Fantastic Four #568

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

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[xammax.insanejournal.com]

Oh motherfucker its on.

[heat16.insanejournal.com]

And another woman in the fridge.
Yay!

[schmevil.insanejournal.com]

It's more like a meat locker at this point.

[fredneil.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Sometimes I have to wonder what kind of person would think of something like that. That's aside from questioning the wisdom of throwing away a bit of characterization that's been established over decades for two panels of Dr. Doom being badass.

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

It's Millar's new villain, not Doom.

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Wait, Aunt Petunia is a nineteen year old woman?

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Ben started talking about her in the Lee/Kirby period, but she was never seen, until John Byrne took over in the 80s, when she finally appeared, and the joke was that she was very young and attractive (apparently having married a much older man), unlike how Ben had always described her.

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

I wasn't clear if that was a vision or not, given how most of what the Marquis does is clearly projections.

[milleniumrex.insanejournal.com]

Hi, Mark Millar.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And if the Marquis of Death is your Mary Sue, seek help. Please.

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

Oh, wow! The Marquis of Evil is SO AWESOME and COOL! Why, he's not lame at all! What a fool I was to doubt you an-

Yeah, whatever. This isn't even funny anymore.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

Motto.

[seriousfic.insanejournal.com]

Dear Christ, who's next? Willie Lumpkin? H.E.R.B.I.E.?

[oddpuppets.insanejournal.com]

Oh man, did the Marquis try to kill Doom with a pack of sharks?

Bitch, please. Doom took on Hell. Before you know it he will have become King of the Sharks and will lead an invasion force to Save Richards, so that afterwards he can gloat about it in the shadows of Latveria.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

supposedly he killed him and then dropped him to the Megalodons.

With the revelation of the Maquis' nature and only one issue left in the storyline I'd say that it's all going to be undone at the end.

[goblinthebamf.insanejournal.com]

seriously, Millar?

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

Comics are supposed to be juvenile power fantasies, and thus appeal to people who enjoy such things. I admit, I like juvenile power fantasies, yet...lately, most of my juvenile power fantasies involve coming up with juvenile, bad ass ways of wiping the floor with shitty ideas like this crap. I question the logic of any business model that incites fans to create their own lame stories as a means to memetically combat the ones they should be paying to read.

*imagines the World Raping Demongoat flaying Doom's Master alive with alliterative condemnations of such a trite story*

"Fold thyself into a fetal form and meet oratory oblivion from a prolifically prosaic powerhouse, oh so-called Master of Doom. The totality of your trivial terror tamely twinkles before the all-knowing Starfaring Sower of Sinful Sorrow! The malaise made from your metalled mask marauding meets a sudden, stark end as I prepare to lob the most potent, prickly projectile in the known universe: the negative, Internet review!"

*gasps abound*

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

The World Raping Demongoat. I now have a band name.

[joseph_k101.insanejournal.com]

This displeases me.

Ben better have ample smashing time on this sonofabitch and Petunia better not be dead.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

And the Superdictionary has a new entry for "Gratuitous."

[the_lassiter.insanejournal.com]

Really? Even Aunt Petunia? What a gratuitous scene. Is Pantha's head floating somewhere in the background too?

[petalsinthewind.insanejournal.com]

Are those supposed to be hips the Marquis has?

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

I thought writers had learned not to make stupid writing decisions like this anymore.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Alternate universe, it was just a dream, yadda, yadda. Utau, Doom, Aunt Petunia? Meh. This story will have no lasting effect.

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

Kinda wondering about that. The Marquis is apparently that dude from 1984 who can alter reality...but he used illusions on Doom. And every single reality alterer in the past has had the restriction that their changes are, say, less than permanent? Scarlet Witch's world was supposedly 'paper thin'.

This would make sense if every world he supposedly destroyed, and Doom's 'master' bit was all the wish fulfillment fantasy creation of some stupid fanboy (forgive me) and basically, everything is reversed when somebody goes, "Hey, none of this is real."

[generalfreedom.insanejournal.com]

This is so horrible. This Masters of Doom crap just gets worse with every issue.

Why... why does Marvel hate us? Have we done something wrong to them?

[okkult3000.insanejournal.com]

Since I'm not reading this, is it actually as lame as it looks from the scans? Naked asexual corpse who is TOTALLY AWESOMER THAN DOOM!!! walks around just doing mean things with ill-defined powers?

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

I think its actually worse? I was very unhappy with the art (what happens when someone rushes Hitch, I guess) and the sloppy paneling/pacing/storytelling. It got to the point where I felt it was intended to be stupid.

[wtfomfg2.insanejournal.com]

Ugh. I'm so over this arc. Can we please have some awesome and serious buttkicking of this decomposing Mary Sue next issue?

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Since he's pretty clearly doing that solely to mess with Ben's mind, I doubt he'd bother actually offing his aunt. It was probably just an illusion.
Also, those are some fig bucking sharks right there. Do shark even GET that big, even in comics?

[sinisterlink.insanejournal.com]

In the previous issue it showed that the Marquis guy sent Doom waaaaaaaay into the past, so I'm assuming that the sharks are Carcharodon Megaladons, which were giant prehistoric sharks that could get up to 60 ft in length.

Here's a nice size comparison chart of them that makes me go, "Holy crap, I'm glad those things are dead".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Megalodon_scale1.png

[menagerie.insanejournal.com]

Hey Millar, when your main storytelling vehicle seems to be "shock! they're dead!!" we all kind of figure out how every single one of your books will go before we pick it up. Just for the record.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Remember this is the guy who had a villain, in the middle of a fight, go back in time and molest his opponent as a child, as a throwaway?

[kingrockwell]

Oh there had better be some heavy clobberin' in the near future because goddammit you do not do this shit
>:(