of a planned series, Y.A. In her earliest incarnation in the 1930s, the start of the Golden Age of comics, Lois Lane emerged as a tough, whip-smart reporter, Clark Kent's main professional rival, the furthest thing from a damsel in distress.

Lois Lane: Fallout by Gwenda Bond, Switch, 304 pages, $16.95, ages 12 and up

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