Comments on: The Dynamic Duo http://fortressofortitude.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-dynamic-duo/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: The Fortress Keeper http://fortressofortitude.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-dynamic-duo/#comment-16961 The Fortress Keeper Fri, 09 May 2008 00:49:40 +0000 http://fortressofortitude.wordpress.com/?p=1535#comment-16961 When I first read the story, I had much the same reaction. Then I heard that Simon & Kirby were channeling their feelings about Hitler's conquest of Europe into the strip, and the sentiment of defeating an enemy at all costs made a little more sense. In the next installment, there's a lot of talk about disarmament so Blue Bolt and friends weren't completely blood-thirsty. Of course, they did employ a mind-wipe to get the job done ... When I first read the story, I had much the same reaction. Then I heard that Simon & Kirby were channeling their feelings about Hitler’s conquest of Europe into the strip, and the sentiment of defeating an enemy at all costs made a little more sense.

In the next installment, there’s a lot of talk about disarmament so Blue Bolt and friends weren’t completely blood-thirsty.

Of course, they did employ a mind-wipe to get the job done …

]]> By: CalvinPitt http://fortressofortitude.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-dynamic-duo/#comment-16960 CalvinPitt Thu, 08 May 2008 04:21:34 +0000 http://fortressofortitude.wordpress.com/?p=1535#comment-16960 It's funny. Normally, I'd expect that if the story opens on a character talking about their completing a machine to hurl trillions of volts of electricity at someone's kingdom, with the hero in the same room, that character would be the villain, who captured the hero. I can really picture Silver Age Lex Luthor spouting that off to a captured Jimmy Olsen, who's bait so Lex can try shooting Superman with trillions of volts (which Superman would probably pretend to be affected by, so he could be brought inside Lex' lair, so he could deliver a more humiliating defeat). I wonder if that means anything in relation to changes in comics, or if it's just me. It’s funny. Normally, I’d expect that if the story opens on a character talking about their completing a machine to hurl trillions of volts of electricity at someone’s kingdom, with the hero in the same room, that character would be the villain, who captured the hero.

I can really picture Silver Age Lex Luthor spouting that off to a captured Jimmy Olsen, who’s bait so Lex can try shooting Superman with trillions of volts (which Superman would probably pretend to be affected by, so he could be brought inside Lex’ lair, so he could deliver a more humiliating defeat).

I wonder if that means anything in relation to changes in comics, or if it’s just me.

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