Wednesday, August 5, 2015

FF Week #20--The Human Torch's Civil War!!

Remember that time the Human Torch was forced to fight solo against Paibok The Power Skrull, Devos The Devestator, and ex-wife Lyra?





Uh-oh.




Hey, no classes tomorrow!!

Now, if this had happened during the oughts, and, say, Mark Millar had been writing it, then the public would have turned on super-heroes, there would be a registration act, Tony Stark would become a fascist, dogs and cats living together...

But whatever else you can say against the 90s, they were a little bit more laid back about accidental cataclysm:


Outright dismissal of charges?!? No civil suit? No political grandstanding and repression of civil liberties? What the hell?!?!

Like I said, a more laid back time...

From Fantastic Four #371 (1992) and #376 (1993)
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2 comments:

  1. SinaAugust 5, 2015 at 12:25 PM

    Look at those three statements each of them make before Johnny makes his decision...what he did was totally justified & in complete self-defense :I they were shooting to kill & nothing would have stopped them otherwise

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  2. -3-July 11, 2017 at 6:56 PM

    No. I DON'T remember that.
    Because once you start dressing Sue like that, you've established you're too stupid/ignorant/immature/whatever to be creating FF comics and i'm out the door before you destroy them.

    It's astounding how much grief that policy has saved me in the last 20 years.

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