Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Getting Medieval On The Avengers' @$$es!!

Morgan Le Fay has used the Twilight Sword and the kidnapped Scarlet Witch's powers to transform the modern world into her own medieval playground:

Let's watch George Perez and company give us Arthurian versions of 30+ Avengers, shall we?

Click on this one to embiggen--it's worth it!

Oh, and all of these "Queen's Revengers" had olde tyme names, too:

Gosh I love comics.

Still, Morgan Le Fay, Kulan Gath, etc...why do all of these villains want to turn modern-day into a copy of their home time periods? You'd think that constantly getting their ass kicked back then would make them less nostalgic for home. Plus, indoor plumbing, right?

All I know is, if I were to wake up in say the 26th century and somehow had ultimate power, the last thing I would do is transform everything into an ersatz late20th/early 21th century cosplay fest. But maybe that just proves that I'm not sufficiently evil...

From Avengers #2-3 (1998)

Manic Monday Bonus--The Real McCoy!!

I've said it before, and by gum I'll say it again--

I miss that version of the Beast.

You know who else likes him?

Sadly, George Perez and Kurt Busiek were unable to pry him away from all All-Gloom, All-Doom X-Men for any longer...

From Avengers #14 (1999)

Manic Monday--I've Got Your "Widescreen" Right Here!

The antidote to "deconstruction" in storytelling:

Start with a fight scene per page...

The very next page, double it to two fight scenes...

...then four fights per page...

...and 6...

...and eighteen (yes, 18)!!

...and then 18 plus a giant FWASH!!

That's more action in the first 6 pages then you get in the first 6 issues of many modern comics...

From Avengers #1 (1998), art by George Perez and Al Vey, script by Kurt Busiek.

Bold Fashion Choices--This Is Why He Was Replaced By H.E.R.B.I.E.!!

It's George Perez's first issue of the Fantastic Four!!

Let's look what he does with Johnny Storm!

Uh...what is he wearing?

O.M.G.

Oh, dear...

Sweet Melissa...

Egads!

Bonus: when he has to "de-flame" his arms in order to catch a falling dude:

Good gosh.

Let's make sure to share the blame with inker Joe Sinnott and colorist Petra Goldberg.

Don't worry--I'm betting this Perez kid can overcome this and make something of himself in the industry someday!

From Fantastic Four #164 (1975)

Assemble!

Henry Peter Gyrich gives good meeting:

By John Byrne and Gene Day.

Or, if you prefer, you can try the George Perez/Terry Austin version:

From Avengers #181 (1979)

Working Out With Reed And Ben!!

Just another day at the Baxter Building...

Oh, Reed...friends don't psychoanalyze friends!!

Geez, it's a good thing these guys don't have a comic together anymore, because...er...well...because?

From Marvel-Two-In-One #60 (1980). And yes, that is George Perez being inked by Gene Day. Glory days, people...glory days!

GORR!!

Have I ever mentioned that the second issue of the Fantastic Four that I ever purchased for myself featured them fighting a giant golden gorilla?

See, Gorr's spaceship crashed in Central Park, and, well, he had a bad reaction to earth's atmosphere because comics:

And then he did the whole King Kong bit...which I'm sure had absolutely nothing to do with a brand new King Kong film coming to theaters soon...

So, yeah, it was George Perez drawing the FF fighting a giant (golden) gorilla:

Well, Sue's force field cut off whatever made him big and fighty...

...and he revealed wy he had come to Earth and sought out Reed Richards and company:

Yeah, I was hooked.

See, the High Evolutionary "created" Gorr, and sent him to Earth, so he could bring back help to fight off Galactus.

And not only was Gorr super-evolved and intelligent and talkative...

He was hella strong.

And he had clothes:

...and Perez drew a great talking golden gorilla...

Man, that's already better than anything they've ever given us in a Fantastic Four movie...

Anyway, after the Counter-Earth/Galactus dust-up, Gorr stayed with the High Evolutionary. He had a glorified cameo in a Marvel Two-In-One story in 1980. And then he was kidnapped by the Stranger during a Quasar storyline in 1990, because Mark Gruenwald...and he hasn't been seen since.

Marvel...you've got a super-strong intelligent golden gorilla (who can sometimes grow to giant-size) in your menagerie of characters--and you haven't used him in 25 years!! What the hell?!?

I expect the All-New, All Different Gorr #1 soon, guys.

From Fantastic Four #171-172 (1976)

The Legion Of Substitute Surfers

OK, so there was this time when an evil god...well, actually God...absorbed the Silver Surfer's soul.

And that left his hollow shell of a body behind, which ended up being broken into 12 pieces, which an enterprising alien race ended up auctioning off to the highest bidder...

...but it turns out that whoever interacted with the pieces went through a mysterious transformation...

So soon...

...we had twelve count them twelve Silver Surfers!

Well, they go off to save this section of the universe from the Uni-Lord...but the evil god takes Norrin Radd's soul and puts it into a "blackbody," a kind of mini-clone of Galactus created by a rogue Watcher...

...but eventually they manage to beat him...

And then Norrin gets his body back and kills God and recreates the universe.

Because Jim Starlin is not the only one who can do cosmic. Yo, George Perez, represent!!

From Silver Surfer #115-117 (1996)