Comments on: Extinguishing a Speedster’s Smokes

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:12:52 +0000

I always liked that it was hard water fumes that gave Flash his powers. If all it takes is a little extra minerals in your water to give you super speed, then my water out here in the country should’ve made me the fastest man alive years ago.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:24:14 +0000

That’s fair, but smokers who don’t suck do it on their back patio or at the way, way back of the smoker’s section.

The visceral reactions against the personal choice of smoking annoy me. Folks being annoyed at rude smokers who don’t move so they’re not forcing it on others, that I get and fully support.

I HATE when I’m at Disneyland having a cigarette and some dickhead smoker brings their kid into the smoking section. I literally stub the thing out halfway, cos while the kid is certainly inhaling his horrifically irresponsble parents’ smoke, I’m sure as heck not ok with adding to it, ya know?
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By: Kelson

Kelson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:50:47 +0000

When I have coffee, my neighbor doesn’t drink any of it. But when my neighbor smokes, I end up inhaling it anyway.

And I’ve never heard of a secondhand cheeseburger.

By: Yrani Gami

Yrani Gami — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:00:59 +0000

Yeah, why the big deal about smoking? Who cares? I couldn’t care less if The Flash smokes in his stories or not! I also didn’t find it “shocking” that Wally had different lady friends in the late 80s, early 90′s! What will we be told next? That there’s WAYYY too much violence in comics?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:34:34 +0000

I totally agree.

By: I.Strange

I.Strange — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0000

Chemical fumes aren’t too healthy either.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:25:50 +0000

Yeah, I always wondered what the panic over cigarettes is when the form of art is not something explicitly for children. It’s kind of insulting, like this is implying that comics are still for kids – that we can’t handle seeing smoking. Plus, storylines in which people overcome their smoking – as in Watchmen, or if they said Jay gave up smoking once he became the Flash and needed lungs to run hundreds of miles a day – are positive, no?

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:40:07 +0000

Sigh, the panic over cigarettes in popular media is pretty dumb.

What’s next? No one in comics ever eats a burger or has a coffee?

I don’t deny that cigarettes are awful for you, but junk food and caffeine are equally so.
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