Listen to the Other Side of Zero

[stubbleupdate]

From Fantastic Four 578 and 585 comes The New Character find of the Year.*

The Anti Priest.

He's made two tiny appearances, but he gets the best dialogue.

Johnny and the girl go back to the Baxter Building, where the girl tells him some more of the Anti-Priest's wisdom

The secret word is, of course, AH NIGH HU LUUUH SSSSS and beasties from the Negative Zone burst out of her back and activating the Negative Zone Portal


Next issue, the Anti-Priest takes his congregation on a field trip to the Baxter Building, defended only by the Human Torch and a depowered Ben Grimm.


*Yes, my tongue is in my cheek and it's not intended as a slight to the other new characters that were created in 2010.

Comments

[jlbarnett]

delightful, Pseudu Darkseid stuff.

[crinos]

Indeed, Now I want to see what would happen if this guy and Glorious Godfrey accidentally booked the same auditorium for one of their revivals.

Justifiers vs......Whatever the Hell the Negative Priest's worshippers are called. TAKIN ALL BETS!

[shadowpsykie]

please! Godfrey would wipe the floor with him :D

[thanekos]

they've always had Psycho-Man for that kind of thing, anyway.

[mullon]

*looks at first page, looks at icon*

...Wa a minute!

[leoboiko]

I keep expecting the appearance of the Posi-Priest with a giant plus symbol in his forehead and they will attract each other and the Anti-Priest will dissolve in a cloud of probabilities surrounding him.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I am picturing this like the 'Negaduck' episode of Darkwing Duck, where he splits into good and evil sides, which both eventually get super-charged and face off against each other while respectively saying things like 'Don't get mad - get EVEN!' and 'Don't forget to floss!'. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, you should.

[thanekos]

" He's a nihilist, Johnny, nothing to be afraid of. "

[terrykun]

"Don't vote for nihilism! Or do. I don't really care."

[icon_uk]

That'd be the "Vote apathy... or not" party slogan, the Nihilism party would be "Vote, it's not like it makes any difference"

[arilou_skiff]

"Nihilism? Fuck that. Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos!"

[okkult3000]

Say what you will about the tenets of HYDRA, at least it's an ethos.

[silverzeo]

I must been watching too much Gurren Lagann, because I see Anti-Spirals with these Antii/Negative talk..

[darkblade]

Then the Anti-Priest was brutally murdered by Daredevil's ninja minions who at a distance mistook his negative sign tattoo for a bullseye.

[crinos]

Well that was anti climatic.

[crinos]

...WOAH! Major shot of fridge Brilliance there; of course the Anti-Priest would have an Anti-Climatic end, proving just how meaningless and random the universe truly is.

BRILLIANT!

[badficwriter]

Sounds like an off-beat Vertigo story. :)

[crinos]

Or something from Morrison's Doom Patrol.

Wait, was Morrison's Doom Patrol Vertigo?

[darkknightjrk]

If it didn't start there, I'm pretty sure it was transfered over there, ala Hellblazer.

[strannik01]

Yeah. It was one of the original Vertigo titles (along with Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and Sandman)

[shadowpsykie]

is it wrong that first thing i noticed was Johnny'ssexy hairy chest...?

[cainofdreaming]

Yog-Sothoth is the gate to the Negative Zone, huh?

[badficwriter]

Man, I just can't get into these manifesto/poetry slam bar spas.

[bradhanon]

So, the FF is being menaced by... Crack Grant Morrison?

Fuckin' A.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Something tells me that the Church of the Anti-Priest is not exactly the kind that holds bake sales.