Meaningless things in comics that kind of bug you.

[Jim Kelly]

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.

[babyblob]

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.

[Zauriel]

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 and Kirby's Boy Commandos justified the use of child soldiers fighting the Nazis. I am surprised the Boy Commandos didn't get PTSD from killing human beings or being wounded by real bullets tearing your flesh.

[Zauriel]

I like Captain America. One of my favorite heroes. But this whole man out of time thing got old. I got it in the 60s like in the Tales Of Suspense Issues, or even in his early solo. But man still bitching about it 200 issues in. Man shut up. He is suposed to have this great will power and is a soldier who can think of intense battle plans, has been on the same team as Mutants, Gods, and being made of pure energy. Has fought aliens, and a warlord from the furture, yet he falls to pieces at the idea of flat screen tvs, rap music, and the internet.

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.

[DanMad1977]

Simon and Kirby's Boy Commandos justified the use of child soldiers fighting the Nazis. I am surprised the Boy Commandos didn't get PTSD from killing human beings or being wounded by real bullets tearing your flesh.

No Superhero or villain suffers from PTSD, despite of their fights.

[Dav85]

First of all, HI everyone this is my first post on the forum.

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.

[Kirby101]

No Superhero or villain suffers from PTSD, despite of their fights.

Tony Stark had it in Iron Man 3.

[DrNewGod]

First of all, HI everyone this is my first post on the forum...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...

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 not a big deal in the 1940's.

Abortion, illegal immigration and civil injustice were socially unacknowledged big deals in the 1940's.

[Kirby101]

Immigration has always been an issue in this country. Superman addressed it in the 40s.

[Odd Rödney]

Someone lifts a car by the bumper or a building by the corner. What would really happen is the bumper would rip off and the building would just crumble around the super strong person's hands. Grab the car by the axle and and then you can lift the car.

Yeah, every time I see that I cringe.

Another thing that bothers me is when so many comic book covers show an entire team of superheroes passed out to show how powerful another character is.

Yeah, I hate that too.

How fast is Ripclaw talking while launching himself towards Velocity. [/center]

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.

[Jim Kelly]

The interbreeding thing, however, goes back at least as far as Rice Burrough's first John Carter novel, A Princess of Mars.

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.

[Zauriel]

Tony Stark had it in Iron Man 3.

Jim Rhodes aka War Machine had PTSD after being almost killed by Thanos

[MyriVerse]

Tony Stark had it in Iron Man 3.

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.

[Kuro no Shinigami]

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...

.

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?

[DanMad1977]

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?

It depends on what kind of human being you are. Some may even feel satisfaction, or nothing at all. It says, the first kill is hard, after that it gets easier up to the point where you don't care anymore.