Super heroes?
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:08 pm
Hiy, Nick... You are the master collector, and your research has resulted in finding hundreds, maybe thousands, of spanking pictures which we gratefully download onto our own files. You are very thorough, too, bringing us many stories behind the panels. What I would like to learn from you now is maybe a tough question, but if anyone can answer it, that person is you.
Several times I have read this: Superman is the only comics superhero who is completely invincible. He can fly, he can read minds, he is twenty times stronger than any other creature on earth, and on and on.
Yeah, that's an attractive set of skills. So attractive, in fact, that Superman's impact on the comics led to the creation of several other so-called "super-heroes" in the funny papers. There were Captain Marvel (who, I think, has been adjudicated out of existence because of similarities to Superman), Batman, Aquaman, The Phantom, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and a litany of new super-heroes.
My question, which I have based on the overwhelming array of superheroes in the public press, boils down to this:
Is Superman the ONLY superhero who has unlimited powers?
We know that Wonder Woman can fly in her "invisible airplane;" Spider-Man can travel through the air by using his web-making ability; Plastic Man can reshape his body into every conceivable form, thus allowing him to appear to "bad guys" as a piece of furniture or other commodity. And on and on.
But in drawing a character such as Captain Woodshed, I recognize that his very name signals his primary ability. But can he fly? Can he become invisible? Can he be another "Man of Steel?" If I'm going to stick with this character, I think his skills should be more expansive than just: Can spank naughty girls.
Any ideas on this?
Cheers,
Dan
Several times I have read this: Superman is the only comics superhero who is completely invincible. He can fly, he can read minds, he is twenty times stronger than any other creature on earth, and on and on.
Yeah, that's an attractive set of skills. So attractive, in fact, that Superman's impact on the comics led to the creation of several other so-called "super-heroes" in the funny papers. There were Captain Marvel (who, I think, has been adjudicated out of existence because of similarities to Superman), Batman, Aquaman, The Phantom, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and a litany of new super-heroes.
My question, which I have based on the overwhelming array of superheroes in the public press, boils down to this:
Is Superman the ONLY superhero who has unlimited powers?
We know that Wonder Woman can fly in her "invisible airplane;" Spider-Man can travel through the air by using his web-making ability; Plastic Man can reshape his body into every conceivable form, thus allowing him to appear to "bad guys" as a piece of furniture or other commodity. And on and on.
But in drawing a character such as Captain Woodshed, I recognize that his very name signals his primary ability. But can he fly? Can he become invisible? Can he be another "Man of Steel?" If I'm going to stick with this character, I think his skills should be more expansive than just: Can spank naughty girls.
Any ideas on this?
Cheers,
Dan