Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 212 Hughes One

[Ability - Super Vision (Bronze)]

[Ability description: At first, Superman could only see things near him. With the development of the comics, he has super-distance vision that can see everything in the city, and can see microscopic things that the naked eye cannot see, and even mysterious power. 】

[Ability - Super Conversion (Black Iron)]

[Ability description: Superman has a strong adaptability and learning ability, which not only allows him to adapt to the ecological environment of the earth, but also adapts to different energies and converts them into his own power. 】

With the serialization of the new issue of "Daily Courier", Ke Lin has unlocked two new abilities.

The former is an upgrade of the original ability. After the [Bronze] level, the [Super Vision] not only becomes wider in the range of vision, but also within the scope of the city from the original ten kilometers, and also improves the [Microscopic Vision]. The effect of vision], the mysterious power mentioned at the end of the text description, represents that Colin's eyes can already see the existence of magic.

On the other hand, the new ability [Super Conversion] was obviously designed to fight against magic.

As a comic book character, Superman may need weaknesses to enrich the plot of the character and make the story more watchable.

But for Colin personally, he naturally didn't want such a weakness to appear in himself.

Therefore, the [Super Conversion] ability designed is undoubtedly aimed at the original superman's weak magic resistance, not only helping him solve the problem of being powerless against magic power, but also being able to use it through the new ability.

From the perspective of manga creation, such an unsolvable ability design will definitely be cut by the editor in the later stage, or even deliberately forgotten or ignored.

Even Colin himself often uses this method when creating "Superman" comics.

For example, the ability [Invisibility], if mentioned frequently, will have an impact on many daily plots of Clark as a reporter and the plot of Superman infiltrating, so he usually deliberately does not add this ability when creating.

This point also appeared in Superman in the subsequent era change.

When the comics changed from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age, although the screenwriter did not restart the plot of Superman, he also mentioned that in order to make Superman’s ability scientifically weakened, in order to balance the plot, Superman had to be attenuated .

Of course, that's after the "Superman" comics, at least in Colin's version.

Superman's ability will not only not weaken, but will become stronger and stronger.

……

Rumbling--

Just as Colin was thinking, a loud rumble suddenly came from his ears.

Immediately after a burst of noisy wheels turning, everything around him began to reverse rapidly, a strong pull appeared on his body, and at the same time, a reminder came from the cockpit beside him.

"be ready!"

As Howard Hughes' voice fell, 'Hughes One' began to slowly climb up, and the voice coming from Colin's ear became more and more noisy. This was the sound from the engine.

whoosh-

Suddenly, with a loud sound of piercing through the air, the 'Hughes One' plunged into the sky.

"what……"

At the same time, Howard Hughes' cheers came from Colin's ears.

"It's exciting, isn't it?!"

Hughes had no choice but to raise his voice to shout to Colin on the co-pilot next to the huge engine sound of 'Hughes One'.

"This feeling of flying into the sky makes my heart beat faster every time..."

Because of his previous sailing experience, Howard Hughes’s second sea voyage was extremely smooth. He took the photography team and hired color-changing craftsmen to complete the description of the iceberg lens, and soon returned to New York. Colin issued an invitation to start the production of the "Titanic" movie.

As the screenwriter of the script, Ke Lin readily agreed to the other party's invitation.

Howard Hughes, as a well-known producer and director in Hollywood, has a good network and relationship, which is what Colin needs.

In fact, he has never let go of his attention to Paramount, and Hollywood is also one of the important territories for Colin to expand Superman's influence in the future.

However, Hughes has his own ideas compared to steam locomotives, a time-consuming means of transportation.

'Hughes One' was the first new aircraft developed and produced by his aircraft repair shed in Los Angeles, the Hughes Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

Howard Hughes' goal this time is to fly back to Los Angeles by taking this plane. For this reason, he specially sent 'Hughes One' to New York.

I have to say that this is a crazy decision. It is obviously impossible for ordinary people to agree to Hughes' invitation to fly.

After all, Howard Hughes, who was a pilot on this trip, did not actually have much sailing experience. According to his own description, he once worked as a pilot for American Airlines through a forged certificate in two months. It was also the only day in Hughes' life that he had systematic contact with aircraft operations.

But, obviously, Colin is not an ordinary person.

In the positive world, although his ability has been weakened to varying degrees, it is still enough for him to survive the dangerous situation safely.

In other words, even if the plane controlled by Howard Hughes had an accident, the last person who survived would definitely be Colin.

After all, with the [flying] ability, he can land slowly and smoothly even with a float.

What's more, as far as Colin knew, although Howard Hughes was crazy, he was equally talented in piloting a plane. He even flew a plane across the continental United States and 14824 miles in 91 hours and 14 minutes around the world.

It can be said that this trip to New York and Los Angeles aboard the Hughes One seemed dangerous, but it was actually extremely safe.

The fact is just as Colin expected. After the "Hughes One" took off, Howard Hughes on the cockpit showed a very professional attitude. He skillfully steered the plane to Los Angeles, the destination of the trip. , and at the same time the expression under the helmet became extremely focused and calm.

In the co-pilot, Colin looked at the floating clouds below him, and everything seemed within reach.

"It's magnificent, isn't it?"

In the cockpit, Hughes controlled the direction and said loudly to Colin beside him.

"This feeling of being one with the sky is hard to forget no matter how many times you experience it, as if the whole sky is under control..."

"indeed."

Nodding his head, Colin can somewhat understand Hughes' inner thoughts.

If so, Hughes' sky dream still needs to be fulfilled by airplane, but Colin is a real existence that can fly by himself.

The unconstrained feeling of placing the body in the sky is indeed fascinating.

"I have always been regarded as a crazy person. Now it seems that you are similar to me. No, you are even more crazy than me, Colin."

Calmly operating the steering wheel of the plane in his hand, Howard Hughes turned his head and glanced at Colin at the side, and couldn't help saying.

"If you weren't crazy, how could you agree to my invitation to fly back to Los Angeles so easily?"

Even Howard Hughes himself had no idea about his piloting skills, but Colin agreed to the flight without hesitation.

"Maybe it's because I believe that you will definitely send me to my destination smoothly."

Colin didn't explain much about this, but just casually said.

Facing Colin's answer, Howard Hughes took a deep look at him, and then turned his gaze back to 'Hughes One'.

"You are very talented, Colin, are you interested in learning to fly a plane with me?"

"my pleasure."

……

"Colin?"

Los Angeles, Walt Disney Studios.

Lillian looked at Colin who appeared in the studio with a surprised expression on her face.

"When did you arrive in Los Angeles?"

Under her notice, Walter quickly walked out of the studio and said with a face full of surprise.

"Just now."

After greeting Walt, Colin looked him up and down, especially pausing on the other's messy hair, before replying.

Sensing Colin's gaze on his hair, Walter explained with some embarrassment: "You came so suddenly, I didn't even have time to prepare."

Generally speaking, before meeting with Colin, Walt would have been notified early and cleaned up everything. It can only be said that Colin's visit this time was too sudden.

Reaching out his hand to take the hat from his wife Lilian, he put it on his head, covering his slightly messy hairstyle, and Walter turned the topic back to Colin's visit: "I just got off the train Soon?"

"No, I didn't come by train this time."

"Not a train?"

Hearing Colin's reply, Walt and his wife Lillian couldn't help but glanced at each other, and then under the dubious eyes of the two, Colin told the means of transportation for his trip.

"I actually arrived on Hughes' new plane."

"Hughes? Howard Hughes!"

Responding to the owner of the name, Walt looked at Colin in front of him with a surprised and admiring expression. The news that Howard Hughes made an airplane was no secret in Hollywood, but this was the first time Walt heard that someone dared to sit on the plane. The plane made by Hughes, and this person is still alive.

"So, how does it feel to fly?"

As for being amazed, Walt couldn't help asking curiously.

"It's not bad, although it's a bit uncomfortable to sit on."

As an aircraft developed during the Great Depression, Colin naturally didn't expect a perfect flying experience, at least taking Hughes' aircraft was a good choice in terms of time.

"But compared with taking a steam locomotive, there is a significant difference in time. We only took about six hours to arrive in Los Angeles."

"Six hours!"

Hearing the time it took for the flight from Colin's mouth, Walt couldn't help showing a look of shock on his face.

He once made a steam train from New York to Los Angeles, which is a distance calculated in days, if the plane can really shorten this time to a few hours.

"Walter..."

Noticing the eager expression in her husband's eyes, Lilian who was on the side had no choice but to remind her: "I don't allow you to take an airplane casually, especially an airplane made by a crisis guy like Howard Hughes, God knows..."

Halfway through the speech, Lilian seemed to realize that there was a person who had been in Howard Hughes in front of her, and she quickly apologized to Colin.

"Sorry, Colin, that's not what I meant."

"No, I can understand."

Colin didn't feel much about this. After all, even Howard Hughes himself admitted that it was a pretty crazy decision to fly the plane he drove.

"Although, so far, flying is not considered a safe way of transportation, but I think it will become one of the important means of transportation for Americans in the future. In fact, Hughes has already begun to design the design of commercial aircraft, It may not be long before you, Walt, and Lillian can fly from Los Angeles to New York in a few hours on this plane."

"If there is that day, I will definitely go to your newspaper office first."

For the imagination of the plane, at present, it only stays in Colin's description, and even Walt himself does not really believe Colin's statement.

After briefly learning about the means of transportation used by Colin to and from Los Angeles, the topic of the two soon turned to the new animation designed by Disney.

So far, the production of the "Confused Symphony" series of animations is still in progress. After "Flowers and Trees", Disney has changed the animation technology from the original black and white to color. In the latest episode of animation,

Donald Duck (Donald Duck), the animated character designed by Ke Lin, made his debut as Mickey's friend in the animated series.

Due to the length of the animation, the early image of Donald Duck was not so three-dimensional, but this grumpy duck wearing a sailor hat still left a very deep impression on people.

Because of this, Walt has already made preparations, and will design an episode of animation with Donald Duck alone as the protagonist in the next time, and even wrote to Colin before, asking for his thoughts.Now, Colin's sudden visit naturally gave Walt the opportunity to continue to ask about the plot arrangement. For this reason, he even planned to ask Colin to write a script related to Donald Duck.

In addition to the appearance of Donald Duck, Disney or Walt has so far focused more on the creation of the new animation, that is, "Snow White", which is Disney's first animation after "Flowers and Trees". Walt has huge expectations for the colorful feature-length animation.

However, in the process of creation, "Snow White" was not all smooth sailing. On the contrary, the production of the entire animation was full of difficulties.

(End of this chapter)