It has occurred to me that we've seen a lot of complaints about how the poses of our beloved heroes in many of the Comic Statues we all love are unnatural...
A few that come to mind...
BD Hawkeye: His ankle bends at an unrealistic angle
BD Dr. Strange: His neck is too long
HH Captain America: His back is arched at a strange angle
If you think about it, many of our favorite poses of our favorite heroes as drawn in the comics are awkward and uncomfortable when (admit it, we've all done it more than once) we stand in front of the full length mirror and strike the pose of our favorite hero.
Spidey lands in his patented crouch so easily, but what happened when YOU tried it?
And how about the time on the rope swing when you tried to hang upside down with your knees bent and feet together sole to sole?
What about the time you threw your back out when you and your buddy tried to replicate the quot;Fastball Specialquot;. Sure, he was smaller than you so naturally you let HIM be Wolverine.
Then there was the time you hammered together some of your Dad's scrap wood to make Thor's hammer. Who got nailed when the head came off as you were trying to swing it in a circle like the Thunder God?
So, tell us YOUR super hero story...here's mine...
My Mom had the colored cotton cloths...I think she used them to wrap around her hairdo while she slept so it didn't get messed up. Anyway, one was red and one was blue. When I wanted to play quot;Supermanquot; I would affix the red one to the shoulders of my sweatshirt with diaper pins (left over from my diaper days) and of course the blue one was for quot;Batmanquot; (and occasionally the Martian Manhunter or Mon El).
We had a detached, two car garage, and I could climb onto the roof from the fence. The way the garage was positioned on the lot, the lawn in the backyard was only 3 feet away (and 9' down) from the NE corner of the roof.
I would climb up on the roof, gather my courage, shout quot;Up, up and awayquot; followed immediately by a quot;SSSSSHHHHHHHquot; sound as I leapt from the roof to the lawn below. As my feet would touch the ground, I'd srping my legs and go into a roll. I never got hurt doing this, but I'm sure my Mother would have fainted if she had ever caught me in the act.
So...what's your story? Come on, share...
I have a few underoos pictures that I am NOT going to share. Let's just say my brother and I got creative in completing the superman uniforms. My dad brought home these giant brown colored packing things that we used as giant boulders (picture a large air-filled packing bubble with a brown paper-bag covering on the outside). It was way cool
I didn't care about Superman, Batman, Spiderman or any of those characters when I was little. Besides the usual kid stuff of bike riding, playing ball and so forth, I spent my days creating war games with my GI Joes, building military models and then blowing them up with fire crackers and setting them on fire, and building monster models.
When I was a kid I wanted to be Frankenstein. The doctor, not the monster. Those guys in capes and spandex were not nearly as fascinating as mad scientists, ghouls, monsters and freaks of assorted stripes.
Any wonder my avatar looks like it does?
Originally Posted by William PaquetI didn't care about Superman, Batman, Spiderman or any of those characters when I was little. Besides the usual kid stuff of bike riding, playing ball and so forth, I spent my days creating war games with my GI Joes, building military models and then blowing them up with fire crackers and setting them on fire, and building monster models.
When I was a kid I wanted to be Frankenstein. The doctor, not the monster. Those guys in capes and spandex were not nearly as fascinating as mad scientists, ghouls, monsters and freaks of assorted stripes.
Any wonder my avatar looks like it does?
not anymore
Originally Posted by William PaquetI didn't care about Superman, Batman, Spiderman or any of those characters when I was little. Besides the usual kid stuff of bike riding, playing ball and so forth, I spent my days creating war games with my GI Joes, building military models and then blowing them up with fire crackers and setting them on fire, and building monster models.
When I was a kid I wanted to be Frankenstein. The doctor, not the monster. Those guys in capes and spandex were not nearly as fascinating as mad scientists, ghouls, monsters and freaks of assorted stripes.
Any wonder my avatar looks like it does?
It has been many years...back in the day of Bamp;W television...Bamp;W isn't a brand, it means BLACK AND WHITE...
My interests rotated...cowboys (Lone Ranger amp; Tonto, Roy Rogers, Texas John Slaughter, the Swamp Fox, El Fego Baca, Davy Crockett, Cheyenne, Paladin, Zorro...the list goes on and on) super heroes (It wasn't spandex in those days, heck they didn't even have panty hose yet) and monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, the Invisible Man...)
The first models I painted and built were the Aurora monsters starting with Frankenstein and Dracula, Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame etc, and then all the superheroes, Superman, Batman, Robin, Spiderman, the Incerdible Hulk, Captain America...)
I read super hero comics, Creepy, Eerie, Mad, Famous Monsters, Alfred Hitch****, the Hardy Boys, Doc Savage, The Avenger, the Shadow, the Spider...I was a voracious reader...
Aside from the Bamp;W TV, probably pretty much the same as everyone eelse, huh?
Originally Posted by pablocruze
Aside from the Bamp;W TV, probably pretty much the same as everyone eelse, huh?
Even though I'm considerably younger than your advanced, decrepit, sub-human body with the Paul Williams head attached, I also grew up with Bamp;W TV for my early years.
Many Saturday afternoon or late night viewings of great and obscure creepy movies were enjoyed sans color. Those were also the days when independent TV stations still existed. That's where the all the great movies were shown. Too bad those independents no longer exist. I grew up in Jersey in the 60's and 70's and we had three independent stations- WNEW, WPIX, and WWOR. All three have since fallen prey to Network takeovers. Too bad.
Originally Posted by William PaquetEven though I'm considerably younger than your advanced, decrepit, sub-human body with the Paul Williams head attached, I also grew up with Bamp;W TV for my early years.
Many Saturday afternoon or late night viewings of great and obscure creepy movies were enjoyed sans color. Those were also the days when independent TV stations still existed. That's where the all the great movies were shown. Too bad those independents no longer exist. I grew up in Jersey in the 60's and 70's and we had three independent stations- WNEW, WPIX, and WWOR. All three have since fallen prey to Network takeovers. Too bad.
The early days of cable were great also, many stations showing all kinds of movies... Now they are pretty much junk...
We usually played Batman, due to the TV series (which we watched on our Bamp;W TV. Yeah, I'm old like Pablo...) We also played Mr. Terrific - Stanley Beamish, mild mannered gas station attendant...
I used to pretend to be a transformer when I was a kid. I'd try to bend into osme crouched position like one of hte cars and make that noise they made when they transformed.
My sister stil makes fun of me because of it.
I was also into the horror stuff but not as much as Superheros ... Dracula, Frankenstein, werewolf, etc ... I loved to watch the late night chillers (and double chiller when lucky). King Kong and Godzilla were favorites as well. We were also big time into cowboys and indians ... do kids play that anymore?
got 16 stitches in my head thinking i was superman... i wasnt |
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