It's still
Repeat-Rehash-Revenge at
Friday Night Fights, wherein our harsh taskmaster
Spacebooger requires us to re-use on of the characters from the previous bout.
Since it's been two weeks, allow me to refresh your memories: last time I featured
Thor versus
Doctor Doom inside the
Destroyer. And
where do we go from there? Well, Doom isn't the
only person who's been inside that armor.
Let's head back to
Fantastic Four #172 (1976)--the
second comic I ever bought for myself!
Roy Thomas (plot) and
Bill Mantlo (script) guide
George Perez and
Joe Sinnott in this tale of terror.
A
talking golden ape has come to Earth, begging the
Fantastic Four for help--
Galactus has come to
Counter-Earth, and the
High Evolutionary is asking for their aid. Of course, they drop what they're doing and travel to the far side of the sun, only to find Galactus' herald...The Destroyer!!
You see, a couple of years earlier, Thor
traded the Destroyer to Galactus in exchange for
Firelord's freedom. How's
that deal working out for you, Thor? Anyway, Galactus used a teensy portion of his own life force to animate the Destroyer. As a result, for the first time ever Galactus had a herald who wasn't
a whiny traitorous deal-breaking nogoodnik--because he was, in effect, his
own herald.
So, they launch the
Thing out into space to beat the crap out of the Destroyer while they figure out what to do about Galactus. And before you ask, this is when
Ben was human, and was wearing an
exo-skeleton, and according to
Reed, there was enough air inside "
for a short time" if Ben "
keeps its mouth shut."
And at that point Galactus shuts down the Destroyer, arrives personally on the scene. and eats Counter-Earth (
not really).
Spacebooger believes that orange, rocky super-powered exo-skeletons are the wave of the future.
Now, I'm not saying that you
have to
vote for my fight this week. But think about it--Galactus, bro. Do you
really want to make him mad?
