BAH!
Storytime of Doom
William Parker
Jordan Richardson
Jose Perez
Christopher Edwards
Ahoy
Jaxon Fisher
William Bennett
Sebastian Morgan
Parker Gray
Austin Harris
Sebastian Thompson
It's really hard to imagine these days, but this was super cutting edge realism at the time. Superheroes just didn't act like this before Stan came along.
Asher Johnson
Henry Parker
I wonder how many times I’ve read the first 100 issues of the FF.
Isaiah Barnes
Anthony Hernandez
Dylan Jones
>science and sorcery
>demons
>no gloves
Already on a good start
Landon Barnes
Christian King
Bah! Doom has no need for gloves! Gloves are for lesser men! (and recoloring errors)
Grayson Bennett
It still is. A lot of Kirby and Ditko's Stan Lee collab work still holds up. I mean, consider the tropes of modern comics and their attempt at realism being restricted to snarky jokes and the occasional grimdark power fantasy. The self-aware realism in these comics are taken seriously storywise even if the actual material can be satirical. They propel plots and explore character dynamics. Heck, in that one page where Johnny makes fun of Ben by comparing him to the Hulk you expose not only the age difference between the two but you also introduce the idea of Ben Grimm being compared to the archetypal monster figure. Heck, you even incorporate the Hulk into the world of the Fantastic Four without bringing him into the picture.
It makes you wonder how a modern comic writer would approach the scene.
Jaxon Morris
Jace Powell
Promises meant quite a lot in the 60s, I see.
Jacob Bennett
Isaac Campbell
Based Thing
Caleb Mitchell
Cameron Wood
Mason Foster
>It makes you wonder how a modern comic writer would approach the scene
It would take two issues to get through. There’d be at least a page worth of Ben just holding his teacup in that exact pose.
Thomas Lewis
Luis Nelson
Noah Sanders
Yeah, I was thinking more about how the entire concept of superheroes snarking at each other and trying to get on each others nerves just to get an amusing reaction was such an unbelievable concept at the time.
Adam Gonzalez
Joshua Martinez
Aaron Wright
>It would take two issues to get through.
At least.
Oliver Hernandez
Angel Morris
Matthew Carter
Jacob Ortiz
>the legend of blackbeard
>that guy that plundered a single pirate ship once
Uh
Cameron King
Cameron Wood
Christian Allen
Dylan Sanders
Jacob Harris
Blake Hill
>Doom just happens to have a cut-off switch that makes the entire computer system explode if pressed
ok
Austin Russell
>?
Blackbeard was a career pirate.
Asher Campbell
>Tommy
>issue with Doom & Namor
Oh no....
Joshua Lopez
I completely agree, but I really do believe there's a ton of intricate mechanisms going on in that conversation. I can't tell you if all of them are intentional beyond the surface level of wanting to take a jab at another property with a tongue and cheek joke, but it gets the job done nonetheless
Nah, it'd be throwaway. Johnny and Ben would be about to stop a generic doomsday weapon before a kid comes up to him to show him his Hulk action figure. Johnny would make fun of the disgruntled Ben as they fight a really big robot or something
Christian James
Lincoln Bailey
Not in the Marvel universe. The entire point here is that "Blackbeard" was just a time traveling Thing
Jonathan James
Comics need more of this cutaway shit.
Owen Watson
Camden Lopez
You know, considering he lost his face in an explosion like that, you might expect Doom to hold against Sue for causing a blast like this. Look at how violent it is. If he wasn't armored, would he even survive? But he never mentions it. All his hate goes first to Richards and the Thing.
In the fifth issue, Sue blasts Doom and rescues the three others who are about to die. This should be mentioned when discussing how "useless" she was.
Of course, how she knew which was the cut-off switch and why short-circuiting it would make the panel go off like a bomb... well, that's a puzzle. Maybe she had been reading some of Reed's notes late at night?
Ethan Gonzalez
Levi Clark
Is this the first time the Baxter Building was named?
Landon Turner
Luis Perry
This does bug me when trying to read current comics. One character says something. Five panels with identical art, Then the second character goes, "Huh?" Another page done.
Matthew Parker
I think it was in the third issue, I'm not sure.
Better than the Lincoln's Mother thing.
Asher Reed
Blake Ward
Whatever happened to Doom's pet tiger and pet vulture?
Kayden Jackson
Years later, Jack Kirby claimed that Doom only got a small scratch on his chin. The art here disproves that. Look at the blast knocking the door off its hinges and across the hall. Look at Doom with his entire head bandaged. He was mutilated.
I never that small scratch theory anyway. It cheapens the tragedy of the character.
Jordan Jenkins