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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 3, 2020 9:11:56 GMT -5
Shax- Apparently, the "relationship" was conducted secretly, and Dick is surprised Kory has developed feelings. It's a series of booty calls more than a relationship, and it really shocks me first realizing that all these years later.
Yeah, I just noticed it too. Maybe I was too naive to see it at the time.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 3, 2020 9:14:21 GMT -5
This is jumping a bit ahead, but in the Baxter series, they have to rebuild Titans Tower (for reasons I won't go into) and it is described as being 300 feet tall! Wow! Granted, this is apparently a new design, but from the outside it sure looks the same as the old building, and I never envisioned it being anywere near 300 feet tall. !00 feet, maybe. I read the Baxter run once in my twenties and only vaguely remember the first eight issues. The rest is almost entirely forgotten. Do they include a diagram of the new tower? Assuming the old one was 300 feet tall, that's more than 40 feet per level (the sixth level is almost 3x taller than the remaining five), which doesn't match what we've seen of the interiors thus far. Even if you include the subterranean levels and count the sixth level as triple tall, the private quarters would still each be over twenty feet tall. No, there's no diagram of the new tower. Actually, I was a bit off. It's 315 feet all (and 100 feet across). They mention that it's got 10 levels above ground and 5 levels below ground. So, maybe some of that 315 feet is below ground? Still seems like a stretch, though. |
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Post by rberman on Jun 3, 2020 9:31:18 GMT -5
You mean you're not going to circle back to the X-Men on this one? Well, I wasn't, but since you asked...   |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 3, 2020 9:34:53 GMT -5
I read the Baxter run once in my twenties and only vaguely remember the first eight issues. The rest is almost entirely forgotten. Do they include a diagram of the new tower? Assuming the old one was 300 feet tall, that's more than 40 feet per level (the sixth level is almost 3x taller than the remaining five), which doesn't match what we've seen of the interiors thus far. Even if you include the subterranean levels and count the sixth level as triple tall, the private quarters would still each be over twenty feet tall. No, there's no diagram of the new tower. Actually, I was a bit off. It's 315 feet all (and 100 feet across). They mention that it's got 10 levels above ground and 5 levels below ground. So, maybe some of that 315 feet is below ground? Still seems like a stretch, though. Well, let's assume one of those levels is a vehicle hanger. A standard fighter-jet is about 65 feet long (I just googled this), so a VTO hangar would need to be a minimum of 70 feet tall. So then you have nine levels left with a total 245 feet in height. Even if one of those level contains a gym that is 30 feet high, and another contains the meeting room with a spacious 20 foot height, we are still looking at seven levels remaining with a combined 195 feet in height. That leaves individual bedrooms at almost 28 feet in height. Yeah, it would HAVE to include the basement levels to make any sense. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 3, 2020 9:36:10 GMT -5
You mean you're not going to circle back to the X-Men on this one? Well, I wasn't, but since you asked... Exactly the moment I had in mind. In their fifth appearance, they are already out of costume and bonding as humans. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 3, 2020 10:00:09 GMT -5
No, there's no diagram of the new tower. Actually, I was a bit off. It's 315 feet all (and 100 feet across). They mention that it's got 10 levels above ground and 5 levels below ground. So, maybe some of that 315 feet is below ground? Still seems like a stretch, though. Well, let's assume one of those levels is a vehicle hanger. A standard fighter-jet is about 65 feet long (I just googled this), so a VTO hangar would need to be a minimum of 70 feet tall. So then you have nine levels left with a total 245 feet in height. Even if one of those level contains a gym that is 30 feet high, and another contains the meeting room with a spacious 20 foot height, we are still looking at seven levels remaining with a combined 195 feet in height. That leaves individual bedrooms at almost 28 feet in height. Yeah, it would HAVE to include the basement levels to make any sense. Yeah, plus the way it's depicted (and really, the new tower seems to me about the same height as the old one, more or less) it just sure doesn't look like anywhere near 315 ft. tall above ground. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 3, 2020 10:22:32 GMT -5
Wait, we are worried where the swimming pool is; but, not how the T-wings are structurally supported?  Note, also, that the hangars are in the wings, which means you got a lot of thrust being directed at the floor, which has no visible support under it, while the helicopter is on the opposite wing which would have to be able to accommodate the rotor span. Who was the architect on this thing; Bloody Stupid Johnson? (inside joke for Terry Pratchett fans) The swimming pool is obvious; it's not a swimming pool. They just have a really big bathtub. The bigger question is, who cleans this place? The Titans are gone too often to have a regular cleaning rota. Where are the utilities located? Who does the maintenance? Can you get special Molly Maid service after supervillains have trashed half your skyscraper? Do they have insurance? Does it cover fire, flood or acts of mythological gods? Must have one hell of a premium! |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 3, 2020 10:41:08 GMT -5
Wait, we are worried where the swimming pool is; but, not how the T-wings are structurally supported? Considering that the building withstood the full impact of the battle last issue while a cruise ship was being tossed around like a rag doll AND NOT A SINGLE WINDOW SHATTERED suggests to me the entire tower is made of some crazy sci-fi nonsense material. They missed a tremendous opportunity here to have Thelma the housekeeper as a regular who listens to their problems, dispenses sage but curt advice, and keeps them grounded and thinking of the little people. I'd read the sh*t out of a book like that. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 3, 2020 10:59:28 GMT -5
They sold some unstable molecules to the DC universe.
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Post by rberman on Jun 3, 2020 11:00:37 GMT -5
They missed a tremendous opportunity here to have Thelma the housekeeper as a regular who listens to their problems, dispenses sage but curt advice, and keeps them grounded and thinking of the little people. I'd read the sh*t out of a book like that. Since you went there... it helps if your housekeeper is secretly a genius geneticist who is also an expert in firearms.   |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 3, 2020 13:15:20 GMT -5
Wait, we are worried where the swimming pool is; but, not how the T-wings are structurally supported? Note, also, that the hangars are in the wings, which means you got a lot of thrust being directed at the floor, which has no visible support under it, while the helicopter is on the opposite wing which would have to be able to accommodate the rotor span. Who was the architect on this thing; Bloody Stupid Johnson? (inside joke for Terry Pratchett fans) The swimming pool is obvious; it's not a swimming pool. They just have a really big bathtub. Speaking of swimming pools and poor building design, I used to work for Kodak in Rochester, and they had a big building downtown where they'd put in a swimming pool (not on the first floor), but they forgot to account for the weight of the water, so that swimming pool had to remain sans water once they'd built the building. |
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Post by zaku on Jun 3, 2020 13:19:05 GMT -5
Wait, we are worried where the swimming pool is; but, not how the T-wings are structurally supported? Considering that the building withstood the full impact of the battle last issue while a cruise ship was being tossed around like a rag doll AND NOT A SINGLE WINDOW SHATTERED suggests to me the entire tower is made of some crazy sci-fi nonsense material. [Googling] Promethium? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 3, 2020 13:24:41 GMT -5
They missed a tremendous opportunity here to have Thelma the housekeeper as a regular who listens to their problems, dispenses sage but curt advice, and keeps them grounded and thinking of the little people. I'd read the sh*t out of a book like that. Since you went there... it helps if your housekeeper is secretly a genius geneticist who is also an expert in firearms. If she's an expert, how come she's firing from the hip instead of the shoulder, aiming her shots, not to mention wasting ammo on full auto? Looks more like a "militia" type to me!  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 3, 2020 13:26:17 GMT -5
ps Points to Dave Cockrum (a veteran) for drawing the arc of spent cartridges. A lot of artists forget those details.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 3, 2020 15:14:59 GMT -5
If she's an expert, how come she's firing from the hip instead of the shoulder, aiming her shots, not to mention wasting ammo on full auto? Looks more like a "militia" type to me! Since Moira is firing at a giant one eyed "demon" I can presume she is knows she can't actually stop it and is acting more as a distraction to assist the X-Men than anything else. |
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