My Writing and Thoughts on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Inhuman Condition
Sorry we’re a few days late.
I have a fondness for Superpowers with actual, complex scientific explanations. In case you can’t tell from the rest of this comic. Just saying someone is super strong without accounting for things like the tension strength of bones and muscles and issues with proper leverage with that much force being used by a tiny human frame, always felt like cheating to me. You’ve got no rules so you can break them whenever you want. Also I’m SUUUPER anal.
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Credit to my friend Clara who, in a conversation about Power Girl, (from years ago, before I’d actually started working on this comic (yes I have been planning this stupid gag for that long)) noted that the line in the third panel (verbatim) is all she’d really need to get everyone off her back about the boob window.
Frankly, were I a Kryptonian, and was that completely invulnerable, and I had the physique of any of the Kryptonians, I would struggle to convince myself every single day to fight crime wearing anything at all. That Clark actually bothers to change into something for those quick, faster-than-the-eye-can-see jobs is, frankly, absurd.
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Comic inspired partly by the new Marvel movie (which I haven’t seen because although it’s out at the time you’re reading this I’m making these comics like three weeks in advance at this point) about Ant Man (who has, just, the worst name. You can argue for his powers but god damn, the name. I mean even if he wanted to be in-theme, he could be like, “Formic” or something which is all latin and sciency and doesn’t sound like someone forgot the word for “uncle”), and partly by this Cracked article which details in hilarious prose just what an absolute bitch Lois Lane is.
I think this is how it’s gonna be. Comics that are actually part of an arc come out on Tuesday, then occasionally you get Friday Randomness, maybe to parody a movie coming out or just to separate different arcs with some of my less sequential ideas. This isn’t to say that Tiny M–– Quark won’t show up again, just that he won’t show up next week.
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