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Friday Fun Link: Comic Book Diagrams, Cutaways, and Maps

Brian Doherty | 4.9.2010 2:03 PM

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  1. SugarFree   16 years ago

    If anyone has found Warty's meds, please send them to him. This is getting embarrassing for all of us.

    1. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

      I for one find Warty's attire delightfully decadent.

      1. SugarFree   16 years ago

        I ain't sayin' he ain't pretty... but enough's enough.

    2. Warty   16 years ago

      Lookit them shoes. Goddamn, those are bonerific.

  2. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    Whoa, where's the other end of those Nazi invasion tunnels? And Asgard looks astonishingly high-tech and modern.

    1. SugarFree   16 years ago

      If they can build a bridge out of a rainbow and a hammer you can't pick up based on your morals, they can do anything.

      1. Odin   16 years ago

        Anything but lift this great eternal sadness from my heart...

        1. Loki   16 years ago

          *Hmm, this SugarFree could be of some use to me*

          (strokes horns)

    2. PapayaSF   16 years ago

      That is certainly some Nazi super-technology that can build trans-Atlantic tunnels, and in secret!

      1. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

        Yeah, I was thinking the Nazis would be like, "We did it! We secretly built awesome trans-Atlantic tunnels! Unfortunately we diverted such a ridiculous amount of resources to this effort that by time we were done, we'd lost the war."

  3. Jeff P   16 years ago

    What level of regulation would the Baxter Building or Avengers Mansion be subjected to? Just think of the inspections needed to maintain a Danger Room or a portal into the Negative Zone.
    Superman has the right idea: North Pole.

    1. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

      Doggone right! And when was the last time anyone came in and made sure the Bat-Cave was up to code. I think you're right that the Danger Room would never pass muster (so they probably turn it on at max while the inspectors are inside).

    2. Aresen   16 years ago

      But it is right in the middle of the Dominion of the Devils.

      http://www.pulpmessenger.com/?tag=kamandi

    3. PapayaSF   16 years ago

      "You are requesting a zoning variance for... a missile launcher??"

      1. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

        That map is amazing.

  4. Jeff P   16 years ago

    IN DC heroes have secret HQs, orbital satellites, and private pocket dimensions. In Marvel they inhabit a building in Midtown, one that is attacked often.

    1. Aresen   16 years ago

      Marvel used Eminent Domain to get preferred property tax rates.

  5. Marc   16 years ago

    Every single piece of evidence that I have ever encountered confirms my hypothesis that Comics is F--ing Stupid. Except for Watchmen, which doesn't count.

    1. Aresen   16 years ago

      Says the guy having trouble with subject-verb agreement.

    2. PapayaSF   16 years ago

      Watchmen seemed pretty stupid to me, politically. But then I never bought into the trendy left notions that Thatcher and Reagan were bringing on fascism, a new Dark Age, ecological collapse, and nuclear war.

      1. heller   16 years ago

        I always thought Watchmen was very anti-left, actually. The whole point was that the altruist utilitarian hero becomes the villain, because he believes killing some for the good of the many is justified. Rorschach is the quintessential moral categoralist (his character is a huge rip-off of Steve Ditko's Mr. A, an Objectivist comic book hero). While utilitarianism wins out, Rorschach maintains moral superiority at the very end.

        1. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

          I agree, heller. Watchmen is far too nuanced to espouse a simple partisan political worldview. Its themes transcend politics all the way to philosophy and the most fundamental ethical problems.

    3. heller   16 years ago

      That's a pretty stupid statement, since Watchmen would be pointless and idiotic without all the comics that preceded it.

  6. muhabbet   14 years ago

    This is getting embarrassing for all of us gazeteler sohbet

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