NEVER FORGET THAT STEVE KNEW BUCKY WANTED TO SEE THE GRAND CANYON SO HE WENT THERE, DREW A PICTURE OF BUCKY AND THEN HELD IT UP SO HE COULD SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS
there was a golden age superman comic where someone called a hit out on clark kent, and so a sniper tried to shoot him while he was out having lunch with lois
except he’s fucking superman so the bullets just fell off his chest into his lunch and clark just had to pretend nothing happened and hope lois wouldn’t notice that someone just fucking shot him
the hitman thinks maybe he just missed and gets ready to shoot him again, but then he’s watching through the scope as clark starts to eat the fucking bullets to hide the fucking evidence, acting like everything is totally normal as he noshes down on lead
dude just packs his shit up and leaves town because reporters in this city eat bullets for lunch and he’s not fucking with that no way no how
WHAT
YOU FOUND IT
THREE YEARS
150K NOTES
AND FINALLY SOMEONE TOLD ME WHERE TO FIND THE FUCKING PANELS
things i misremembered:
it was silver age
it wasn’t lois, it was another, completely different female reporter for some reason
i distinctly remembered the closeup on clark’s fucking teeth but misremembered it as being relevant to the story when it was actually just. there. the sniper didn’t notice and just thought his gun fucked up.
things i just plain did not know because i’d only ever seen the bullet-eating panels and had never read the whole issue:
at this point they had already thrown a grenade and a torpedo at this man
later they’re going to shoot him point-blank and when he disappears they’ll assume they were just tripping balls and he was never there at all
questions and comments:
why does this restaurant give everyone chinese-looking outfits
I mean, yes, marketability is a big part of the reason that death is such a revolving door in comics, but another big part of it is that most comic writers are actual children. They’re all:
“I’m not interested in using these particular characters at this particular moment, so it’s inconceivable to me that anyone would want to use them ever. Let’s kill them all to prove that my pet villain means business!”
…or:
“I have a weird grudge against a fictional character, so I’m going to include them in this story even though their presence contributes nothing to the plot specifically so that I can shit all over their characterisation and then give them a pointless, humiliating death!“
… or even:
“I’m so egotistical that I think my interpretation of a character that’s been around for the better part of a century and has passed through dozens of writers’ hands should be the absolute last word, so when I’m finished with them I’m going to deliberately break my toys by killing them off and fucking up their supporting cast so badly that it will be completely impossible to use them in the future without totally rebooting the franchise!“
… and then the next writer is like “actually, that never happened”, and we start the whole business over again.
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