If you have a look at all the usual forums such as onlinecomics.net you’ll find hundredds of writers looking for artists… some of them aren’t that good, but I’m sure she’ll be able to find one that she gets along with.

The other thing to do is perhaps convert out-of-copyright texts to comic form. It takes a bit of editing skill, but I’m sure she’ll be OK at that, and I’d be happy to help out if she needs it… depends what sort of stuff she’s into, but I could make some recomendations.

Post-adolescent suggests a very specific period in a life though, as if the elderly and the middle-aged wouldn’t like it…

But it’s a folly no matter what, to suggest things on age rather than intellect. I know some 30-somethings that aren’t able to handle violence in books, and some teenagers that have a better grasp of ‘adult’ situations than most… maybe they should make you take an aptitude test at the till?

Last night I started to go to sleep but then I couldn’t fall asleep because I couldn’t remember the fourth original Avenger (it was Ant-Man (and I also forgot the Wasp but she was basically Ant-Man’s sidekick at that point (how pathetic is THAT?))).

Though I’m also partial to putting fictional characters and situations under the scrutiny of real life logic… may a few decades in the future when we have something closer to the unstable molecule solution I’ll be mocking the fact that they wore something as impractical as spandex.

So, points awarded, mostly of the geek variety.

1. Golden Age superheroes often wore fairly regular clothes. Green Lantern (Alan Scott) and the Flash (Jay Garrick) for example have pretty regular pants and baggy, not at all skin-tight shirts. When you get to the silver age (the debut of Spider-Man and modern DC heroes like Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern) you get into that skin-tight, kind of iffy period. Spider-Man’s costume was probably a set of longjohns he modified and, over time, he found new materials and made better costumes. On the other hand, a lot of heroes wear unstable molecules, something invented in Marvel comics by Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic). The fabric conforms well to the body, helps get rid of sweat so you’re not all icky and gross after a fight, and most importantly, adjusts to your powers. Its why the Human Torch’s costume doesn’t burn up when he flames on.

As for the Question, there’s actually a breathing mesh and a lenses in that mask. They’re just cleverly disguised so no one can tell from the outside. Think flesh colored one way mirror. Does it make sense? No. But then again, we’re talking about a guy who uses a gas to change his hair color (seriously, think of how much money that gas would make on the hair product market). Realism isn’t exactly part of the program.

*no pun intended.

What I want to know is how does the Question see through that blank face mask he wears?

I suspect body paint has a couple of drawbacks, namely that no one wants to see Spiderman’s hastily coloured-in genitals flopping around as he swings between skyscrapers.

Perhaps a pants and paint combo would solve that, but that leaves him open to a spidey-wedgie.

I have a feeling this is going to take over and become my life’s work.

you told us all that…

… right after you requested that we refer to you as ‘doctor’.