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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 18, 2024 11:16:49 GMT -5
That was the beauty of the Astro City story, "Show 'Em," featuring the gimmick thief The Junkman. He was an engineer, who was pushed out at 65 and turned to crime to show he was still vital and creative, turning old discarded items into his weapons and devices. He pulls off the perfect crime and gets away with it; but, it eats at him that nobody knows it. So he pulls it again, with a built-in flaw, so that he is captured by Jack-in-the-Box and put on trial, where the details will be revealed to the world. The twist at the end is a device, you see hooked up in the overhead lighting fixture, that will allow him to escape the courtroom. I am reminded of Lex Luthor, who built a time time machine out of an orange, a light bulb, a coil spring and a flashlight Elliot Maggin, in his first Superman novel (Last Son of Krypton) had Lex endlessly doodling on legal pads, in prison, with ideas and designs for new inventions and then adds that he figured out a way to extract a substance from the glue in the legal pads and the ink from the pen and create a powerful explosive, that would allow him to escape; but, he doesn't go through with it because they will deny him paper and writing materials if he ends up in prison again. |
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