Grey Hulk's Response To A Female Doctor Who...?

Grey Hulk has been poisoned!! He can't find a cure!! He smashes into a convention center in Phoenix, where Reed Richards is giving a speech, hoping that the genius can help him!

Also there--Ben Grimm, just a normal human at this point in time, and Sharon Ventura, a.k.a. Ms Marvel and/or She-Thing, who has been transformed into...well, a Thing. It was a very weird time in FF history...

Ah, but Banner was unaware of these changes, so he thinks...well:

Oh, Grey Hulk...

Ms. Marvel dissuades Hulk of his sexist notions...

Oh, Peter David...

Oh, there are more digs:

Hey, when you're right, you're right--that was a really stupid costume.

And when powerless Ben Grimm leaps into the fray:

Ouch. Get personal, why don't you?

From Incredible Hulk #365 (1990)

FF Week #25--Roll Call!!

A brief roll call for those who have also served as members of the Fantastic Four:

Crystal!

Medusa!

Power Man!

She-Hulk!!

Ms. Marvel!

(who later became She-Thing!)

Ant-Man!!

Black Panther And Storm!

Spider-Man!

Ms, Thing!!

Thus endeth the roll call...

FF Week #4--The Most NFSW Thing Ever In A Fantastic Four Comic (Sort Of)!

Presented without comment:

From Fantastic Four #317 (1988)

Disturbing Cheescake X 4

From the "pin-up" section in Fantastic Four Annual #21 (1988)[Warning--maybe NSFYB--Not Safe For Your Brain]:

Johnny--that's a Skrull's ass you're ogling there...

You know, that laugh makes it even more disturbing...

But don't worry. In the story itself, we'll get an even more revealing shot of She-Thing:

Oh, baby.

But lest you think I'm a sexist lout:

Oh, yeah, equal opportunity cheesecake!!

Friday Night Fights--Fantastic Four 1989 Style!!

It's Marvel 1989 Week here at Slay Monstrobot, but that leaves us with a peculiar problem. There just aren't a lot of good one panel punchfests available from April 1989. Some good fights, but no really impressive rock 'em sock 'em single panels. So we go with the best I've got--Mantis vs. the Master of the Priests of Pama:

Don't need no oaths of celibacy now, eh?

Maybe Spacebooger can figure out why Mantis was facing the Priests of Pama and the Cotati in an issue of Fantastic Four...

Unexpected Kung Fu mayhem happens in Fantastic Four #325 (1989), by Steve Englehart, Rich Bucler, and Romeo Tanghal.

A few brief notes about this issue after the post-fight jump.

THE JUMP

We're talking about this issue:

This was the very last issue of Steve Englehart's nearly two year run on the FF.

[CORRECTION: Commenter Aardsy alerts me to the fact that Englehart actually stayed on board for the next 8 issues, but used the pseudonym "John Harkness" because he was pissed at Marvel's editorial demands for the title]

And he was racking up some big, radical (but not destined to be long-lived) changes. Reed and Sue left (only to later join the Avengers for 12 nanoseconds). Crystal rejoined the team briefly. And Sharon Ventura, aka Ms. Marvel, joined the team.

In due course yet another dose of cosmic rays transformed Ben into an even craggier Thing, and Ms. Marvel became a...well, She-Thing.

And she and Ben became romantically involved, which led to cringe-inducing scenes like this:

Watch those hands, Ben. Kids, please DO NOT let your imaginations run wild.

The Human Torch's flame was permanently stuck on and in overdrive, thanks to the magicks of the Inferno crossover event:

And, this being Steve Englehart writing a Marvel title, you just know who's going to show up--Mantis and Kang!!

Anyway, there's lots of fighting and stuff, The Silver Surfer shows up, and Englehart ends his run on a happy and joyous note:

No, she's not dead, she's just transferred her mind to the Cotati level of consciousness to find her kidnapped son and...oh, never mind. Next issue Reed and Sue come back, they fight a revamped Frightful Four, and in 6 months Walt Simonson would take over.

ELSEWHERE IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE:

Speaking of the Silver Surfer...

Englehart was writing that one, too, so of course Mantis and Kang were showing up. But this issue had him facing off with Ego, the Living Planet, which gave us a pretty cool double-pager by Ron Lim and Tom Christopher:

Cosmic, bro.