The first story I saw on the main page was “The Metropolitan Man”.
I thought “OK, I’ll give it 10 minutes, see how far it can get”.
After 1,5 minute the story displayed a total lack of understanding of middle-school level physics.
Superman prevented an accident by flying into the space between two cars and stopping them with his hands. However, a deceleration on the distance equal to the length of one human arm, is no less lethal than over the (approximately equal) length of the average crumple zone.
I mean, I don’t want to poop on the party, but seriously?
sure, and the traditional plot line where superman grabs a plumeting jet would actually lead to the jet tearing like tissue paper around wherever he grabbed it.
A certain level of “ok superman has a small physics-free bubble around him” needs to be granted if you want to do anything with superman.
A lot of ink has been spilled by geeks trying to come up with self-consistent systems under which superman could do what he regularly does in the stories.
Cars in the 1930′s didn’t have such crumple zones as modern cars do. Also, in the city they don’t move as fast as on the freeway. Even a small difference might decide between life and death.
I would suggest giving the story the benefit of the doubt. It must stay at least somewhat true to the style of the comics, but at the same time explore the world in a more serious and realistic tone. And it manages that quite well, it’s worth reading.
The first story I saw on the main page was “The Metropolitan Man”.
I thought “OK, I’ll give it 10 minutes, see how far it can get”.
After 1,5 minute the story displayed a total lack of understanding of middle-school level physics.
Superman prevented an accident by flying into the space between two cars and stopping them with his hands. However, a deceleration on the distance equal to the length of one human arm, is no less lethal than over the (approximately equal) length of the average crumple zone.
I mean, I don’t want to poop on the party, but seriously?
sure, and the traditional plot line where superman grabs a plumeting jet would actually lead to the jet tearing like tissue paper around wherever he grabbed it.
A certain level of “ok superman has a small physics-free bubble around him” needs to be granted if you want to do anything with superman.
A lot of ink has been spilled by geeks trying to come up with self-consistent systems under which superman could do what he regularly does in the stories.
Cars in the 1930′s didn’t have such crumple zones as modern cars do. Also, in the city they don’t move as fast as on the freeway. Even a small difference might decide between life and death.
I would suggest giving the story the benefit of the doubt. It must stay at least somewhat true to the style of the comics, but at the same time explore the world in a more serious and realistic tone. And it manages that quite well, it’s worth reading.
This is for SquirrelInHell. rot13 to avoid spoilers.
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Superman does that kind of nonsense in the comic books all the time...