It Must Be A Drug Company Conspiracy…
February 14th, 2007
scene from Adventure Comics #301 by Jerry Siegel and John Forte
So let me get this straight: the 30th century has a powerful healing urn which “can cure almost any illness” — and they keep it locked away in a museum rather than using it to, you know, cure illness?
(And don’t tell me there’s no sickness in the 30th century because there’s been plenty of examples of it over the years in the Legion — just ask the Rannzes or Drura Sehpt. Though I will admit this was towards the beginning of the Legion, so the writers were probably still going for that “Future Utopia” concept.)
February 15th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I’m reminded of a former co-worker who was convinced that the medical establishment will never truly cure cancer, because that would mean the medical industry would lose out on the tons of money it makes now treating cancer.
I can’t help feeling that if I were to come up with a cure for cancer that was nearly 100% effective and had virtually zero percent side effects, I would be wealthy beyond avarice. (I mean, if we’re going to say it’s only about the money …)
February 15th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Maybe the museum charged to have people come to be “healed”?
Nah, didn’t think so…
February 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
It’s in a museum because it’s no longer needed.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Y’know, in the time it took him to think that paragraph he could have prevented the theft.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:46 am
1) We might say he wasn’t being strictly literal, and it’s more like “it can boost the immune system into overdrive.”
2) They don’t use it because they have better medicine, so to them it’s the equivalent of a plant version of a pharmaceutical - it works, but it might give you some bad side effects (like an auto-immune condition which it *won’t* cure), and their 30th century developments are much safer and more effective.
Maybe the guy is stealing it for the collectible value rather than the medical value. As in, “this is the object which was responsible for the discovery of immunodiation therapy”.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Well, isn’t that Bouncing Boy? If he bounced into all that glass what would happen to the poor expanded fool? He’s clearly helpless to act. My assumption is that the 30th century would be an age of scientific wonders. So, if the Urn is a sciemtific creation, why make it as an urn? It’s magic you say? That’s just confusing! And the crook has an electric motor from an old GE washer on his back. In the 30th century? Oh my achin’ head!
February 18th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Just wondering -
what doesn’t the healing cure? Can you have off-label sales for a healing urn?
February 18th, 2007 at 10:33 am
And, you know, Infectious Lass.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Hey, Scott, didja notice that Infectious Lass had her TV debut this weekend on the Legion of Superheroes cartoon? Her, Chlorophyll Kid, Stone Boy, Color Kid, and Porcupine Pete founded the Legion of Substitute Heroes.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Maybe it’s in a museum because it is quaint and archaic. Maybe they tried using it in the 28th Century and after causing numerous social catastrophes, people assembled and decided never to use the damn thing again.
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