Fantastic Four #568

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

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[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

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Eep. Of course, Whale Sharks get to roughly that size, I think, but then they're peaceful plankton eaters, so they hardly count.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

On the other hand, the big ones look like they could swallow you without chewing which gives you more of a chance than the little one, which would HAVE to chew.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

Personally, I'd rather be chewed than melted alive in stomach acid.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I work on the principle of "Where there's life, there's hope".

If I have the usual divers acoutrement of a knife, I'm in a great position to start hacking away where it really CAN'T reach me (ie from the inside... If I'm in pieces before I hit the stomach, not much chance of that.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

But if a small shark bites your limb, it can rip just that one limb off and the rest of you can be saved (unlikely but not impossible, I'm sure I've read of a surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark and survived because she managed to get away from it).

If a big shark swallows you, you'll be immersed in extreme-pain-inducing acid, unable to breathe (and probably out of oxygen, because one usually doesn't have the chance to take a deep breath right before being swallowed by a giant monster), with nothing to stand on or cling to as the walls are smooth and slippery, and probably drifted around as the shark swims. Even if you managed to stab the walls, you still won't managed to get out of them in time.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

Wonder Woman and the Amazons actually have a pack of pet Megalodons that have the duty to devour those who try to invade Themiscyra.

...Well, had, anyway. In the last issue, WW #33, the Megalodons heroically sacrificed themselves to fight against a Kraken and other giant sea monster that were attacking the Amazons.

I never thought a bunch of enormous and ferocious sharks could be turned into woobies, but their heroic death is actually quite moving.

[porringer.insanejournal.com]

I must see this!

Scans?

The almost-human sacrifice of the noble megalodons...

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

Luckily it's all in one page, because it's part of an issue that has already been scanned so I can't offer you more than that (I think, with this page, I just hit the limit).

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d31/JaneGray/Temp/?action=view¤t=07.jpg

In the very next panel, an outraged Hippolyta incites her Amazons by shouting "will you do less to defend our home?"

It's even sadder because, in a recent issue, WW had used the Megalodons to pull Tom's leg (she made one of them scare the crap out of him, although of course it was completely safe because Hippolyta had just made him an Amazon and the Megalodons never attack Amazons).

[porringer.insanejournal.com]

D:

Thanks for that. I'll never cast aspersions on giant sharks again.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

Try reading Deep Wizardry, by Diane Duane.

Heinlein himself wrote the author:
"I'm a Navy man. We don't like sharks. You made me like that shark. That was a dirty trick."

[sir_razorback.insanejournal.com]

I know I have a habit when the first thing I thought when I read that was "I wonder which Trek book that one is?" =p