This Is Not a Super Hero Comic

Now, as far as super hero comics go, physics are kind of… fluid. You have to have a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. However, spy comics are not the same thing.

Find me one person who is not an Opera pro who can do that… and then find me anyone who can do it while talking.


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25 responses to “This Is Not a Super Hero Comic”

  1. Dierna Avatar
    Dierna

    I wonder if this is where the idea of Black Bolt came from?

  2. Naked Bunny with a Whip Avatar

    Gosh, his mom is gonna be mad!

  3. St. Michael Avatar
    St. Michael

    My girlfriend can do that!

    (Oh, wait, I thought this was Photoshop Disasters. Sorry, my bad.)

  4. madwoman Avatar
    madwoman

    I'm not sure many opera pros can do that. Anyway, can't continue looking at the MOST TERRIBLE ARTWORK I'VE EVER SEEN! Did this “artist” skip “color inside the lines” day at school?

  5. AuroraMoon Avatar
    AuroraMoon

    I agree… this comic would had been better off being colorless considering how badly colored it was.

  6. Naked Bunny with a Whip Avatar

    Perhaps it was the coloring that shattered the glass.

  7. mrperson Avatar
    mrperson

    Actually, as someone who works in print, I can tell that this is actually a printing error rather than a coloring artist's mistake. Notice how all the color is a little lower than the lines?

  8. Anderson Avatar
    Anderson

    I didn´t know Norman Osborn´s father was a spy…

    Also, Inspector “Le Grande”? Did the writer mean Legrand, a french surname, because Grande is a spanish/portuguese word, and the story seems to be placed in Paris…

  9. Dierna Avatar
    Dierna

    I actually know some folks with the surname of Le Grande. Le Grande is French for The Great. So he's litterally The Great Inspector.

  10. ShadowWing Tronix Avatar

    In an episode of “Mythbusters”, they actually did shatter glass using, I think, a heavy metal singer and rather large speakers.

    He didn't talk while doing it, though.

  11. Shiai Avatar

    I like his swim cap.

  12. Anderson Avatar
    Anderson

    But then you wouldn´t have the “e”, because in french it´s spelled “grand”. But i´m not an expert, i could be wrong.

  13. Dr. Novakaine Avatar
    Dr. Novakaine

    Yeah, a heavy metal singer with large speakers. Not an unamplified voice. This is total BS.

  14. Naryldor Avatar
    Naryldor

    I'm no a French speaker myself, but I can tell you in that language the “e” at the end of a word is mute letter unless it comes accentuated, therefore it's a fairly common mistake for those like us who don't speak (let alone write) French.

  15. Naryldor Avatar
    Naryldor

    Breaking a glass with one's voice is possible and it's based on a relatively basic physic principle. The “trick” is to set the tone of one's voice to match the glass' resonance frequency (you know that distinct, nice, vibrating sound a wine cup makes after you gently hit its top? well, what you hear is the sound the glass produces whilst vibrating at its resonance frequency), if you are able to match your voice tone to that frequency the glass will start vibrating, if you can make that tone powerful enough, the glass will vibrate beyond its limits of flexibility and shatter.

    The principle is simple enough, but the technique to do so is, AFAIK, extremely difficult even for the best voices out there. Also, I'm no 100% sure about this, but I guess female voices would have an edge here, given their considerably higher pitch.

    Anyway, in the early 40s, the Tacoma Bridge in Washington was destroyed by resonance, it was of course, accidental, not the doing of some criminal mastermind:

    But what the heck, enough of good science! The dude's a fool, probably had to go straight to the hospital for an emergency laceration treatment on his hand.

  16. sezaar Avatar

    Actually the “e” means it's feminine so it should be either “Legrand” or “Lagrande”

  17. Pustulio Avatar
    Pustulio

    That's unfair. Mysthbusters really did it with the unamplified voice of a professional signer. It was great, myth confirmed. It was only doing it with their own voices that required the amplifiers.

  18. ShadowWing Tronix Avatar

    Right, the singer did it (his mentor was famous for hitting the high notes) and I don't remember if Adam could do it without the amplifier. I know Jamie's voice was too low to pull it off.

  19. ShadowWing Tronix Avatar

    Right, the singer did it (his mentor was famous for hitting the high notes) and I don’t remember if Adam could do it without the amplifier. I know Jamie’s voice was too low to pull it off.

  20. Gracie Avatar
    Gracie

    This blog is the funniest and all around greatest thing ever!!!!!

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    Anonymous

    You’re going to make me blush

  22. sezaar Avatar

    Oh you’re in for a treat!

  23. Cerebus36 Avatar
    Cerebus36

    There were, back in the ’80s, I think, a series of Memorex (audio tapes) commercial showing Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald shattering a wine glass with her voice.

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  25. Bad Idea Guy Avatar
    Bad Idea Guy

    Now by focusing my tone on this glass, and gradually increasing the volume I can SHAAATEEEER THEEEE GLAASSS TOOO BIIIIIIITS LALALALAA!!!!! (This is what came to mind. Along with the sudden introduction of a classical orchestra score)

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