Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Externalities: Week of 06/07/10

Superheroes fight crime and save lives. But by doing so they impose certain costs on people not directly involved. These are superhero externalities.

#3) Subways

Wolverine: Weapon X #13 by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney, Marvel Comics (2010)

Logan has a bad habit of driving people's heads into subway cars. Even if they are terminator-like assassins from the future sent to the present day to wipe out all superhero threats.

Perhaps this isn't an exteranlity at all. It might be completely intentional. Maybe Logan just has a thing against subways.

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#2) The Golden Gate Bridge

X-Force #27 by Craig Kyle, Christ Yost and Mike Choi, Marvel Comics (2010)

With the "Second Coming" story arc/crossover in full swing, the external damage keeps on coming. See that orb in the first panel? That is a spherical portal located at the center of a large, impenetrable dome encapsulating all of San Francisco, including Utopia (the X-Men's new island home). That dome apparently causes lots of damage to the city. Oh yeah, and the Nimrods--super sentinels from the future sent by Bastion to kill the X-Men--are doing their fair share as well.

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#1) The Grand Canyon

Irredeemable #14 by Mark Waid and Diego Barreto, BOOM! Studios (2010)

Aha! Somewhere in the corners of the universe (apparently, over at BOOM Studios), superheroes are cognizant of the effects that their weekly battles have on innocent bystanders, private and public property, and the environment. Here, we have former members of the Paradigm, Earth's premier superhero squad, preparing for a battle with the renegade Plutonian, who spent the last few months systemically destroying city after city. To prepare for the battle, the team sets up camp at the Grand Canyon, an area with currently no bystanders, cars, buildings, sidewalks, subways, or mailboxes that they might accidentally blow up with plasma lasers.

Smart move, guys.

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Feel free to send us your favorite externalities of the week. We'll throw them up on next week's post and credit your name.


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21 comments:

  1. WillJune 9, 2010 at 10:07 AM

    The problem with being too isolationist in your battles is that you will never improve your cred if you only fight in isolated locations. Word of mouth might help, but nothing gets you attention like beating up a villain in Times Square. Not sure why cred helps, but it must matter to these guys.

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  2. lawnmower boyJune 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    But doesn't rebuilding stimulate the economy?
    Also, how does macroeconomics account for salvaged Deathlock & Nimrod bits? Are they true exogenous inputs?

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  3. ShadowBankerJune 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM

    Will - I suppose if you're a villain, destroying things is always a plus for your cred.

    lawnmower - Rebuilding would, but I don't think anyone would argue that unintended damage wasn't an externality. The question of salvaged bits is interesting. Though, I don't know how to determine exogeneity with all the time travel rules. Maybe you can help us write a post about that!

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    "at the Grand Canyon, an area with currently no bystanders,"

    The Havasupai, among others, might disagree...

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    yeah very tipic of the hero, arrive rise a hell and leave, in the end all of us we pay for all this mess, is like the occassion when Spider Man fought against Octupus in the subway.

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