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Josh Smith
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Is that ever talked about in the comics between the two of them? I think it's cool cause they're like brothers, but why is Cyclops's force beam and Havok's stuff (what do i call that???) different colors?
Force beam...cool
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John Byrne
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Unfortunately, the coloring of black hair with blue highlights is an incorrect tradition that seems to contradict other things in the very same panel.••• It doesn't contradict anything. It merely asks of the readers that they play along. In the same way readers accept that the villains cannot know what the heroes are thinking because it's right there in print floating over their heads. Comics are a language of shorthand. For many decades, a very limited shorthand.
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Paul Greer
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Those real life examples of different shades of black are perfect.
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Paul Greer
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When I was younger I would refer to it as Cyclops' "optic blast".
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Aaron Smith
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"optic blast".
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That's the term I've always used too.
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John Byrne
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"Optic blast" is commonly used in the comics, too, tho, as we can see, it doesn't really get the job done. Lasers coming out of someones eyes could, after all, be described as "optic blasts".(In my recent sojourn back on ACTION COMICS I couldn't help but notice that Superman's heat vision is apparently being portrayed as having a concussive effect, too. Just when you think the waters can't get any muddier. . . !!!)
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Josh Smith
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I always called it a laser - I feel like a dope now, man.
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John Byrne
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Feel like someone misled by those who should
know better!
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Paul Greer
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I do agree that optic blast has become the short hand description that doesn't always work for every character. Darkseid also comes to mind when folks talk of his Omega beams as an optic blast.
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Matt Hawes
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Greg wrote:
| ...JB, those are both clearly black, reflecting the natural light above as whitish highlights (though the first one appears to be muted light, maybe an overcast day, so it's not as stark white as the Underworld photo, but still clearly not blue)... |
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The eyedropper tool, taking some sample, says you are wrong.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 21 September 2007 at 11:42am
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Matt Hawes
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Matt Hawes
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Huh... I thought Darth Vader wore black.
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