BOOM! How Comic Book Sounds Become Movie Sounds  Superpower
sounds can define a comic book hero as much as any form-fitting
costume. And when a character is drafted to the silver screen
the sound comes with him. But how exactly does this sonic
transposition happen?  A comic book artist invents a string of
letters (mostly consonants) to simulate a fantastical sound.
These sounds become indelibly linked to a particular character
and ability—the THWIP of a slung web, the BAMF! of a teleporting
blue mutant. But when the time comes for the movie adaptation,
sound designers have to make these words that imitate
sounds...into sounds. It's not as easy as you'd think.  Chances
are you've stumbled across (or even used) one or all of them at
some point in your life. BAMF, SNIKT and THWIP have all become
sonic staples in pop culture, part of our modern parlance, and
definitely a part of the unceasing marketing machine that drives
toy, book and movie sales. Breaking down how these onomatopoeias
were sonically transposed f