Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 73

By: dylan

dylan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:03:51 +0000

well, not to be a nitpicking buttcruncher, but… from where the thing was holding the building, the sheer weight and momentum would have caused it to continue collapsing over him.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:31:51 +0000

Good God were Lee-Kirby awesome.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:48:04 +0000

There’s just something about Aunt Petunia’s favorite nephew that you’ve got to love. Despite his bouts of melancholy and self pity, he’s truly one of the most pure heroes in comics. He sacrifices himself for others. He’s got that mental toughness that won’t quit. He’s all heart. He doesn’t act like a jerk to everyone just for the sake of being a jerk. He doesn’t preach. He just goes out there and helps.

By: Axel M. Gruner

Axel M. Gruner — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:28:47 +0000

That’s just the … Thing.
Ben isn’t the most powerful citizen of the Marvel Universe, but he is surely the toughest.
Mazel Tov!

By: chad

chad — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:04:32 +0000

that was one of the cool moments of the end of jacks run not to mention the look on the things face when he figures he will not be able to hold the building forever

By: Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:54:31 +0000

Other good sequences are when he heaves a clock tower or blows down the gates to Castle Doom, both in FF #87.

It’s too bad that Ben has gone done the power scale so much over years. We haven’t seen him do any very memorable feats like that on a consistent basis in a long time. Usually he’s been used as the yardstick to show how powerful some other foe is when he gets sent flying by his opponent.

By: BrianHouston

BrianHouston — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:43:42 +0000

that’s cool,, i’ll be using that one. newest vids….

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By: joecab

joecab — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:22:47 +0000

Cool! Benji’s got those magic Superman powers that let you hold up things like buildings and ocean liners without them snapping in two or fallling apart!

But yes this was a cool moment. He da man. Er, Thing.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:44:38 +0000

Wow, Kirby sure could build ‘em. You wouldn’t think brickwork could stand up to all that, but just look.

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:30:58 +0000

That’s a cool moment; one I’d never seen before, but man does that Thing look ehh. Good thing you explained that Kirby wasn’t putting much work into the book by this time because it really does show.

By: Dingo

Dingo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:19:30 +0000

I love that moment. That comic was one of the first few silver age Kirby/Lee FF’s that I ever got, and I loved seeing Ben do that.