Jim (I think) wrote: >>Page 4: Recriminations from people on street, how could superheroes let >>this happen? >
Ron replied: >This, of course, is always the problem with such stories. Superheroes are >regularly depicted as stopping far worse fictional disasters, so how could >they have let this one happen? Even if the argument could be made that >none of them >foresaw the first plane hitting (aren't there any good-guy precognitives in >the Marvel universe?), howcum no one reacted in time to stop the other >three? > >Frex, why couldn't Superman (wrong universe, I know) get there in time >after the first plane hit to catch the others and set them down safely (as >he has been depicted doing many times when he saved a plane from crashing >after its engines had failed) or held the building up until all the victims >were safely out (as he has been depicted doing many times with a building >damaged by an earthquake)? And why couldn't he fly over Afghanistan >scanning the caves with his super-vision until he located Osama bin Laden >and the others behind the plot, then gathered up them up and brought them >to justice? Etc., etc. > >Just one of the problems which occur for the writers when fiction meets >reality . . . > Check out this link from jmsnews.com (repostings of all newsgroup posts by jms) for the story of how and why that issue of Spider-Man got made. http://makeashorterlink.com/?H27412BB Reggie _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
