Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 49

By: Comics Bronze Age | Review: Fantastic Four #243

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:20:33 +0000

[...] quotable: “Totally badass.” — Brian Cronin, Comics Should Be Good! … “For all your vaunted strength you are but a fading shadow of my cosmic all!” — Galactus, [...]

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:51:51 +0000

A cool scene from this issue was Spider-man and Daredevil sitting on sidelines, commenting how out of their element this all is.

By: Jake Linford

Jake Linford — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:39:58 +0000

First Fantastic Four comic I ever owned. Wish I still had that one. My favorite part was Spider-man and Daredevil, deciding to stay out of the fight, for what could they do?

By: art mann

art mann — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:58:56 +0000

GALACTIS RULES 111111111111111

By: Felicity

Felicity — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:15:32 +0000

That was a cool moment. It's too bad that John Byrne did that later story where Reed Richards justifies saving Galactus by saying that Galactus is a force of nature, separating the weak from the strong, and the weak deserve to be eaten.

By: dick long

dick long — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:11:32 +0000

it would have been cooler if the thing whent right trough galactus head when read sling shot him...

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:07:00 +0000

This is the first comic to appear on this list that I actually own. I'm too poor to buy a lot of these.

By: J. Kevin Carrier

J. Kevin Carrier — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:33:11 +0000

It's a clever bit, although I have a hard time buying that Galactus harbors much guilt over creatures he considers insects. Although I suppose that seeing the image of every cow who ever died to make me a hamburger might give me pause.

Still, in a Fantastic Four comic, shouldn't it be the FF who save the day? Dragging in the Doc seems like a bit of deus ex machina.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:04:05 +0000

A very cool moment indeed, one of the few genuine sparks of class Byrne has shown in a career based largely on sniping other people's work, riding on their coattails and then bitching about it for decades afterwards.

By: Tanzim

Tanzim — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:41:12 +0000

Heh....gotta agree with Phineus there. Though I love Jim Starlin's work with Thanos, he was partially responsible for pushing Galactus a few rungs down the cosmic ladder.

By: Phineus

Phineus — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:28:24 +0000

These days, we EXPECT that Galactus will get taken down whenever he makes an appearance.

This is from back in the day when Galactus getting his butt kicked was actually something major.

God, I miss those days.

By: Rob McMonigal

Rob McMonigal — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:16:06 +0000

You know, when Byrne is on his game, it's hard to top him. Unfortunately, when he's not, things go really, really bad.

By: danjack

danjack — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:12:04 +0000

great stuff!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:22:57 +0000

That is the exact scene that made me love Doctor Strange.

By: entzauberung

entzauberung — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:06:54 +0000

I understand that John Byrne refuses to work for the current administration.

By: RichYan33

RichYan33 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:45:34 +0000

Hard to believe there isn't a place for John Byrne in Marvel isn't it?

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:41:07 +0000

It's been a long time since I last read this issue, but as I reread it now it dawns on me that Byrne missed an opportunity to make what Strange had done to Galactus even more impressive. In the first panel of the second page with Ben saying "Yeow! Ehat the heck is that nutty magician doin' to him? I ain't never heard nothin' like THAT!", he should be covering his ears (well, wherever his ears are) and grimicing in pain. And perhaps a few scattered people in the background doing the same. If a god-like creature like Galactus would ever have to scream out in pain, the sound he'd make would be unimaginable! Why Byrne didn't follow that up with visual proof of it's a effect is a missed opportunity, IMO.

By: entzauberung

entzauberung — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:33:32 +0000

Damn it, I meant "moral". Anyway, Claremont thought the idea of reviving Galactus sucked, which led to a snipefest between the X-Men and FF comics. I still wait for Reed Richards to be punished by the "fullest extent of the Shi'ar law".'

By: A. Nonimus

A. Nonimus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:06:30 +0000

I believe that cover's been made into a statue.

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:23:32 +0000

The moral debate will continue until morale improves.