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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 14:24:34 GMT -5
If a superhero can fly a cape makes sense. It makes them more aerodynamic by removing the curves from the body and replacing it with a relatively straight line as it floats above and behind the character. Ground based characters have no real need for the cape other than just looks. Well Said, and welcome to CCF ... I like your thinking using word like aerodynamic and your phase "relatively straight line ... above and behind the character" ...
Thank you! I may be a photographer now (hence the relatively straight line) but I have a degree in environmental science (aerodynamics). I like realism in my fantasy. I'm such a nerd...and love every minute of it!
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 9:39:28 GMT -5
If a superhero can fly a cape makes sense. It makes them more aerodynamic by removing the curves from the body and replacing it with a relatively straight line as it floats above and behind the character. Ground based characters have no real need for the cape other than just looks.
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 9:26:27 GMT -5
I am having trouble with understanding "pre-crisis" and "post-crisis". What is the Crisis? I have over 20 years of comics to catch up on.so I apologize if this is a completely "duh" type of question.
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 9:18:03 GMT -5
I always hated Lois lane. She tried to screw Superman and expose his identity to the world regardless of what it would do to him and his family. There. I said it. Lois Lane tries to screw everyone....not just Superman. There is nothing terribly special about her other than her "spunkiness". She is pretty much Clark's love interest because there weren't many prominent women at the Daily Planet. Mary Jane in Spiderman is not much different. I prefer women in more current comics. They are less stereotypical ditzes and more powerful and strong...however, that being said, one strength in older classic comics is that with the strong and powerful women there were, they didn't have to constantly try to prove it. Men either ignored them...usually to their own peril...or believed in their power.
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 9:05:59 GMT -5
I guess I have to ask what exactly makes it a classic? But I just finished Avengers #144 this morning.
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 5:04:33 GMT -5
My name is Rebecca, a photographer by trade and a returning college student, and I have just recently returned to my love of comic books after a two decades long hiatus. Growing up I fell in love with the DC Universe, namely JLA and JLE, with a big emphasis on Wonder Woman and Power Girl. Now, I run the gamut. If I like the book, I read the book. (Life is too short to discriminate, even in the comic book world!) I am lucky to have some Uber comic nerds in my life who have no problems answering my insane comic questions and recommend ones they think I would like. (And believe me, some of my questions are beyond the Milky Way.)
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Post by Outrajs on Jul 23, 2017 4:39:41 GMT -5
I would say comics, especially when I was very young, influenced my love of art. Now, my stick figures are so bad that they have been know to jump off the page and beat me with their own club-like appendages, so I had to adapt and became a photographer...but the live of art is still securely there.
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