DANGER CAY: Chapter 130 — What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
This is a page of pretty much solid technobabble.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I got the inspiration for Creepy Guy Stone from an old Lon Chaney Jr. movie about a criminal sent to the electric chair, but the botched electrocution made him indestructible, and he escaped to wreak havoc on the crooks who set him up. (Because Tragic Monsters is what Lon Chaney did.) I don’t think the movie really explained how that worked except maybe paying lip service to amplifying his “Life Force” or something like that. Many years later, I read an Arthur Conan Doyle story with a similar gimmick and he used Electrical Life Force and some narrative sleight of hand to make it work. Taking a hint from the real Tesla’s work with Alternating Current, I came up with my own explanation, combining the “Life Force” theory with some dimly-remembered science from my youthful reading about overlapping frequencies. My science is pure hokum, but I hope it has a sufficiently Pulp-ish feel to it.
And yes, I was a Child of the ’70s, so of course I had to mention Bio-Rhythms. I also wanted to use the word heterodyne, but I had trouble squeezing in all that exposition into the page as it was. If I had room for one more panel, I would have had Stone complain, “Sheesh! You big brain types are sure talky!”
Oh, and the chapter title is a dated reference which will probably make no sense to anyone born after 1970s. So feel free to ignore it, if you’d rather.
this is off topic a man just posted, very seriously mind you, that he didn’t know that the US traded goods with Britain in the 19th century and I wanted to pound my head against something.
Looks like someone’s a little salty about Thomas Edison being forced out as the head of General Electric and the world switching from DC to AC (though that was mainly due to George Westinghouse.) I’m guessing there’s a plot to take over electricity production and distribution.
Yes, it is indeed someone with a grudge.