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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a pulp book I read where they go to Mars and just need to wear parkas to survive the surface

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 41 minutes ago

I remember reading as a kid in the 80s. That you could survive on Mars with a heavy coat and a respirator. Like not in some old pulp book, in a contemporary book for kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Remind me of the prototype weapon "the davy crocket" it was a concept weapon which would be used by field units preferably mounted to a willys jeep. Which would launch a football sized nuclear warhead.

It never saw deployment because of multi reasons which include

-- it didnt shoot far enough to get the launchers out of explosion range

-- there was alot scrutiny in the 50s over nuclear bombs.

-- it was heavy as fuck

Lots of people says the fallout series of games took heavy inspiration fron the davy crocket to make the fatman

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 2 hours ago

I've read about it before. There's even photos.

If you want to apply the phrase "derp" to atomic weaponry, there you go.

[–] essell 5 points 4 hours ago

Can we talk about that foot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Actshualy 🤓🤓🤓 it's called Knapping.

Yes I play (addicted really) Vintage Story, how did you know?

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 2 hours ago

I know, I've even done it (badly), but most people don't know that word.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There's absolutely no way this can go wrong.

[–] FenrirIII 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He needs a fridge to hide in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Did Mythbusters ever fact-check this?

[–] TwanHE 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

At that point you might as well go with the Japanese lunge mine design. If a nuke is gonna go off in my general vicinity I'd want to be as close as possible.

[–] Blue_Morpho 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be a bomb. It could be like a demon core. The tank drivers get a blast of gamma but it's a very small lethal radius.

The bow is actually a better delivery mechanism than a RPG. It's slow enough that there is time for the caveman to duck under cover.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Except it's going to go straight down with the weight. Makes more sense to launch via slingshot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No wonder my ancestors got overpowered so easily ... why didn't they think of this before!

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 hours ago

On the other hand, shooting atomic weapons at that close a range while defending their own land might have been just as bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

A civilized weapon for a more civilized age.

[–] Sanctus 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I love settings like this. The tribal mixed with the atomic. Its so cool to me.

[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You would probably really enjoy Heavy Metal Magazine. Especially the stuff by Moebius. It's a French sci-fi comic magazine the 80's animated movie was based on.

I don't think they make it anymore but there's plenty of back issues to read. A few have been scanned in and put on the Internet Archive and I wouldn't be surprised if you could find more by sailing the high seas.

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Heavy+Metal+Magazine%22

[–] Sanctus 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is all going so well with my current play through of Caves of Qud, and my planning for a Gamma World campaign. Thank you so much, I plan on descending into these waters and not emerging for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

What's a good trick to getting into Qud? I have it but can't seem to stick with it.