http://firestormfan.com/2015/06/23/secret-origins-podcast/ The Source for DC Comics' Nuclear Man - Firestorm! Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://firestormfan.com/2015/06/23/secret-origins-podcast/comment-page-1/#comment-577547 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:11:27 +0000 http://firestormfan.com/?p=10623#comment-577547 Ryan’s observation about how/when Crystal met Martin was something I noticed even back then when the issue came out. Now that I’ve actually spent some time in academia, my no-prize explanation is this: they started out as undergrads together. But because Martin did an accelerated program where he received his Masters and doctorate together in one lump sum (which is occasionally done in some programs), he got onto the tenure track and became a professor well ahead of Crystal, who was probably doing a traditional Masters-then-doctorate path. So by the time she’s stalking him in Firestorm Original Series #3, she remembers him as an undergraduate crush, but he’s just that far ahead of the game academically because he’s just so brilliant.

]]> http://firestormfan.com/2015/06/23/secret-origins-podcast/comment-page-1/#comment-577543 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:07:21 +0000 http://firestormfan.com/?p=10623#comment-577543 You know what this issue really is? All authors have a one-act play in their hip pocket that they want to get produced on Broadway. This was Gerry Conway’s one-act play, and he shoehorned it into Firestorm’s story via Prof. Stein. Take away the Firestorm bit, and it’s a great little one-act play about an academic overcoming alcoholism and workaholism.

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