The Physics Of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition - Plot & Excerpts
Viewed from today’s perspective, comics from the Silver Age (from the late 1950s to 1960s) seem suffused with an optimistic outlook and a sunny disposition that borders on the Pollyannaish. The Golden Age characters reinvented by Julius Schwartz and colleagues at DC Comics in the late fifties and early sixties, such as the Flash, Green Lantern, or Green Arrow (an amalgam of Batman and Robin Hood, with a quiver full of gadget arrows such as a “boxing-glove arrow” or a “handcuff arrow,” whose successful application violated several fundamental principles of aerodynamics), carried on the positive outlooks and righteousness of their antecedents, and their plot-driven twelve- or twenty-two-page-long stories did not leave much room for character development. A typical Silver Age hero in a DC comic book would gain superpowers through some implausible mechanism and then decide, as a matter of course, to use said powers to fight crime and better humanity (after first donning, of course, a colorful costume), never questioning this career choice.
What do You think about The Physics Of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition?
