I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn't Batman have a pistol when he first started for a very short time?
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Ronald Methvin <rwm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Doesn't seem that old. The reason that most 'regular' heroes don't carry > guns is that whole 'no killing' thing, which shooting people tends to do. > > And your sample size for your conclusion is 2, and actually, not even > that. The guys in Wanted, especially in the original comic, #1 had powers > and #2 were not heroes. Milar's other creation, Nemesis, does focus on a > guy without powers, but that was a specific concept of 'What if Batman was a > bad guy?' > > And Milar's worked on tons of other super-powered books: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Millar > > Going back to more examples of heroes without powers, pulp and otherwise, > there's Green Hornet, Doc Savage, the Lone Ranger, the Spirit, the Phantom, > and the Phantom (yeah, the Phantom had some limited powers but he was mainly > a gun with a gun), Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos, Sgt. Rock, the > Question, Jonah Hex, and heroes with no real powers but use other weapons > include golden age Sandman, Green Arrow, Hawkeye, Black Widow, even Captain > America. > > Are Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Man-Thing, the Crow, and Vendetta > bizarre visions of what superheroes are supposed? Maybe, but that doesn't > have to have negative connotations. > > > ~Ron > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Holly Elliott <holly1...@gmail.com> > *To:* theuniquegeek@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Sat, December 4, 2010 9:33:36 AM > *Subject:* RE: [The Unique Geek] Kick-Ass (movie) > > Well, Batman has no powers; he is just highly trained and skilled, like the > Millar heroes. Of course he doesn't shoot people with handguns, but he has > the whole weird costume/vigilante thing going for him regardless. > > Just my first thought. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: theuniquegeek@googlegroups.com [mailto: > theuniqueg...@googlegroups.com] > On Behalf Of Van Plexico > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:34 AM > To: Van Plexico > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Kick-Ass (movie) > > Saw the movie KICK-ASS last night, finally. > > Enjoyed it a great deal-- especially the performance of the little > girl playing Hit Girl. She probably deserves an Oscar nomination for > supporting actress. Though she did make me worry about what Mira may > be doing when she gets a few years older-- she can cause almost that > much destruction now, and she's only two. :-) > > But having seen KICK-ASS and having seen and read WANTED, I've about > reached the conclusion that Mark Millar's ideal concept of superheroes > is of people with no powers who put on weird costumes and then procede > to shoot people with handguns. I find this very odd. > > I can see its appeal to Hollywood for any number of reasons, not least > of which that gunfire effects are probably a lot cheaper and easier to > produce than people flying around or doing X-Men/Iron Man/Superman > kinds of things. > > Even so, it's a rather bizarre vision of what superheroes are supposed > to be. Aside from old pulp characters like the Spider, or maybe the > Punisher (though he's got the whole "soldier out for vengeance" angle > that makes him different from just the very casual gun-blastin' Millar > "hero"), I can't really think of any other examples of this kind of > archetype as a superhero. > > Thoughts? > > --Van > > -- > Van Allen Plexico > www.plexico.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to theuniqueg...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > theuniquegeek+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to theuniqueg...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to theuniquegeek+ > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to theuniqueg...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > theuniquegeek+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<theuniquegeek%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to theuniqueg...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to theuniquegeek+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
