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Universe Wreckers
Yoc:
--- Quote from: John C on June 16, 2011, 04:02:08 PM ---I can't wait for the guest spots by efficiency consultants who suggest firing Batman because Green Arrow does pretty much the same thing but cheaper.
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Roy makes a great point on tree-houses but John made me laugh out loud on that one.
And GA has a very hot wife too. Take that Robin. ;)
OtherEric:
When Geo and I have our DCM staff meetings we generally just go to a local restaurant. Use their table instead. :P
John C:
--- Quote from: Roygbiv666 on June 16, 2011, 05:35:59 PM ---Surely trophy rooms are part of the grand superhero team tradition, as all HQ's harken back to secret tree forts from childhood.
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While true, there's just something seriously wrong with all-powerful heroes out to save the world hiding out in their secret, impregnable headquarters surrounded by tokens of past glories. And it brings up all sorts of questions like, how did they acquire what's surely evidence for a trial, who cleans the place and keeps it organized, and so forth.
Know what I mean, Shir--?
--- Quote from: Roygbiv666 on June 16, 2011, 05:35:59 PM ---And don't call me surely.
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Drat!
--- Quote from: OtherEric on June 16, 2011, 11:12:31 PM ---When Geo and I have our DCM staff meetings we generally just go to a local restaurant. Use their table instead. :P
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But they get pissed when you carve your insignia on the chair back...
Roygbiv666:
--- Quote from: John C on June 17, 2011, 05:06:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: Roygbiv666 on June 16, 2011, 05:35:59 PM ---Surely trophy rooms are part of the grand superhero team tradition, as all HQ's harken back to secret tree forts from childhood.
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While true, there's just something seriously wrong with all-powerful heroes out to save the world hiding out in their secret, impregnable headquarters surrounded by tokens of past glories. And it brings up all sorts of questions like, how did they acquire what's surely evidence for a trial, who cleans the place and keeps it organized, and so forth.
Know what I mean, Shir--?
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Sure, if you want to get all real world about it, but when you're 5 years old reading that stuff, insurance premiums and due process (check out http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/law/archives.shtml for some real world analysis of comic book law, it's awesome. I wish I could find his article on a GA comic where someone was found "guilty in the first degree of murder") and other boring adult stuff doesn't enter into it.
How, exactly, do cosmic rays "mutate" an individual? How exactly does Spider-Man leaving a bunch of dudes strung up in a web lead to them being tried and convicted of bank robbery? How can Superman pass as Clark with just glasses? Why didn't Superman or Captain Marvel just fly over to Germany during WWII and end the war in an afternoon? etc. At some point you either accept the conventions of the (I hesitate to call it a) genre, or you don't. But everyone's "line in the sand" is different I suppose.
On the flip side, why do people ascribe homosexual (and, technically in this case, pedophilic) motivations to a man whose parents were murdered in front of his very eyes, whose very childhood ended that night when he devoted every waking moment to preparing to fight criminals, taking in an orphan boy whose parents were also murdered in front of his very eyes? Does nobody see that he wants to ensure that Dick had a father-surrogate? (Granted, they were sometimes shown in the same bed .... but I chalk it up to ultra-compressed storytelling ... )
On a positive note about comics, does anyone know the altitude requirement for sustaining a geosynchronous orbit? I bet a bunch of people do who were reading comics in the 1970s...
narfstar:
Because nearly every issue of the JLA began with 22.300 miles above the earth
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