Clea and Benjamin Franklin

[flint_marko]

This is from Doctor Strange #18 by Steve Englehart and Gene Colan.

Comments

[crinos]

Ben Franklin: Original ladies man.

And the awesome thing: This is pretty much accurate with how he was in real life.

[goattoucher]

Why do I get the impression that this kind of situation was not unusual for the actual Ben Franklin?

[crinos]

Aside from the fact that the lady in question is a Sorceress from another dimension and also the future? Nope, not unusual in the slightest.

[goattoucher]

If any of our founding fathers was getting any extra-dimensional future mogambo, it was Franklin.

[grazzt]

Someone needs to make a comic with Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Nikola Tesla having time travel adventures.

[salinea]

You mean, someone should have Hickman add Ben Franklin to his S.H.I.E.L.D. series?

[icon_uk]

Isn't that already a little convoluted AND overcrowded? Perhaps a spin off team "The Renaissance Men" or something of that sort.

[mrosa]

Well, no, because I'd actually like to read it.

[lordmcdeath]

They have. Or close there to. They are the support cast of Time Lincoln (Two Fisted Abe Lincoln, along with Franklin, Da Vinci, Tesla, Albert Einstein)

A time traveling ben franklin is also a character in the Spinnerette webcomic

[crinos]

Yeah, which is awesome since, when he was jumped forward in time, he was wowing another pretty French lady with his kite experiment.

Also, he pulled the Terminator schtick where he walks into the bar naked and takes a bikers clothes and bike.

[pallas_athena]

Oh, Mr Franklin! *fans self*

[crinos]

Also, if I may enquire, why IS Clea (And I assume Doctor Strange) In Colonial times anyway? Or is Ben Franklin in modern times or what is going on?

[akodo_rokku]

Ben Franklin sensed that there was ass what needed tappin'. Nothing silly like the space time continuum could stop him.

[crinos]

I like the idea that Ben Franklin a time machine for the express purpose of making booty calls through time and space.

Like a sexy TARDIS.

Jack Harkness: Why couldn't I get onto THAT time Machine?

Doctor: SHUT. UP. JACK.

[bruinsfan]

Hey, if it was good enough for Dr. Doom...

[queenrikki]

I love Dr. Strange. Why have I not read this? It seems awesome.

[jjgalahad]

I hope that this was well before Ben Franklin's visit to France so Clea didn't end up contracting like a bajillion STDs from him.

[crinos]

Well, in addition to being magic, Clea is not exactly human (She's Dormammu's niece afterall), so they may not affect her.

So I think she's good.

[full_metal_ox]

As well as the daughter of a lady who holds the distinction of having schtupped the Incredible Hulk all the way back to Bruce Banner (warning for implied dub-con involving a state of impaired judgment):

http://www.comics101.com/archives/comics101/images/2006/jan4/umar.jpg

[halloweenjack]

One of two brilliant Steves writing for Marvel in the 70s, the other one being Steve Gerber. It's no surprise that they both made excellent use of Gene Colan's talents.

[espanolbot]

Ah, that's where he got the idea of hiding Satanic imagery in the cartography of Washington DC etc. (Kidding!)