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| (Fantastic Four #357, written by Tom DeFalco, art by Paul Ryan and Danny Bulanadi) |
Given that the guy standing next to Ben there is noted evil mind-controller the Puppet Master, Johnny takes this about as well as you'd expect. They spend the next five pages beating the crap out of each other; at no point does Ben dispel the notion that he's being mind-controlled, nor does he tell Johnny what the hell is going on. Honestly, I think he just wanted an excuse to smack the Torch around for stealing his woman.
"Don't tell anyone what you're doing, creating a kind of artificial conflict." Ahhh, one of the weakest storytelling tools of comics.
ReplyDeleteAnd one that gets used over and over and over and over. Damn.
--Andrew S.
(Tom DeFalco in particular surely did like this sort of thing.)
(Stan Lee too.)