This could be a two-panel comic book and I'd probably still find it satisfying to read. Roy Lincoln may not have had the flashiest superhero costume around, but he certainly knew how to get the job done!
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ironically, RS would prove to give Roy the cure to exploding because of the power of the cube. An instant "off" button.
ReplyDeleteThe only time I ever did cosplay was at a 1978 con as the Human Bomb. Wearing that costume in July was bad enough, but I found out later that no one could understand a word I said through that helmet.
ReplyDeleteTobor's right. The Cosmic Cube would cause this particular job to be undone. Still, I have to agree that the resulting explosion would look great in art work. In fact, it might even surpass those rainbow-colored blasts Hanna-Barbera's animators used to draw for their superhero cartoons during the Sixties!
ReplyDeleteAnd the Fuhrer digs for trinkets in the desert. (When I saw the Captain America movie, I was the only one in the theater who laughed at that line.)
ReplyDelete@Emsley Wyatt: I lucked out. I was one of several! I guess there were a few more Baby Boomers in Torrington, CT, who were old enough to remember when RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK didn't have "Indiana Jones and The..." tacked on 30-plus years after the fact.
ReplyDeleteI think I would've preferred that Roy's target with this pose was Wile E. Coyote. Still, it's a pretty cool cover as-is.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree that he's a pretty underrated hero.
Interesting fact: all those vintage WB cartoons where the bombs look like a bowling ball with a lit fuse? Those were actually exaggerations of the original grenade!*
ReplyDelete*Basically, a 17th century shotput with a lit fuse.
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ReplyDelete"Interesting fact: all those vintage WB cartoons where the bombs look like a bowling ball with a lit fuse? Those were actually exaggerations of the original grenade!*
*Basically, a 17th century shotput with a lit fuse."
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Interesting fact: There were actually 17th century grenade-launchers, too, I've seen one in the Brtish Museum (i.s the same establishment, in London, that houses -- among many other things -- the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, and the 'Royal Sandard of Ur'). Its contemporary name was 'Hand Mortar', and it was basically a rather large pistol with a bronze[?] barrel & a bell-shaped mouth. Presumably the flash when the propelling gunpowder ignited was used to light the grenade's fuses.
Interesting fact: Those grenades were originally invented in Spain, or at least their use was popularised by Spanish troops, and the term 'grenade' actually derives from the Spanish term for the pomegranate -- which translates literally into English as "Apple of Grenada" -- because of its shape. So the famous 'pinepple' was actually [also] a pomegranate! :D
Thank you, Simreeve! I got a bang out of that information. :-)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of delightfully bizarre suggestions...how about Wile E. Coyote vs. Mr. Peabody and Sherman? The former having stolen a portable version of the Wayback Machine!
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