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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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Context is Superman (1939) #300, page 7

Transcript:

Scientist #1: Great Scott! The hatch is opening--

Scientist #1: --and a baby is coming out!

Scientist #2: Look! He's as invulnerable to the laser as is his rocket!

Kal-El: I am hungry!

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[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

"Incredible! Let's get the dynamite!"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm also worried about the fact that these people don't seem to know the difference between an articulate child who appears to be around four years old and a baby.

Maybe that's why they shot him with a laser in the first place. They think that's how you feed a baby.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

-What did you do at work today, honey?

-I shot a baby in the face with a laser.

-I think I want a divorce...

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This must be what all those conservative weirdos think abortion is

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is a Jewish space laser.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is so weird, but the amount of information in this one panel would be sufficient for 1 episode / entire series today:

  1. Found a rocket
  2. Experimented with rocket
  3. Rocket showed signs of unlocking
  4. Setting up lab around the hatch
  5. Hatch opens
  6. Vocal in English Child emerges (did the rocket listen and teach?)
  7. Child is immune as rocket to experimentation.

Bonus: Questionable Ethics of the Luther Corp for experiments on children. Did this happen to others?

Foreshadowing on Episode 2: Unstoppable Child discovers its abilities, Series turns into a prison break from high security laboratory with Superman and Batman villains at various ages. (Basically "The new Mutants")

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The part where the hatch opens needs a frame where one of the guards freaks out and fires a laser before others stop him. Then it would be clear how the fuck did they discover the laser-resistance.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's even simpler than that... they were firing the laser at the hatch when it opened, and the laser beam hit the "baby" before they'd had a chance to turn it off.

[–] outstanding_bond@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’m curious about the use of the word “laser” here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldn’t be invented until the 1960s. And the word “laser” is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesn’t seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

I think the date must be wrong