One panel to portray, worth a thousand words....
The Fantastic Four have been summoned to Counter-Earth by The High Evolutionary, because Galactus has come a-callin' (his pledge to not eat Earth not applying to Counter-Earth, you see...sheesh, that guy has wiggled out his pledge more ways Gaius Baltar avoiding his deserved fate).
Galactus' current herald is the Destroyer. Yes, the Detroyer from Asgard, the Odin-created unstoppable killing machine. Thor, you see, loaned the Destroyer to Galactus in order to free Firelord from servitude as the Big G's herald. (And people say comic back stories are too complicated today).
So anyway, it's time to sum up the battle of the century in a single panel, as exo-skeletoned Benjamin J. Grimm jousts with the Destroyer on an airless artificial asteroid:
Now THAT'S Clobberin' Time!! Of course, Spacebooger wouldn't have needed an exo-skeleton, would he??
SHTOOM courtesy of Roy Thomas and George Perez in Fantastic Four #172 (1976).
The Fantastic Four have been summoned to Counter-Earth by The High Evolutionary, because Galactus has come a-callin' (his pledge to not eat Earth not applying to Counter-Earth, you see...sheesh, that guy has wiggled out his pledge more ways Gaius Baltar avoiding his deserved fate).
Galactus' current herald is the Destroyer. Yes, the Detroyer from Asgard, the Odin-created unstoppable killing machine. Thor, you see, loaned the Destroyer to Galactus in order to free Firelord from servitude as the Big G's herald. (And people say comic back stories are too complicated today).
So anyway, it's time to sum up the battle of the century in a single panel, as exo-skeletoned Benjamin J. Grimm jousts with the Destroyer on an airless artificial asteroid:
Now THAT'S Clobberin' Time!! Of course, Spacebooger wouldn't have needed an exo-skeleton, would he??SHTOOM courtesy of Roy Thomas and George Perez in Fantastic Four #172 (1976).
Maybe it's the angle, but I don't see the exo-skeleton.
ReplyDeleteHe is the exo-skeleton. Or, to be more precise, at this point in time he was "permanently" cured of being the Thing, and just poor old Ben Grimm. So Reed built him an exo-skeleton, literally a "Thing-suit" that made him almost as strong as before, so he could keep on heroing.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Exo-Thing era! Gotta give ol' Benjy credit for not missing a beat through all that.
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