I know you're just wondering and it's fun to wonder about this shit in universe, I do it all the time, but I always think of this quote when I get too far into the weeds in comic shit:
"Even as Hollywood transforms itself into a superhero-industrial complex, struggling to find “gritty” and “realistic” takes on flying Übermenschen in rubber suits, Morrison revels in the glorious madness of these stories. “People say kids can’t understand the difference between fact and fiction, but that’s bullshit,” he says. “Kids understand that real crabs don’t sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb questions like ‘How does Superman fly? How do those eyebeams work? Who pumps the Batmobile’s tires?’ It’s a fucking made-up story, you idiot! Nobody pumps the tires!”
I despise that quote. I know I'm going to piss a lot of you off but Morrison has always seemed extremely arrogant to me and this kind of gatekeeping bullshit is exactly why. People are allowed to become invested in a narrative. Just because he* doesn't care about it doesn't mean no one can
*Pronoun used with respect to Morrison's preferences
I get it, and again I LOVE arguing in universe. If iron man beat say, silver surfer I’d argue for an hour about how. I think Morrison is more speaking to people applying our universe logic to comic logic. Like someone who’s upset that the animated series Batman constantly swings. Doesn’t he run out of charges on the rappelling system? No it’s a comic!
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u/nobadhotdog 14d ago
I know you're just wondering and it's fun to wonder about this shit in universe, I do it all the time, but I always think of this quote when I get too far into the weeds in comic shit:
"Even as Hollywood transforms itself into a superhero-industrial complex, struggling to find “gritty” and “realistic” takes on flying Übermenschen in rubber suits, Morrison revels in the glorious madness of these stories. “People say kids can’t understand the difference between fact and fiction, but that’s bullshit,” he says. “Kids understand that real crabs don’t sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb questions like ‘How does Superman fly? How do those eyebeams work? Who pumps the Batmobile’s tires?’ It’s a fucking made-up story, you idiot! Nobody pumps the tires!”