And how many times has he run out of web fluid or had one or both of his web shooters damaged and not been able to shoot webs? It seemed to happen every other issue in the 70s for sure.

-M

Edna Mode says no to capes:

So what? Removable netting? If it is weak enough for him to rip off his costume, it is too weak to tie some one up with. If it can detach, then it is something that will keep coming off in a fight.

Whoops!

The problem is that most people know it from tv and movies, but those are usually stereotyped versions.  There are all kinds of Southern accents, which is why it is hard to capture an authentic one.  Tennessee and Georgia will not sound the same, nor West Virginia and Texas.  Heck, some rural accents in Illinois (especially Southern Illinois) can sound Southern, to an untrained ear.  Mt father was from Southern Illinois, near the Illinois/Indiana Border and not to far north of the Kentucky border.  His family had rural accents, though my dad's had softened from years in the Air Force, in New Mexico, at the University of Illinois and in years of living and teaching in Central Illinois.  When we'd go down to my grandparent's farm and were there for more than a couple of days, you'd hear my dad's accent start to slip back.  It was mostly little things, like certain pronunciations.  When he and my mother were living in South Carolina, after he retired, people there didn't recognize him as a Yankee.  In fact, he had a job interview, which both irked and amused him, where the interviewer, in conversation, talked about Yankees moving into the South and taking jobs.  My dad didn't say anything, but did tell me that the guy ticked him off, though he didn't end up working for him.  My uncle (his younger brother) had more of a twang in his voice and my cousins had it in various degrees, especially the oldest, Chuck.  He not only got the twang, but my uncle's sense of humor; so, he has a very colorful way of telling a story.  His two nieces, who grew up in Tennessee, are enamored of it, as they find it funny.

I had people here wondering where I was from, after hearing my voice on the CCF podcast, when I talked about First Issue special.  We finally put a finger on it being the rural tone in it, since I grew up in a small farm town, where my dad taught school.  I never thought I had much of a pronounced accent; but people here seemed to pick up something that they couldn't place, regionally.

Really, if you listen to real Southern actors and entertainers, in their natural voices, you won't hear the whole Foghorn Leghorn thing or Scarlet O'Hara.  What you get is the odd twang, here and there, some different pronunciations  ("farr" instead if "fire.") and different levels of education on display.  Some will speak in a "folksy" manner and others in a more educated tone.  It is hard to capture that on paper, especially if you aren't immersed in it.

For what it is worth, I thought Tim Truman and Chuck Dixon did a decent job of it, in the various 4 Winds comics, at Eclipse, like Scout and Airboy.  Scout is set in the Southwest and it captures some of that and Sky wolf, in Airboy, was from Texas and his mother sounded like an old Texan, to me.  A lot of it was in the attitude.  Really, that's what a lot of writers don't get; it isn't so much the vocal sounds as the attitude and the regionalisms.  You get the attitude right and the identifiable regional tics and people's heads will fill in the rest.  Berke Breathed did it fairly well, in Bloom County, though in an exaggerated form.