Wednesday, October 17, 2012

When The Scripter Writes A Check The Artist Can't Cover

Who are Thor and his fellow Asgardians fighting this issue?

Wow, this sounds terrifying!

Man oh man, I'm scared already!!

Dude, I am soooooo ready for this!!

I'm sold!!! Bring it on!!


All right, this is going to be so great!! 

Give us the big reveal!!!!

Oh.

A big blancmange with tentacles and an eye.

OK.

Yeah, I guess that's kinda unholy and grotesque and beyond description and....

Nope, sorry. Not really that scary at all.

Gotta call caption fail on this one.

Bonus--the first caption tells us words are now superfluous, and then they proceed to give us...5 more captions. Full of words.

Different definition of superfluous, I suppose.

Len Wein's captions WAAAYYYY over-promise on what John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga could deliver in Thor #257 (1977)
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5 comments:

  1. BillOctober 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    Maybe Sporr smells reallllly bad.

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  2. DougieOctober 17, 2012 at 9:28 AM

    I'd forgotten about this one. Standard Star Trek plot by way of Beauty and the Beast: repulsive monster is really gentle, misunderstood altruist and killed by dumb humans. Oh, the humanity. And narrated by the android Recorder for added holier-than-thou effect.

    Pretty pictures though. Wasn't this the first use of "Starjammer" before Claremont & Cockrum?

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  3. AnonymousOctober 17, 2012 at 9:30 AM

    Sporr seems to have been recycled from Tales of Suspense #11 (reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #2). It wasn't very scary there, either.

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  4. Mitchell CraigOctober 17, 2012 at 4:43 PM

    Shit, dude.

    Just give Volstagg the Spork of Valhalla and let him go at it.

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  5. SiskoidOctober 18, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    He looks kind of sweet, like the aliens from the Simpsons.

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