Dark Nights: Death Metal writer Scott Snyder is the latest DC talent to throw shade at Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain.
On Twitter, author and physician Joel Shulkin shared a photo of Cain in full Man of Steel regalia with the caption, "Who is this? Wrong answers only." Snyder then replied in the form of a quote tweet with "Superman."
Cain later replied, writing, "Cute. But that ship has already sailed, Scott."
The recent ire towards Cain is two-fold. Initially, many took issue with a June 28 tweet in which the actor jokingly suggested wearing a face mask during multiple flights may have left him brain-damaged. Then, on July 2, Cain appeared on Fox News, where he addressed a Time magazine op-ed about how superheroes are portrayed on-screen. "I promise you, as Superman, I wouldn't today be allowed to say 'truth, justice, and the American way,'" he explained.
These comments led to an exchange with Snyder's DC colleague Tom King, writer of Superman: Up In The Sky, which -- as King pointed out -- features the same verbiage Cain claimed he "wouldn't today be allowed to say." The two briefly went back and forth, and the spat ended when King wrote, "I don't know if I'm tough but I did fight for my country overseas and didn't just wear a cape in front of a camera."