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Ed Aycock
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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 8:51am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

"I'm glad I missed those later Fantastic Four comics, yikes! Having main characters do things that contradict decades of proven compelling personality is not strong writing to me, more like desperation out of a lack of story ideas.."

Are you really trashing something JB wrote, on JB's page, that you admit you've never read?
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In an attempt to get this thread back on track, I'd like to present one of my "Forgotten Moments." 

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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 9:39am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

One of the Great beasts striking back at Lucas Stang via scrambled eggs in "Alpha Flight" 18.  In many others' hands, could have been the stuff of camp, but completely believable and a true threat.    Plus, that feeling of loneliness and terror of knowing that one day, the Beast would strike back at him through his family, and you know Stang must have led such an unhappy existence. 
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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 10:07am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

"Are you really trashing something JB wrote, on JB's page, that you admit you've never read?"

If he had Alicia leave Ben for Johnny Storm then hell yes. That's a really awful character breaking sounding story I would hate and I'll stand by my comments.

So, is that it for me here then? Meet me in the alley out back? :^D
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Ed Aycock
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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

In its infinite wisdom, NYC was built without alleys so I guess we can't. What ya gonna do? 
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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

...NYC was built without alleys...

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Yet I think of how many I’ve drawn...!!

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Posted: 18 October 2018 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Jim: Johnny was already maturing after the Tommy Hanson incident and Alicia didn't have to sit around and be reassuring all of the time. She was finally shining as a world-class artist. I'm not sure how much more anything would have changed had they gotten married.

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I have to disagree here. We've seen how marriages in comics change the dynamics of a character (Clark Kent, Peter Parker, Bruce Banner...) -- the "illusion of change" works best (imho) and a married Johnny Storm would have changed the character. There's lots of examples of Johnny "starting to mature" throughout the FF's history, but it's always been possible to take him "Back to the Basics". Reed and Sue are the "married couple" of the FF -- that's not Johnny.

Maybe we need to start a new topic for this subject! :)
  
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