If you don’t think the abilities of a 1938 Superman are super, then why open a thread asking what people would use them for?
and try to keep my statement in the context in which it was made.
Enjoy the dead threads and the prescription pants.
I think perhaps you’re over-reacting to this retcon juuuuust a bit. Some writer in the 70s was looking for a reason why the JSA wouldn’t have fought the Nazis the way that Captain America and the Human Torch and a number of other Marvel/Timely characters (who were less powerful that Superman or GL or The Spectre) did (both at the time and in later stories retconned in, i.e. The Invaders). So they thought up the Spear and pretty much everyone was OK with it. Chill.
You miss the point. Again.
I do think the 1938 abilities are super. The question from my OP, which has long since been abandoned, was what could you do in real life with such a power set? IIRC, you’re the fellow who dragged Green Lantern into the thread, and then got all bent out of shape because I indicated that, as he was written at the time, the ring wasn’t an all-powerful weapon. If that trod on fanboy toes, then you have a somewhat sincere apology.
Thank you for your participation.
BTW, your “prescription pants” quip would be so much funnier if I hadn’t said (bolding mine)
or that adult incontinence garments don’t require prescriptions. Please read more carefully in the future.
That you don’t get the prescription pants reference makes your ranting even more sweeter…
Oooooh. A Simpson’s reference. Nothing devastates like a Simpson’s reference. You might even say it is the Green Lantern Ring of internet arguments. :rolleyes:
Oh, and Holmes? If you want to make further attempts at cutting me down with your fearsome arsenal of pop-culture references, please open a pit thread. This one is teetering on the edge of what is acceptable in this forum, I suspect.
I don’t pit anyone, don’t care enough to. I was merely suggesting as others have, that you take this too seriously…normally a CBSG comment brings a moment of "You’re right, it’s just a funny book"or “it’s just a movie” to most people and they enjoy the discussion, silly has it may be.
Other’s will get bend out of shape and continue to argue whether or not ripped shirt Kirk could beat Q…
The question is my friend, which one are you…?
I also used the words “writer” or “written” about skillion times.
If that indicates anything other than that I am talking about comic book scripts, please explain what you think it is.
Let me expand a bit. We are talking about nothing more than comic book scripts. That’s exactly why I think ret-conning is asinine. Ret-conning is trying to force something to make sense that doesn’t have to do so. Does it matter if there is some “reason” why the JSA didn’t win WWII all by themselves? No, it doesn’t. things were perfectly okay not making sense.
Done, though admittedly in 1943, not 1938.
Additionally, this page lists a number of war-based Superman stories. The cover of Superman #23, with a very pissed-off Big Blue swimming toward a German sub is a personal favourite of mine.
Chill out, Pup. You’re taking this way more seriously than it deserves.
No, you weren’t “suggesting” anything. You were offering me insult. Twice. An insult you weren’t even clever enough to have originated. Is it considered a compliment in your circles to be compared to Comic Book Guy? I’m not really well acquainted with the character, since I don’t watch The Simpsons, but I suspect not.
I could really give a crap, in the end, about anything that happens in comic book stories. I haven’t even purchased a comic in years. Does this stuff matter to you so much that you feel the need to insult me personally rather than argue (or not) about my pointless statements on a pointless topic?
[Lloyd Dobler] **I have taken your keys! You must chill! ** [/Lloyd Dobler]