Bob Haney, King of Technobabble
Of all the comic book writers of the Silver Age (and even later), I don’t think anyone has ever written better technobabble than Bob Haney. His descriptions sounded impressive and were concise, yet made no sense when you actually tried to think through what was said, let alone applied conventional medical knowledge or physics.
Good technobabble is a lost art, and Haney was the best:
“Alias the Bat-Hulk” from The Brave and the Bold #68
Words by Bob Haney, Art by Mike Sekowsky
“War of the Cosmic Avenger” from The Brave and the Bold #69
Words by Bob Haney, art by Win Mortimer
“Rampant Run of the Robots” from The Brave and the Bold #74
Words by Bob Haney, art by Ross Andru
Oops. I accidentally published this as “private” instead of “public.” If there is any significant problem with the Wordpress blogging software, it’s the ease of making this mistake. I corrected my error, so now everyone can enjoy the brilliance of Bob Haney.
5 Responses to “ Bob Haney, King of Technobabble ”
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Residual embolisms that suppress regular antibody reaction?
Anything that existed in the past gave off light rays of it’s own special frequency?
A position grid plate baffling radioactive electrons?
What’s great about all this is how everything here is all real words, except for “responso-meter.”
That IS good technobabble.
Aaron “The Mad Whitaker” Bourque
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Responsometers? Radoiactive baffled electrons? Goodness, I think I’m getting a residual embolism! Ahhhhhh, great stuff there. I don’t know what any of it means or if it means anything!
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I bow down to the mad genius that is Haney.
February 24th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
He certainly managed to baffle my electrons.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I’m reminded of that episode of the Simpsons with Grampa and Dr Nick: This man doesn’t need a doctor! He needs a quack!
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