I have said this before - IF you are such a great big brain then why can't you design youself a SHIRT THAT DOESN'T RIP ten mintues out of the package.
If you like that look and ONLY that look then make it WORK. Give me a plausible reason why you can't keep your shirt in one piece other than the fact that you are too impressed with your own upper body development. That vanity we cannot abide.
So Mr. pretty boy Doc Savage - either man up and go shirtless all the time or adopt a tougher fiber in your clothing. If you don't you will never be anything more than a second tier hero.
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It's not vanity, it's fear.
He was the chubby child that was always left out of everything. He spent all of grade school, and most of high school that way.
When he got older, he made a change for himself. He began working out, until he is the man you see now. Inside however, he's still that same scared, chubby child.
Afraid of being left out.
He must go without a torn shirt sometimes or he'd have tan lines in that bronze look.
Okay, Calvin, you have uttered fighting words, my friend!
Doc Savage is the greatest hero that has ever strode godlike out of the pages of the old pulps and I'll not have some nancy boy blogger besmirching his awesomeness!
His adventurous lifestyle is hazardous to shirts. This is the 1930's, remember, before spandex, before rayon, before kevlar. Besides, he doesn't have time to change into a fresh shirt before moving on to the next adventure.
Doc Savage could kick your ass, my ass, and the ass of any other pudgy computer nerd without breaking a sweat (of course he wouldn't, unless we were planning on taking over the world or something)
So I will put Doc Savage ahead of any other superhero (Yes, even Superman -- "Oh no! it's Green Kryptonite! What am I gonna do" -- faints like a girl) and I will call out anyone who disses the Man of Bronze.
M.D. - your unreasonable batshit love is perfectly welcome here at the Cave of Cool. I am glad that I could work up your dander and find someone passionate about SOMETHING these days.
Oh and one more thing...why not make the shirt out of the same material as the pants. The pants seem to stand up much better to stress than those damn shirts.
Yeah, it's all unreasonable batshit love, wat?
Do you want the real reason for the ripped shirt or the fictional one?
ANY reason would help my mind real or fictional.
Real reason: James Bama, the artist, remembered the old pulp covers as a kid. The ones that stuck in his memory were the ones with Doc in a ripped shirt. So when he was asked to paint the covers in the sixties he found an old army shirt, ripped it up and gave it to his model, Steve Holland.
Holland looked so awesome in the ripped shirt that Bama kept it in its mutilated state and every time he had to do a photo shoot for the next cover painting he made Holland put on the ripped shirt.
Over the years and hundreds of paperback, the ripped shirt became synonymous with Doc Savage
As did the hair. The original pulp covers don't have the weird cruwcut. Neither did Bama's original go at the painting. The haircut was created at the publisher's insistence that the image look more "sci-fi"
Here endeth the lesson
He DOES look awesome in that ripped shirt...like he has just had one HELL of an adventure and a really good story to tell.
It's the same hatred I have for those quys on 'Dancing with the Stars' who refuse to use the buttons on their shirts.
To quote Beverly Hills Cop - "It's not sexy. It's animal. Like the (?) of a dog to scrub for the customer"
Thanks for the explanation though. I get it now. It's ICONIC. damn. Now I have to LEARN to like him.
Yeah, I gotta agree about those guys on Dancing With the Stars. You got me there.
But those guys are a bit... you know... swishy. The women dancers look like they could beat them up.
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