Hillary Clinton Dons Heavy Coat

[Cerebrum123]

Everybody's familiar with Dr. Octopus, right?

Yeah, and I saw what he did in The Superior Spider-Man. Let's hope that what happens to Peter Parker at the beginning doesn't happen to Trump.

[One Bad Pig]

Everybody's familiar with Dr. Octopus, right?

Please don't inform me. I prefer blissful ignorance.

Comic book creators be like, "E.E. 'Doc' Smith is teh awesome!!!!! We must emulate him in pictures!"

[Cerebrum123]

Please don't inform me. I prefer blissful ignorance.

Comic book creators be like, "E.E. 'Doc' Smith is teh awesome!!!!! We must emulate him in pictures!"

After looking up E.E. Smith, I can say I don't see any similarities between the two. Doctor Octopus is just a supervillain with extra mechanical arms who fights Spider-Man a lot.

[One Bad Pig]

After looking up E.E. Smith, I can say I don't see any similarities between the two. Doctor Octopus is just a supervillain with extra mechanical arms who fights Spider-Man a lot.

Both are so over the top as to be unbelievable.

[Sparko]

Please don't inform me. I prefer blissful ignorance.

Comic book creators be like, "E.E. 'Doc' Smith is teh awesome!!!!! We must emulate him in pictures!"

I read some of the EE Doc Smith Lensmen books. He was really racist and sexist.

[One Bad Pig]

I read some of the EE Doc Smith Lensmen books. He was really racist and sexist.

Not surprising, given the era.

[Sparko]

Not surprising, given the era.

I love old sci-fi stories from the 50s and 60s. I actually used to collect them. I read Heinlein, Asimov, Alfred Bester, Leigh Bracket, Bradbury, etc. NONE of them were even close to as racist as EE. His stories read almost like a Nazi, with a "master race" type of hero with lower class humans not being as good. No actual mention of skin color racism as far as I recall.

[One Bad Pig]

I love old sci-fi stories from the 50s and 60s. I actually used to collect them. I read Heinlein, Asimov, Alfred Bester, Leigh Bracket, Bradbury, etc. NONE of them were even close to as racist as EE. His stories read almost like a Nazi, with a "master race" type of hero with lower class humans not being as good. No actual mention of skin color racism as far as I recall.

Oh, I agree there were plenty in that era who weren't racist. On the other hand, Doc Smith flourished in the mid-'30's, when people got free anti-Semitic literature with their new Fords.