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He drops into alleys to brawl with criminals in fights that are rhythmic and brutal, with the snap of bone or the scattering of teeth.
Comics scholar Arnold T. Blumberg places the end of the Silver Age in June 1973, when Gwen Stacy, girlfriend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man) was killed in a story arc later dubbed "The Night Gwen Stacy Died", saying the era of "innocence" was ended by "the 'snap' heard round the comic book world — the startling, sickening snap of bone that heralded the death of Gwen Stacy".
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There's nothing I can do but wait for the inevitable snapping of bones and loss of consciousness.
That's a real pet peeve of mine - if I was the manager of a football team I'd fine any of my players who put the ball out of play so an opponent went down injured... unless they actually heard the snap of splintering bone as their opponent went to ground.
Unsurprisingly the tempo dropped in the second half, but a game played in a "friendly and sportsmanlike spirit" was marred towards the end by Rotherham forward Alf Pickering suffering a fracture of his right leg just below the knee in an accidental collision with Bernard Pumfrey, "the snap of the bone being heard all round the ground".
The snap of his bones "like, pow!" was a horrifying sound "but to me it was euphoric", he recalls.
Then, with a quick snap of the hand, break the bone in half.
One boned the star of Bones.
With a game like "Batman: Arkham Asylum," you can pinpoint every sound, like dripping water, crackling electricity and approaching footsteps, and relish in the satisfying crunch when you snap the bones of a Joker thug.
With no rigid parts, an octopus can bend its arms into positions that would snap the bones of even the most flexible human contortionist.
The tearing of my flesh, the snap of jaws wrestling at my bones, the blissful lapping as my throat opened — all this seemed absolutely real to me.
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