It can be relatively peaceful: cocks displaying their plumage other birds building attractive nests.
Even older than war is the contest between two alpha males for supremacy. A personal one.Ĭombat isn’t just between armies.
Right along with the see-saw of armies and fortified cities, there’s another game going on. Bombers fly over the trenches antiaircraft artillery and fighters and ground-to-air missiles bring down the bombers. Then cannons knock down the walls and a whole new kind of fortification in depth has to be invented, using miles of trenches. Next time you build your walls higher and thicker, and surround them with a deep moat to foil tunnels. Eventually, they go away and raid some village that doesn’t have walls. They outnumber you ten to one-but they can’t get inside to harm you. The next time the enemy comes, they ride around and around your walled city on their chariots while you throw rocks or shoot arrows at them. When you gather the survivors to rebuild the city, you put it on a hill and you build a wall around it. I was quite aware of the constant see-sawing of advantages between assault weapons and fortifications.Įnemies come and attack your village, overwhelming you by their greater numbers and better weapons. Now, I’d been studying military history ever since I became fascinated with the U.S. But why not make a thousand of them and get other guys to wear them? Why did he have to wear the suit himself? Admittedly, he designed the suit himself, and funded it. Now, I was no fan of superhero comics-my taste, as a kid, had been more along the lines of Classics Illustrated and Scrooge McDuck, with a bit of Superboy thrown in because he was actually a kid with a real life.īut Iron Man? He didn’t even have any extraordinary powers-he just wore a really talented suit. They suggested I might want to work on Iron Man. A few years ago, Marvel Comics approached me about writing for them.
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