Saturday, March 03, 2007
Comic Art
Today we will pick up the series on speedsters with another DC Comics creation - Johnny Quick. Talk about a confused back story!The guy has been around forever in all sorts of various guises, morphing one way and then the other as in "Infinite Earths" of the DC universe have combined, uncombined, differentiated, and otherwise given license to the creative imagination to twist the character of Johnny Quick seven ways to Sunday.
There is one constant though - the source of his power - a mathematical formula. Johnny Quick has but to recite the formula and he is off at superspeed!
Now, as a young child interested in math and science there was little more fascinating to me that that. Johnny Quick, along with Hourman who was a chemist and developed a pill to give him superpowers for an hour, was a genuine inspriation in my educational quest. Here were guys that were not aliens, from mythical places, or utterly and darkly obsessed that were able to become superheroes doing stuff I could do. If only....Most fascinating was until recent times no one gave any thought to how such a formula might work, math was just kinda like magic. What they have come up with recently is still pretty much magic, but at least the thought is cool. I have simulations running in background on my computer all the time, though.
Johnny Quick has survived where many of the historical speedsters have fallen by the way side - I know not why, but he sure is fun.
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