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To be fair, it could have been a lot worse!

I was as disappointed as anybody with the gas cloud with Galactus' shadow on it, but in many ways I suspect we should be grateful for small mercies. A CGI Galactus stomping around Manhattan -- or Tokyo, or wherever that was -- would have stood a very good chance of just looking silly. It would have taken a very deft hand to do him justice.

And I will say this, altho it happened during the absurd TeleTubbie scene, I was quite jubilant when the Surfer actually said "GALACTUS". All that dancing around with "the Destroyer" made me sure they were going to cop out entirely.

The real lesson here, tho, is how much contempt there is in Hollywood for comics, and superheroes. They called the SIlver Surfer by name, but had to have Ben mock the title. They snuck in "Galactus" almost as a throwaway. Yet, seriously, are those names any more silly than, say, Dumbledore, or Smeagol, or Goldfinger?

Unlocking and bumping this thread. The herald of Galactus aka Bill has more stuff he would like to share.

Thanks Paul! Let's start with a Kirby Galactus shall we?

This is the splash page from Thor #134 Part of the complete 16 page story up for auction......if only I could...

In honor of that wonderful commission JB just posted...

JB: The real lesson here, tho, is how much contempt there is in Hollywood for comics, and superheroes. They called the SIlver Surfer by name, but had to have Ben mock the title. They snuck in "Galactus" almost as a throwaway. Yet, seriously, are those names any more silly than, say, Dumbledore, or Smeagol, or Goldfinger?

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Seems to me readers and movie audiences take their cues from the reactions of characters inside the story. If the FF takes the name Galactus seriously, so will the audience; if they think it's a joke, the audience will laugh.

Audiences are way smarter than Hollywood gives them credit for being. We see that all the time, when small, smarter films are embraced over dumb, clunky, too-loud and too-long blockbusters. Hollywood ought to consider that.

I didn't create this but I thought it fit here.