"Hmm." "Oh, damn." "Oh." "Ah." "Oh, damn." "Oh, damn." "Ah!" "Oh!" "Not now." "Oh!" "Ah!" "All right, now I got to get 50 bucks to the print shop." "Andy?" "And you gotta remind me to give 25 to the graphic artist" "Andy?" "I told you I don't think Superboy is going to want to endorse a line of t-shirts." "Okay, first of all, these are not just a line of t-shirts." "These glow in the dark, and since when did you become Superboy's agent?" "Well, I kinda know Superboy and I sort of have a feeling for things he might or might not want to do." "Sort of." "Clark, I can't think of two people more opposite than you and Superboy." "Andy's got a point." "Maybe Superboy should at least listen to what he's got to say." "Hey, I know I wouldn't mind having a Superboy t-shirt." "And, Clark, you know, you wouldn't look too bad in one yourself." "Better than these plaid shirts you wear." "I kind of like this shirt." "Clark, that's the problem." "Nice and slow..." "Give me the money." "Come on, get in there." "End of the line, mister." "Your luck just ran out." "Thanks, pal." "Thanks for nothing." "Telephone, please, Dr. Davis, telephone, please." "Oh, where am I?" "You're a very lucky man, Mr. Corben." "If not for Superboy, you wouldn't be here today." "Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess you're right, Doc." "If not for him I'd be out free spending the first national's dough and living like there was no tomorrow." "There would have been no tomorrow for you, Mr. Corben." "Look, you suffered a massive heart attack." "You wouldn't have lasted the night." "Hey, look on the bright side, they'll keep you off your feet in prison." "You'll get plenty of rest and with a little bit of luck you just might live." "Oh, yeah, yeah, sure, I'd be alive." "I'd be in a cage for the rest of my life, but face it, Doc, I might as well be dead." "Please, Mr. Corben..." "Please, no one's ever been that polite to me." "I wish I could return the favor, but I'm not that kind of guy." "Yeah, I'm a lucky guy." "This just in, Corben escaped from city hospital after murdering a doctor." "Police have no leads as to his whereabouts." "Ah!" "Will you please stand still?" "I can't when you're standing so close to me." "Knock it off, Andy." "I second that." "Andy, would you give a guy a break and let me finish this story, will ya?" "You still with the corben story, Clark?" "You've been working on that for the past two days." "What's the problem?" "You've never been stuck on a story before." "I've been reading through these files a hundred times and I can't believe that he's dead." "We would have found his body by now." "We?" "Who's we, Clark?" "I mean the police and Superboy." "Look, Superboy's been searching for what, a week now?" "If he couldn't find the guy just write that he couldn't find the guy." "I just hate to admit Superboy failed like that." "That's his problem." "Geez, let him carry the weight of the world on his shoulders." "Yeah, Andy's right." "You've got your own problems to worry about." "I told you I can go until this story's wrapped up." "Fine, then it's just me and Andy tonight." "Whoa, babe, you will not be disappointed." "Babe?" "Babe, you know, it's a term of affection." "Oh, wow, where am I?" "Ah, you are a very lucky man, Herr Metallo?" "What, Metallo?" "Ya?" "What are you talking about?" "My name is Corben." "Who the hell are you?" "Oh, is that me?" "You like?" "You like?" "Oh, please, no need to thank me." "You were badly hurt in the explosion." "Your arms, your heart were destroyed." "I only did what I had to do to save you." "Save me?" "You made me into a freak!" "Look at me!" "Oh, you're still weak." "Yeah." "I suspected as much." "I've done similar experiments on small animals and always the strain of trying to power my prosthetics kills them." "But luckily for you I've had a breakthrough." "I found this great gem in one of my field trips to the sewers." "I find the most interesting things down there." "I really do." "You're crazy." "I have never seen anything like it." "It gives off a strange energy which never seems to deplete." "It's better than the best automatic battery." "Uh, what are you gonna do to me?" "Not to you, my child, for you." "This won't hurt a bit." "Oh..." "That wasn't so bad now, was it?" "Oh, that's..." "That's not bad at all but..." "Not so bad." "Actually I..." "I feel..." "I feel pretty okay." "I feel..." "Strong." "I feel..." "Stronger." "I feel..." "Really strong." "This is too wonderful." "I am a genius." "Now, we will show the university, you and I, my colleagues, they will never laugh at me again." "Come, Metallo, we must prepare..." "How do you feel about the big award?" "I'm really honored the city has chosen me to be the first to receive the community service award." "Thank you, Superboy." "What's wrong?" "Am I strong enough?" "Can I beat him?" "Who, who?" "The one who started this, Superboy." "I don't know." "Perhaps." "There's no time." "He'll be at the arena soon." "Ah, well." "I already died once." "I'll take my chances." "Tough break." "Yeah, face it, Lana, he's not coming." "Excuse me." "It's just that Clark needs to get out more, but every time I try he's got some stupid excuse." "Do you think we're maybe too hard on him?" "Like about his clothes and things?" "I mean, he can be really sensitive." "I don't know, he's just shy about everything." "Probably couldn't take this crowd." "Just face it, that's the guy I am." "No kidding." "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience, ladies and gentlemen." "Now, I'd like to introduce you to tonight's guest of honor, Superboy." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I like to think of myself as a man of action, not of words so I'll keep this brief." "I..." "You!" "Corben!" "That two-bit punk, corben, is dead, pal." "You can call me, Metallo." "I don't care what you call yourself." "You're a murderer and I'm taking you in." "Take your best shot, pal." "I always do." "This some kind of a joke?" "You're really hurting, aren't ya, pal?" "Yeah, you're hurting bad." "The rock, it's got to be this green rock inside my chest." "Hey, you running away, pal?" "After these nice folks went to all this trouble to throw this bash for you?" "You can run, Superboy, but you can't hide." "Oh, share, you've got to share." "Here, some for you." "Oh, oh, ah, this is perfect." "Driver, driver, stop the limo." "You two girls, you wait here and I'm going to be back with something the two of you can fight over." "Oo." "Hi, guys." "I'd like a sample of your gold and platinum bars." "Freeze or I'll shoot." "Sorry, I was never any good at following orders." "My suit, look what you did to my suit." "I brought you girls some trinkets." "One for you and one for you." "Yeah, I know, not bad, huh?" "I'm doing big things from now on, big things." "You know, there's never a Superboy around when you need one." "And it seemed like such a great idea at the time." "Andy, people are still gonna want to buy your t-shirts." "I don't know." "Everybody's talking about how humiliated" "Superboy was at the awards." "I mean, it was embarrassing." "It's a good thing you weren't there, Clark." "It was a dark day." "I'm sure Superboy must have some sort of plan." "He's not gonna lay low and let Metallo get away with, with all these robberies." "Why does everyone think that Superboy is just gonna give up?" "Oh, my sensitive." "I tell you what, we're just gonna leave you alone for a while, okay?" "The strange green substance seems to have a similar molecule structure of a planet that astronomers have named Krypton." "Prolonged exposure to this space rock that I will call Kryptonite can be lethal to Superboy." "Lead shielding seems to neutralize the effect." "Yeah." "I'm a lucky man." "I, uh..." "Certainly have come a long way, huh, girls?" "Oh, look, this one's bent." "You can have it." "There's plenty more where that came from." "Oh, look, I got another bent one." "Metallo!" "It's him." "Metallo!" "It's Superboy." "It's time, Metallo." "It's time to prove yourself." "Where the hell is he?" "I'll be at the scrap yard in 30 minutes." "Then you can prove to the world how strong you really are." "You'd better be there, tin man." "Unless there isn't enough man left inside of you to beat my challenge." "I'll be there, creep, over your dead body." "Sorry, we have orders from Superboy to keep everyone away." "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me." "Pardon me, officer, we're special friends of Superboy and we'd like to go through." "I'm sorry, we have orders that no one is to get through." "Uh, Officer, I'm not sure you realize exactly who I am." "The name's McAlister, Andy McAlister." "Oh, yes, we do have you down on the list." "Yeah, there was a special note concerning you." "Superboy told us you might try extra hard to get through." "But..." "What'd I tell ya, girls?" "Looks like Superboy's a no-show." "No such luck, Metallo." "Superboy?" "You still hiding from me?" "Afraid you're gonna faint again?" "I'm not afraid of you, Metallo." "Most snakes are harmless." "You gotta be kidding me?" "Look at me, Superboy, I'm big-time now." "No more little guy." "People respect me." "You think that suit of armor's gonna protect you from me?" "It's not you that the armor is protecting me from." "Aren't you feeling a little woozy?" "You've lost your advantage." "This suit guarantees us a fair fight." "Oh, is that so?" "In that case, I'm gonna have to get rid of it." "All right, Superboy, the kid gloves are off." "Now, I'm gonna peel you like a banana." "Hah!" "Any questions, Superboy?" "Oh, yeah." "Thank you, thank you." "Look." "Oh, no." "You don't know when you're beat, do ya?" "Not yet, never." "Wrong." "This is the end of the line, pal." "Your luck just ran out." "Aah!" "Aah!" "No, no!" "No." "Be still." "Your heart'll hold you till help arrives." "Yeah, I guess I'm just a lucky guy." "Superboy, I'm so glad you're okay." "Yeah, hey, me too." "While I got you here without that Clark Kent, you know he throws such a damper on everything." "Um, I thought we might have this little two minute pow-wow on this business proposition that I was thinking of." "This isn't about your t-shirts, is it?" "Captioned by Grant Brown"