In the meantime, and because this is Comics Oughta Be Fun!, after all...I present to you one of my favorite Marvel Comics cameo appearances of all time: a quite-unexpected guest shot by a certain Ms. M. Parker in the pages of Fantastic Four #260, smack-dab in the midst of a battle between the FF, Terrax the Tamer, and the redoubtable Doctor Doom. You'd think such a frail and sensitive elderly lady would scamper away home to Queens at the first sign of trouble, wouldn't you? Uh uh...because our Miss May is full of piss and vinegar:
Panels from Fantastic Four (1961 series) #260 (November 1983), written and drawn by John Byrne, coloring by Glynis Wein, lettering by Jim Novak
Say what you want about John Byrne's personal politics...and I often do...but you can't deny that he writes Aunt May as a complete badass. Because that dude in the blue shirt in the second panel May badmouths Dr. Doom to? Why, that's Doom himself (just body-switched using the Ovoid mind-swapping technique he learned years ago in a Lee/Kirby issue).
What does that mean? It means that May Parker called Doctor Doom nasty to his face and lived to tell the tale.
I repeat. Aunt May: complete badass.
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4 comments:
She was also the best part of the second movie when she bitch-slapped Doc Ock!
Neat. I did a book report on Luck of the Bodkins once.
She didn't just call him nasty. She pointed out that the FF whups his hiney on a regular basis and lived to tell about it.
I believe that is worth an "and utter" between "complete" and "badass".
MIchael Sensei, I was thinking the exact same thing.
She reminds me of my Nana, who frightened off a purse snatcher at Sears (Nana was 75 years old and 4 feet 10 inches at the time).
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