“Everyone knows you put the skull in front of the middle tube and put the books near the desk. And why don’t you have a feeding tube set to take water from the water fountains? Did you expect them to digest food with the amniotic goo?”
He’ll Disney would make a movie out of it. And really they probably wouldn’t waist a major mage on it one of the assistant mage could probably clean this up in about an hour.
At this point, I wonder if she’s even having regrets like that. She earned this… for better or worse.
(Well, obviously worse. But only obvious to us from outside.)
Yeah, she’s earned her intended fate. I don’t find it to be a coincidence when HE’S talking about his “only loved one” & I see the initial setting-up of TWO more tubes there…
…Even more disturbing (to me, anyway) is that neither of those two new tubes are ready yet, but he’s still talking about his “loved one” while standing there nearly naked…
Unless they are related to management who cares about how they present themselves and the company. Then they get stuck in business “casual” while everyone else is running around in tee shirts and yoga pants.
They sent Tomar Re to take care of it, but he got caught in a supernova trying to shave some time off of his trip there. He recovered swiftly enough to get to Krypton and watch it explode.
Is that cannon? I just checked wikipedia, and apparently it is, and Krypton was located in sector 2813, which is of course “next door” to space sector 2814, Earth’s Sector. I suppose either Krypton is closer to Earth than we have been led to believe, or GL Space Sectors are much larger. Or maybe a little of both, couples with Krypton having fairly low tech in space travel technology compared to some FTL societies in the DCU.
It was canon a few years ago. After the Nu52, who knows?
And Green Lantern sectors are huge. Our galaxy, remember, is 100,000 light years across and averages about 1,000 light years in thickness. It’s a big freaking pancake.
There’s 3,600 sectors covering that. Three thousand, six hundred slices of a pie that’s one hundred thousand light years across and a thousand light years thick. Assuming they all have a wedge shape of equal size, that’s 28 light years (rounded up) for each sector.
There are 53 star systems within a 16 light year radius of our solar system. I forget why I looked this up, but it was a fun factoid.
Another fun factoid: When the Superman radio series came on, Kal-El was launched from Krypton as a baby and exited his space ship as a fully grown man in his twenties. It’s probably pure accident, but it does fit the idea that, if his ship were going exactly the speed of light during the entire trip and didn’t fall into a wormhole, it’d take twenty-something years for him to show up on Earth.
Assuming they all have a wedge shape of equal size, that’s 28 light years (rounded up) for each sector.
Hmm. The Rao system is 28 light years away from ours (revealed specifically in Action Comics (current series)…#11, IIRC…when Superman visited Neil Degrasse Tyson to see the light from Krypton’s explosion). Assuming both systems are near the outer edge of the galaxy, that puts them in approximately the same point relative to the rest of their sectors…
“Carol, I’m stripping because to make the trans-world jump we must be naked – like in (i)Terminator(/i). Also to jump together we must fool the transporter into thinking we’re one body, so we should embrace tightly for the trip. Now, let’s practice our technique on my desk.”
Welp, that escalated quickly. First, you’re burying the dead bodies for him and next thing you know, he’s declaring his love while in his underoos before he stuffs you into a tube to join him in an MMO. So romantic *sniffs, dabs tears*
To be fair, “loved one” doesn’t have to mean that. If he was confessing that kind of love, I don’t think he’d be in that underwear. I think he just trusts her, and is comfortable being unkempt around her.
I have several of these in my house. One of them even has a circle of magic stones that lights up when you flip a hidden switch. Good times, good times.
We shore seen this coming. HR’s been hinting about this for a long time. Ball is in your court, Carol. Strip down to bra and panties of RUN. RUN. RUN LIKE HELL.
Given that HR’s tie has always been purple we know that’s his, but what color will Carol be? I kind of doubt they’ll leave her sepia, after all, Gravedust is already brown. And it probably won’t be grey, Frigg already has grey. The light’s not on in hers yet at all (oh, god it’s going to be pink, isn’t it?)
Ok, one almost naked mad occultist, inviting his trustee sidekick in the basement, where two open “tubes” are waiting to be filled. I can do the maths.
I can imagine some ways for HR to activate the tubes after having hooked-up himself inside. I just hope he thought it through. It may prove difficult to reach out outside of the tube’s confine and throw a switch he has forgotten about.
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“Jor-EL was a loser”
Eh, he was not some corporate magnate, just a state scientist (err, OK, that could count as “loser”).
He has to work within the limits of his allotted resources. If the Krypton council’s planned budget cuts had hit any sooner, his rocket would have been so small, there would have been room only for his canary.
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@ Dave
“until Disneysoft takes over, finds this room, and unplugs everyone at once.”
Maybe the guy who will be sent is a MMO fan who will instead take over HR schemes.
Fast forward 50 years in the future, when Starbuck buy over Disneysoft, and find 3000 (occupied) tubes in the building. Passive-aggressive rogue A.I. (with cute turrets and nerve gas) as a bonus.
“He has to work within the limits of his allotted resources.”
Jor-El had to use his own private resources & keep the whole rocket project as secret as possible. Depending on whether you’re referring to to the pre-Crisis, Silver Age DC Jor-El (space travel was banned by Science Council Law), or if you’re looking at post-Crisis Jor-El (the Eradicator made space travel biologically impossible for Kryptonians), then there were very good reasons why he could only send out one small infant.
I thought HR wanted to get those 5 out of the tubes which is why he keeps trying to kill them in the game.
Has he changed his mind and if he can’t beat them he’s going to join them?
My understanding was that originally, he wanted to get them out ALIVE and return them to their families because a cover-up for five missing people can probably get sort of expensive. But as failure after failure to safely disconnect them from the system piled up, he began to change his view of what the reason for why they could not be brought back was.
His original plan, as I understand it, was to magically insert people INTO the game, as he did, during the Beta testing. Then, to market the greatest RPG experience ever. Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t get them out, so he resorted to manipulating the game to detriment of non-tubed players. That didn’t work. During all of this, his latent megalomania (or whatever) blossomed and he started to think of himself as the god of the people in the game, players and NPCs. So his plan has morphed since he started out and now he is over the cliff and falling.
I notice that one of the tubes is purple, the same color as HR’s magic necktie.
The other one is not colored. I don’t think it’ll be getting connected to Arkherra. I think it’s for something else. Even if he tells her that he wants her to join him, I think he has another plan.
One assumes that near nudity is in order to keep fibers, etc. from gunking up the liquid, not to provide modesty or contain “emissions”.
So why the heck would you send yourself into perpetual floatiness wearing tighty-whiteys? Can’t the Corp spring for a flattering shorty wetsuit or some other liquid-friendly garb with a little more style?
wait… we’ve seen HR in Arkerra (the ARK in Arkerra has taken a new meaning with his latest spiel), but which character is Carol? Assuming she goes along with it.
ok, re-read the arm part. I get it now. I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention to what actually happened in that scene. The purply stuff distracted me. Or that alt-text…
Yeah, I’ve always thought Jor-El was an idiot. Hello, space-faring race? Why haven’t you ALL moved to Earth, (or the moon, or Venus, or Mars or…), you morons?!? Or any OTHER yellow-starred system, for that matter – there are plenty to choose from.
Or, to be more accurate, the story-writers are idiots. Gaping plot hole nearly on par with one from Avatar (which is bloody well SAYING something). Of course, that movie had several that size…
In most cases Krypton was no longer a space-traveling civilization by the end of its lifespan, instead embracing xenophobia and Kryptocentrism.
Imperial China did something similar for quite a long stretch of history.
“There’s nothing out there for us, we’re the peak of culture and civilization, nothing but savages and ghosts outside.”
There was some version where Krypton didn’t have spaceships, and the one Superman escaped in was an alien spaceship that had crash-landed on Krypton, so it was the only one they had. I don’t remember what version of Superman that was from, though. But it made a lot more sense.
Generally speaking, as long as the writers don’t explicitly show any of the events on Krypton, it’s easy to imagine that there MIGHT have been a good reason why no one else escaped. Which is a perfectly valid way of handling a single story that you’re the writer for, but becomes impossible when it’s expanded into thousands of stories written across a span of a hundred years by dozens of different writers.
Man of Steel is the perfect example of what you are talking about – the point where you can imagine that they had a good reason was obliterated by that movie. Why are they mining their world to the point of implosion when they can visit literally billions of other planets?
I just went and read a bunch of stuff about Goyer after your comment regarding man of steel…and now I like it even less than I did before. thanks, I guess. Without going crazy on rehashing all the analysis, it kind of makes me sad that they even made the movie at all now, because I think they actually had some potential with that movie and with the cast, but didn’t even get close to reaching it. If they had never made that movie, I never would have known what they could have done but failed to do.
Honestly the plot-holes and logic lapses didn’t bother me nearly as much as the fact that he was apparently raised by the Bizarro-Kents.
Seriously the MoS Kents seemed to try to instill the exact opposite values in Clark as any other version of them, which is especially bad as I always felt that Ma and particularly Pa Kent were really what made Kal-El into Clark, and the reason Clark made himself into Superman.
Red Son Superman was better off with Stalin than those two chuckle-heads.
Hell, The Dark Side Superman might have been better off.
Yeah, there’s an idea, load billions of Kryptonians into a proverbial message in a bottle and burden another world with refugees suddenly teleporting into existence.
Kal-El on the other hand, proudly wearing his underwear on the outside for all to see whilst attempting to change the world by shining example, was a true genius!
At one time, the canon reason for more Kryptonians surviving has a number of causes. First, Braniac convinced the high council of Krypton that Jor-el was incorrect about the planet’s fate so it could use Krypton’s resources to save itself, and so it could record things up to the last second. Braniac also came to the conclusion that the fewer people who have a piece of information, the more valuable it becomes, so he didn’t want to save people who knew what he knew.
Second: Kryptonians cannot survive without kryptonite. Superman was an experiment trying to repair this dependency, which was originally caused by a rogue fanatic who didn’t want Kripton’s purity being diluted by having people go into space. He created kryptonite, released a virus to engineer people to need it, and started a chain reaction to spread kryptonite throughout the planet. This chain reaction is what actually destroyed Krypton, many centuries after the chain reaction was started. The phantom zone was engineered so Kryptonians could survive in it, but as a prior poster commented, it was also designed to be a hellhole to punish their worst criminals for the remainder of their days.
She’s been pulled in by his magnetism. Like the women who continually return to abusive partners she has sublimated herself to him. Unless she hits an inner breaking point she’s just going to keep getting in deeper and deeper following him. While he’s not shown abusive tendencies towards her he on some level knows that he has control over her. If she breaks that control he will most likely become violent. But it will take ether her reaching a breaking point or him perceiving that he has lost control, or that he can not save/protect her, for it to get to the point of one killing the other. They are in an interdependent phase at the moment.
To answer the question in the alt-text: because the negative zone is an antimatter universe in Marvel, the home of Annihilus and Blastaar. The PHANTOM zone is where Kryptonians sent their criminals.
That’s fantastic until Disneysoft takes over, finds this room, and unplugs everyone at once.
Yyyyeah except magic, which we’ve seen him use. Maybe unplugging doesn’t work any more?
I’m starting to think that the tubes are teleporters and D’s magic did in fact create another world.
Leave your body behind.
Yyyyeah I failed to account for magic. :x
Are you kidding? Disney has dozens of rooms like this one.
Yeah, Disney would bring in their IHM (in-house mage), he’d probably take one look around, scoff, and go “Wow this HR guy is a real noob.”
“Everyone knows you put the skull in front of the middle tube and put the books near the desk. And why don’t you have a feeding tube set to take water from the water fountains? Did you expect them to digest food with the amniotic goo?”
I am legit scared to click the Next Page button…
“I can show you the world, Carol.”
“In your tighty whities, HR? WTF?”
“A whole new world
With new horizons to pursue
I’ll chase them anywhere
There’s time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you
A whole new world (A whole new world)
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we’re only dreaming…”
He’ll Disney would make a movie out of it. And really they probably wouldn’t waist a major mage on it one of the assistant mage could probably clean this up in about an hour.
Stupid phone I meant Hell now stop messing with my posts.
Again, Disney’s experience with assistant mages is not so good.
Well not that one he’s still at the apprentice stage. They will probably send a journeyman assistant.
walt himself slumbers within one. waiting for death itself to die.
they’d do it too
“…I really, really should’ve listened to Shanna.”
At this point, I wonder if she’s even having regrets like that. She earned this… for better or worse.
(Well, obviously worse. But only obvious to us from outside.)
Yeah, she’s earned her intended fate. I don’t find it to be a coincidence when HE’S talking about his “only loved one” & I see the initial setting-up of TWO more tubes there…
…Even more disturbing (to me, anyway) is that neither of those two new tubes are ready yet, but he’s still talking about his “loved one” while standing there nearly naked…
Because the Phantom Zone was a place of hellish torment where they’d been sending their criminals for years?
His secret hideout’s looking a lot cleaner than it has been.
Better to be briefly sent to Hell with a means of getting out than to just be straight up dead.
I bet you thought HR couldn’t get any more creepy.
At least the fact that he’s kept his underwear on for his plea to Carol makes it hilarious-creepy instead of “pass the brain bleach” creepy.
As usual, the boss takes Causual Friday too far…
And, I’m a troll. I am allowed to mix “casual” with “causal”.
#dontdothisathome
Causual Friday: a weekly event that causes employees to become more casual.
Unless they are related to management who cares about how they present themselves and the company. Then they get stuck in business “casual” while everyone else is running around in tee shirts and yoga pants.
Causal friday – the one day a week when I pretend that my actions actually matter :P
Causal Friday – the one day a week when what you do even has any effect whatsoever.
“Causual” sounds like the British version of casual. Maybe you’re British?
What I want to know is, where the heck was the goram Green Lantern Corps? You’d think that they’d care about a dangerously unstable Krypton.
They sent Tomar Re to take care of it, but he got caught in a supernova trying to shave some time off of his trip there. He recovered swiftly enough to get to Krypton and watch it explode.
Is that cannon? I just checked wikipedia, and apparently it is, and Krypton was located in sector 2813, which is of course “next door” to space sector 2814, Earth’s Sector. I suppose either Krypton is closer to Earth than we have been led to believe, or GL Space Sectors are much larger. Or maybe a little of both, couples with Krypton having fairly low tech in space travel technology compared to some FTL societies in the DCU.
It was canon a few years ago. After the Nu52, who knows?
And Green Lantern sectors are huge. Our galaxy, remember, is 100,000 light years across and averages about 1,000 light years in thickness. It’s a big freaking pancake.
There’s 3,600 sectors covering that. Three thousand, six hundred slices of a pie that’s one hundred thousand light years across and a thousand light years thick. Assuming they all have a wedge shape of equal size, that’s 28 light years (rounded up) for each sector.
There are 53 star systems within a 16 light year radius of our solar system. I forget why I looked this up, but it was a fun factoid.
Another fun factoid: When the Superman radio series came on, Kal-El was launched from Krypton as a baby and exited his space ship as a fully grown man in his twenties. It’s probably pure accident, but it does fit the idea that, if his ship were going exactly the speed of light during the entire trip and didn’t fall into a wormhole, it’d take twenty-something years for him to show up on Earth.
Hmm. The Rao system is 28 light years away from ours (revealed specifically in Action Comics (current series)…#11, IIRC…when Superman visited Neil Degrasse Tyson to see the light from Krypton’s explosion). Assuming both systems are near the outer edge of the galaxy, that puts them in approximately the same point relative to the rest of their sectors…
Awww, that would be so sweet if HR wasn’t obviously insane.
“Carol, I’m stripping because to make the trans-world jump we must be naked – like in (i)Terminator(/i). Also to jump together we must fool the transporter into thinking we’re one body, so we should embrace tightly for the trip. Now, let’s practice our technique on my desk.”
Make that Terminator
Welp, that escalated quickly. First, you’re burying the dead bodies for him and next thing you know, he’s declaring his love while in his underoos before he stuffs you into a tube to join him in an MMO. So romantic *sniffs, dabs tears*
It’s too bad for Carol that she’s past the point of of replying “Ahhh… no thanks, I’ll take a pass on that.”
Then again, she’s wearing flats… which should increase her running speed.
To be fair, “loved one” doesn’t have to mean that. If he was confessing that kind of love, I don’t think he’d be in that underwear. I think he just trusts her, and is comfortable being unkempt around her.
I don’t think he even KNOWS that he’s only wearing undies
Well from the context of the “where we can be gods,” part or his ramblings I think he wants to turn her into a goddes.
I take it that good old HR skipped the “sexual harassment in the work place” video
Carol watched it for him.
She’s probably regretting that now.
We are going to a new world, a world where we don’t need pants!
I don’t see a ton of spare undies drying on a clothesline down in that basement, if you catch my drift…ewwwww
With blackjack! And hookers!
HR is going full Walter White it seems.
He’s definitely more than half way to a Full Monte…
And if you look closely, you can see his Python!
And apparently he did not read the notes shrimp took for him.
She. I really need to remember to use the stylus.
I’m not sure why – probably the underpants – but for some reason today’s Dedalus seems like he’d be played well by David Duchovny.
Now that you mention it, he does have that sort of Duchovny brand of almost-crazy about him.
Neither is “almost”.
You guys just want to see Duchovny in his tightie whities.
Cliffmonster, you got the PERFECT avatar for that today.
Actually, all the avatars in this particular little thread are amazingly good for the comments. Time to see what mine is…
So if that is the Book of Avatars that Gravy is reading, then I guess Deoxy’s avatar is perfect, too.
I wouldn’t object to seeing Duchovney in tighty whiteys, but I’d rather without.
Should’ve gone with boxer briefs, HR.
What’s the ginormous book on the desk behind them?
If I had to guess, I would say its his spell book.
It’s standard kit for any crazed genius dabbling in magic… an enormous Book of Doom. :p
I have several of these in my house. One of them even has a circle of magic stones that lights up when you flip a hidden switch. Good times, good times.
Where the hell is mine?
Did the post lose my shit again?
thats the book he used to summon Homon
We shore seen this coming. HR’s been hinting about this for a long time. Ball is in your court, Carol. Strip down to bra and panties of RUN. RUN. RUN LIKE HELL.
“Let me slip into something more comfortable.”
Slips into car. Starts engine. Drives like mad.
Protective custody probably sounds pretty comfortable right about now.
Ah, the Almost Naked Man. Works two out of three times.
“what are you doing…?!”
“…Birthday suiting up?”
Wonder what color the new tubes are gonna be.
Judging by the colours of the tops of the tubes, Purple/Magenta for one and Gray/Black for the other.
Given that HR’s tie has always been purple we know that’s his, but what color will Carol be? I kind of doubt they’ll leave her sepia, after all, Gravedust is already brown. And it probably won’t be grey, Frigg already has grey. The light’s not on in hers yet at all (oh, god it’s going to be pink, isn’t it?)
It will be the color of Pad Thai
You can see: purple and sepia.
Ok, one almost naked mad occultist, inviting his trustee sidekick in the basement, where two open “tubes” are waiting to be filled. I can do the maths.
I can imagine some ways for HR to activate the tubes after having hooked-up himself inside. I just hope he thought it through. It may prove difficult to reach out outside of the tube’s confine and throw a switch he has forgotten about.
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“Jor-EL was a loser”
Eh, he was not some corporate magnate, just a state scientist (err, OK, that could count as “loser”).
He has to work within the limits of his allotted resources. If the Krypton council’s planned budget cuts had hit any sooner, his rocket would have been so small, there would have been room only for his canary.
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@ Dave
“until Disneysoft takes over, finds this room, and unplugs everyone at once.”
Maybe the guy who will be sent is a MMO fan who will instead take over HR schemes.
Fast forward 50 years in the future, when Starbuck buy over Disneysoft, and find 3000 (occupied) tubes in the building. Passive-aggressive rogue A.I. (with cute turrets and nerve gas) as a bonus.
well, at least all 3000 of them are still alive
Super Bird would be a way better comic than Superman.
“He has to work within the limits of his allotted resources.”
Jor-El had to use his own private resources & keep the whole rocket project as secret as possible. Depending on whether you’re referring to to the pre-Crisis, Silver Age DC Jor-El (space travel was banned by Science Council Law), or if you’re looking at post-Crisis Jor-El (the Eradicator made space travel biologically impossible for Kryptonians), then there were very good reasons why he could only send out one small infant.
I thought HR wanted to get those 5 out of the tubes which is why he keeps trying to kill them in the game.
Has he changed his mind and if he can’t beat them he’s going to join them?
If he wanted to get them out of the tubes, all he would have to do is break the glass.
He never wanted to free them. He wanted to control them. He wanted to control everything.
My understanding was that originally, he wanted to get them out ALIVE and return them to their families because a cover-up for five missing people can probably get sort of expensive. But as failure after failure to safely disconnect them from the system piled up, he began to change his view of what the reason for why they could not be brought back was.
His original plan, as I understand it, was to magically insert people INTO the game, as he did, during the Beta testing. Then, to market the greatest RPG experience ever. Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t get them out, so he resorted to manipulating the game to detriment of non-tubed players. That didn’t work. During all of this, his latent megalomania (or whatever) blossomed and he started to think of himself as the god of the people in the game, players and NPCs. So his plan has morphed since he started out and now he is over the cliff and falling.
Not sure this setup would survive glaciers or nuclear armageddon.
Well, even if the room did survive, the power source wouldn’t unless it was a direct geothermal tap.
Last I heard, they aren’t in Iceland. ;)
I notice that one of the tubes is purple, the same color as HR’s magic necktie.
The other one is not colored. I don’t think it’ll be getting connected to Arkherra. I think it’s for something else. Even if he tells her that he wants her to join him, I think he has another plan.
HR just needs to start losing his hair to get the whole ‘Breaking Bad’ analogy to work.
“youre worried about making it into a PUG for the global raid event… I AM the global event.”
Saw it coming.
I predict this is how all youtubers will eventually end up.
Reverse Matrix?
Welcome to the Machine.
Walter White got his hair back!
B….but… It won’t be “Breaking Bald” anymore! (seriously, the number of bald people in that show is amazing).
Oh, snap! I see two prepped tubes! I think Carol is about to experience more than she signed up for.
Hmm… Carol’s lack of reaction to HR’s state of undress implies much, IMO.
“Same shit, different day”?
HR has gone Heisenberg
Uh oh. Two empty pods…
Well, at least he cleaned up the joint
One assumes that near nudity is in order to keep fibers, etc. from gunking up the liquid, not to provide modesty or contain “emissions”.
So why the heck would you send yourself into perpetual floatiness wearing tighty-whiteys? Can’t the Corp spring for a flattering shorty wetsuit or some other liquid-friendly garb with a little more style?
wait… we’ve seen HR in Arkerra (the ARK in Arkerra has taken a new meaning with his latest spiel), but which character is Carol? Assuming she goes along with it.
so is this a flashback then, do you think? I was trying to figure out how he extricated himself.
For point of clarity:
The HR that is currently bopping around Arkerra is a clone made from his blood and Ferris’ arm named “Homon.”
ooooohhhhh. That makes sense. Am I that dumb that I didn’t get that from reading the comic? Maybe I’ll go back and re-read the arm part…
ok, re-read the arm part. I get it now. I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention to what actually happened in that scene. The purply stuff distracted me. Or that alt-text…
Mostly naked with two empty tubes? I’d say this escalated rather quickly. But it was coming all along wasn’t it?
“Carol, where are my paaaaaants?” *insert canned laughter here*
HR does kind of look like Emmitt, if Emmitt were way older with a moustache and glasses…But Carol looks nothing like Wild Style in any universe.
That’s because Emmet’s face was so generic it matches every other face.
Hey! Emmet was a unique person! He looks like only himself and no one else!
Case in point, Jor-El wore underpants outside his pants, I have eliminated pants from the equation completely.
*slow clap*
Yeah, I’ve always thought Jor-El was an idiot. Hello, space-faring race? Why haven’t you ALL moved to Earth, (or the moon, or Venus, or Mars or…), you morons?!? Or any OTHER yellow-starred system, for that matter – there are plenty to choose from.
Or, to be more accurate, the story-writers are idiots. Gaping plot hole nearly on par with one from Avatar (which is bloody well SAYING something). Of course, that movie had several that size…
Avatar was a black hole of plot holes . . . or something like that
In most cases Krypton was no longer a space-traveling civilization by the end of its lifespan, instead embracing xenophobia and Kryptocentrism.
Imperial China did something similar for quite a long stretch of history.
“There’s nothing out there for us, we’re the peak of culture and civilization, nothing but savages and ghosts outside.”
There was some version where Krypton didn’t have spaceships, and the one Superman escaped in was an alien spaceship that had crash-landed on Krypton, so it was the only one they had. I don’t remember what version of Superman that was from, though. But it made a lot more sense.
Generally speaking, as long as the writers don’t explicitly show any of the events on Krypton, it’s easy to imagine that there MIGHT have been a good reason why no one else escaped. Which is a perfectly valid way of handling a single story that you’re the writer for, but becomes impossible when it’s expanded into thousands of stories written across a span of a hundred years by dozens of different writers.
Man of Steel is the perfect example of what you are talking about – the point where you can imagine that they had a good reason was obliterated by that movie. Why are they mining their world to the point of implosion when they can visit literally billions of other planets?
Because Goyer is a fucking hack.
I just went and read a bunch of stuff about Goyer after your comment regarding man of steel…and now I like it even less than I did before. thanks, I guess. Without going crazy on rehashing all the analysis, it kind of makes me sad that they even made the movie at all now, because I think they actually had some potential with that movie and with the cast, but didn’t even get close to reaching it. If they had never made that movie, I never would have known what they could have done but failed to do.
Honestly the plot-holes and logic lapses didn’t bother me nearly as much as the fact that he was apparently raised by the Bizarro-Kents.
Seriously the MoS Kents seemed to try to instill the exact opposite values in Clark as any other version of them, which is especially bad as I always felt that Ma and particularly Pa Kent were really what made Kal-El into Clark, and the reason Clark made himself into Superman.
Red Son Superman was better off with Stalin than those two chuckle-heads.
Hell, The Dark Side Superman might have been better off.
Ladies and gentlemen: the greatest race in history!
The race to end all races!
In fact, the race to end history!
Yeah, there’s an idea, load billions of Kryptonians into a proverbial message in a bottle and burden another world with refugees suddenly teleporting into existence.
As usual, the avatar selection algorithm is excellent.
Kal-El on the other hand, proudly wearing his underwear on the outside for all to see whilst attempting to change the world by shining example, was a true genius!
back from a bit of a webcomic hiatus. good to know HR still doesnt open his mouth.
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The next line from the director of this game to Carol should be: “Does this hand smell like chloroform to you?!”
At one time, the canon reason for more Kryptonians surviving has a number of causes. First, Braniac convinced the high council of Krypton that Jor-el was incorrect about the planet’s fate so it could use Krypton’s resources to save itself, and so it could record things up to the last second. Braniac also came to the conclusion that the fewer people who have a piece of information, the more valuable it becomes, so he didn’t want to save people who knew what he knew.
Second: Kryptonians cannot survive without kryptonite. Superman was an experiment trying to repair this dependency, which was originally caused by a rogue fanatic who didn’t want Kripton’s purity being diluted by having people go into space. He created kryptonite, released a virus to engineer people to need it, and started a chain reaction to spread kryptonite throughout the planet. This chain reaction is what actually destroyed Krypton, many centuries after the chain reaction was started. The phantom zone was engineered so Kryptonians could survive in it, but as a prior poster commented, it was also designed to be a hellhole to punish their worst criminals for the remainder of their days.
Welp, anyone wanna take bets on how long it’ll take before one of ’em kills the other?
She’s been pulled in by his magnetism. Like the women who continually return to abusive partners she has sublimated herself to him. Unless she hits an inner breaking point she’s just going to keep getting in deeper and deeper following him. While he’s not shown abusive tendencies towards her he on some level knows that he has control over her. If she breaks that control he will most likely become violent. But it will take ether her reaching a breaking point or him perceiving that he has lost control, or that he can not save/protect her, for it to get to the point of one killing the other. They are in an interdependent phase at the moment.
To answer the question in the alt-text: because the negative zone is an antimatter universe in Marvel, the home of Annihilus and Blastaar. The PHANTOM zone is where Kryptonians sent their criminals.
(this has been your nerdly nitpicking of the day)
HAH. Well, I was raised Marvel, so.
I like how your phrasing implies that DC and Marvel are religions, Phil.
“Heads up, True Believers!”
~Stan Lee
He cleaned up! It’s the calm before the storm in his insanity.