Two minor comparisons between the DC Comics Universe and Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization -
(i)
Members of the superhero team, the Green Lantern Corps, wear "power
rings" that bestow super powers, including flight. One Corps member
resembled a squirrel.
Members of the trader team sometimes fly using personal gravity harnesses. One team member resembles a squirrel.
(ii)
Thanagar is inhabited both by winged, feathered, avian-headed humanoids
and by fully humanoid beings whose policemen fly with artificial wings
and belts of anti-gravity metal and wear hawk-like helmets. Two
Thanagarian police officers came to Earth as the superheroes, Hawkman
and Hawkwoman.
Avalon is colonized by winged, feathered Ythrians and by human beings some of whom fly with gravbelts.
Imperial
Thanagar joined an Alien Alliance attack against Terrestrial
superheroes whereas Avalon successfully resisted annexation by Imperial
Terra.
Comments:
Here the resemblances
end. Graphic fiction can be as rich and dense as prose fiction can be
but usually it is not because of its monthly publishing schedule.
Anderson's characters do not fight crime but earn a living and, when necessary, keep the peace.
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