Friday, April 28, 2006

Undressing the Firestorm the Nuclear Man way...


In an almost continuing series, i.e. this is the second time I’ve done it since Starfire’s sex-education pants, here’s some comic scans that show bizarre and carefree sexual impropriety. In a nutshell, Firestorm is two guys in one body with a flaming head due to a…wait for it… nuclear accident (much as I like Firestorm, he was created in 1978, had people maybe kinda cottoned on to the fact that getting caught in nuclear explosions usually brought on such conditions as ‘scooping up your ass skin with bony hands’ rather than soaring through the sky bickering with the professor in your brain and altering molecules.) Anyway in this bit, Firestorm’s idea to turn the top of a building to lodestone to stop a women in a floating gun plane thing (!) has wiped the memory banks of Felicity Smoak’s software company. She’s understandably pissed off, and gives old stormy some grief and he promptly changes the molecules on her clothes into soap suds(!) with the maxim:

‘Serves you right for wearing polyester!’

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I stopped reading comic books around 1981, but I had to respond to your post.

Am I the only one that finds this action by Firestorm disturbing? Admittedly, the sight of Felicity Smoak covered (barely) in soap suds is a very sexy one. Still, did she really deserve the Plastique treatment? At least the latter was a super-villain threatening bodily injury and worse.

If the Firestorm editors back then wanted to illustrate what a hothead Ronnie was, they could have just made him threaten Felicity that he would do a Plastique on her if she didn't shut up - maybe turning her shoes into soap suds at worst. Humiliating a good, smart woman in front of her employees and strangers for being (understandably) angry with him doesn't really cut it in the hero department.

I actually find this more wrong than the famous Michael Fleischer Black Canary-in-her-undies story from the late '70s. Of course, both those stories seem tame now compared to some stories from the the past two decades, but still...

Guess I'm just a chivalrous type of guy. :-)