FF #13 & Fantastic Four #601

[sherkahn]

ComicBookResources has the covers of the December issues.
One is pretty much standard fare, the other....

You can practically sing along to it.





DOOM!
DOOM!
DOOM!
DOOM!

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

ok... blonde haired blue eyed Franklin Richards do that.... salute... sent CHILLS down my spine....

[sherkahn]

Would you have him sing the anthem and wave the flag?

[shadowpsykie]

it was bad chills... like.... this really

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE

[biod]

Hah, that's were my mind went to, right before Springtime for Hitler. Still a brilliant piece of flim.
Have to say though, the comments make me fear for humanity.

[shadowpsykie]

i love that scene, its so utterly creepy....

i didn't read the comments when i w\ent back to check i read the first two and thought... well not to bad... then i read the rest.... i should know better... you NEVER read the comments... i thought that was just a facebook rule....

[clutzycricket]

Nope, "don't read the comments" pretty much an everywhere rule, I'm afraid. Comms are usually exceptions, though.

[shadowpsykie]

Yeah... Yeah I know. I remember getting really depressed when I read the comments on the Batwoman DC Facebook page, and comments about the hurricane and Chaz.... That's why I watch What Would You Do. Makes me think there is still hope for humanity

[icon_uk]

Agreed, why did I even START to read the comments?

[shadowpsykie]

Ditto

[glprime]

Went to my brother's law school graduation in Seattle (held at a baseball stadium). The school was founded and predominantly administered by Catholics. The senior admin had everyone "reach their hands out to grant a blessing over the graduates."

Bleachers full of people all raising their hands straight out...

My Jewish mother and I were thoroughly skeeved.

[shadowpsykie]

heh sorry i know i shouldn't giggle, but as a long standing catholic (despite issue) that is a standard for a group/comunal blessing. i do see though to an outsider that might be... awkward.

(out of curiosity do jewish people lay hands for blessing?)

[glprime]

Ethnically Jewish, not religious. Not even a little :P

But to my knowledge, it's something that was referred to in the Old Testament traditions, but hasn't continued through to the modern Orthodoxy. Certain ceremonies have hands laid over one's eyes and motions made with hands (you'd see women do this at Seder dinners for lighting Shabbat candles), but nothing like the Christian tradition, granting blessings by laying hands.

Then again, putting a hand upon the head is such an old practice, many groups and institutions have carried this forward beyond a religious context.

[icon_uk]

Also Catholic, and I've never seen that method used for a blessing. Maybe it's recognised as being a little unfortunate where I've been.

[shadowpsykie]

It's generally used when a congregation is called to bless a specific person or group who is presented before them at the altar. Most common during easter when catechumens(sp)/candidates are recieving the rights of initiation.....

Wow.... I've never done that before

[icon_uk]

In the congregations I've been a part of, the priest will raise their hand over the person (but not in a Nazi style salute, more holding their hand over them) and ask us to join him in blessing them. No Nuremberg recreations for us thankfully!

[shadowpsykie]

Yeah that's what I mean... Lol. I think it's just that to acm out sider thats what it looks like (plus sometimes it gets turing... And we might over extend)

[icon_uk]

As a Catholic that strikes me as an odd request. In most cases where a blessing is asked for in my experience, people would be asked to simply bow their heads and as for God's blessing, or if asked to raised their hands, would lift both hand palms upwards in beseechment. I've never seen a single hand being raised in a salute like that.

[shadowpsykie]

We raise one hand at mine. Two if they chose, but is not in a salute fashion.... I guess if I was gonna be crude... Its "aiming" your prayers at them (i sometimes picture light beams coming out of my hand-s).... Yeah yeah... I know...

[schala_kid]

In my PUBLIC High school in San Diego they would make us do that before singing the school's anthem, also every time we said the pledge of allegiance.

It seemed wrong to me so I just put my right hand over my heart and recited the stuff, I got into a lot of trouble but doing that hand salute always creeps me out too.

[proteus_lives]

What, black power?

[biod]

It's Springtime for Victor and Latveriaaaaa

[miramira]

Winter for Richards and Thing*
Springtime for Doom and Latveria
C'mon, Doombots, let's all start to sing.

*Yeah, I know, that's not really what's going on in the series right now, but it fit the meter.

[grazzt]

Now we need scans from the story that had singing Doombots.

[icon_uk]

I like to think ALL Doombots are singing Doombots, there to supply four part harmony whenever Doom is in the mood for a tune, and since Doom is nearly always drawn in damn near operatic poses that's a LOT.

(Seriously, if he's being drawn in such a way that he DOESN'T look like he's ready to declaim an aria right then and there, then they're not drawing him right)

[shadowpsykie]

.... I can't un see that.... I'm also hearing Sideshow Bob's voice doing it... Curse you Icoooooooon!

[tacitoz]

And now I have that song in my head again. xD
Latveria is happy and gay

[rdfox]

After seeing a random 3D render on DeviantArt titled "Latverian Rhapsody," I sort of couldn't help but come up with lyrics to the song that made me think of... they're in a comment on the picture.

[crabby_lioness]

All I can see is the panel from Franklin Richards, Son of a Super Genius Not So Secret Invasion where Franklin escapes from the amazed Skrull.

"You just tied me to a chair and stuck me in a closet. Sorry, dude, but I've been tied up by more super villains than you can count. I know Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom is an enemy of mine. Trust me, you're no Doctor Doom!"

Franklin's had to deal with Doom since he was born. The kid knows which buttons to push.

[nemryn]

Doom, of course, has no buttons to push. Doom is in full control of his own actions at all times.

[crabby_lioness]

And that's Button #1.

His mother being #2.

Reed Richards being #3.

[dr_archeville]

Is TRIUMPH & TORMENT, the story where Doom & Doc Strange went to Hell and freed Doom's mother, still canon? The writers seem to go back and forth on it.

[icon_uk]

I don't care what the writers say, it will ALWAYS be canon to me.

[dr_archeville]

A-frackin'-greed!

[nomadicwriter]

I think it's always been considered canon, it's just that when it was published it was supposed to take place at some undefined point in the future. But technically it ought to have happened by now, since it has Doctor Strange at full power as Sorcerer Supreme and various other details that date it. This page claims it has to have taken place before F4 #379 in the 90s.

[rdfox]

"Hey, Vic, while you were shitting yourself about Squirrel Girl dodging your antiaircraft fire, I saw Richards go back in time to bone your mother! *trollface*" <-- how to cause Doom to suffer a Villainous BSOD.

[lieut_kettch]

# 4: Squirrel Girl

#5: Owing Luke Cage $200

[auggie18]

Doom has a ton of buttons to push. They all just happen to fire death rays.

[sherkahn]

and open deadly death traps... of DEATH!

[grazzt]

This is the most brilliant thing I've read on the Internet all day. Have a cookie.

[thatnickguy]

Franklin's all like, 'Sup, bitches?'

[espanolbot]

Franklin's Nazi-ish salute is amusing, especially considering the ethnicity of the man he's implictly doing it for.

[proteus_lives]

Very true.

Victor considers racial bigotry utter foolishness.

All men are equal in their inferiority to DOOM!