i have that outfit. i wear it around the house vacumning.

Do you have elastic arms like Mr. Fantastic to make you housework easier?<p>PS - herself say that the image is not quite the same in her mind, handsome devil though you are. I, on the other hand, am strangely attracted.

Here's hoping that the FF movie is every bit the classic that Howard the Duck was ...

I never saw the Howard the Duck movie so my memories are pristine.

its one of the best man in big lumpy awkward latex costume movies ever made. you never forget it.

and no my arms arent elastic but i fill out the leotard if you know what i mean.

I'm sorry Alan but that is NOT Mr Fantastic just like Spiderman wasn't Spiderman etc etc etc. One should NEVER ruin a grown man's childhood images of his Superheroes by fleshing them out with mere mortals.

Sheesh!

My Marvel Universe is unlikely to be unhindged unless they can figure out how to the the Watcher and Galactus into the plot and more unlikely into the frame of the camera. The Watcher is the greatest conception of a cartoon character ever - well, after Desperate Dan, I suppose.<p>That being said, Steve, Herself appears adamant that this is actually Mr. Fantastic and is unmoved when I indicate the variance in appearance from the photo above and my 1976 F'Four issues which I bought at 13 for a quarter.

By the way, here is a description of The Watcher from the Marvel pantheon.

Hoo, boy, does the movie Howard the Duck stink. It's awful, absolutely awful. Don't see it. The new comic Howard the Ducks (except he's not a duck, he's a rat, after the whole Disney lawsuit schmozzle) aren't so bad.

Here is a quiz - what new wave song referenced Howard the Duck?

What 90's geek-pop band referenced ECW wrestling?

On an incredibly spooky note 10 seconds after writing that post the song in mind was the next random selection on my list which includes thousands upon thousands of songs...

Geek-pop might give it away so quote the lyric for bonus points.

Anyone see the never-released FANTASTIC FOUR movie floating around the 'Net? It's terrible -- cheesy special effects, bad camerawork. But the actors and the director and the writer seem to be trying, even though they knew it was doomed (pun intended).

What's this about Johnny Storm being able to "flame on" only his hands in the new movie? Is this true? That's just dumb! I bet the producers feared that kids would be lighting themselves on fire to emulate their hero. If any kid is stupid enough to do that -- good! If we had more people like that, we'd have fewer people like that.

I'm a *huge* HTD fan; I have his every comic appearance (almost), even the ones in CRAZY magazine. All I can say is, the script for the movie must have read funnier than the movie.

The movie-makers, Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, have a history that repeats itself. They helped George Lucas write AMERICAN GRAFFITTI, a huge hit, so they get the chance to make THE LUCKY LADY themselves, a huge flop. They help George Lucas write TEMPLE OF DOOM, a huge hit, so they get the chance to make HTD themselves, a huge flop. As I recall, they were in film school with Mr. Lucas.

What if ... oh, what if Steve Gerber had written HTD from 1977 until now? What wonderful changes would the character, and comics as a whole, have undergone ..?

COMPADRE!!! TOVARISH!!!<p>Anyone who thinks "hands-only" flame-on is lame is on the right track in life. Obviously there is no way they could have pulled off The Watcher and Galactus and their one-on-one Earth eating game.

I not may have to do a piece on my early Howard the Duck comics. The All-Canadian issue where he fought the evil character "Le Grand Castor" comes to mind as a hight-light.

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