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xizar
*ten* fucking shots?
JinxRocks
Reminded me of the other one about CIA snipers trying to kill Kent because they know who he is. Oddly, saw it going like this….
cousteau
Kid with the toy gun: *BRAAP BRRA-A-A-AP BRAP BRAP* "And now I'm gonna turn on the sound on this thing!"
mward1984
Okay, that crack about the change in costumes is 100% indicative that the writer and artist were having IRL beef, but they both need this job.
RexLibris
I had that M-16. That and a flintlock-y gun because it was the bicentennial.
jeejeejerrycotton
I had that gun
thepopeof2nd
I did too!
WitchCityHound
I had a m1 replica myself.
TheobromineAddict
I had the "tommy gun" version of that.
Snooj
I didn't have it but I used one. I can still hear it.
DidItForScience
Moo goo poo is just the we don't give a fuck about your culture style of the time.
Snooj
If I ever see bullets on a table my *immediate* thought is that the person I'm with is Superman and they bounced off his chest.
tinyfootprints
The gun ad made me think about Tamir Rice. The world has changed.
TomBrokaw
I wish it had. Tamir was black, M16 ad kid was white.
tinyfootprints
I haven't seen an ad like that for decades. And I'm happy about that. America's gun culture is unhealthy.
hetnkik999
I do not approve of the contraction "wait'll".
Stanistani
Y'all'd've iffen you'd been thar.
CedricDur
The old timey comic story telling where they exposition every move. I read some old Avengers comics and it as dire to see they behave as if the reader was new and talking about their moves as they did them.
williamvanauger
See this is why people think superman is boring. He never gets to do shit like this in movies. Like when the joker was trying to kill Clark Kent and he kept having to think up ways to narrowly escape without blowing his cover.
SlipstreamSal
There's this moment from Superman #8, feat. Saul Goodman
Mcmaclassie
#4 This ad reminds me of a reprint I had of the first issue of the Incredible Hulk... they reprinted *everything*. Including the ads that said you could learn to be an air conditioner repairman in your spare time :P
Ermennda
That will be an interesting meal coming out.
Ermennda
y
Feralkyn
"Oh, oh! I feel bullets thudding against my chest! The flattened slugs are bouncing onto the table!" This reads like incredibly bad anime porn where they feel the need to spell it out from the character's perspective explicitly for some reason lmao
pilomotor
That's usually carrying over from the manga version, where it's impossible to show everything that's happening. Also the reason characters feel a need to announce the name of their attack.
kubi
"The Long Hair Gang"
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Epic internetting
Higure
This somehow reminds me of "On a silver platter" by Don Rosa.
MedusaPubes
There's a more modern one too- Clark gets mistaken for Bruce Wayne (off the grid training at the time) and gets stuck entertaining a yacht full of supermodels, drinking, and surviving an assassination attempt from Deathstroke.
AndrlCh
I love Superman: American Alien. The whole theme of Clark trying to find out who he is (both as a person and where he is from) is done really well.
mward1984
I feel like Deathstroke would probably realise that he's not Bruce Wayne but that one reporter for the Daily Planet who had that series of exposes on Lead Water pipes in Metropolis fairly quickly?
letthecatout
anyone have a recipe for Moo Goo Poo?
halo00to14
No, but I can tell you how to make a Chinese egg roll.
Valase
That's easy; just put them onto a flat surface and give them a push, they will roll exactly like European or American eggs... ;-)
halo00to14
I would just push them down a hill...
Valase
Hm, I not sure about this one... @Sisyphus, would you agree with this person?
ThePastmaster
Apparently no such thing. There is a Moo Goo Gai Pan though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo_goo_gai_pan
GuitarBobMonterey
One could add the Pupu Platter on the side.
alcamar
One of my favorite bits in a comic book was Hulk and Thing meeting up to arm wrestle in some run down bar. A bunch of their enemies came to attack them while they were occupied, but they were so focused on the event they ignored everything. That is until the chairs fell apart after a bomb was dropped on the place. They just grunted and walked away until next time, IIRC
Crowlands
I remember that. There's one panel where someone just runs up on Thing and takes a pneumatic drill to his back, and it does Nothing.
HuruinaInu
One of mine is the X-Men playing baseball
wozat
One time the Thing was down in the dumps, drinking a lot at his favorite bar. The She-Hulk dropped by to see how he was doing, but he was really miserable. She grabs him and throws him outside, and starts fighting him. This gets him really riled up. They end up destroying a lot of buildings. Fortunately Ben realizes what's going on when the last building on the block still standing has a demolition crew on it, enjoying watching the action.
wozat
https://imgur.com/qURxqxA From #299.
EmptyHouseBurglar
Oof. Yeah that's my idea of a great time. I've had a few partners who enjoy a good bout of *aked fighting and wrestling. That's the stuff.
HashMaster9k
Yup, this is/was kind of a trend in comics going all the way back to the silver age. For example, and I think the first occurrence of it— there was a comic about "who was faster: Superman or The Flash?" (which was then teased about on film at the end of the Justice League movie, I recall). The storyline never actually resolves the question, so an "official answer" has evaded being made canon— Superman and Flash get interrupted by villain shenanigans and it's never addressed in the end.
wozat
Draw, then a photo finish but still a draw, then Supes won, then Wally West outpaced Supes but they weren't racing, then Barry Allen outpaced Supes and it was revealed the first three races didn't count because they were done for charity and Allen wasn't taking it seriously. There's probably 1-2 more of these I haven't read yet.
VictusVonGuyver
Actually it comes full circle twice in DC comics.
The injustice comics actually have a panel addressing this.
Superman reminded Flash he won during their race. Flash looks at him and in a seriousness replies "That was for charity Clark." Giving Supes a pretty blunt answer about what really happened.
Another comic has Superman trying to run with both Berry and Wally West. He actually fails to keep up because neither one slowed down because they were too focused on arguing with one another.
giraffytaffy
I think I remember my little brother have a Golden Books telling of the story!
giraffytaffy
UncleMeaty
Mcmaclassie
These ones are great... there's one where Clark points out that Wonder Woman doesn't need to block bullets with her wrists since she's bulletproof, so she stops doing so to show him why, and the people shooting at them start giggling when her boobs jiggle with every bullet that hits her :P
Monkeyspearfish
I love how unhinged they look in the last panel.
eadanke
I didnt know superman could make other things fly, though it does support the theory that he can impart his hardiness to anything he touches
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
The range of early-Superman powers is, to put it lightly, ridiculous and alllll over the place.
barbarian818
aka "bullshit". Sure bumpers used to be a hell fo a lot stouter than they are today. But there is no way you should be able to swing a Studebaker by its bumper and have it remain intact. And anything that can stop a locomotive within a handful of yards is going to utterly cave in the nose and make the rest of the consist derail.
Higure
He's flying and holding it up. At least that's how I read it.
eadanke
holding it up by what though? I wouldn't expect there to be anything in the pilot's seat by which one could lift the whole thing and keep it level.
PyroAvok
He's holding the seat cushion with his ass cheeks
Noodlesocks
To be fair, I wouldn't expect a flying alien with super strength to not be the questionable part.
ThePastmaster
In one comic he could use finger guns and shoot tiny clones of himself. In another he sneezed in space and destroyed a solar system.
TomBrokaw
goddamned space pollen!
ps238principal
This implies his shirt is bulletproof as well.
FruitFlyInStrangePlaces
If you hit a shirt laying on an anvil with a hammer, it doesn't make a hole. Why would a bullet?
SyntheticCK
Is the hammer also explosive and super hot?
FruitFlyInStrangePlaces
Never thought about the temperature. I thiught the friction with the air would have cooled it down but apparently not. Good to know.
TheobromineAddict
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson
landline
From the Edna Mode gallery, of course.
briham86
Not even his shirt. The restaurant gives people apparently bulletproof Chinese clothes to wear while eating lunch, because that's a totally normal thing for restaurants to do.
Ninjainslippers
*The Chinese restaurant's shirt
thehatter10x6
Supplied by the restaurant too. The movie reason his cape and costume tend to last fire and explosions was that it was made of the indestructible cloth fibers that swaddled him on his flight from krypton
BonafideHomicide
Seems like it would have been difficult material to cut and sew into the outfit. Great job, Martha
thehatter10x6
Ma Kent raised a hero, she can do anything
astrangehop
Well, I guess she could have the patience to tease out threads to use if she's a really good seamstress. How to cut the fabric though? Kryptonite scissors?
DianNaoChong
Well otherwise you get midiclorians from start wars. You see, clothing close to Clark rarely gets ripped or harmed and Martha noticed it rarely even got dirty when he was a kid. This is why in flights the Cape gets damaged first.They later explain why but really do you want to know? It just keeps getting worse.
whatpassesforclever
Really kills the suspension of disbelief.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Same way he lifts the boat by the wheel - let's say he can extend his powers to things. Cuz comic book magic.
pilomotor
Yeah, some comics refer to this ability as "tactile telekinesis", giving a superhero control over whatever they touch. It's used to explain how, for example, a normal-sized person can safely catch a falling plane instead of simply ripping a hole through it.
Crowlands
"Tactile Telekinesis" is a power one of the stories gave him, to explain it. He can apply his invulnerability to things he touches.
SyntheticCK
It's a retcon excuse to explain why buildings don't collapse when he lifts them at an angle.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
SyntheticCK
lol Exactly. "Well you see, the mech is emitting a field that stops it from breaking." I'm fine with just suspending disbelief.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
it does break further, but maybe a military naval engineer could guesstimate if that's enough breakage or the pieces would flop like a soggy baguette
Brhino
I believe the officially explanation is that Superman possesses an invulnerability field that extends a bit beyond his body and covers his clothes but not the edge of the cape. Otherwise, every little explosion would result in a butt naked superman saving the day.
Dimension09
Don't tease me with a good time
oldguyexlurker
Thanks Edna! The hero we ALL needed.
oldguyexlurker
Gen V - Golden Boy...
Colopty
That'd be correct, he's got a nearly skin-tight forcefield. However, in the Silver Age it was because his suit was from Krypton and apparently everything from that planet is invulnerable. Given that this is from a Silver Age comic we can conclude the restaurant is secretly run by Kryptonians.
JainaSolo
Undead Unluck has that happen quite a bit with Andy.
mineoc
I could live with that.
mormonbatman
It's 2024 - where is Butt Naked Superman?
stayingalive4life
That would just give a whole new meaning to Man of Steel
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
In Superman: Man of Tomorrow the dvd animated film.
mormonbatman
Animated? Bullshit.
astrangehop
Half of the dc animated movies are really good imho.
JanglesPrime
It has cursing and Lobo gives the finger as well.
luckybreak91
That is the official explanation, however that wasn't established until I believe the 90's, more then 20 years after this comic came out.
wozat
I think the invulnerable extendable force field thing was a product of John Byrne's post-Crisis Superman alterations. So maybe Clark wanted to dine there because he knew the provided shirts were made of kevlar. /s
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
I was gonna "Ackchyually" you with this comic predating Kevlar by a good bit, but fortunately fact-checked myself first. This comic: 1967. Kevlar invented: 1965. (Not really commercially available until the 70s, but Superman probably had connections.)
wozat
I dodged a bullet there.
SuperSaiyanYamcha
There’s a novel called “It’s Superman” where he takes a costume from a movie set and uses that as his super-suit. It shreds after a fight and Lex Luthor gifts Superman a suit made of the recently developed Kevlar.
SyntheticCK
It's an excuse to explain why a skyscraper doesn't collapse when he lift an entire building off the ground at an angle.
Knifesmith
If you're an anime fan, you've probably seen this. If not it's "One Punch Man" which is a riff on the "I trained to be the strongest ever!" trope, and is pretty hilarious. But yeah, guy gets caught in a blast, and his (I think PJ's) get shredded/burnt off.
Malus333
Pretty sure he did it to himself while chasing a mosquito and the the queen mosquito
Kyrorayne
https://youtu.be/ZD-qCjId9Wg?si=QCZUQB8O__p4-7Xi here you go
SoupCanMan
Now, robot guy sets a city block worth of mosquitoes on fire. Saitama was just trying to get that one mosquitoe and was in the blast area.
Malus333
You're right. Been awhile since I watched and I just remembered the skeeter scene