tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post6230080655485473491..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2214: Up in the air, manPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-25164470161310385112018-08-02T20:30:58.063-07:002018-08-02T20:30:58.063-07:00Bloodthirsty Brian: Yeah, shoot everybody! Then th...Bloodthirsty Brian: Yeah, shoot everybody! Then the comics would only be a page long!Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-83116353910959942032018-08-02T20:29:22.435-07:002018-08-02T20:29:22.435-07:00Daniel, interesting observation. I don't know ...Daniel, interesting observation. I don't know if your idea was on the minds of anyone writing these comics or if they just were bashing them out without thinking the action through, then collecting whatever page rate they were paid.<br /><br />I don't think the people publishing these comics had much respect for their readers, which they were aiming at very young people.<br /><br />This story does seem more like the playtime scenarios my friends and I, ages 6 or 7, would make up after watching Superman on TV.<br /><br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-11593411834955486302018-08-01T17:51:10.166-07:002018-08-01T17:51:10.166-07:00Welllll… There's a great deal of not doing th...Welllll… There's a great deal of <i>not doing things</i>. Only the Air Man actually investigates the explosion as such. The bad guys don't simply shoot the Air Man when they first encounter him, nor when they next capture him, nor when he boards the yacht. The Air Man doesn't use his gas bombs to stop the use of the catapult. <br /><br />Many early comic book stories seem, in one of two ways, to be <i>childhood writ large</i>. In some, the conflict seems fairly genuine, but it is very much like that which occurs amongst children — the villains are simply neighborhood bullies. In others, as here, the story is like something that would result from the <i>ad hoc</i> play of children, in which some pretend to be heroes and others pretend to be villains; the stories are games of super-cops-and-robbers, or of super-cops-and-super-robbers.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-44050401689015394032018-08-01T13:29:10.718-07:002018-08-01T13:29:10.718-07:00How many times did I yell "SHOOT HIM!" a...How many times did I yell "SHOOT HIM!" at this comic! These bad guys deserve to be in jail until they die, then resurrected, and put in jail again!Brian Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.com