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Post by kirby101 on Jan 16, 2024 8:35:13 GMT -5
Any of that towing with chains, whether it's a city, a mountain or an planet is so plain dumb. The anchors would simply be torn away. It is like trying to tow a semi truck by the bumper. It's one of the times, even as a young reader, I thought made no sense.
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 16, 2024 9:00:10 GMT -5
Any of that towing with chains, whether it's a city, a mountain or an planet is so plain dumb. The anchors would simply be torn away. It is like trying to tow a semi truck by the bumper. It's one of the times, even as a young reader, I thought made no sense. Yeah, they made great "struggle" imagery, but it made no sense at all. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 16, 2024 13:44:27 GMT -5
Does this mean this cover wouldn't work ?  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 16, 2024 14:58:26 GMT -5
I understand this more at DC where they didn't try to explain things realistically, but Marvel tried to walk the line of science and adherence to real world situations.
Like towing an island? (Backwards, no less?). I suppose that re-locating the Palisades was terribly convenient.
No mention of damage or the impending repairs to the underlying infrastructure, which would literally take years to repair.
I suppose he's going to use giant staples to hold it in place now? Let's see, a block-long Swingline staple at Washington Square, another at 59th and Central Park, an a final one across the street from the Apollo Theater ought to do it.
This story proved such an embarrassment that years later, in Marvel Team-Up Annual #6, an anonymous writer explicitly stated that its events didn't actually occur as depicted because A) Manhattan obviously can't be moved (by chains or anything else) and B) the citywide devastation it shows isn't referenced in any other comic.
Cei-U!
I summon Gerry Conway at his absolute worst! |
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Post by zaku on Jan 16, 2024 16:32:30 GMT -5
Does this mean this cover wouldn't work ? MAGIC! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 16, 2024 22:25:41 GMT -5
Marvel Team up # 10Spider-man webs himself to the bottom of a jet going to Venezuela. I'm sure he didn't get cold or run out of oxygen.  This looks like an artifact of the Marvel Method. The story called for Spidey to go to Venezuela; the artist came up with this method, and then the writer has to put in some internal monologue to get it to make sense. I don't know if that's what happened, but that's what it looks like to me. |
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