Clearly, someone never got the memo that modern super-heroes must be tormented, hunted, hated by the very people they protect, viewed as both threats and menaces. Someone hasn't absorbed the lesson that heroes must have loss in their life, with murdered relatives and tragedy, or they can't be heroes.
Who wrote this?
This is like finding a trunk in the attic full of happy love songs that Morrissey wrote as a teenager before he became Morrissey.
Still, in this series, Geoff Johns does have Ben Grimm get depressed and literally run away to join the circus, so there's that.
And we should be very, very grateful that he didn't try to turn F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C. F.O.U.R. into an acronym, like he did with Firestorm...
From The Thing: Freakshow #1 (2002)
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Even then? That last panel with the chatting construction workers feels like Johns's particular brand of laying it on too thick.
RE: "laying it on too thick"...Yeha, that's exactly what I was thinking as I was reading it, tbh, *over*-championing it to the point of making fun of it and lampooning it instead of praising it honestly :/
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