I know that it's far too easy to pick on science in Golden Age comics. But by gum, someone has to pick the low hanging fruit, right? Especially from a Wonder Woman comic!!
Let's start with today's weather report:
SCIENCE!!
Hope you didn't have plans!
Well, it actually happens, and suddenly there's a new continent, Neptunia, just sitting there in the Pacific! And those Neptunians, they're a strange bunch.
Well, that's one way to do it.
And how, exactly, do you make a "mechano"?
This is a good argument against low-sodium diets!
SCIENCE!!
Seriously, I never learned any of this in biology!!
Anyway, it turns out that women are immune to becoming mechanos...
True dat. SCIENCE!!
And it turns out that current mechanos can be cured. Salt! Lots and lots of salt!!
"Sodium-chloriding" is a perfectly cromulent word. SCIENCE!!
Well, the Neptunians aren't going to take this lying down! They have a plan!
SCIENCE!
SCIENCE!!
SCIENCE (and property law?)!!!
Meanwhile, it turns out that Neptune is crawling with...Tigerapes:
Yes, tigerapes:
So, if you can't turn the Holliday Girls into mechanos, you can turn them into tigerapes!!
How? SCIENCE!!
No, not "double-talk," Etta--SCIENCE!!
(And yes, "deevolutionarying" is totally a word, no matter what my spell-checker says!)
Not sure why, but all the salt stuff just strikes me as dumb comic book science, while the astronomy / physics stuff actively horrifies me. I guess maybe it's because we'd have no problem accepting the results of the salt things if they'd just come up with a better explanation (presumably NOT involving salt). Whereas moving the Earth to orbit Neptune is just a catastrophically bad plan no matter how you justify it with made-up science...
I never cared much for the Golden Age Wonder Woman, so I haven't read many of her stories. However every time I see one, the story is about sexual politics. Generally kinda weird sexual politics.
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Not sure why, but all the salt stuff just strikes me as dumb comic book science, while the astronomy / physics stuff actively horrifies me. I guess maybe it's because we'd have no problem accepting the results of the salt things if they'd just come up with a better explanation (presumably NOT involving salt). Whereas moving the Earth to orbit Neptune is just a catastrophically bad plan no matter how you justify it with made-up science...
I never cared much for the Golden Age Wonder Woman, so I haven't read many of her stories. However every time I see one, the story is about sexual politics. Generally kinda weird sexual politics.
Welcome to the crazy world of William Moulton Marston!
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