tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post87362840155551893..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: All This, And Galactus, TooComicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-38269830357932070252013-06-30T08:19:44.660-04:002013-06-30T08:19:44.660-04:00LG, that's an excellent way of looking at it!
...LG, that's an excellent way of looking at it!<br /><br />Anonymous, if I remember it correctly, Thorne's subplot involved pursuing Wingfoot to be his new star player. I don't know if that ever went anywhere--but the last I saw of Thorne, he and Reed had been invited to a supposed college reunion dinner only to find themselves caught up in a plot by Dr. Doom.Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-83959250219335985742013-06-30T01:48:31.589-04:002013-06-30T01:48:31.589-04:00It was a weird comic, wasn't it...but I don...It was a weird comic, wasn't it...but I don't remember that they ever did anything with Coach Thorne and that whole subplot. I mean, yeah, it introduces Wingfoot, but what happened to Thorne? Were they gonna use him later, and if so for what? Was he gonna end up saving the world from the Mad Thinker or something...I just don't get it.<br />Maybe Kirby was just coming up with stuff so fast, or Lee told to stick in the Thorne thing, thinking he would use him later. I suspect he either forgot about him or just said "the heck with it."<br />But yeah, the speed at which they were coming up with stuff then, on that title, it could almost make you dizzy. I wonder if Coach Thorne is still out there, somewhere...<br />Oops. I've done it again. He is gonna show up again now, isn't he, probably as supervillian. Sorry..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-46890271728665331872013-06-29T23:21:16.203-04:002013-06-29T23:21:16.203-04:00I read this story just the other day, and was surp...I read this story just the other day, and was surprised by the strange pacing. The whole tale has a dream-like quality to it ... the first several pages of issue #48 are used to resolve the previous Inhumans story, and the first our heroes see of Galactus is glimpsing "two suns" out the window of their plane. It's almost a casual apocalypse, and it comes on the FF so suddenly -- there's a scene where Sue complains that Reed won't take her out to dinner, then barges into the lab to find Reed talking with the Watcher about how Galactus is coming and, well, the Earth may be doomed.<br /><br />And then, as you note, the tale ends well shy of the end of issue #50, and we have that strange coda of Johnny sitting in college daydreaming about flying to the ends of the universe. It's is all very Silver Age, but in a good way, and gives the events a strange kind of slice-of-life aspect. In the cosmic life of the Fantastic Four, even events as important as the end of the world don't conform to the clean and arbitrary page count required by a monthly publication schedule!Longbox Graveyardhttp://www.longboxgraveyard.comnoreply@blogger.com