^LOL!
And how do Hex and Two-Face keep that eyeball moist and dust free without the ability to blink.
This is why I like Byrne's Gladiator/Superman approach that high-end super-strongsters are psychokinetic. In my head-canon, they find focusing their PK thru gestures easier than wishing hard. It explains things like Hulk slapping up a hurricane, or stomping up an earthquake, as well as Wonder Woman lifting a 70-ton tank without it ripping her tendons, or driving her into the ground like a tent-peg.
Clearly, there are some characters outside that constraint. Giants, like Atom-Smasher or Atlas, and mechanically enhanced beings like Commander Steel or Iron Man. You can even give an explanation to somebody like Wonder Man, who's made of energy. But Flesh-And-Blooders need another answer.
I mean in real time Cap got thawed out in the 60's, right? how much time has passed in the Marvel Universe, who can say but this is why I've never found Captain America anything interesting in the slight. People complain that Superman is hard to relate to because he's the ultimate boy scout but at least he's up to date on current events as Clark Kent obviously working for a newspaper.
To me Cap as just dull as bricks, seriously even the current MCU movies can't make him interesting.
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.
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One thing that gets on my nerves as I read some of these comics. How is every scientist a master at judo or other hand to hand fighting forms? In an issue of Fantastic Four Sue says she was taught judo by Reed Richards who is a master. In the golden age of DC Hourman, Star man, both talk about learning fighting skills before they became heroes. When kind of flies in the face of the fact that they were meek and in Star man's case ill all the time. Sandman a rich playboy is well skilled. Hank Pym in his first appearance of Tales To Astonish uses Judo skills to fight off an ant.
Yet every bad scientist the ones who want to take over the world the ones who need to know how to fight have glass jaws and are knocked out in one punch.
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If I remember right, you were reading classic comics (cool stuff, BTW). Most of those characters had a lot of Doc Savage in their conceptual DNA. Especially in the early Golden Age, the superhero genre had not yet become a thing of its own. Moreover, they were written as power fantasies for a much younger crowd than today's median comic reader. So that Uber-Renaissance Man schtick is not all that surprising.
Oh man, the perfect meaningless thing: notice the way Spider-Man shoots the web in this pic?:
Now look at the way he shoots it in this pic:
See the difference? Spider-Man's web-shooting palm is down in the first pic while in the second his palm is up. Seriously, having that palm face up bugged the hell out of me as a kid. I was SOOOO used to seeing Spider-Man shoot that web with the palm down in the comics that I got triggered watching the first commercials for Spider-Man: TAS. Little details like that got to me. Fortunately though, I outgrew it. I can appreciate both styles of web shooting. Sometimes .
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Speaking of Spider-Man, it bugged me that in the Raimi Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man was able to conveniently shoot the organic webbing out of his HANDS rather than, you know, the other place where spiders shoot their webbing from. And I think the organic webbing was also carried over into the comics at one point.
I didn't like the organic webbing coming out of his hands because why would it biologically and conveniently come out of his hands? Because that took away the cool aspect of Spider-Man coming up with a clever and convenient way of making his artificial webbing come from his man-made web shooters/spinnerets attached to his hands.
Another thing that bothers me (not Spider-Man related) is when so many comic book covers show an entire team of superheroes passed out to show how powerful another character is.
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Black Panther - Champion of Bast
Vixen - Champion of Anansi
Not just comics, but the whole history of the depiction of winged humanoids, from Greek Gods to Angels all the way to comics. Wings evolved from front legs and forearms in animals. There is no reason for a whole new bone and muscle structure to grow out of shoulder blades. I think Kirby did depict some Inhumans with wings instead of arms.
This goes for dragons too. The dragons of Dragonslayer and Reign of Fire got it right.
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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!
Censoring of swear word. If you know you aren't allowed to have your characters swear don't bother.
Constant talking during fights.