Wood, incidentally, made the 22 for his own reference for those inevitable situations where a writer had given him panel after panel of just talking, and these were a quick reference for him and his assistants to try and keep things somewhat dynamic. I mention this because perhaps a couple of people here didn’t know that, and the rest of you already skipped the comment anyway.

What kind of person would wear a cape to a fight in real life?

The loser, sometimes referred to as the deceased.

But I actually stood around with people just like that and then went to a grocery store. I don’t even know why, but it was amazingly packed. I think we all didn’t know what to do. So we bought groceries.

He could also add the panel that has flat-affect, dead-eyed staring characters speaking through the fourth wall and making oh-so-ironic points about the medium to the reader, capped with a passive-dismissive catchphrase. Those haven’t worked since last century

Yeah, Pekar, McCloud, and Clowes sure do suck.

“Stump Mark Waid” is literally a convention panel.

It’s a visual short-hand with little basis in reality, but its an overused trick that doesn’t actually work very well.

That pretty much describes the world of superheroes and villains in general. What kind of person would wear a cape to a fight in real life? (Excepting bullfighters.)

If I can accept supervillians and them taking it over, I can accept that they have technology to make sound.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Surely any villain with the resources to build doomsday machines and robot armies could afford a few speakers from Best Buy.

Watching the news was useful, since it wasn’t something I’d thought to check and I (along with many of those around me) had been walking in that direction. I replotted my course on Google maps though.

Cheap rhetorical trick, ten yard penalty for the Comic Book Guy team. One fantastic premise does not make the whole of reality totally pliable. “A wizard did it” doesn’t really cut it.