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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 1, 2023 16:13:04 GMT -5
I don't care if it's impossible, I still want to fly. Not be able to turn invisible?
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 1, 2023 16:14:23 GMT -5
That's a time-proven postulate, axiom, theorem, law, etc. no matter how you slice it.
Doesn't mean that I won't read them, of course, along with all of my other favorite diverse comic niche genres. I probably read more horror, adventure and western comics than anything else these days anyway. I still like superheroes, but the comics universe is so much bigger than just "Earth-616."
At this point I pretty much only read superhero funnybooks if it's a re-read of something I love or if it's for a project. Criminal or civil?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 1, 2023 16:16:10 GMT -5
At this point I pretty much only read superhero funnybooks if it's a re-read of something I love or if it's for a project. Criminal or civil? Very little that I do is civil.
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Post by berkley on Dec 1, 2023 17:16:13 GMT -5
I don't care if it's impossible, I still want to fly. Not be able to turn invisible?
There's a good idea for a character: he has the powers of invisibility and of flight - but only at the same time, so no one believes him.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 1, 2023 20:18:21 GMT -5
I don't care if it's impossible, I still want to fly. Not be able to turn invisible? I honestly think I'd be a menace to society if I could become invisible. You could basically get away with anything and everything!
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Post by Calidore on Dec 1, 2023 20:52:02 GMT -5
Not be able to turn invisible?
There's a good idea for a character: he has the powers of invisibility and of flight - but only at the same time, so no one believes him.
Steven Wright: "I can levitate birds, but nobody cares."
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Post by berkley on Dec 1, 2023 21:20:57 GMT -5
Not be able to turn invisible? I honestly think I'd be a menace to society if I could become invisible. You could basically get away with anything and everything!
According to HG Wells, you'd just catch cold and die of pneumonia.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 1, 2023 21:38:27 GMT -5
I honestly think I'd be a menace to society if I could become invisible. You could basically get away with anything and everything!
According to HG Wells, you'd just catch cold and die of pneumonia.
Not in Hawaii, though.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 1, 2023 21:52:41 GMT -5
What do you mean? They just pull the energy/mass from another dimension. It says so in OHOTMU. I'm actually struggling with intangibility at the moment. Or more with how an intangible person actually moves. Because you can't move without an element of friction, but their isn't any friction if you're intangible. It's mostly not a real problem as soon as I stop thinking and default to what Icctrombone refers to as Slam's Law and recognize that superhero funnybooks are just inherently silly. Telekinesis If that answer doesn't work, this is always the default....
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 2, 2023 7:48:28 GMT -5
It's all make believe. Just read them and have a fun time.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 2, 2023 11:49:28 GMT -5
It's all make believe. Just read them and have a fun time. Where's the fun in having fun?
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 2, 2023 12:14:15 GMT -5
It's all make believe. Just read them and have a fun time. The creators did not intend for readers to just accept characters, powers and gadgets as one would Felix the Cat's Magic Bag. In the 40s, the Batman titles not only published diagrams of the Dynamic Duo's Batcave, but tried to plausibly explain how certain gadgets worked. In the 60s, Spider-Man's web-shooters / fluid were given a couple of pages of pseudo-engineering in an attempt to make the device seem real.
Then, there was 1960s Iron Man stories, which were never shy about creating endless explanations of how his armor and weapons worked. The "make it appear real"movement reached a fever pitch in the 80s with DC's Who's Who The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe and Marvel's Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which took deep dives into how powers, weapons and other devices would believably work. The readers ate that up, because they were looking for the fiction to be explained in a way that blurred the lines between comic book and how they understood things to work in reality...and it was fun.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 2, 2023 13:22:29 GMT -5
I agree that these stories should have internal logic.
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Post by impulse on Dec 2, 2023 14:43:22 GMT -5
If I could have a real life superhero with no catches or monkey's paw blowback, I think I'd choose the joy of flight, though the convenience of teleportation/portals would be hard to pass up, especially if I could take others with me.
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Post by Jeddak on Dec 2, 2023 15:23:34 GMT -5
Teleportation, definitely. Or the ability to stop time for the rest of the world while I could move freely. Not sure I'd be a superhero with that power, though. The temptations. . .
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