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Tweak says, "i met a possum!"

queenursula (queenursula) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-08 08:36:00

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creator: mark waid, title: irredeemable

Irredeemable #2
Following up from the last post...

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psychop_rex
2009-05-09 04:59 am UTC (link)

I understand all that - and yes, fine, you have much more experience than me; fair enough - but my point was that they were reacting on instinct, and therefore not being as professional as they might be. Anyway, no, this was not an emergency, but one may assume that, in a world that had such an immensely powerful being in it (and, while I can't confirm this, not having followed this comic except through this community, we haven't seen any particular evidence that there are any other superheroes on this version of Earth), his every action would be of immense interest to most people. It'd be like if the Beatles or Elvis suddenly walked into your radio station - you'd probably want to put some mention of this on the air, right? And neither the Beatles nor Elvis could do half the things that the Plutonian could do. So while I agree that they were not following journalistic procedure as strictly as they might be (or, one could argue, at all), they had a reason for overreacting. Also, at a certain point, there is the logic of the story to consider, which is not necessarily that of real-world logic - the story had to be moved along somehow. (Perhaps on this world the FCC never came into being, or is much weaker, or its restrictions are more like those of several decades earlier, as opposed to those of today - Superman-type stories always tend to be a little retro, anyway.)

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