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Tweak says, "For great justice!"

drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-09 14:17:00

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char: flash thompson, char: invisible woman/susan storm, char: mr. fantastic/reed richards

Everyone loves Flash Thompson

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	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	Do I hear "Threesome"? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jesidres 2009-05-09 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	Oh good, I thought I was the only one for a moment. Then remembered where I was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cainofdreaming 2009-05-09 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	Threesome? Surely not, Ben's clearly checking him out too so it's got to be a foursome at least. Kinda fitting, that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	A Fantastic Foursome. rimshot (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iambickilometer 2009-05-09 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	Motto? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-09 01:55 pm UTC (link)
	If I recall, this was just after he got over his alcoholism. (Reply to this)

	taggerung301 2009-05-09 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	what the hell is this from? I'm kind of confused on what's happening . . . (Reply to this) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-05-09 04:58 pm UTC (link)

THE LONG VERSION: Norman Obsorn returned from the dead. Flash Thompson became an alcoholic, perhaps partially due to the fact that he turned down Felicia Hardy. Betty Brant intervened. Flash remained an alcoholic, verbally abused his father, physically abused his father, got in a car crash, had a good talking to by his big sister, got onto A.A., got hired by Norman Osborn (funny story, really...at the time, he was controlling the Daily Bugle and New York's crime scenes, and Spider-Man was being targeted for physically assaulting him in a fit of rage following a charity ball) as his, er, 'person who follows him around while he runs the Daily Bugle', Betty hooked up with Flash, Norman acted like an idiot, Norman went crazy, Flash lost his job but was much better, Flash broke up with Betty after regaining his asshole streak, Peter quit being Spidey (again), and then in the middle of one story Mysterio's replacement (the original had committed suicide, thank you Magic Hand - sorry, Kevin Smith) somehow got his hands on a set of Virtual Reality suits and kidnapped everyone involved in Peter Parker's life - literally, Aunt May, MJ, Joe Robertson, and a bunch of others - and put them through a virtual world to discover which one was Spider-Man. Flash's humongous ego seized the plot and turned it into a 'perfect world' where Flash was the supreme superhero of Earth living in a New York whose Mayor was Norman Osborn, Gwen Stacy and MJ fought with Betty Brant over the rights to love him, he defeated Doom, Annihlus and Blastaar all at the same time while his best pal Spidey and the FF watched. Eventually, Peter - a crackpot conspiracy theorist crippled by the accident which should have given him his powers - snapped out of the VR and unmasked the fake Spider-Man as Mysterio, at Flash Thompson's wedding to MJ. The "Perfect World" VR melted away, Mysterio did a supervillain getaway, and Flash pretended he'd save everyone because Peter didn't dare reveal himself in front of everyone.

THE SHORT VERSION: Howard Mackie, Tom DeFalco & John Byrne were among the people running things at the time. A lot of plot threads just never went anywhere, or worse, never went anywhere good.

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	(Anonymous) 2009-05-10 02:12 am UTC (link)
	>>Howard Mackie, Tom DeFalco & John Byrne Actually, Tom DeFalco was off the books by this time. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	taggerung301 2009-05-10 07:42 am UTC (link)
	wow, you really went all out explaining this thank you, I appreciate the effort here, I understand now (: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-05-10 08:02 am UTC (link)

When you live in Britain, and the only comics that you can afford are 'Collector's Editions" of stuff published three years ago...you learn to recognise how incredibly shitty Spider-Man's storylines can be. JMS' run was really just a breath of relatively fresh air between two eras of dull, derivative, largely unlikeable stories that mostly made no sense to the uninitiated.

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	greenmask 2009-05-09 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm just pleased by how not-young Sue looks! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	I love older looking Sue politicalzombie 2009-07-30 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	I just read The Resurrection of Nicolas Scratch, and generally, it's really good, the women posed in natural ways, but Sue was drawn like a teenager. (Reply to this) (Parent)

besamim
2009-05-10 06:08 am UTC (link)

Much as I hate to nitpick this crackilicious scene, I can't help but wonder how Sue's and Flash's dialogue is so intelligible when their lips are locked together. A better panel breakdown would be: (Panel 1) Sue: You were incredible! How can I ever thank you?" (Panel 2) *Passionate kiss* (Panel 3) Flash: "Hmmmmm! You seem to be doing" etc.

An early Kurtzman MAD gag showed how it would really sound if two people talked extensively while making out: "Drlng nw tht I hld y n m rms" etc.

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	Mod Note: schmevil 2009-05-10 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	At 300x500 your preview image is too big. (Reply to this)

	Reed Richards has a thing for blondes politicalzombie 2009-07-30 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	I'm willing to put money on the table to bet that the way he's smiling as he's watching those two, and oh, that leery look he's sporting in panel two, it's because he's really imagining that it's the Storm siblings making out. (Reply to this)