The now NEW Official DC Stupid Questions thread: Didio Headaches - Part 1

[slimshady247]

Are all three parts of Knightfall a good read?

 

[Anubis]

I was watching some Danial Tosh stand up and he asked a question that I simply couldn't answer.

How does Superman fly faster? How does anybody fly faster?

 

[Artistsean]

I listened to this documentary on youtube, while I worked on my art, called the science of superman. It brought up the idea that maybe Superman uses magnetic waves, or radio waves, or something. Real invisible waves that exist in our world. They came up with the idea that, like his extra visions, like heat and telescope vision maybe he can see those waves and knows how to ride them.
Going faster? I don't know how he could do that with the way they described those waves, unless he can also see what waves can get him there faster and they just happen to be next to the others.

I heard that his bullet proof body was somehow the result of a telekinetic shield around him that he can control. Maybe his telekinesis also allows him to fly (using his mind), and to fly faster all he has to do is will himself to do so.
Another idea I just came up with is that maybe he can alter his bodies density or gravity or something. Making his body lighter or heavier, and propel himself by controlling the gravity in front of him or in whatever direction he is traveling.

It basically bowls down to suspension of disbelief. He can fly faster because he can.
The documentary also went into how his skin can be indestructable, and how he can leap tall buildings at a single bound.
(an exoskeleton, and the weight on his world being much greater than our own)

There was an issue of Wizard Magazine where they did an in depth (almost) panel by panel commentary on Planetary. Does anyone know which issue that is in?
I am sure I have it, but I have so many that it would take me forever to find it.
Anyone know which Wizard Magazine the Planetary commentary was in?

 

[Wolfwood]

Super flatulence was my guess.

 

[SilverStar]

Always just figured Superman worked like a bee. Scientist say he cant fly, but he does anyway because he's Superman.

 

[Charlie Boy]

That's it, Superman's a Bee.

 

[Anubis]

It all makes sense.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Hate to bust the joke, but scientists stopped saying that about bees: http://www.cracked.com/article/105_the-6-most-frequently-quoted-********-animal-facts_p2/

As for Superman, I've worked it out like this: it's all tied into the solar energy that fuels his powers. He's got all this glowy sunlight power coursing through him, and it's just a matter of him learning to mentally control how it flows (like chi I guess). Flying faster has to do with 1) learning how to channel that solar energy more efficiently and 2) absorbing more of it over time.

Something like that. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Lord]

I know he's not from dc but i don't know where else to ask this question:
In the early spawn comics what does that clock that is allways appearing mean?
Is it some kind of countdown?

 

[yenaled]

It was a timelimit of use for his powers, went down everytime he used his powers and when it was run out he had to go back to hell. He got better.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Does Batwoman put make-up on her face to make her exposed skin while wearing the mask look white? Or is it artistic licensing to emphasize that "hey, this chick be pale and I mean a PALE type of Redhead"?

 

[Tron Bonne]

I don't remember if they've actually shown her doing that, but she does wear a large red wig while in costume (her actual hair is red but very short), so it's definitely possible.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I always thought it was just artistic license. A lot of what makes Williams' art so distinctive is the colors. Washing her skin out just makes the red in her costume and her hair pop more.

 

[Kahoot]

Could Supergirl get skin cancer from the sun? That could be messed up since Kryptonians are powered by the sun. Too much sun, too much power, too much skin cancer.

 

[Manic]

In an All-Star comic? Possibly.

 

[Anubis]

That's what happened to Superman in All-Star, wasn't it?

Space Cancer.


Also, in that pic, her belt is too tight, so she's pulling it down and getting some air on her chaffed pelvic area.

That is soooo f**king hot.

 

[Manic]

Notice the tan-line shaped like a thong

 

[Anubis]

Yes.....she ain't wearing no panties.

 

[DawnWarrior]

She's been going to the beach. Wow. That is, like, really inappropriate. And hot.

 

[Kahoot]

If not sun canncer, how about sun burn?

 

[Charlie Boy]

I think he would have to like... Lay on the surface of the Sun or something.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah. How do you think he got all Golden in the 853rd century?

 

[trustyside-kick]

On Wikipedia for Renee Montoya it says:

Montoya is the focus of an uneasy truce between Gordon's forces and the crime boss Two-Face. She reaches out to Two-Face's Harvey Dent persona in helping with aid and relief efforts...

Which arc/book/title is this from?

 

[Manic]

On Wikipedia for Renee Montoya it says:



Which arc/book/title is this from?

That sounds like what happened during No Man's Land. A series of lucky coin-flips had Harvey helping the sick and injured. Renee ran across him, and they ended up working together.

 

[Anubis]

Later he started stalking her.