[Marvel] Fin Fang Foom

So let's talk Fin Fang Foom.  I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this topic, because I'm absolutely not.  I have read most of the long-time series only sporadically, and that is especially true with Marvel.  This is mainly because the Marvelverse is huge and confusing and scares me a little, and also because I am still relatively new at this.

However, I absolutely had to start with the Foommeister because he was one of my very first introductions to Marvel crack, and I remember laughing somewhat hysterically while reading about him in an arc from Iron Man from the early 90s.

For those who don't know, Fin Fang Foom, besides having one of the silliest names of any villain ever, is a humongous dragon that is also part of a race of ancient dragon aliens that masquerade as Chinese people.

Wait, what?

Yeah, I had to read that exposition about three times to make sure that I was really reading what I was reading.  The story is, some aliens (who are also dragons) crash landed in ancient China.  Knowing that their ship was broken, they decided to go incognito as Chinese people and join their society.  Apparently, they also live for-freaking-ever because they're still around when The Mandarin shows up to try and control FFF into beating up Iron Man (which ended about as well as you'd expect)  and they try to use his rings of power to take over the world.  Isn't it always world domination?

To make a long story short, it didn't work.  To make a longer story short, F³ later becomes a human and works in a Chinese restaurant.  Comics, everyone.

To end this post, I'll leave you with this panel from Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.:

Hello!

So once upon a time, a woman named Sarah liked to read comic books.  Nothing unusual there!  But as she grew more attached to said comics, and read them more and more, she realized one important fact.  Comic books are weird.  No, like really weird.  And you know what?  We're not even talking about indie comic books that fly under the radar.  No.  All comic books seem to have dabbled in weirdness throughout their run.

That is what this blog is about.  I hereby dedicate this blog to chronicling all of the weirdest, crackiest, most wtf moments I find while reading comic books.  Lovingly, of course--because what would comic books be without their crack?  Totally boring.