L. Marcus Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 Weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 8, 2017 Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 Unfortunately, canon literature does not have that level of technical detail. Yet, they try to explain that Superman would kill Lois during sex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 8, 2017 Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 That's not canon, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 8, 2017 Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 That's not canon, either. Good, then. Always seemed a little weird. Note: I admit I get a little prudish with comics at times, being introduced to it early in life. I also mentally find sexual topics more taboo than violent topics (not that I say that is right, just how my mind goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Clueless tourists are not a strictly American phenomenon. But then we knew that. A pair of Chinese toursts were fined 500 euros each in Germany for posing giving a Nazi salute in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin.. The Germans, who outlawed the gesture after World War II, were not amused. Neither was the Chinese government, who warned tourists that they need to obey local laws while traveling abroad. The tourists claimed it was a joke, and have continued their tour outside of Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 That's not canon, either. Though technically in an Elseworlds comic she died carrying their baby because of internal damage due to the superbaby moving / kicking. Equally as bad if somewhat more logical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Not sure if this is just hyperbole or not... Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Though technically in an Elseworlds comic she died carrying their baby because of internal damage due to the superbaby moving / kicking. Equally as bad if somewhat more logical. except superman's powers are charged by a yellow sun - which an unborn baby has not been exposed to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Okay wait--so if you keep Superman in the dark he loses his powers? Like if you put him in a coffin and buried him for a while? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 except superman's powers are charged by a yellow sun - which an unborn baby has not been exposed to Okay wait--so if you keep Superman in the dark he loses his powers? Like if you put him in a coffin and buried him for a while? In canon it's not the light of the yellow sun - it's a specific form of *radiation* from a yellow sun (one a blue sun produces more of). This radiation penetrates solid matter (he doesn't start losing his powers at night, if deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, on super overcast days like hanging around England during a typical spring day, etc) - his rate of absorption is just slower so he can actually run his battery down if he uses too much. Thus the now iconic bursting through the clouds or flying closer to the sun 'charge up' scenes when he's being taxed. It's all comic book magic anyways, but that's their official explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 In canon it's not the light of the yellow sun - it's a specific form of *radiation* from a yellow sun (one a blue sun produces more of). This radiation penetrates solid matter (he doesn't start losing his powers at night, if deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, on super overcast days like hanging around England during a typical spring day, etc) - his rate of absorption is just slower so he can actually run his battery down if he uses too much. Thus the now iconic bursting through the clouds or flying closer to the sun 'charge up' scenes when he's being taxed. It's all comic book magic anyways, but that's their official explanation. doesn't explain 'red-sun light rooms that rob him of powers, tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 doesn't explain 'red-sun light rooms that rob him of powers, tho Sure it does! The Red light Reverses the Polarity! Lawnmower Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 Not sure if this is just hyperbole or not... Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? It's one of those situations where you apparently just can't win. At what point does concern for personal survival become :dangerous" to mental health? I would argue that few things are more hazardous to the mental health of Millennials than the scorn heaped upon them by seemingly everybody. Every generation does the best it can with what it has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted August 9, 2017 Report Share Posted August 9, 2017 I would argue that few things are more hazardous to the mental health of Millennials than the scorn heaped upon them by seemingly everybody. The article isn't about Millennials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted August 10, 2017 Report Share Posted August 10, 2017 It seems Tarna, from Heavy Metal, is getting a comic. We'll see how an apparently mute character does as a comic series lead. I guess this will appeal to superhero, fantasy, general role players and comic fans. In all fairness I suppose Taarna doesn't have to be mute. She is apparently a spirit that moves from host to host and maybe the one we saw in HM was mute but the one created at the end might not be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 10, 2017 Report Share Posted August 10, 2017 Well, Aeon Flux did "OK", so adding dialogue isn't impossable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Apropos nothing, unusual symbiotic relationship between mammals and amphibians discovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Apropos nothing, unusual symbiotic relationship between mammals and amphibians discovered. "No comment" -- Kermit the Frog Cancer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Not sure if this is just hyperbole or not... Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Marijuana, demon rum, hot rods, communism, socialism, atheism, television, psychiatric medications, pornography, rock and roll, liberalism, hippies, the intrawebz, divorce, desegregation, crack, rap, Dungeons and Dragons....so many things have destroyed generations I wonder how anyone is left alive in america today. Although I do admit when I see some little walking pimplefarm just stroll straight out into traffic with buds in his ears and his eyes glued to the screen in his hand I have to wonder if kids today are getting to be too stupid to live.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Although I do admit when I see some little walking pimplefarm just stroll straight out into traffic with buds in his ears and his eyes glued to the screen in his hand I have to wonder if kids today are getting to be too stupid to live.... I've seen cottonheads do this behind the wheel, so I don't think it's really a generational thing. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 I've seen cottonheads do this behind the wheel, so I don't think it's really a generational thing. I thought it was only something you did while driving. Maybe it is a regional thing around here. Note: A former female co-worker, would have a cellphone in one hand, and a cigarette in another while driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Was she also applying makeup? Those are my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 I wouldnt have put it over her. I fear trying to figure out how she drove without hands, or rather meeting up with her on the road. Note:Never seen someone apply makeup in an actual moving vehicle. THough, I shudder to know the thinking process of some I get behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 I've seen cottonheads do this behind the wheel, so I don't think it's really a generational thing. Yes my friend you are correct. I've seen people who should be old enough to know better keeping their eyes on their phone screens in public. A woman in her 50's pushed her shopping cart into me at Walmart once doing that. Still, younglings do it in larger numbers that oldepharts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Yes my friend you are correct. I've seen people who should be old enough to know better keeping their eyes on their phone screens in public. A woman in her 50's pushed her shopping cart into me at Walmart once doing that. Still, younglings do it in larger numbers that oldepharts (Raises hand guiltily). I haven't crashed into a shopping cart at the supermarket, but I have had several near misses -- usually from being in the way. Fortunately (?) I have blueotooth headphones, so unless I need to make a call I don't have to handle the phone very much. But I do have to do things like check the transit tracker to see when my bus is coming. I'm part of the problem. Fortunately shopping carts are the only things I drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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