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Post by Phil Maurice on May 31, 2015 19:06:18 GMT -5
@ Phil Maurice: Oops! I'm having trouble putting the post I'm quoting into my own post. I meant to ask if anyone knows the context of this particular slap. No worries. I figured you were having technical difficulties. In this instance, Hank perceived deadly danger as he and the Wasp were investigating strange happenings in the Alaskan wilderness. He knocked her out and strapped her to the back of the dragonfly you see in the panel, who flew her back to safety. Presumably, Hank's actions were intended to protect Jan.
As Icctrombone pointed out, this was a common trope in that era. To modern eyes however, it can appear heavy-handed and a bit sexist. What do you think?
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 19:16:53 GMT -5
@ Phil Maurice: Oops! I'm having trouble putting the post I'm quoting into my own post. I meant to ask if anyone knows the context of this particular slap. It's much easier to use the quote function if you click on the BBCode button on the bottom of the post after you hit quote rather than trying to type in the Preview mode. It allows you to see where the line ends and type after it so new text appears outside the box. -M oops looks like Confessor beat me to it, dang green rabbits stealing all the thunder  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 31, 2015 20:04:06 GMT -5
Back in the day, you could give someone a concussion to protect them.  |
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Post by chadwilliam on May 31, 2015 21:36:38 GMT -5
Back in the day, you could give someone a concussion to protect them.
That reminds me of an instance where foreshadowing could have been employed to explain out of character action at a pivotal moment in a character's life, but wasn't.
When Hal Jordan went nuts I thought some writer would eventually revisit his origin and connect the dots from Abin Sur suffering severe head trauma and possible brain damage just before handing the ring over to Jordan to reveal that the telepathically controlled ring now possessed a flaw that would eventually affect Jordan's mind.
Never happened, but I thought it would have made more sense than whatever they eventually came up with.
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Post by Honeystinger on May 31, 2015 23:09:09 GMT -5
@ Phil Maurice: Oops! I'm having trouble putting the post I'm quoting into my own post. I meant to ask if anyone knows the context of this particular slap. It's much easier to use the quote function if you click on the BBCode button on the bottom of the post after you hit quote rather than trying to type in the Preview mode. It allows you to see where the line ends and type after it so new text appears outside the box. -M You mean like this?  Thanks for the assist, guys. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 1, 2015 5:11:42 GMT -5
Back in the day, you could give someone a concussion to protect them.
That reminds me of an instance where foreshadowing could have been employed to explain out of character action at a pivotal moment in a character's life, but wasn't.
When Hal Jordan went nuts I thought some writer would eventually revisit his origin and connect the dots from Abin Sur suffering severe head trauma and possible brain damage just before handing the ring over to Jordan to reveal that the telepathically controlled ring now possessed a flaw that would eventually affect Jordan's mind.
Never happened, but I thought it would have made more sense than whatever they eventually came up with.
That sounds like something Roy Thomas or John Byrne would write. |
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Post by Confessor on Jun 1, 2015 7:55:23 GMT -5
Back in the day, you could give someone a concussion to protect them. Ahhh...the good old days. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 1, 2015 8:28:43 GMT -5
Hank Pym did, in fact, have mental/emotional issues predating his super-heroic career. When his Hungarian wife was murdered on their honeymoon, Pymsy worked himself into a nervous breakdown trying to avenge her (cf. Tales to Astonish #44). Implicitly, it was this tragedy that drove him into the unorthodox avenues of research that resulted in his size-changing sera.
Cei-U!
I summon the backstory!
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Post by Honeystinger on Jun 1, 2015 10:38:09 GMT -5
Hank Pym did, in fact, have mental/emotional issues predating his super-heroic career. When his Hungarian wife was murdered on their honeymoon, Pymsy worked himself into a nervous breakdown trying to avenge her (cf. Tales to Astonish #44). Implicitly, it was this tragedy that drove him into the unorthodox avenues of research that resulted in his size-changing sera. Cei-U! I summon the backstory! And wasn't Jan an exact lookalike of Hank's dead wife? Shades of Jean Grey, Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor! |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 1, 2015 10:41:11 GMT -5
And Sue Storm and Alicia!
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 1, 2015 19:26:38 GMT -5
That sounds like something Roy Thomas would write.
Thank you for the compliment!
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 1, 2015 19:27:09 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 1, 2015 19:39:36 GMT -5
I love Roy Thomas. I would rate him in my top 5 writers of all time. But sometimes he and others that followed tried to connect everything and everyone in the comic world.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 1, 2015 22:14:46 GMT -5
Inspired by mrp's thread on the origins of the Bat-Cave, here's one though it's kind of a stretch.
Bill Finger established in 1939 that it was a bat flying through his window that inspired Bruce Wayne to adopt the guise that he did, but it wasn't until 1943 that the Bat-Cave was introduced. In other words, had Wayne asked himself "where did that bat come from anyway" he might have discovered the cave under his home a lot earlier than he did. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 1, 2015 23:13:16 GMT -5
Bats aren't really hard to come by, though. We used to see them feeding on the fruit trees in our backyard on summer nights when I was a kid. They sometimes flew into the house if my folks didn't get the window screens up early enough, which was pretty freaky for a kid heavily into the old Universal monster movies.
Cei-U!
Can't say I ever wondered if our house sat atop a cave!
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Thanks for the assist, guys. 
