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Serious Question

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 @ 1:00 am | Bad Science, Roy Raymond, What Were They Thinking

What happens when you dynamite Uranium?

“Also, we’ve all been exposed to high amounts of radiation, most likely rendering us sterile. In your case Karen, that’s a blessing for all humankind.”

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  • Yeah, I love how he's more excited about getting something named after him than anything else.

    Because in those days, being of use to the Government was its own reward. Kind of like teaching middle school is now. Poor bastards.
  • Naryldor
    Shortly after, the son of the late Horace Wakely (Who sadly passed away of some "strange" sickness shortly after returning from a very profitable sea jorney) became the world famous "Atom Boy", hero of the one and only uranium flavored Bazooka bubble gum!!
  • MikPal
    Ahh, yes. The glorious 50's when one could package a radioactive ore and sell it to the kiddies in hope of getting rid of the flu or backpains.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu96STA5BDA

    "Modern remedy" indeed.
  • Pablo
    "G-gosh! The government would surely pay me great honor for that!"

    "It certainly would! Like naming a B-52 "Horace Wakely" and sending it with a bomb full of this here Uranium to send some godless Commies straight to hell!"

    "What's a Commie, Roy?"

    "Karen... grown-ups are talking. Why don't you send those pictures we took to Mr. Hefner, hmm?"
  • Dierna
    That's not Uranium!!! Uranum is a silver-grey colour!! You idiots! You found all that gold that Martian Manhunter made! :P
  • onion3000
    "THE AWESOME SEAGULLMAN!!!"

    Surely this should be "The ORE-SOME SEAGULL MAN" ?
    Is great honor.
  • Shiai
    Sure, they paid Horace the great honor of naming it after him, but they paid Roy several million dollars for the mineral rights, after the wily TV detective legally staked his claim on the area. He then strapped Karen to a torpedo and shot it at Horace's boat, sinking it just for cruel laughs.
  • Diagnull
    "This week, Seagullman must face his biggest challenge yet: The malodorous Living Barge."
  • Anderson
    The seagulls are getting closer to him. I bet next issue there´s an accident with the seagull and the radiation from the uranium turns him into... THE AWESOME SEAGULLMAN!!!
  • HellRazor
    "Guys? Uranium ore is only very slightly radioactive."

    Then why is it glowing? :O
  • HellRazor
    It's a set-up.

    Roy handed the poor sap some fake uranium.

    In a few weeks he'll be back to debunk "Horace Wakely's Uranium Strike" for his show.
  • Guys? Uranium ore is only very slightly radioactive.
  • onion3000
    "The “Horace Wakely Memorial Uranium Strike” was dedicated at an official ceremony one year later."

    Roy and Karen couldn't make it as they were rampaging through Tokyo that day.

    The uranium has affected Roy already. In the second panel, that glowing rock is still in his right hand, but his arm is stretching.
  • Actually, that's just a practical joke Roy pulled. That's not a rock in his hand, it's a hunk of glowing poo Roy did after the all-you-can-eat buritto bar at Taco Place.

    http://comixbearbarecomix.blogspot.com/
  • Megalon
    "the government would surely pay me great honor"?

    Is that dude supposed to be a comicbook "asian" type character? I'm guessing not, but who the hell else talks like that? And don't worry about the radiation. I'm sure they'll just get Spider Sense or be able to fly or something. Nobody ever dies from it in a comic book.
  • Jon Snow
    After that "little incident", there apeared numerous Hulk clones for Roy to debunk...
  • Amake
    I'm fairly sure you won't get an atom-splitting reaction if that's your concern. Just some lumps of uranium floating around - actually, considering how dense and heavy it is, and that it's underwater, I'm not sure a stick of dynamite would even throw anything anywhere.

    As to the radiation, this is the fifties right? Radiation is GOOD for you!
  • Zereth
    I think you just get lots of little bits of radioactive uranium spread around, you need to take fairly specific steps to get it to explode. Still not _good_, though.
  • HellRazor
    The "Horace Wakely Memorial Uranium Strike" was dedicated at an official ceremony one year later.
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