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LENA LUTHOR – CATCO MAGAZINE cover

Another print for @clexacon done… Maybe I’m a little excited.

LENA LUTHOR:  RESHAPING A LEGACY

The name Luthor leaves footprints all over the corridors of power across the country, but nowhere moreso than in National City, where the family first established itself and made much of its fortune.  Senators whisper it in frustration, judges mutter it in disgust, prison wardens spit it with disdain, criminals with a degree of awe.

Lena Luthor wants you to know, she wants no part of it.

We’ve met at an open-air café in the downtown Market District, not far from Luthor’s notoriously chic loft on the waterfront.  She’s friendly and direct, poised and confident.  A far cry from the guarded black sheep I was expecting.  She’s dressed down and ordered a nicoise salad and some sparkling water, and she fiddles a lot with her ponytail, which keeps coming loose. 

The first thing she seems eager to get out of the way is that she is Not Like Other Luthors.  Indeed, she’s careful to pay respects to her brother’s brilliance and her parents’ insistence on teaching her a thousand and one things that she would need to know to survive in a world where her name would be as much a curse as the fortune that came with it would be a blessing.  She talks about coding classes, science camp, but also Survival Scouts and marksmanship lessons –yes, that’s right, she can fire both a gun and a bow and arrow and is apparently quite accurate with both– and literature and fencing and finance and chess.  She waves dismissively when I use the word genius to refer to her.  She says she was just educated very, very well.

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