Justice League Europe #2 (1989)

look elongated man has the bends har har

Metamorpho can turn into any element in the world so he chooses to make his fist into a hammer. I don't know. Maybe stick your dick in The Flash's mouth and turn it into a 40/60 Oxygen/Nitrogen mix? This has the added benefit of . . . well, I think you can guess the added benefit.

The issue begins with a silver-haired man overlooking a funeral in a cemetery (with the Eiffel Tower in the background, of course, because I wouldn't want to lose my bet about establishing shots of Paris in this comic book always including the metal erection. Ooh la la). It might be Captain Atom but maybe it's also possibly The Phantom Stranger! No, don't get too excited, Tess (yes, I'm back to pretending my name is Tess). This is only the second issue. Too many minds would be blown if The Phantom Stranger suddenly became integral to the plot. Not mine though. I would just clamp down on my pipe, scrunch up my eyebrows, take a few puffs, and say (out of the side of my mouth), "Tut tut. I see. This comic book is going to get existential." Unless it's going to get spiritual and then I'd say that.

This issue is called, "Somebody Up There Hates Us!" Oh, so maybe it is The Phantom Stranger! He's like God's debt collector. No wait. That's The Spectre. I have no fucking clue what The Phantom Stranger does. I believe it has something to do with never lifting a finger to help anybody at all.

Aside from Catherine's hair, nothing about this comic book page indicates it's from 1989. Everything about it looks so old school. I mean super duper old school. I forget the actual date is 2022.

Because the man who died in the Embassy's foyer was a Nazi, Captain Atom decides to investigate known Nazi organizations, especially those tied to meta-humans. Sue Dibny, showing off her computer skills, gets to work while Ralph's body sits far enough away that he can do his favorite thing: stretch his neck to twenty feet long and make me sick.

You might think Nazis in Santa Cruz sounds weird but, having been a Silicon Valley boy who would spend his summers at the beach, I guarantee you they had a lot of fascist surfers covering their town in fascist graffiti like "Locals Only!" and "Valleys Go Home!" Jerkos!

Sue eye fucks Captain Atom while she gags like everybody else at Ralph's nose twitching. It seems I was a little harsh on her in my last review when I expressed joy in her upcoming death because she loved the nose twitching. But she's just as grossed out by her husband as everybody else. Besides, Captain Atom is practically naked and standing right next to her all smooth and musky and dickless. The dickless part isn't something that would appeal to Sue so I should have left it out. My assumption is that in the actual Justice League Europe universe where they've never heard of the Comics Code Authority, you can see the outline of Captain Atom's dick through the leotard.

If I was trying to remind my wife that I was the one she loved fucking, I wouldn't do it while my neck was twenty feet long so she remembers that my body induces nausea.

My theory is that Sue Dibny was dying of vaginal cancer after fucking Captain Atom constantly during this gig and so she arranged her own murder so Ralph would never find out.

Animal Man and Captain Atom investigate the Nazi camp in Santa Cruz to discover it's been destroyed by some guy named The Wild Huntsman. He's anti-Nazi but he still battles Animal Man and Captain Atom because nobody takes a moment to ask, "Hey, are you antifa too?" I can't wait to read the letters about this issue. "Dear DC Comics, I am chagrined that you have chosen to portray all white people as Nazis. Shame on you for partaking in this kind of political nonsense. You should try to avoid politics or else you will lose half of your readers. The white half. Thank you. Brad Smith of Salinas, Kansas."

Captain Atom blasts The Wild Huntsman who goes down for good. So for good that Animal Man determines the man is in a coma. It looks like he's as mind-controlled as the rest of his Global Guardian buddies. Although if they're being mind-controlled to defeat Nazis, it can't be a bad thing, right? I guess the point is to make it seem like Justice League Europe are defending Nazis and Nazi groups by beating up the Global Guardians who were destroying them.

Whose idea was it to begin this entire series of a Justice League in Europe having to battle Nazis?! I'm yawning pretty hard over here.

Next it's a Power Girl and Rocket Red team-up! They head over to Frankfurt, Germany to question some Nazis where they find the Neo-Nazi headquarters already on fire. Whoever did it is a hero but Rocket Red is all, "I hope nobody is burning alive." Power Girl calls him a fucking Nazi sympathizer and he has to explain World War II history to her, being that she's an American. The only thing Americans know about World War II is that the Japanese sneak attacked us like sneaky motherfuckers and the Americans defeated Germany single-handedly.

I don't mean to sound racist and stereotypical but look at this motherfucking sneak attack!

I'm American so if I'm only slightly sounding racist and stereotypical, I'm doing pretty good!

Oh, maybe you didn't notice I was stereotyping because you had no way of knowing that the person attacking Power Girl and Rocket Red was Rising Sun of the Global Guardians. As everybody but Americans would know by his name, he's Japanese. I'm not usually this self-hating as an American but you wouldn't understand unless you had to live among all these stupid fucking assholes who don't fucking care about kids getting shot up in school. Every gun owner is complicit in every death. It's like if there were suddenly a rash of people entering schools and cutting off kids' heads with comic books and I refused to stop reading comic books. I'd be complicit because I'd care more about my stupid hobby than the lives of kids. Maybe that's not a fair comparison because my life would be so much better if I stopped reading comic books. I'm just looking for an excuse!

Rising Sun's power is to glow really bright and blow up. Is that irony? Is his power darkly ironic?! Anyway, he's brainwashed too and believes the Justice League are modern day Nazis. I'm pretty sure they aren't but we're only two issues in so I'm not going to jump to any conclusions.

Fast is right. According to The New 52's Worlds' Finest, Power Girl loves to stick her finger up the asses of her dates.


See?

Seeing these scans of comic books thirty years apart makes me think comics are worth five to six times more today.

Ha ha no not really.

Power Girl nearly takes Rising Sun's head off. She claims she "pulled her punch" but how much would she know to pull her punch? She and Rocket Red knew nothing about this guy. She could have beheaded him! Although we, the readers, know he was mind controlled and now he's basically in a coma like The Wild Huntsman.

Metamorpho, Elongated Man, and The Flash head to Dover, England, to look into a Neo-Nazi group. This superhero team up gets three members because two are basically redundant. Yes, I know "elongation" powers are way different than "can transform into any element" power but Metamorpho mostly just uses his power like he's a stretchy shapechanger.

Ralph could pass as normal if he didn't insist on keeping his neck three to twenty feet longer than normal.

Metamorpho was killed at the end of The Outsiders comic book when Doctor Jace turned out to be a Manhunter. But he's back because a meta(l)-gene bomb blew up in Invasion! recently and somehow brought him back. But he doesn't remember anything from the previous five years of his life. This being a comic book, that could mean he doesn't remember anywhere from 2 to 25 years of continuity.

Wally and Ralph go off to get snacks while Metamorpho hangs about to be attacked by a Savage Dragon look-a-like named Tuatara. I mean, Savage Dragon obviously stole his look because Image didn't exist yet. Tuatara knocks everybody overboard because it was on the cover. And then things get weird and disturbing.

What element naturally takes the shape of a giant penis and scrotum?

Metamorpho hardly cares about his elemental power at all. He just uses it as an excuse to become huge swimming dicks and flapping vaginas (I didn't scan the panel where he engulfs Tuatara in a huge labia trap).

Tuatara eventually falls unconscious like the other Guardians. Apparently the brainwashing to make them see every hero as a Nazi takes a heavy toll on them. On the way to shore, Ralph begins twitching his nose and everybody tells him to stop before they throw up on everything.

Man, I'm really sorry I got on your case, Sue. You're obviously super intelligent and don't love your husband at all.

The issue ends with Jack o' Lantern and Owl Woman discussing how they (along with their "queen" who I'm assuming is Queen Bee of Bialya doing all the mind control) and the Dome are back in business. Bad business!

Letters this issue are from Jack Cyclone of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Casey Gallagher of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Don Lambert Junior of Mechanicsville, Iowa; Marco Gonzales Ambriz of Old Mexico; T.A.P. of Burnaby, British Columbia; Tim Dunnahoo of Temple, Texas; John Egnew of Champaign, Illinois; and Mike Norris of Milpitas, California. Nobody mentions the Letterer. Or any of the other artists, really. All the letters this month are people writing in to say why they disagree or agree with the roster of Justice League Europe. All these letter writers must have creamed their jeans when the Internet became mainstream so they could spew all of their boring opinions straight out into the ether for free!

Don't you dare say I resemble that remark, you jerks!

Justice League Europe #2 Rating: C. I would have given this issue a better grade if The Elongated Man had refrained from stretching his disgusting neck. But since he did it right on the cover, I already knew this issue was going to be a huge loser. I wish he'd drowned.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 50

Line 50: "Allover turnage salves, the preena dolorinas and Fressh-kisen mnymthomaniacs are insat amist the nexted friguleens, alluv the maid-up shagbrag abawd underlit and moon-age formircations with a fuctional yang Letin lovher she'd unvented blyther cleudonym of Sempo, sempo fiddles, allus faithfeel, ween in factual act her lonly senxual explortations hid bone whet'her holdher bluther."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "All of her teenage selves, the prima ballerinas and French kissing nymphomaniacs are inset amid the nested figurines, all of the made-up brags about underage and moonlit fornications with a functional young Latin lover she'd invented by the pseudonym of Sempo, semper fidelis, always faithful, when in actual fact her only sexual explorations had been with her older brother."

"Allover"
"All of her" as well as "all lovers" or "all of her lovers" though, as we'll see, she really only had the one, Giorgio, in her youth.

"turnage"
Each age in turn yet existing all at once, represented by the nested dolls. Each age remains within every new age as the seasons turn.

"salves"
Her past memories, past selves, soothe (or "salve") Lucia.

"preena dolorinas"
Lucia was a dancer and so one of her early selves was a Prima Ballerina. It's an easy assumption to believe she was "preening." "Dolor" means a state of great sorrow or distress. It's possible Lucia was forced to stop dancing by her father because the stress caused so much friction between Lucia and Nora which made it hard for him to work on his book. This caused Lucia a great amount of sorrow and distress. Possibly an allusion to the slang use of "Prima Donna" as well, meaning Lucia was self-centered and temperamental.

"Fressh-kisen"
As we see in this sentence, Lucia lied about and bragged about an imaginary lover. Her French-kissing of this lover was probably more her kissing a pillow ("Kissen" being German for pillow or cushion). Possibly "Ssh" as in something secret or whispered because Lucia was lying.

"mnymthomaniacs"
"Nymphomaniacs" are women who love sex. A "mythomaniac" is somebody who is obsessed with lying. Lucia was lying about her sexual exploits.

"insat"
INSAT is the India National Satellite System. So maybe when Lucia used "ind" earlier, it was meant to be India! Maybe there's an even deeper layer to Lucia's confessions that have to do with international espionage! Maybe this has a whole insane Pale Fire level to it! Or, you know, probably not. This probably just reiterates the whole dolls are both "sat" and "inset" inside one another.

"amist"
Memory is often referred to as foggy or as being seen through a "mist."

"nexted"
Each "nested" figurine is followed by the "next" figurine in Lucia's chronology.

"friguleens"
"Figurines" with "frig" or "frigid" suggested which are opposites. But it makes sense because Lucia is bragging about fucking some guy named Sempo ("frig") but not actually doing that ("frigid"). Although she is fucking Giorgio so not really that frigid. I don't know about the end of the word. Maybe "eens" as in "teens"?

"alluv"
This sentence is about having sex so "luv."

"maid-up"
Lucia was a "maid" ("maiden," virgin) who has "made-up" a story about getting laid.

"shagbrag"
To "brag" about "shagging."

"abawd"
A "bawd" is a woman in charge of a brothel. "Bawdy" is humorously sexy (or sexily humorous?). In a way, Lucia is the madam in her fantasy as she provides herself with a lover. Her story about a lover basically named "Fidelity" is also pretty funny.

"underlit and moon-age"
Spoonerism for "underage and moonlit." "Moon-age" means Lucia was about the age of first menstruating. "Underlit" as in mood lighting for sexual escapades.

"formircations"
This sentence is really scaring me. I think the previous 50 sentences were Alan Moore preparing the reader for his really insane wordplay. If 50 sentences in I'm having difficulty with the interpretation, what's it going to be like when I'm 1000 lines in? Oh god. Are there 1000 lines?! There are fifty pages at maybe 20 lines per page so . . . oh no. Oh god. No. What am I doing with my free time?!

"formircations" 2nd try
Obviously this is meant to be "fornications" which is another way of saying "doing the birds and the bees." If I were Alan Moore, I would have made it more like "fabrications" because Lucia is making her hot sex stories up. But instead, we get "former" and "form" from this hybrid word. So in a "former" life, Lucia took the "form" of a "nymphomaniac" although she was lying because she was a huge liar who loved "kissing" "pillows."

"fuctional"
This is wear I wipe my brow and say, "Whew!" Because I can do this one! Alan Moore put the "fuck" in "functional." That doesn't really work unless you "fuck" up the word the way Moore did. Also this kind of sounds like "fictional" because Lucia is a liar. Or was a liar when she was young. I think this is just an aspect of the current "doll."

"yang"
This is the active male principle of the universe in Chinese philosophy. Lucia has a "fictional" "young" "male principle" that she tells everybody she is boning.

"Letin"
"Let in" from "Latin." Lucia "let in" her "yang" lover (the pillow). She probably put it between her knees and rode it aggressively.

"lovher"
Lucia just wanted a "lover" that would "lover her." That's why her imaginary beau gets the name "Fidelity."

"unvented"
Lucia "invented" a fake lover to "unleash" or "vent" her sexual fantasies on.

"blyther"
"Bly" is a likeness or resemblance. "Bly" with "her" suggests Sempo's entire likeness was that of Lucia because he was a figment of her imagination. "Blithe" is also "casual or heedless" as well as "of a happy or lighthearted disposition." Lucia resembles both of those definitions. "Scyther" is a Pokemon.

"cleudonym"
The "pseudonym" of her fake lover is a "clue" to his real (I mean fake?) identity. "Cluedo" is a game where you play fictional characters. But to solve a crime and not to have sex with.

"Sempo, sempo fiddles"
Sempo is the name of Lucia's fake lover. Maybe it's actually "Semper" since later in the sentence there's a clause that says "always faithful." That's how the reader knows to read "sempo fiddles" as the Marine's slogan of "Semper Fidelis." Although why the Marines have a slogan that means "I will not fuck around on my wife" is a bit weird. Anyway, Moore's twisting of "semper fidelis" is funny and clever and dirty so I really like it. Because "fiddles" means sexual molestation usually with the digits of the hand (or toe? Can you fiddle with your toes?).

"allus"
"All of us." Or perhaps "all luc" as in a shortened form of Lucia? So Sempo is "all Lucia." I don't think he's "all us" though because I'm terrible at fiddling.

"faithfeel"
This is like "mouth feel" but for the spirit. Although it's pretty easy to feel faith and loyalty in an imaginary lover. Unless your self-esteem is tragically low.

"ween"
Like a penis. Maybe with "faithfeel ween" in that it takes "faith" for Lucia to "feel" Sempo's "ween."

"factual act"
The complete opposite of "actual fact." Sempo is, in "fact," an "act."

"lonly senxual"
Lucia's "only" "sexual" experience so far has been "lonely" in that it was with her brother and who can you brag to about that?! She'd rather fuck a pillow and brag about that. "Senxual" is a combination of "sensual" and "sexual." Although I'd argue that having sex with a sibling is hardly "sensual." I guess Giorgio was just a romantic.

"explortations"
"Explorations" with a big old "splort" in the middle. "Splort" is the sound the penis makes when it ejaculates.

"hid bone whet'her holdher bluther."
Let's just wrap this up with the final clause all at once. "Hid bone" is obvious but I might have some fourth graders reading this so I should explain: "hiding the bone" is what adults call "putting the penis in the vagina (or possibly the butt)." "Whet'her" means that Giorgio got Lucia "wet" when he "hid" his "bone" inside "her." "Holdher" means he was tender, I guess, and cuddled afterward. "Bluther" probably means it was a "blunder" to "hide the bone" with her "brother." Maybe there's a hint of "blood" in "bluther" because Giorgio took her virginity.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 49

Line 49: "Her Babbo's bibby is tocked in the smilest nookst, ind then Luukhere as a mer taddler, boock den winshe alice was his liddel girl, his larking-gloss."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Her father's baby is tucked in the smallest nook, and then Lucia as a mere toddler, back then when she always was his little girl, his looking-glass."

"Babbo's"
James Joyce. In the edition of Ulysses that he dedicated to Lucia, he signed his name "Babbo."

"bibby"
A "baby" wears a "bib." "Babbo's bibby" also sounds like baby talk.

"tocked"
Like the tick of a clock which has caused Lucia to age from Babbo's baby to the old woman she now is.

"smilest"
Babies tend to smile and make people smile. At least that's what I've heard.

"nookst"
"Nook" with perhaps "nest," as in "nested Russian dolls." Also a baby bird ("bibby" for "birdy"?) would be "tucked" away in a nest.

"ind"
Alan Moore is going to drive me insane if he keeps replacing one vowel on an inconsequential word thus turning it into another inconsequential and often nonsense word which doesn't seem to shine any light on Lucia subconscious thoughts. I guess when she meant to stick the conjunction "and" in here, she was thinking about India? Perhaps it's as simple as "There was this baby doll and then the toddler doll which the baby doll was 'in'"?

"Luukhere"
The most twisted version of "Lucia" so far. Here name becomes "look here" or "luck here." Her subconscious sometimes doesn't expose secrets like how Giorgio was fucking her and her mom. Sometimes Lucia's subconscious simply reiterates what she's saying. So here we get Lucia pointing out the baby doll which is "in" the toddler doll which she wants us (the observers?) to see the dolls and exclaims, "Look here! It's me!" The "It's me!" comes through because it's Lucia's name which is being changed to "Look here!"

"mer taddler"
"Mer" as in "mermaid," or "of the sea." We've seen she's metaphorically been both water and fish so that continues. Perhaps it's because her mother's maiden name is Barnacle; perhaps it's just because of her connection to the River Liffey in one of her father's books. "Taddler" could be like a tadpole, another creature of the water. But it could also be "tattler" in that Lucia exposes her family secrets through her odd language. "Taddler" replaces "toddler" so it probably means Lucia was a bit of a tattletale when she was a young girl.

"boock den"
"Back then" but as a book and a den. A den is the lair of an animal and a book is where Lucia currently resides.

"winshe"
"When she" with a hint of "wish." Maybe Lucia "wishes" she were "back then" in the house ("den") with her "father" when he was writing his "books."

"alice was his liddel girl, his larking-gloss."
Alice Liddell was the girl Lewis Carroll based his character Alice (who adventured through the "looking glass"). There's speculation that Lewis Carroll may have had sexual feelings for Alice which parallel the thought that maybe Lucia and her father's relationship was too intimate.

"his larking-gloss"
"Larking" is to behave in a playful or mischievous way. Gloss is like the luster on a surface such as a "looking-glass." "Gloss" can also be to interpret a text as a reader would do reading this chapter. Lucia was James' "looking-glass" as she was a reflection of him. This could also suggest she was a muse for his "books" as he would look into her and his characters would reflect her personality.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 48

Line 48: "En fict, she's no age atoll: she's orl her silves at whence, curdle to gravey, won insight the ether like a sat of Rushin' dirlls."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "In fact, she's no age at all: she's all her selves at once, cradle to grave, one inside the other like a set of Russian dolls."

"En"
Like the "Russian dolls" at the end of the sentence, Lucia is within herself. Every age experienced at once. This is the way I've always explained aging and why in my early to mid 20s, I fell in love with the cartoon Sailor Moon. It wasn't because I was a 20-something year old pervert. It was because I was also still my junior high school self remembering those heartaches and crushes and the intimacy of close young teenage friendships. It's why older people still feel so young; they were younger for many more years than the age they are now. They'll always feel all of those years mixed up. Your past experiences make you who you are and you don't stop being a five year old staring in awed wonder at your first butterfly simply because that time has passed. You are always that five year old. You will never again be that five year old. Lucia, though, it is suggested that she even remembers her future ("cradle to grave") as Snowy Vernall did.

"fict"
"Fact" twisted into "fiction." Lucia's isn't literally different ages depending on her mood. But she metaphorically is and, within her mind, metaphorical is a good enough "fiction" to become "fact."

"atoll"
A ring-shaped reef formed by coral. The shape is reminiscent of a torus, the shape Snowy Vernall was obsessed with. Also "a toll" in that Lucia's "age" may be taking "a toll" on her.

"orl"
Lucia is "all" of her selves at once meaning she is one age "or" another, varying from moment to moment and place to place.

"silves"
Golden years are the years spent by an elderly person. "Silver" would probably mean middle-aged years then? Perhaps meaning currently she feels younger than her actual age. This could also reference "sylvan/elves" as she's out in nature, crossing the lawn and heading toward the grove of trees.

"whence"
Lucia is the source of all her selves?

"curdle"
Suggestive of milk as a baby in a "cradle" would drink. Milk also "curdles" or sours as it ages. Lucia has soured to certain aspects of life. But not all as we'll see!

"gravey"
Lucia's death is imminent as she flounces toward the grave. But also every year is "gravy," to be savoured and enjoyed. If Lucia has soured over time, she still greets every day with "delight" and "joy."

"won insight"
Wisdom and "insight" are hard "won." "Inside" Lucia are many "insights" "won" from her many years of "experience," possibly mainly due to all of her "errors."

"ether"
The sky. Or an anesthetic. Being under the open sky sedates Lucia in a pleasant, stress-free fog.

"sat"
Lucia has a "set" of dolls of herself "sat" inside her.

"Rushin' dirlls."
"Russian dolls" with "rushing girls." Rivers "rush" and so Lucia is a "rushing girl" or "rushing river." "Dirlls" could also be "drills" as in if a person were to "drill" down into Lucia, they would find smaller and smaller, or younger and younger, versions of herself.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 47

Line 47: "What the upserver dursn't know, hooever — and there's all-ways en absurver, err at list in Lucia's experience — is that she's nu alld woman."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "What the observer doesn't know, however — and there's always an observer, or at least in Lucia's experience — is that she's no old woman."

"upserver"
One who serves while up or serves from up above. Perhaps Lucia refers to the Angles or ghosts like the Dead-Dead Gang? Observers from up above who serve. Definitely sounds like the Angles are watching.

"dursn't"
The statement is "What the observer doesn't know." But when "doesn't" is combined with "durst," does this translate to "What the observer doesn't dare know"? Other than that, I have no clue. Maybe sometimes Lucia's words are just part of her mental illness. Probably not but it's easier to believe that than to try to figure out all of Alan Moore's intentions.

"hooever"
"However" with the suggestion of "whoever." Who is the observer? Who is Lucia?

"all-ways"
A favorite of Alan Moore's as it suggests the entirety of reality and existence. Here we have an observer who sees it all from above. Those residing in the Upper Boroughs can look down and observe every second of every time in every place.

"en"
As in an "en dash" although it's mentioned within a clause set apart by "em dashes." Probably just a joke by Moore. Although the "en" can also indicate within, as in the "observer" is within Lucia herself.

"absurver"
"Observer" but this time combined with "abstruse." These observers are difficult to comprehend. Almost certainly meaning Angles.

"err"
Perhaps "Lucia's experience" (which you'll note is unaffected by her Lucy-Lips) are in error. This suggests the Angles aren't constantly observing everybody even if it is possible for them to do it. Our experiences are doomed to be in error because we cannot truly perceive the entire scope of reality.

"list"
An "error" aboard a boat might cause it to "list." Lucia's mental illness causes her to "list" and to "experience" life in "error."

"she's nu alld woman."
"She's no old woman." But can't this also be read as "she's not all woman"? This refers back to the previous sentence and the use of "hermself" which suggests "Hermes" and "hermaphrodite."

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 46

Line 46: "Iff she flaunces, as veneficent as elled Sent Knickerless hermself, an innerscent ulled lay-die in a wurli cardiagran out strawling on the institrusion lorns."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Off she flounces, as beneficent as old Saint Nicholas himself, an innocent old lady in a wooly cardigan out strolling on the institution lawns."

"Iff"
"Off" with a vowel change to remind everybody that Lucia is the River Liffey. This has something to do with Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. Not being a James Joyce scholar (or reader!), I can't speculate on the metaphor.

"flaunces"
A "flaunch" is "a cement or mortar slope around a chimney top, manhole, etc., to throw off water." Lucia "flouncing" across the lawn is reminiscent of water being thrown off something manmade. Here, Lucia, the River Liffey, water and light herself, is being thrown off the hospital and thrust into nature.

"veneficent"
"Venerable" combined with "beneficent." Old Lucia is respected and generous like Santa Claus. I believe there was an earlier allusion to The Venerable Bede which this would be a callback to but I don't know much about The Venerable Bede. You can check the Wiki on that guy and know as much as I do and then apply that knowledge to this yourself. I don't mean to sound short tempered or angsty; I just know I'll never hold in my head as much knowledge as Alan Moore does. I'm simply expressing the limits of my intelligence and asking you to do better!

"elled"
"Elle" or "she" in French, combined with "hermself" which follows the Saint Nicholas reference, this could just be a restatement that Lucia is the female version of Santa Claus. An "ell" is also a measurement. In this (Santa) clause, Lucia is being measured against Saint Nicholas for how venerable and beneficent she is.

"Sent Knickerless hermself"
The "her" in "hermself" is to assure the reader that it isn't Saint Nicholas who is going without underwear. "Sent Knickerless" probably just means she's been sent off on her walk without any pants (that's British for underwear! Trousers and slacks is British for pants!).

"hermself"
The next sentence makes the statement that Lucia isn't all woman. So this reads, in that context, as "Hermes" or "hermaphrodite." Lucia sees herself as somewhere between male and female.

"innerscent"
Probably the scent of Lucia's inner thighs because we were just told she was without knickers.

"ulled"
Moore's mangled version of "old." Why did he mangle it like this? I don't know! Maybe it invokes "pulled" as in "scored" in the dating scene so that we get Lucia's "inner scent" has allowed her to "pull" so that she can get a "lay." Or it's a reference to the Norse God (since we get a lot of those in this) Ullr who is sometimes seen as a kind of God of snow or skiing. This only fits in that we mentioned Saint Nicholas earlier and he lives in the snow (presumably!).

"lay-die"
When you die, you lay down (or is it lie down? I'll never understand when to use "lie" or "lay" because it's a binary decision. And when my brain is forced to remember binary things, it simply can't assign the proper definition to the proper concept. It just jumbles them all together. It's why I'll never consistently know which is further west, New Hampshire or Vermont). This could be more foreshadowing that this is Lucia's last day alive. Perhaps when she goes to lie down tonight, she will die.

"wurli"
"Wooly" but evoking "whirling" and possibly "world." Lucia "flounces" and "whirls" in her freedom on the hospital's lawn.

"cardiagran"
This is one of my favorites so far. Lucia is an old lady ("gran") with possibly a weak heart ("cardiogram").

"strawling"
"Strolling" combined with "trawling" which turns Lucia's fish metaphor on its head. Unless it just means she's in search of herself! Possibly "straw" with the suffix "ling" meaning Lucia is a little scarecrow. Does that work? Is that something?!

"institrusion"
Combination of "institution" and "intrusion." The hospital and staff are unwelcome here in Lucia's meandering outside the institution's buildings.

"lorns"
"Lawns" turned into "lorn." Lucia is ultimately lonely, having been abandoned long ago by her family to this intrusive institution.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 45

Line 45: "With a gae spring in her stoop, she-sex out on her walk in purgress, on her wake-myop parundulations, on her expermission, heeding oft acrux the do-we grass twowords the poertree-line of the spinny wetting in the da'stance."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "With a gay spring in her step, she sets out on her walk in progress, on her wake-me-up perambulations, on her expedition, heading off across the dewy grass towards the tree line of the spinney waiting in the distance."

"gae"
Scottish for "go". With a gay spring in her step, Lucia "goes" toward the trees.

"spring"
A light prance to Lucia's movement with a call back to the discussion of the seasons.

"stoop"
Lucia's thoughts often contradict what's literally being said. So while she heads off to the trees with a gay spring in her stepped, she's actually stooped over, perhaps hobbling in her old age.

"she-sex out"
Why the dash here? To have the reader understand the "sex" in this moment has more to do with Lucia's gender than her lust? Perhaps she's simply "sexed out" because it's the morning and the young boys don't ramp up her sex drive until four o'clock when they walk by the hospital. So in the morning, she can simply get to her journey to the trees without being distracted by young butts.

"walk in purgress"
"Work in progress." One of Alma's paintings and a chapter in Jerusalem and also what James Joyce called Finnegans Wake as he was writing it and presenting snippets over the years.

"purgress"
"Progress" with "purge" and "grass" and "urge" and "ogress" (probably loads more!). "Ogress" only stands out for me due to the "she-sex" earlier. "Purge" may be the most relevant as Lucia's walk through the natural surroundings of the hospital help to purge her of negative thoughts and feelings associated with being locked up in the asylum. Also with "sex" earlier, her "urge" to continue her walk away from the confines of the hospital and into the far off grove of trees is primal.

"wake-myop"
More dashes but these more evidently due to the non-Lucy-Lips version of her thought: wake-me-up. The morning walks help to clear her head and make her ability to see things as they are less "myopic."

"parundulations"
"Perambulations." Lucia takes regular morning walks ("par", the norm, a regular activity for her) when the nurses allow it. "Undulating" probably refers to a sexual motion, referring back to "she-sex" and her earlier horny voyeurism.

"expermission"
Her expedition to the trees is a daily mission for her. She needs "permission" to make this journey.

"heeding"
As Lucia "heads" toward the trees, she pays close attention ("heeds"; she has woken up from her myopic, probably medicated/sedated, view) to her surroundings.

"oft"
Lucia makes this trip often, or as often as she is "permitted."

"acrux"
"Across" where "crux" literally means "cross" in Latin. Quite the clever bit while also recalling how Lucia is a puzzle and a crossword. "Crux" means the most important point at issue. It's the heart of the matter. Lucia is heading towards the main point of it all, perhaps metaphorically as well as literally. As she moves away from the hospital and the present, she goes deeper into her past and her memories to explore the issues that have gotten her to this point in her life.

"do-we"
Lots of words connected by dashes in this sentence. Perhaps because Lucia is dashing toward the grove? Yeah, probably not. But it would be a good thing to say to help fill out a paper on this chapter! "We" indicates that Lucia's thoughts are probably still with her and Giorgio, perhaps her and her dad since her dad is referred to at the end of this sentence.

"twowords"
Which two words?! This recalls Lucia as a crossword in that many clues in crosswords will indicate how many words an answer is. Perhaps the "crux" of the matter can be expressed in two words? Should I know what those two words are now? Are they statutory rape?

"poertree-line"
Lucia's way of speaking and thinking is "poetry." "Poverty line" as well being that Lucia lives in a mental hospital without access to any luxuries.

"spinney"
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a spinney is a small area of trees and bushes. It is Lucia's daily destination. Also "spin" as in dizzy, probably for the euphoria Lucia feels when she's allowed out of the ward.

"wetting"
"Wetting" couples with "do-we" earlier in that the grounds are still wet from the morning. It also sounds like "wedding" which also fits with "do-we" as in "I do" or a "pair of undulators" saying it ("We do").

"da'stance."
"Distance" with Lucia's "dad's stance." Her dad was often distant. Possibly referring to her dad's belief that Giorgio wasn't actually his kid which opens up the possibility for Lucia to have wedded Giorgio (you know, if things had worked out horrifically).