#some people like SameFace in their boo I guess

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just what brother marries someone identical to his sister... side eye... side eye

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #157

Fri Aug 09 2019 [07:28 PM] Wack'd: FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 1 NO 157 [07:29 PM] Bocaj: OH WHOA FANTASTIC FOUR [07:29 PM] maxwellelvis: Don't need no more! [07:29 PM] Wack'd: First I need the restroom [07:29 PM] maxwellelvis: (That's ungrammatical!) [07:32 PM] Wack'd: INTRODUCING THE GOLD GOLIAT--wait. Doomsman? You're going with Doomsman?

[07:32 PM] Wack'd: Well okay, it's your comic [07:34 PM] Wack'd: This single motion line on Doom's face makes it look like he's got one hell of a booger

[07:35 PM] maxwellelvis: "And YOU!! Why the Hell are you reading this?! What is your DEAL?!" [07:36 PM] Wack'd: Somewhere in New York, Alicia's stepdad feels an overwhelming urge to file for trademark violation

[07:37 PM] Wack'd: Meanwhile, Shalla-Bal snaps out of it, very slowly [07:38 PM] Wack'd: Based on 1970s data transfer speeds they're going to need to make out for at least five days

[07:38 PM] maxwellelvis: Well, who am I to argue with 70's tech? [07:38 PM] Umbramatic: that's crazy PDA right there [07:39 PM] Bocaj: Personal Digital Awwyeeeaaah [07:39 PM] Wack'd: I dig this joke. Not so much how Wein, based on the past few issues, seems to have decided Medusa's personality is "humorless scold"

[07:40 PM] Bocaj: Boo [07:41 PM] Umbramatic: boo [07:42 PM] Wack'd: Ben is a pretty good prophet given he's referencing a show that won't premiere until 1995

[07:42 PM] Wack'd: Unless he's watching the Irish version with Gay Byrne [07:43 PM] maxwellelvis: I think he means the late night movie. [07:43 PM] Wack'd: Reed slides into the cracks to stop the room from collapsing [07:44 PM] Wack'd: HEY WHAT THE FUCK

[07:44 PM] maxwellelvis: Sounds painful [07:44 PM] maxwellelvis: Now, this was back when OJ was JUST a football player and not, y'know, a murderer. [07:44 PM] Wack'd: Ahhh [07:45 PM] maxwellelvis: That didn't happen until the 90's. [07:45 PM] Wack'd: ...confession time: up until this moment I assumed OJ Simpson was a musician [07:45 PM] maxwellelvis: Wow. [07:45 PM] Umbramatic: lel [07:45 PM] Wack'd: I literally knew nothing about him besides the murder stuff [07:45 PM] Bocaj: He was better before season 30 [07:45 PM] maxwellelvis: Boo [07:45 PM] maxwellelvis: Boo! Boo! Boo! [07:46 PM] Bocaj: Are you saying boo or Boo Boo? [07:46 PM] Wack'd: hahahahahahahahahaha

[07:48 PM] Umbramatic: pffffffft [07:49 PM] Wack'd: If you're wondering what's up with the original Doomsman, he's never been in a Fantastic Four. He's from Astonishing Tales. But apparently he later changed his name to Andro and achieved some degree of immortality in the *Machines of Doom* expansion pack of the Marvel Super Heroes ttrpg. [07:50 PM] maxwellelvis: Apparently he also wants you to know that, despite his artificial origins, he's all man, baby [07:51 PM] Wack'd: He looks like a zombified version of Watch and/or Ward from Venture Bros [07:52 PM] maxwellelvis: That's why I couldn't keep up with that show; of all the characters to share a name with on a parody show... [07:52 PM] Wack'd: This is how the Power Cosmic works, right? You have more of it the bigger you are? That's why Galactus kicks so much ass

[07:53 PM] Wack'd: Meanwhile--Shalla-Bal isn't Shalla-Bal, sadly. Just a Latverian Doom brainwashed to think she was Shalla-Bal to trap Norrin [07:54 PM] Wack'd: I'd question how he found someone who looks just like her, or even knew what she looked like, but, uh [07:54 PM] Wack'd: *flashback to the time Puppet Master was deceived because Alicia looks just like Sue* [07:54 PM] Wack'd: Some things are better left unresolved [07:55 PM] Aleph Null: textual sameface syndrome [07:55 PM] Bocaj: pfft [07:55 PM] Wack'd: Anyway with his personal drama resolved Norrin stops moping and gets out of the power-draining chair [07:55 PM] Wack'd: Which I should point out Doom trapped him in with the power of MOPING [07:56 PM] Bocaj: The best worst thing about the whole Alicia looks just like Sue apparently plot point [07:56 PM] Bocaj: IS THAT JOHNNY MARRIES HER IN THE FUTURE [07:56 PM] Wack'd: Doom was literally like "yeah if I give him a chair and refuse to give him his wife back he'll just sit there moping in the chair while I snap his power" [07:56 PM] Bocaj: Oh my god [07:57 PM] maxwellelvis: Sure it turns out it wasn't actually Alicia he married, but Johnny didn't know that at the time [07:57 PM] Bocaj: Quasi incestual just the way keeps happening in comics all the time disturbingly [07:58 PM] Bocaj: Madelyn Prior once hit on Cable. And to be clear Cable is her son [07:58 PM] Bocaj: Or X Man [07:58 PM] Bocaj: Where X Man isn't strictly her son but he has the same genetics as if she were [07:58 PM] Bocaj: And Nightcrawler was thrilled to learn that his girlfriend was his foster sister [07:58 PM] Wack'd:

Norrin: There are other matters that must take precedence, for I fear that, even now, the Fantastic Four may be encountering difficulties. Wein: Yeah...you might say that! *cut to Reed, Johnny, Ben, and Medusa getting their asses kicked*

[07:58 PM] Bocaj: *X Men why are you like this*? [08:00 PM] Wack'd:

Ben: Well waddaya know? It's the blasted cavalry on a surfboard! Now all we need is John Wayne! Norrin: I am not certain, Ben Grimm, that I fully understand your reference to one of your culture heroes.

[08:00 PM] Bocaj: Peter Quill intensifies. He doesn't exist yet but he sure is intensifying [08:01 PM] Wack'd: The fact that Ben is a piñata you beat and pop culture references fall out is an aspect I feel like most people forget [08:01 PM] Bocaj: (Wait he was introduced in 1976 what year is it?) [08:01 PM] Wack'd: *107.1 FM 10-at-10 echo voice* 1974! 1974! 1974! [08:02 PM] Bocaj: Ok so he doesn't yet [08:02 PM] Wack'd: Fuck I need to find some recordings of 10 at 10 so I can make this reference and have it be understandable [I DID, HERE’S THE LINK] [08:04 PM] Wack'd: I have no idea what the fuck Doom is saying but it sure sounds cool

[08:04 PM] Wack'd: Anyway not!Shalla-Bal puts an end to the fighting [08:05 PM] Wack'd: By pointing out that this castle is full of priceless cultural artifacts [08:05 PM] Wack'd: And Doom's like "fuck, you're right, I can't risk wrecking this place with a fight" [08:05 PM] Bocaj: "Oh no my sweet merch!" [08:06 PM] Wack'd: Oh my god [08:06 PM] Wack'd: SO IT TURNS OUT [08:07 PM] Wack'd: MEPHISTO BRAINWASHED SHALLA-BAL INTO THINKING SHE WAS A LATVERIAN [08:07 PM] Wack'd: AND THEN DOOM BRAINWASHED HER INTO THINKING SHE WAS SHALLA-BAL [08:07 PM] Umbramatic: ...oh [08:07 PM] Wack'd: AND THIS WAS ALL A LONG GAME OF MEPHISTO'S TO MAKE NORRIN SAD [08:09 PM] Wack'd: Mephisto then proceeds to spend half an hour laughing at how fiendish this all is

[08:09 PM] Bocaj: god damn dude, literally [08:10 PM] Wack'd: I guess all this nonsense is relevant to people who read Silver Surfer [08:10 PM] Wack'd: But not to me! ONWARDS [08:10 PM] Bocaj: I only read the volume 2 of his series when he hung out with Mantis [08:10 PM] maxwellelvis: All I know is that Mephisto has been tormenting Silver Surfer like this for almost a decade at this point. [08:13 PM] Bocaj: its because silver surfer is space jesus [08:13 PM] Bocaj: angsty space jesus [08:14 PM] Bocaj: WITH A PURE SOUL who led lowercase doom to millions or billions of souls [08:14 PM] Bocaj: So the devil as an adversary makes a kind of sense