

I just looked it up cause I was curious, and cannons were in-between. Then as industry evolved cannons became smaller and more deadly and eventually turned into personal firearms.
I’d say it wasn’t that long, relatively, to figure out that we could point them at each other. I mean hell, the Chinese used fireworks as weapons like I immediately after inventing them, bringing with them the first flamethrowers.





I really liked the Fear Itself comic from Marvel about 10-15ish years ago. It’s just a big dumb blockbuster event that’s fun to read with all the craziness that happens.
Odin has a long lost brother who’s evil, and creates magic hammers which he distributes around the world to a bunch of villains (and a couple heroes like Hulk and Thing) to bring chaos and destruction to herald his coming to take over the world. Iron Man and Captain America put up a “last stand” for Asgard, which crash-landed outside of a small town in Kansas. Iron Man goes to Odin’s dwarves and makes weapons and armor to give to a group of heroes to counteract the villains with their hammers.