Probably my personal favorite
Fantastic Four run is the all-too-short Walt Simonson era, which guest-stars Thor and Iron Man for a few, until oops, they lose them in the time stream on their way home. (
FF #341! Get it.) Reed seems to shrug it off, since on TV they see the guys, so they assume they made it home too, but he's wrong about something there...Anyway it was a long trip even if it took no relative time and everyone's tired, so they all hit the sack! Deal with them later...I feel like Reed probably tries to underline the seriousness of it, but Ben, and Johnny, and possibly even Sue, are all ridiculously blasé about time-travel; but Reed only has himself to blame there. (Sue might feign concern for Reed's benefit, but...)
I believe Howard was a private investigator in his most recent series, if not elsewhere. And P.I.'s are supposed to be licensed and bonded, although that is mostly a
Simpsons reference, going back to "
Mr. Plow." Death's Head is right, though: I don't see anyone asking him for anything, if they can help it.
Any idea why Simonson’s run was so short? I sporadically bought some issues of his run but didn’t really start collecting FF regularly until after Simonson left & was replaced by DeFalco & Ryan. Good, solid stuff, but DeFalco was trying too hard to be like Stan & Jack and it was too noticeable. His specific retcon of Alicia as a Skrull being one of the main crimes he committed during his run.
ReplyDeleteIt could be me, but didn’t Reed used to treat stuff like time travel too casually?
Skye has a bed?! I figured DH would just have her sleep in a corner like a cat. Also, how did they swing a place to stay (unless it’s just a mattress in an alley, which is possible)? I didn’t think they’d found a paying gig yet.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely agree with you about Simonson’s run- one of the best. I think it was short for the same reason his Avengers run was- editorial interference.