In honour of the fact that mephron offered to apply to play Egon Spengler at Milliways, I did some screencapping from the "Xmas Marks The Spot" episode of the Real Ghostbusters. Bases behind the cut. Mostly Egon. Four Peters.
True dat. Though it did always bother me that I had no idea what they were swinging FROM. It's like what would happen to Spiderman if he'd been living in Raleigh-Durham when he got bitten; he'd only really be good for fighting crime within about a ten-block radius of the city center...
There was an issue of Amazing Spider-Man about 15 years ago (or more) that had Spidey's adventures in the suburbs. Spidey travels into the 'burbs of NYC to hunt the Scorpion, and discovers that the 'burbs are not the Big City. Included in the hijinks was Spidey trying to webswing away, and finding nothing to swing from. *Thwip* Webline goes up ... and comes down across the street. Spidey stands on a bright, sunshine-lit street corner, looking a bit baffled, while suburbanites stare and a local kid offers the use of his Big Wheel.
Moral of the Story: Unless you're a superhero in the inner city of a Northeastern metropolis, you'd better be able to fly or have a supermobile.
There was a reprise of the theme in Ultimate Spidey recently, the one where the hunter-obsessed asshole with the lion's face on his chest first started to go after him seriously. He was wayyyyy out in, like, Jersey, and he had to hitch rides on top of cars to get where he was going. With cute internal muttering monologues.
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:35 pm (UTC)Moral of the Story: Unless you're a superhero in the inner city of a Northeastern metropolis, you'd better be able to fly or have a supermobile.
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Date: 2005-12-08 04:25 am (UTC)