Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for October 19, 2014
October 18, 2014
October 20, 2014
Transcript:
Dynaman: I've been thinking about something most comic book readers are bookish nerds who get hassled by athletic types. But most superheroes are physically powerful giants! Captain Victorious: So? Dynaman: So why are there so many scientist villains? Why don't readers identify with bookish heroes? Captain Victorious: 'Cause even nerds like to see nerds get beat up? Dynaman: That's gotta be it...
Observer fo Irony about 10 years ago
Villains need science to compensate for the super powers of the ‘Heros’. So if there were no super heros there would be no scientific villains, just plain vanilla villains.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 10 years ago
No, it’s because publishers have no imagination. They want more of whatever sells.
Interesting, though, that so many super-heroes have nerdish secret identities: Clark Kent, Peter Parker, et al.
coffeemugman about 10 years ago
That ‘creature’ in the bottom middle panel looks like Tyre…perhaps a long lost cousin.
The Rolling Cat almost 10 years ago
There is definitely something to that last. You would think that those who have been put upon would regard with compassion those who have suffered similarly, but it’s not always the case. Sometimes they instead turn the abuse upon those who are not unlike them. Though some learn what not to do, determined not to become what they hate and deplore, others can only conceive of passing on the terrible treatment that they themselves endured.