Are there any bits of received wisdom which comics threw up again and again that never convinced? For example, even as a kid I couldn’t believe that the citizens of Kandor preferred to live under an artificial sun because they had never had super-powers back on Krypton. I expect Superman interfered with their minds to make them believe that.
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I dunno... that the Hulk never killed or seriously injured anyone during any of his rampages?
I never had a problem believing that.
As for the Kandor thing, this is the first I've heard of that explanation; I confess I never thought about it much.
On the other hand, the notion that Clark Kent got a job as a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper so he could learn about crimes and natural disasters in progress didn't wash for me; he could accomplish that with a police scanner from Radio Shack.
I dunno... that the Hulk never killed or seriously injured anyone during any of his rampages?
I never had a problem believing that.
As for the Kandor thing, this is the first I've heard of that explanation; I confess I never thought about it much.
On the other hand, the notion that Clark Kent got a job as a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper so he could learn about crimes and natural disasters in progress didn't wash for me; he could accomplish that with a police scanner from Radio Shack.
Did they have police radios - available to the public, I mean - back in the 30's?
I dunno... that the Hulk never killed or seriously injured anyone during any of his rampages?
I never had a problem believing that.
As for the Kandor thing, this is the first I've heard of that explanation; I confess I never thought about it much.
On the other hand, the notion that Clark Kent got a job as a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper so he could learn about crimes and natural disasters in progress didn't wash for me; he could accomplish that with a police scanner from Radio Shack.
Did they have police radios - available to the public, I mean - back in the 30's?
Did they have Radio Shack?
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Since I'm never going to write it, much less have it published, I might as well reveal my great Incredible Hulk story. In it, the reader (but not the characters) would learn that for all the garbage that Bruce Banner/Hulk goes through it could be much worse. The reason that nobody has died is because Bruce/Hulk has an honest-to-God guardian angel. The angel's primary focus is to keep Hulk from killing anybody, intentionally or not. The angel is hurt that he is forbidden from helping Bruce & Hulk in any greater way but takes comfort in being able to do this one thing for them.
Since I'm never going to write it, much less have it published, I might as well reveal my great Incredible Hulk story. In it, the reader (but not the characters) would learn that for all the garbage that Bruce Banner/Hulk goes through it could be much worse. The reason that nobody has died is because Bruce/Hulk has an honest-to-God guardian angel. The angel's primary focus is to keep Hulk from killing anybody, intentionally or not. The angel is hurt that he is forbidden from helping Bruce & Hulk in any greater way but takes comfort in being able to do this one thing for them.
Nice idea. There needs to be someone. Even by jumping into the air in a built up area, how does the Hulk know where he'll come down, 10 Kilometers away?
FWIW Hulk has met up with a sort of demented guardian angel called Mercy during David's run, who specialised in helping people BY killing them.
I like that, too. My own pet theory has been 'Thunderbolt' Ross was damned good at protecting the population, and that's how he kept his job all those years.
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I never had a problem believing that.
As for the Kandor thing, this is the first I've heard of that explanation; I confess I never thought about it much.
On the other hand, the notion that Clark Kent got a job as a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper so he could learn about crimes and natural disasters in progress didn't wash for me; he could accomplish that with a police scanner from Radio Shack.
Did they have police radios - available to the public, I mean - back in the 30's?
Did they have Radio Shack?
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
Check out the Secret Headquarters (my store) website! It's a pretty lame website, but I did it myself, so tough noogies
Listen to WOXY.com, it's the future of rock-n-roll!
from Wikipedia
(Ain't teh internets gr8?)
Apparantly, they were pretty much a local operation until the 1940's
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
Check out the Secret Headquarters (my store) website! It's a pretty lame website, but I did it myself, so tough noogies
Listen to WOXY.com, it's the future of rock-n-roll!
Nice idea. There needs to be someone. Even by jumping into the air in a built up area, how does the Hulk know where he'll come down, 10 Kilometers away?
FWIW Hulk has met up with a sort of demented guardian angel called Mercy during David's run, who specialised in helping people BY killing them.
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