Comic Book Questions & Discussion

Originally posted by ODG
Describing Flashy Flash as FTL was a flourish after a chapter title page only IIRC. I don't consider that on nearly the same level as on-panel narration. Particularly not when their actions are specifically measured in the microsecond scale in surrounding chapters.

Pretty much. It was a character intro, nothing more, no more than Daredevil is the Man Without Fear etc.

When it comes to actual feats, we were given none. People were then throwing out names like Surfer or Flash or whatever - elite speedsters. I just wanted to point out that Iron Man has similar feats.

In short: Carver was wrong.

so after going back through the last few chapters again, i'm not really convinced that stars were actually destroyed at all.

blast straight up says that the collision between saitama and garou will "blow earth to smithereens" (not the solarsystem or galaxy)-

blast couldnt contain that energy alone, so then his 3 underlings (who all seem to be weaker than blast himself) arrive to help contain and redirect it-

but as you see above; it looked like they just redirected the energy to an area very close to the earth, which was shown again on the next page-

so i think the black hole we saw here-

could just be a temporary after effect of the gateway that blast and his underlings opened. because the art in the prior pages definitely didnt allude to them redirecting the energy thousands of light years away from earth IMO.

there's also the fact that if blast couldnt even contain and redirect earth busting energy by himself, its hard to believe that with the help of his 3 weaker buddies, they would be able to contain and redirect an energy that allegedly destroyed hundreds (possibly thousands) of stars. the fact that saitama and garou's even more serious fight on IO was only moon level in scale just helps support that.

but thats just my speculation. we dont know all the facts yet.

Translation was wrong, what Blast actually says is it would blow nothing to smithereens, it's a very fine distinction in Japanese that the original scanlator missed.

Or maybe not.

Originally posted by DeadpoolXXX
so after going back through the last few chapters again, i'm not really convinced that stars were actually destroyed at all.

blast straight up says that the collision between saitama and garou will "blow earth to smithereens" (not the solarsystem or galaxy)-

blast couldnt contain that energy alone, so then his 3 underlings (who all seem to be weaker than blast himself) arrive to help contain and redirect it-

but as you see above; it looked like they just redirected the energy to an area very close to the earth, which was shown again on the next page-

so i think the black hole we saw here-

could just be a temporary after effect of the gateway that blast and his underlings opened. because the art in the prior pages definitely didnt allude to them redirecting the energy thousands of light years away from earth IMO.

there's also the fact that if blast couldnt even contain and redirect earth busting energy by himself, its hard to believe that with the help of his 3 weaker buddies, they would be able to contain and redirect an energy that allegedly destroyed hundreds (possibly thousands) of stars. the fact that saitama and garou's even more serious fight on IO was only moon level in scale just helps support that.

but thats just my speculation. we dont know all the facts yet.

What other time did we see any after effects during the time a gateway was opened?

Not the One Punch Man hype causing chaos 😂

holy shit, who casted the spell to resurrect everyone

Saitama vs Garou summoned me

Are you too of the opinion that everyone in OPM is FTL and can punch through dimensions and tank punches of the same?

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Are you too of the opinion that everyone in OPM is FTL and can punch through dimensions and tank punches of the same?

Also, Blast said that the gates couldn't handle that type of energy, so was the gates even opened? We saw the energy redirected by Blast friends.

Originally posted by carver9
What other time did we see any after effects during the time a gateway was opened?

the art and narration are just ambiguous. blast straight up says the energy released from the colliding punches would destroy the earth. not the solar system. not the galaxy. the EARTH.

blast could not contain that energy alone, but with the help of his 3 weaker buddies was able to redirect it. then we see the residual black hole, and based on just that people automatically assume the energy went from earth busting level, to destroying hundreds of stars (which would make it like multi-multi solar system level)? thats a hard pill for me to swallow. especially when the even more intense fight between saitama and garou only destroyed a moon just minutes later.

but the arc isnt over yet so we dont have all the info. they could definitely be on that level once everything is wrapped up. im just a little skeptical right now, as we all should be.

Originally posted by DeadpoolXXX
what other time have we seen the 4 of them redirect energy like that at all? we havent. so we dont know what the after effects would be.

the art and narration are just ambiguous. blast straight up says the energy released from the colliding punches would destroy the earth. not the solar system. not the galaxy. the EARTH.

blast could not contain that energy alone, but with the help of his 3 weaker buddies was able to redirect it. then we see the residual black hole, and based on just that people automatically assume the energy went from earth busting level, to destroying hundreds of stars (which would make it like multi-multi solar system level)? thats a hard pill for me to swallow. especially when the even more intense fight between saitama and garou only destroyed a moon just minutes later.

but the arc isnt over yet so we dont have all the info. they could definitely be on that level once everything is wrapped up. im just a little skeptical right now, as we all should be.

We don't assume things though.

Also, he said it would shatter earth, but, that doesn't mean that it was the limit of that power and Blast didn't even use the gates during that scene.

Blast never said that it can ONLY destroy earth, he said it will destroy earth. There's a difference and what was he supposed to say? It'll destroy earth, stars, moons, put a hole in the sky 🤔. Tell me the dialog you think should've been said there since earth is the main point of protection for Blast and the other heroes.

that's an asspull carver.

usually the destructive potential of an attack is spelled out pretty clearly. if blast said the energy would destroy the earth, then thats all we can assume it was meant to have destroyed. the author could have simply had blast say "it will destroy the entire solar system" or "it will destroy this sector of the galaxy". something along those lines..... but he just said EARTH.

since you're a dbz fan; when vegeta said that his galic gun would destroy earth, what do you think that meant? how about when spc said his kamehameha would destroy the solar system?

Originally posted by DeadpoolXXX
his galic gun

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Dude.

Galick. Or f*cking garlic, if you really must.

Or any other of its great many alternate names, but ffs, don't add another one!

Yeah it's not the Kame Hame Hoe

Originally posted by DeadpoolXXX
there's also the fact that if blast couldnt even contain and redirect earth busting energy by himself, its hard to believe that with the help of his 3 weaker buddies, they would be able to contain and redirect an energy that allegedly destroyed hundreds (possibly thousands) of stars.

Blast goes from being totally overwhelmed by Earth-busting power [per his own words], to being able to contain & redirect energy that according to some, wiped out thousands of stars, with the help of his 3 weaker crewmembers? That's like saying "I can only benchpress 250lbs by myself, but if my 3 weaker friends spot me, I can press the Empire State building".

Unless Blast is just an idiot and seriously underestimated their energy. But he seems like a very knowledgeable and reliable source, and I also don't think the author would have had him lowball the energy release by exponential orders of magnitude, when this arc is all about Saitama getting his best feats ever.

It's just a very weird showing, I agree.

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
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Dude.

Galic[b]k. Or f*cking garlic, if you really must.

Or any other of its great many alternate names, but ffs, don't add another one! [/B]

Originally posted by Mendax
This is actually one of the harder plotholes for me to reconcile.

Blast goes from being totally overwhelmed by Earth-busting power [per his own words], to being able to contain & redirect energy that according to some, wiped out thousands of stars, with the help of his 3 weaker crewmembers? That's like saying "I can only benchpress 250lbs by myself, but if my 3 weaker friends spot me, I can press the Empire State building".

Unless Blast is just an idiot and seriously underestimated their energy. But he seems like a very knowledgeable and reliable source, and I also don't think the author would have had him lowball the energy release by exponential orders of magnitude, when this arc is all about Saitama getting his best feats ever.

It's just a very weird showing, I agree.

i really hope the feat is clearly spelled out by the author one way or the other in the next chapters, or else it will be debated until the end of time.

Originally posted by DeadpoolXXX
that's an asspull carver.

usually the destructive potential of an attack is spelled out pretty clearly. if blast said the energy would destroy the earth, then thats all we can assume it was meant to have destroyed. the author could have simply had blast say "it will destroy the entire solar system" or "it will destroy this sector of the galaxy". something along those lines..... but he just said EARTH.

since you're a dbz fan; when vegeta said that his galic gun would destroy earth, what do you think that meant? how about when spc said his kamehameha would destroy the solar system?

Show me Blast using his Gate and if you can't, then this is proof that the attack had more power than earth shattering.

Originally posted by Mendax
This is actually one of the harder plotholes for me to reconcile.

Blast goes from being totally overwhelmed by Earth-busting power [per his own words], to being able to contain & redirect energy that according to some, wiped out thousands of stars, with the help of his 3 weaker crewmembers? That's like saying "I can only benchpress 250lbs by myself, but if my 3 weaker friends spot me, I can press the Empire State building".

Unless Blast is just an idiot and seriously underestimated their energy. But he seems like a very knowledgeable and reliable source, and I also don't think the author would have had him lowball the energy release by exponential orders of magnitude, when this arc is all about Saitama getting his best feats ever.

It's just a very weird showing, I agree.

He never used the gates.

Blast tells us that the gates can't hold that power so he will alter the blast away from earth. He literally pushed the energy of the attack away from the planet...

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