Simon & Kirby (together and separately) put a lot of kids in a lot of danger. That should be the thing they're best known for. And yet they're not.
Simon & Kirby (together and separately) put a lot of kids in a lot of danger. That should be the thing they're best known for. And yet they're not.
In the early issues of Tales to Astonish when Giant Man was hanging out with his fan club. he has his mask off and Jan calls him Hank several times. There is also a scene in another issue where Hank destroys his house when he first turns to Giant Man and yet no one knows that Giant Mna and Hank are the same.
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I thought Captain America would have adapted to the 21st century society, attitudes and technology. Will Cap eat raw fish sushi and gluten-free vegan wraps? Will he get used to reading news about 12th graders shooting and killing people with guns? Will he be surprised to learn that it takes 20 years to execute a convicted serial murderer? Abortion, illegal immigration and civil injustice were not a big deal in the 1940's.
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Personally I can't stand when alien characters are depicted just as humans with different skin colors or antennas. It bothers me when people can interbreed with totally different alien races without any scientific explanation, and when aliens can magically speak and understand English. One portray of alien creatures I really liked was the one in the latter Prophet's Image series, with actual alien bodies, societies, ways of thinking.
Welcome Dav85! Yeah, the language thing always bugged me a bit too. The interbreeding thing, however, goes back at least as far as Rice Burrough's first John Carter novel, A Princess of Mars. Still weird, but not a comics invention.
Abortion, illegal immigration and civil injustice were socially unacknowledged big deals in the 1940's.
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Immigration has always been an issue in this country. Superman addressed it in the 40s.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Yeah, every time I see that I cringe.
Yeah, I hate that too.
YES! THIS!! Every time I go back and read stuff from back in the day I'm more amazed by how fast folks can spit words than I am the action on the page. Everyone was a rapper in the 90s I guess.
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"Kids don't care **** about superhero comic books. And if they do, they probably start with manga, with One Punch-Man or My Hero Academia. " -ImOctavius.
Since, Barsoomians are all born (externally) from eggs, Edgar Rice Burroughs must have thought about this, I suppose. But maybe he didn't want to get into the details and left it to the reader to surmise how John fertilized Dejah's eggs to produce Carthoris and Tara. But then, how Carter got to Mars was unconventional. Maybe he's not your usual human being--he is seemingly immortal, never ageing. Someone doubtless has written their Ph.D. thesis on this subject.
Bad week for Mr. Stark. *eyeroll* And when PTSD is mentioned, there tends to be a miraculous recovery. Mental illness, in general, is poorly handled in most fiction. Don't get me started on overplayed Dissociative Identities...
Anyway... the way most artists (even the greats) depict children irritates me. They're too often drawn way too small to contrast with the adults around them.
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I think Superman got PTSD from killing General Zod and his two minions who destroyed Earth and wiped the human race in a pocket universe. John Byrne wrote the story. It caused a nervous breakdown that led him to have a multiple personality disorder and create the gangbuster persona.
I don't think any of us have ever killed a man. When you have killed a man for the first time even in self-defense, how do you feel? guilt? fear?