That’s mostly Larry Niven’s theory, and it doesn’t really hold up when you consider that while he can certainly bend steel or withstand gunfire, the involuntary aspects of his bodily functions tend to occur on an ordinary scale. He doesn’t blow things across the room when he breathes normally, he doesn’t cause sonic booms when he blinks his eyes, he doesn’t (we can assume) teargas people when he farts, and so on. Kryptonian biological functions seem to follow similar rules to those of regular human beings, even when augmented with yellow sunlight.
You’re right, it’s called the industry.
Did anyone even care when Supes died? Besides it being an obvious media ploy, which was immensely helpful to DC’s net profit, even if it did leave vast numbers of people with virtually worthless copies of said comic lol. If anything, all it did was make comics worse as a whole, with more emphasis on gimmicks and sales tactics than actual good story telling that would eventually lead to the comic market crash.
Great job Supes, not only did you help close a lot of good comic shops in the 90’s, but you almost destroyed your own company from the inside out. What a hero.
Spider-man is a whiny petulant character which is why most nerds identify with him. He makes himself and his pains the center of the universe alot, and does some stupid fuck-up which he feels guilty about later on. I’ll never forget the moment I realized this and stopped reading Spider-man: After cap dies and he sees the Rhino in he cemetery and just jumps in to attack him, breaking Rhino’s moms headstone. Rhino, like ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD who had something like that happen to them, understandably was mad and starts beating the shit out of Spider-man. then Iron Man comes down and blasts him or something, I dont remember. I just remember being really mad that Peter caused that shit and yet was still made out to be a hero.
Oh yeah, and One More Day. That didn’t help either
Yeah, it’s a good thing Spider-Man didn’t have his own enormously gimmicky cross-title event going on at right around the same time that didn’t resonate nearly as much with people and was milked for way longer.
You gotta admit that old school Spider-Man > Old Supes, New Spider-bitch, and a lot of the main stream shit that is out today.
Japs are still aping that 60’s Spider-man swag.
Also I would rather be Spider-man than Supes anyday of the week, and this is coming from a guy that would LOVE to be able to fly.
I blame my stupid red head fetish.
Old Spidey certainly wins in terms of which hero has the best sexual frustration metaphor. And let’s face it, the whole genre basically boils down to that.
I just came in to post this.
Intercourse discrimination.
Thank you Kromo.
You cant sit here and argue about Peter not growing as a character when you got niggas like Batman letting the Joker live all the time. ALL THE TIME! And this dude has Mommy and Daddy issue.
Even after beating his sidekick (who was like a son to him) to death with a crowbar, he lets him live. That is some bitchassness to the max. He needs to take some pointers from his dad and stop being a faggot.
Spiderman would body Batman with his eyes closed. Dont get it twisted just because his color palette is darker. He is a bitch, just one that sticks to the shadows.
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That is another thing, why do they need to keep with the same motherfucker characters over and over for the eternity?
I love Batman and other chars like anyone else, but fuuuck!, it is sad that the comic industry is so garbagestic that it seems that the only way that it can survive is using and rehashing the same characters over and over instead of trying to produce new original stories with new chars and new settings, the simple fact that they need to work with an already stablished character and canon limits a lot of what they can do.
That is basically why i prefer mangas over comics this days, more original stories (as original as any author can be this days) plus everything has a beginning and an end, of course not every manga is good, and there are still some comics that are well done out there.
dude, get the iron man armor, a buster sword (I think Korea was the only place to actually make the fully functioning FF7 buster sword from the movie) and proton cannon this bitch. I mean, How much are you able to take? This goes well beyond superman dat ho. It’s like you can’t escape her.
…I’m starting to wonder if this chick is really a monster who walks in the form of a human. Few things are as…annoying as this.
-Starhammer-
Oh no, didn’t see this little gem right here. Lol you really trying to put the blame on that corny clone saga. Don’t get mad (too late) at Marvel for following a bad trend that DC set forth. You would have thought they would have learned from the mistakes of shit like Knightfall(which had a big impact as well) but alas, not everyone can have 20/20 hindsight to make themselves appear to be smart like some of us.
My favorite part of that thread was when you compared sexist men to lions and monkeys.
rogue for god tier on iphone? :o
LMAO, somebody should figure out more infinites for that version.
She’s got that speed up infinite without having to speed up!
Back to Craigslist… Never will I understand people that seek out buying somebody’s old (insert sports) cleats or sneakers. Dude’s selling some baseball cleats for $50, and in the description: "Used for 6 or 7 seasons"
smh…
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and then… a teacher from the school district I graduated from…
SMH.
Superheroes actually evolved quite a bit for a long time. Yeah, the broad strokes were always in place, but pluck a comic from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s and the characterization, themes, power sets, etc. can vary wildly. I think around the turn of the 1990s, when it was proven that you could make big blockbuster movie events with these characters, that evolution was mostly frozen. You can’t really do tie-ins with movies and merchandise if you pick up a comic and find something way different from what you’re getting in the other media.
No. I’m saying it’s stupid to blame a character for causing an entire industry to do something, which is what you’re doing. Superman didn’t cause Spider-Man to do his dumb shit. The major publishers burned through a lot of good ideas in the '80s, then nobody knew what the fuck to do in the '90s because they alienated some brilliant creators and then expected the dumbfucks who were left to carry on the wave of success. Everybody was scrambling to do something big to keep the audiences and maintain the goodwill left over from big successful books of the '80s like Dark Knight or the Secret Wars. Everybody was in trouble and everybody was looking for a crazy idea to maintain a business model that had gotten used to those huge successes. Hence Marvel’s prolonged clone shit, hence Bane, hence Doomsday (originally supposed to be the wedding of Clark and Lois), and so on.
WTF? Did they do to marvel 2?
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Fuckin Chick-Fil-A closed for two inches of snow. Dammit.
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