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sherkahn (sherkahn) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-13 17:18:00

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genre: previews, group: fantastic four, nsfw: gore, publisher: marvel comics

One SPOILERY image from "Masters of Doom"
IGN previews of FF#566 has a hell of a shocker.

R.I.P.

If this is for real (and not retconned) you were much respected and welcome throughout the years.

SPOILERS

There's something Doom has yet to do, but he's never felt the need to. Doom needs his great acts to be remembered.

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	dorksidefiker 2009-05-13 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	I was wondering of anyone would ever bother to kill him. (Reply to this)

	colonel_green 2009-05-13 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	His main contribution tended to be annoying narration, anyway. I like the depiction of Doom's return home. (Reply to this)

	ian_karkull 2009-05-13 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Well, technically it never says it's Uatu, just "The Watcher". I don't want to sound racist or anything, but those guys all look alike. (Reply to this) (Thread)

RE: They All Look Alike...

peur_evol
2009-05-13 08:38 pm UTC (link)

Exactly.

Like it would matter if it was Uatu? Most WHAT IF™ stories start with "I am the Watcher......"
Seriously, they could do WHAT IF™ with the Cryptkeeper and it wouldn't matter.

As I person who generally hates overly long epic crossovers, I wish there were more WHAT IF™ and ELSEWORLD™ stories. And more one-shots, anthology titles, etc.
Is it too much to ask that $19.99 pays for a complete story?

PLANET HULK cost $34.99+tax+shipping and ends with "to be continued". Needless to say I was not happy....

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	ar_feiniel_ 2009-05-13 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Does this mean no more What Ifs? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alschroeder 2009-05-13 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Only if we're lucky. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-05-13 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oy! No What-Ifs, no What If There Were Avengers in the 1950s. No What If there were Avengers in the 1950s, no Agents of Atlas. They weren't all bad darkfics, Al. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alschroeder 2009-05-14 07:47 am UTC (link)
	True. Just ninety-seven percent. Yeah, there were a few good ones. VERY few. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filbypott 2009-05-13 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Gawd, that is just intensely creepy. The giant corpse reminds me uncomfortably of Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Reply to this)

	freezer818 2009-05-13 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	Is it bad that my first thought was "I bet the smell must be horrifying?" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sir_razorback 2009-05-14 06:21 am UTC (link)
	It's never 'just you'. =p I've been on a beach with a large corpse (half-rotted sea lion) and this brought that... unique aroma right back. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hybrid2 2009-05-13 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	i'll be happy what this master crap is over and forgotten... (Reply to this)

	trueredorion 2009-05-13 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh joy, another good character killed off for one of Millar's crap ideas. And another instance of Millar's dead giant fetish. (Reply to this)

	sd_mouser 2009-05-13 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Skrull!Uatu (Reply to this)

	kagome654 2009-05-13 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Not to sound like a hand wringer ('Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!') but is that level of gore REALLY necessary, Marvel? Come on, a little goes a long way. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-05-13 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, this isn't The Walking Dead, I don't need to see the dude's entrails. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-05-14 01:22 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, i'm totally not a prude but... In the Fantastic Four? REALLY? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-05-14 10:29 am UTC (link)
	Seriously! I scrolled straight past, that's just nasty. And sad. Poor Watcher. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-05-14 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	Quick reminder: this is from the guy who raised a stink when DC told him that he couldn't show someone raping the corpse of Jenny Sparks in Authority. And Marvel hired him anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-05-13 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	Rulk punches really hard, I see. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thokstar 2009-05-13 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	At least Ape-Watcher and his Watcher Watcher are still around if a Watcher is needed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lieut_kettch 2009-05-14 09:08 am UTC (link)
	Watcher talkin' 'bout? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lencannon 2009-05-13 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	Oh come on. I'm hardly a prude and I don't mind mature story lines, but do we need to have brutally murdered corpses on full display in the Fantastic Four, the wacky comedy about a super-adventurin' family? Uata's been gutted for Christ's sake. (Reply to this)

	sessile29 2009-05-13 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	DUDE WHAT THE FUCK (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-05-13 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	I guess he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings. (Reply to this)

	proteus_lives 2009-05-14 12:16 am UTC (link)
	That's a helluva corpse. (Reply to this)

	arilou_skiff 2009-05-14 01:22 am UTC (link)
	You´guys DO know Watchers can come back from the dead, right? As in, just because they feel like it. They're pretty absurd like that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	qob 2009-05-14 08:44 am UTC (link)
	expect a flash of light and Uatu to change into Matt Smith. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-05-14 02:02 am UTC (link)

Eeee-yeeeeeeewwww. That's GROSS.
And honestly, this can't be Uatu. He's a Stan and Jack character, for cryin' out loud - they wouldn't dare bump him off. He's featured in too many storylines over the years, and he's too familiar to fans. If they DID kill him, they'd do it in some sort of spectacular fashion - he wouldn't just be discovered dead like this. My guess is that this is some other Watcher, and that Uatu is just hiding someplace, and will pop up in a month or two going 'No, it's really me! That corpse was my cousin Ergatu. Fooled ya, huh? Oh, by the way, there's some really really big crossover-necessitating evil approaching Earth, and while I really shouldn't be telling you about it, I just can't resist the temptation to watch all you little guys panic down here.'

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	icon_uk 2009-05-14 03:35 am UTC (link)
	He's a Stan and Jack character, for cryin' out loud - they wouldn't dare bump him off Janet Van Dyne might dispute that (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-14 04:10 am UTC (link)
	A mere bagatelle - she'll be back. You watch. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-05-14 03:34 am UTC (link)

Meh, he can get better. If anyone remembers their Gruenwald "Quasar" run, a goodly chunk of the Watchers decide to off themselves because of a sort of cult belief which believes they may be contributing to a cosmic-macro-version of "observation can influence events". Quasar talks them out of it, and the dead Watchers decide to come back to life because death doesn't quite work for the Watchers the way it does for mortals.

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	ashtoreth 2009-05-14 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	O_O (Reply to this) (Parent)

	joseph_k101 2009-05-14 03:57 am UTC (link)
	What became of the whole "Doom has a secret master," thing? (Reply to this)

	angelophile 2009-05-14 06:18 am UTC (link)
	I'd be more shocked by Mark Millar producing a story arc in which someone doesn't die in a gory fashion. (Reply to this)

	ex_menagerie993 2009-05-14 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Who was watching the Watchers? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherkahn 2009-05-14 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	Voyeur-the-Watchers.com, Free Internet hook ups with much older, balder, taller men. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	silverzeo 2009-05-14 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, beautiful. Way to go to include young readers to mainstream, Marvel. (Reply to this)

	The hell?! jazzypom 2009-05-17 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	WTF, Marvel? (Reply to this)

	octopedingenue 2009-05-17 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Holy crud, it's "The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard! I wonder who'll make his thighbones into doorposts. (Reply to this)