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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 10, 2015 18:26:39 GMT -5
Barry usually stored the costume in a ring though. And then put on his costume over his street clothes! Oh whoops! I read "over" as "under". My mistake! |
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Post by Paradox on Jan 12, 2015 2:51:46 GMT -5
It always annoyed me a little that Dark Horse (and then many fans) started using the word "xenomorphs" seriously to describe the Aliens. The term was first used in the movie Aliens, and it was clearly meant as a joke, as a way of underlining how the authorities often slap ridiculous names on things as if naming them made them known and controllable. (As you'll recalll, the Marines from the movie had no idea what the lieutenant meant when he used the word). The joke has apparently been lost to the following generations. (On a culturally-related side note, something similar happened with the expression "bon matin" in Quebec; it started being used as a joke about ten years ago, as a humorous litteral translation of the English "good morning", but spread like a virus in our daily parlance and is now frequently used as if it were a proper French expression. Ugh). Marvel 616! I got to watch this bad joke become reality in a similar way and it annoyed me all the way through. It already had a name, the Marvel Universe. There was no need for a number! Darn you people that didn't get that Moore was MAKING FUN of the concept.  |
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Post by Pól Rua on Jan 13, 2015 18:55:23 GMT -5
Marvel 616! I got to watch this bad joke become reality in a similar way and it annoyed me all the way through. It already had a name, the Marvel Universe. There was no need for a number! Darn you people that didn't get that Moore was MAKING FUN of the concept. I am always amazed by people who regard Moore as 'humourless'. Even 'Watchmen' has the gag about poor, hapless Captain Carnage and that almost always makes me laugh. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 14, 2015 11:36:58 GMT -5
Barry usually stored the costume in a ring though. And then put on his costume over his street clothes! It always bugged me that the good guys would create this amazing technology and then use it for something inane. If Barry really had a way to make a full size body suit fit into a ring, he could have revolutionized the world through the shipping industry.. instead he uses it for a slight time saver, which he doesn't need, since he's the Flash.... it'd be just as easy for him to run home and change. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 14, 2015 11:40:47 GMT -5
And then put on his costume over his street clothes! It always bugged me that the good guys would create this amazing technology and then use it for something inane. If Barry really had a way to make a full size body suit fit into a ring, he could have revolutionized the world through the shipping industry.. instead he uses it for a slight time saver, which he doesn't need, since he's the Flash.... it'd be just as easy for him to run home and change. I talked about this in the first Ant-Man story. Pym is ridiculed by his fellow scientists because finds a way to solve enormous shipping problems. And then decides to hide the solution after he shrinks himself. Inane. |
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Post by MDG on Jan 14, 2015 11:48:16 GMT -5
It always bugged me that the good guys would create this amazing technology and then use it for something inane. If Barry really had a way to make a full size body suit fit into a ring, he could have revolutionized the world through the shipping industry.. instead he uses it for a slight time saver, which he doesn't need, since he's the Flash.... it'd be just as easy for him to run home and change. I talked about this in the first Ant-Man story. Pym is ridiculed by his fellow scientists because finds a way to solve enormous shipping problems. And then decides to hide the solution after he shrinks himself. Inane. Plenty of people have pointed out that Peter Parker could've solved all of Aunt May's money worries by selling his web formula. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 14, 2015 12:16:36 GMT -5
I talked about this in the first Ant-Man story. Pym is ridiculed by his fellow scientists because finds a way to solve enormous shipping problems. And then decides to hide the solution after he shrinks himself. Inane. Plenty of people have pointed out that Peter Parker could've solved all of Aunt May's money worries by selling his web formula. Or any of a number of other inventions he was constantly coming up with. |
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Post by badwolf on Jan 14, 2015 12:19:53 GMT -5
Maybe not in Peter's case, but could some of these folks have been worried that their tech would "fall into the wrong hands"? (even though it often did, anyway)
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Post by Randle-El on Jan 14, 2015 13:35:28 GMT -5
I talked about this in the first Ant-Man story. Pym is ridiculed by his fellow scientists because finds a way to solve enormous shipping problems. And then decides to hide the solution after he shrinks himself. Inane. Plenty of people have pointed out that Peter Parker could've solved all of Aunt May's money worries by selling his web formula. That was one of the recurring plot devices in Dan Slott's run on Spider-Man (the "Big Time" era). Peter gets a job at a science/engineering think tank where he comes up with inventions that are applications of tech he's used against bad guys. And it actually pays really well. I thought it was a pretty good re-visiting of the idea that Peter was science whiz. It makes sense that if he was so talented in that area, he should have been able to get a job putting his tech skills to work instead of peddling photos to the Daily Bugle. There was also a pretty funny moment in the first issue of Slott's run where a time bomb is about to explode in the city, but Peter figures out that he can buy an extra hour by setting the bomb's clock to sync with the daylight savings time switch -- thus gaining an extra hour. Iron Man's reaction is priceless: "Wait, what? Oh I get it... pretty clever!" |
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2015 14:06:59 GMT -5
More in keeping with Parker's underdog persona, perhaps it would have been a good idea to have the company he's working for make all the big money for his inventions while Parker only gets his usual salary.
No, wait - Marvel would probably kill the story for fear it might be taken as a comment on comics creators' rights.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 14, 2015 14:20:56 GMT -5
I thought the current movie series came up with a good solution -- having him steal the tech from Oscorp. But of course it wasn't around when the comics began.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 14, 2015 15:55:15 GMT -5
Maybe not in Peter's case, but could some of these folks have been worried that their tech would "fall into the wrong hands"? (even though it often did, anyway) That was a running theme for Iron Man, certainly, but it was never addressed (to my knowledge) in Spidey. Perhaps you could reason that he would make it easy to 'out' him as Spiderman... that's moot now, since he is, in fact, known publically as the guy who makes Spidey's tech, and I'm not sure that's any more or less suspicious than being Spidey's photographer, but whatever. Maybe the general level of tech in the Marvel universe is such that web shooters (and shinking formulas) aren't that exciting? Of course, Pym in 'modern' times has done all sorts of practical things, so maybe they just didn't think of it in the 60s. |
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Post by gothos on Jan 14, 2015 16:21:19 GMT -5
I talked about this in the first Ant-Man story. Pym is ridiculed by his fellow scientists because finds a way to solve enormous shipping problems. And then decides to hide the solution after he shrinks himself. Inane. Plenty of people have pointed out that Peter Parker could've solved all of Aunt May's money worries by selling his web formula. I don't have an issue number, but I think an early Lee-Ditko story did address the idea. Spider-Man goes to some laboratory and offers his web fluid as an adhesive. However, the scientists point out that it's no good since it deteriorates after X minutes. I *think* Spidey even advances the idea that the formula could be changed to make it permanent, and the techs point out that he would need start-up money-- which puts Parker back behind the eightball. |
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Post by foxley on Jan 14, 2015 16:21:49 GMT -5
Actually, on the subject of Hank Pym, isn't he a entomologist? Why the hell is constructing indestructible robots with artificial intelligences?
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 14, 2015 16:30:55 GMT -5
Actually, on the subject of Hank Pym, isn't he a entomologist? Why the hell is constructing indestructible robots with artificial intelligences? Wasn't he usually referred to as a "bio-chemist"? Though, honestly, the same question applies. |
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