Panel Discussion: Superman, you dope!

Submitted for your approval: A choice shot from "The Ghost of Lois Lane" (Superman #129, Jerry Coleman and Wayne Boring). First of all, there's that classic DC Comics convention of showing a character is all choked up by actually putting the word "choke" in the word/thought balloons. In this story, Superman, thinking he's killed Lois, *chokes* 4 times, or almost as much as Donovan McNabb in a playoff game.

Supes was trying to be helpful but wound up triggering an accident in a lab that made Lois go bye-bye. The dialogue in this panel kills me for some reason. It's a classic example of verbiage that looks OK in print but sounds terrible if you read it out loud. Hmm, actually, maybe it doesn't look so great in print, either.

Superman, you dope, you SHOULD have known x-ray vision would have acted unpredictably anywhere there were "unknown electric circuits." I mean, DUH! I tell you, for a guy with super intelligence, Kal-El just doesn't have all that much common sense sometimes.