tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post3529243064343570032..comments2023-11-23T04:26:01.790-08:00Comments on Gone & Forgotten: AUNT MAY AND FRANKLIN RICHARDS VERSUS GALACTUSCalamity Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800364546694770009noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-28337978776491349642015-09-03T16:07:09.411-07:002015-09-03T16:07:09.411-07:00Thanks, Jon. It's a pleasure to be here tonigh...Thanks, Jon. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. All right, fplks, show of hands---who's here from outta town? >ahem< The short-ish version of things is that near the end of FANTASTIC FOUR #260, written and drawn by John Byrne, Doctor Doom is about to get blowed up real good. In order to save himself, he transfers his consciousness into the body of a random onlooker.Thing is, the un-named shmendrick who is now Doom's host was standing Right Next To Aunt May! Which left me (and tens of thousands of other funnybook readers, I'm sure) grinning like idiots over how cool it would have been if Doom had landed in the old lady's head instead. I still think of it as One of The Most Awesome Things Marvel Comics Ever Punked Out On. You can see the sequence in question here: http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/fantastic_four_258-260.shtmlJames W. Fry 3.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/11996867254857648771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-79483973813434795942015-09-02T12:57:22.462-07:002015-09-02T12:57:22.462-07:00No I do not! Fill us in, Uncle James!No I do not! Fill us in, Uncle James!Calamity Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800364546694770009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-22699998198633506622015-09-02T12:56:04.843-07:002015-09-02T12:56:04.843-07:00Actually, all this reminds me of something: anyone...Actually, all this reminds me of something: anyone out there remember Aunt May's near-miss body switch with Doctor Doom?James W. Fry 3.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/11996867254857648771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-48825896061897582472015-09-02T12:41:46.952-07:002015-09-02T12:41:46.952-07:00Waterfall? WATERFALL???! Nearest goddamn waterfall...Waterfall? WATERFALL???! Nearest goddamn waterfall is, like, three or four blocks away from here, sure, but it's UPHILL! Fuck that noise. Bring on FANTASTIC SPIDER VII!...actually, the part about the waterfall is true. I first saw our local falls on TV, years before moving here. A guy almost got thrown into it in season one of THE SOPRANOS.And why in hell should anyone care about that? Excuse me folks. On a diet and jonesing for some burgers. I get light-headed. Carry on.James W. Fry 3.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/11996867254857648771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-11251512960357768222015-09-02T10:15:07.579-07:002015-09-02T10:15:07.579-07:00There's a pleasing bunch of gags about the peo...There's a pleasing bunch of gags about the people milling around Galactus' feet, just straight giving him the business (It starts with a less-successful aspirational cred-gathering joke where someone describes his shoes as "Adidas" and I assume is the product of a passing authorial association with the music of Run-DMC)Calamity Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800364546694770009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-22053299892625818572015-09-02T10:10:53.654-07:002015-09-02T10:10:53.654-07:00I don't know which thing I love more about tha...I don't know which thing I love more about that panel of Galactus at the Baxter building: the way traffic just seems to be passing by like nothing special's going on, or the way he's tilting his head up to yell at the penthouse instead of, you know, floating up a few stories so his face is level with the people he thinks he's talking to.<br /><br />Jim Shooter's art direction for his bedtime scene: "Bear in mind that I am cut like a goddamn diamond. Make all the Garfield jokes you want but convey the fact that I am a Greek god in human form."Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018676010322401578noreply@blogger.com