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Tweak says, ""LET'S GO, MADNESS!""

superfan1 (superfan1) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-05 03:09:00

Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	char: batman/bruce wayne, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, char: superman/clark kent, creator: dan abnett, title: superman/batman

Superman/Batman #57
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	D: lightbrigade 2009-04-05 04:14 am UTC (link)
	WTF is up with Robin's hair? Looks like it's about to eat his brains. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: D: merseybeatler 2009-04-05 11:57 am UTC (link)
	It looks like mine after I haven't washed it for a week or brushed it after getting up. I refuse to believe that Alfred would let him be such a slob. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-05 04:31 am UTC (link)
	They pulled that time thing out of their arses to create false jeopardy, didn't they? Everything I know of physics tells me that time is not a matter of scale. (Acceleration, yes...) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-04-05 08:18 am UTC (link)
	I know that they had a similar thing in Terry Pratchett's Nome trilogy, the protagonists are all about 6 inches or so high so they experience time at a much faster rate. With human's seeing them as a blur and with the Nomes seeing humans as moving very slowly with voices that sound like cows. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-05 08:35 am UTC (link)
	That was less physics and more biology IIRC; It had less to do with gravity bending spacetime, than their entire metabolism working at a much higher speed than humans. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-04-05 08:36 am UTC (link)
	Ahh, okay. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-04-05 09:15 am UTC (link)
	it probably has something to do with the speed cells replace themselves, the time it takes smaller organisms to reproduce, things like that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wheresmything 2009-04-05 06:59 am UTC (link)
	This reminds me of all the epic failing I do whenever watching the science channel. "Gravity warps space-time, so time goes slower the farther you are from a source of gravity... so does that mean feet age faster than heads?" (Reply to this)

	kingrockwell 2009-04-05 07:59 am UTC (link)
	I was really disappointed with the art in this one. It is really ugly. :( (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-04-05 08:27 am UTC (link)
	That's one messed up looking Boy Wonder... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	saralakali 2009-04-05 10:32 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, my first thought was, "No way that's Tim. The collar on the costume is wrong." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-05 10:45 am UTC (link)
	And yet it has to be Tim, because of the sleeve pouches.. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-04-05 11:10 am UTC (link)
	I'm reminded of "There's something About Mary" in that second to last panel. (Reply to this)

Science doesn't work that way...does it?

besamim
2009-04-05 01:38 pm UTC (link)

Could someone with a degree in biology and/or physics please weigh in on this "time moves faster at a nanoscopic level" bit? Seems fishy to me. Much like in Animal Man when the title character escapes death at an assassin's hand by absorbing the time perception of a fly and thereby increasing his reaction time tenfold. Perception of time in one's brain =/= actual passage of time in the physical world. Taking the drug salvia divinorum, can lead one to think that years have gone by during the experience, but that's just the user's perception; it doesn't give the user additional years of biological existence and it doesn't change the fact that only 5-20 minutes have passed in the world outside their mind.

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Re: Science doesn't work that way...does it?

icon_uk
2009-04-05 05:27 pm UTC (link)

Animal Man is not the character t debate the abilities of compared to the real world as his powers make no sense in that context (Flying without wings etc)

AFAIK flies do have the sensory equipment and reflexes to perceive the world faster than humans (Hence the problem with swatting them, they can dodge faster than we can move to hit them). I don't think Buddy literally absorbed their time perception so much as their reaction time and actual reflex speed and that will have altered his perception of the world as a side effect.

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	Re: Science doesn't work that way...does it? arrlaari.livejournal.com 2009-04-06 10:59 am UTC (link)
	It's bullshit. The only way to screw with time is relativistic speeds, which are macro scale, not micro scale. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ladymirth 2009-04-06 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Tim's hair is freaky enough to be a supervillain in its own right. (Reply to this)

	sessile29 2009-04-06 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	I've seen sights that would make Green Lanterns stop in their tracks. Did you see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, too, Clark? (Reply to this)