Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Reed Richards: Math Genius!

FF #133 panel
Panels from Fantastic Four #133 (April 1973), written by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, art by Ramona Fradon, Joe Sinnott, and Stan Goldberg, lettering by John Costanza

1900+75=1973. To Reed, at least. Well, it's a good thing that his job doesn't depend on being precise with numbers...I mean, it's not rocket science, is it?

FF #? panel
(Flashback) panels from Fantastic Four #261 (December 1983), written and drawn by John Byrne, colors by Glynis Wein, lettering by Jim Novak

Oh. Well, that explains that.

12 comments:

SallyP said...

73, 75, heck, close enough for government work right?

Oh Reed.

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't it be 1901 + 75 = 1976?

Pedantically yours...

Brian Doan said...

Gosh, no wonder that "fake Thor" of his in Civil War came back so messed up...Then again, I'm not sure Stan Lee ever had a Bullpen Bulletins section called "The Mighty Marvel Fact Checkers," eh?

Evan Waters said...

And this is to say nothing of his future Calculus.

"Wait, it says DON'T round up all the unregistered heroes and put them in prison! Stupid decimal place..."

Anonymous said...

And to think he suggested Doom was off by a few decimals in his calculations. I'm starting to wonder if he "corrected" Victor's math now.

Amanda Meirinho said...

you'd have to spend three whole quarters of century just to reunite all the bullshit reed richards has been sayng since 1964.

i mean... since going to space picnics till marvel zombies. gotcha?

Anonymous said...

I'm more amused about how he is so familiar with 1900.

So how old is Reed now?

Anonymous said...

Well, he fought in WW2 while Sue waited at home. At LEAST 85.

Mike Haseloff said...

Pffft, fools!

Richards is merely exibiting yet another pedestrian application of one of DOOM's many great triumphs!

In an effort to aid Latverian economy, DOOM manipulated various nations into eliminating minor pieces from their currencys, luring them with the promise of overcharging using DOOM's patented: ROUNDING-UP METHOD!

That's also why DOOM never leaves home without his American Express. No mark-ups for plastic.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! DOOM wins again!

Anonymous said...

Suuurrreeeeee.


Squirrel Girl, Victor.
Squirrel Girl.

Mike Haseloff said...

A little bit of research has revealed many other standardized results of DOOM's machinations.

Lining-up, waiting-up, and six car pile-ups. That last one was a bit of a eureka moment.

I heard DOOM also revisited rounding-up as a method of herding fools -- to their deaths!

DOOM wins again!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Anonymous said...

That's nice.

Tippy Toe says "Hi".