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Matt Reed Byrne Robotics Security
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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 11:58am | IP Logged | 1
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Wayde Murray wrote:
If Peter David thought that Kryptonians shouldn't be able to move the Earth then he shouldn't have had them do it in his stories. He should not have them try and fail just so they can look foolish in the attempt. |
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PAD's MO. If he doesn't understand it or thinks it's silly, it's time to mock it.
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Robert Bradley Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | 2
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This one by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko was the best of the best I think -

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Eric Morin Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | 3
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Robert, that is exactly the scene that came to my mind.
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Matt Reed Byrne Robotics Security
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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | 4
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Pulling just that single page, as great as it is, eliminates the preceding pages wherein Spider-Man draws upon all sorts of inspiration to pull off this feat: 
Some of the absolute best from Lee and Ditko on any character ever. Just fantastic.
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | 5
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Yes, they are fantastic. Thanks for sharing those. It's not just about strength, either. I like the combine harvester scene in SUPERMAN III where Superman flies to save an unconscious young Ricky, who is moments away from being killed. I guess if one were to be pedantic, Superman could have flown within a nanosecond to stop that harvester, but it was more gripping seeing it getting closer and closer to Ricky and Superman stopping it just in time. Getting back to strength, those Spider-Man pages that have been posted remind me why I love the character. Sure, I like his costume and his web-slinging and his climbing up walls, but it's his never-give-up attitude that really makes me like him - it's so inspiring.
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Steve Ogden Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | 6
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Goofy but one of the best:

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Lance Hill Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | 7
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I think the Spider-Man scene, from a story Steve Ditko plotted the entirety of, would have been just as powerful even without Stan Lee's script. Truly a master story teller.
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Robert White Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | 8
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Aaron made a good point about "scale." The TV Hulk was top of the heap for that "reality." For me, I'm fine with feats of strength within a modicum of reason. As amazing as it is, a hero lifting a tank or even a battleship, is easy to visualize and accept. Lifting mountains and moving planets, beyond being silly on face value, CAN'T be achieved in a world that operates on the same physical laws ours (irregardless of the fact that magic exists in the Marvel and DC U's, this is the case)unless you employ the ever handy "magic card" which is rarely done.
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Kip Lewis Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 March 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | 9
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I sometimes wonder if the mega super-feats are a by-products of costumes. I mean, if Superman wore street clothes, would he ever have gone beyond his original levels. Or would Green Lantern be traveling through the stars if he wore street clothes, or would he use a space ship like Abin Sur did? Costumes take us out of "our world" into ultra fantastic and maybe this where all the laws of nature get tossed too. (Or may be not. Just a thought.) That said, I like the mega feats, though I do tend to like the levels Byrne established in MOS for Superman over the 60s/70s version. The funy thing is I can identify more with the Hulk holding up a mountain more than the Hulk pushing over a wall as pictured above.
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Flavio Sapha Byrne Robotics Member

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I prefer when super-heroes perform NO feats of strength, but instead just stand around looking cool and making glib comments. No, not really.
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Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member

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Speaking of the Hulk TV show, I sure remember how impressive it was when the Hulk lifted that car up in the pilot episode.I remember a lot of talk amongst us kids at the time about how Lou Forrigno could really lift a car. But another "mega-feat" from comics that stands out because it looks so cool is this one from Neal Adams.
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Gary Olson Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | 12
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That Hercules scene from MTU Steve Ogden posted above is indeed "goofy". As that book's editor at the time (Roy Thomas?) pointed out, "Why, the damage to the Triboro(sp?) Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel alone would have..." Our host, JB, showed how it was done a few years later in his FF. The villainous Terrax drags Manhattan into space, and while the FF are busy, other super-doers like Thor and Iron Man pick up the slack. Iron Man, as Thor disappears into the churning waters below: "What the heck is he doing?"
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