Friday, January 11, 2013

Friday Night Fights--Double Stretchy Style!!

This week, the Arcade of our little group, Spacebooger, has declared that all the bouts in the Friday Night Fights prize round must feature a fight where something is doubled up.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Reed Richards (double initials!) has been feeling a tad bit guilty lately, as his lack of attention to family matters resulted in Franklin being injured. So as he broods in his lab...


What the??

Oh, yes, this was during The Infinity War, when Adam Warlock's evil self from an alternate future (evil double!) decided to try to take over, well, infinity. And part of his plan was to try and replace a bunch of heroes with their evil doubles (!).

So, super-stretch battle: GO!!



(Ah!! Ah!! "Second guess!" Another double!!)


HEAD BUTT!!

EWWWWWW!!!











Uh....so evil wins. Yay?

At least this explains why Reed was such a douche during Civil War, the Illuminati, etc...because it was really evil Reed! Right? Right???

Spacebooger thinks I was really stretching this with that last remark...

Detailed explanation of a couple of panels from a mega-event book courtesy of Tom DeFalco, Paul Ryan (no, not that Paul Ryan) and Danny Bulandi in Fantastic Four #366 (1992)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for me. Why? Dude, you don't want to see what happens if my evil doppelganger gets loose!! So vote!!


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7 comments:

  1. Mr. WhiskasJanuary 11, 2013 at 2:22 PM

    Great fight! Now if we can just get a Plastic Man v. Ralph Dibny...

    I remember the Infinity War and it makes me think Starlin did not care much for writing the FF. In Infinity Gauntlet they are taken out at the very beginning, and in the War not only is Reed one of the losers against the doppelgangers, but his evil twin almost blows up everyone else.

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  2. SallyPJanuary 11, 2013 at 5:04 PM

    Well...Reed HAS always been a bit on the douchey side, but I'm not sure we can completely blame his evil twin for Civil War. It does make you think that perhaps Doom is right however.

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  3. notinthefaceJanuary 11, 2013 at 6:18 PM

    Now we know Reed Richards is into fisting.

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  4. SallyPJanuary 12, 2013 at 8:09 AM

    Oh...face!

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  5. Martin GrayJanuary 14, 2013 at 8:08 AM

    I've not read that, it's good stuff. And Evil Reed so WAS full of the old verbiage!

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  6. chiasaur11January 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM

    Yeah, that was during DeFalco's run, right?

    That was a helluva comedown after Simonson's. See, Simonson went with the proper approach of Reed being King Science Badass of the Universe. Fought dinosaurs, killed gods, destroyed alternate universe RoboStalin, the one man in the whole multiverse who might be Victor Von Doom's better.

    Then, DeFalco's run, and in the first couple issues Skrulls call Reed, (Again, the guy who just KILLED THE DREAMING CELESTIAL and INFECTED TIME ITSELF WITH A COMPUTER VIRUS, frequently viewed as THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE) "The least dangerous of the four" but "Possibly a nuisance."

    Geesh.

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  7. snellJanuary 21, 2013 at 9:44 PM

    chiasaur--while I am now great fan of DeFalco's FF run, I do want to note that finding a proper balance for the four leads is one of the toughest things for any FF writer to master, and frankly, most of the time they end up overemphasizing one or giving short shrift to another.

    As brilliant as Hickman's run was, for example, I really feel as though he didn't really try to do nearly enough with Ben...

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