Why are them Americans so gullibubble?
Orson Wells does a radio show, and thousands leg it in panic, thinking tripodal machinery is advancing forth, belching black plumes of death, parabolically heating them and groping them up with tentacley steampunkery limbment.
And now, all it takes is a gormster child to say he'd read a comic and they all goes nuts!
Of course, self destruction due to the belief that your neighbor is a pod person from the planet Mars is nothing new, but as evidence of poddington pea-pod takeover, surely "I've read a comic" isn't really sufficient to convince ye olde townsfolke bearing ye flaming torches?
Who presumably is bare, due to the somewhat ashy state of his apparel. But he's a superyhero, and probably given a flame retardent big catshit by Reed Richards.
Unlike Liz Sherman (sister of Ben, who ended up as The Thing*), who appears to do all her shopping in Primark. Big, furry overcoat - get's in a strop with Red, whooses up all flamey and doesn't even burn all her clothes off!
Of course, Selma Blair was facing the eggs of Sammæl during the usering in of the Ogdru Jahad (mystical speak for Stan & Hilda Ogden out of Corrie), and not space monster boy racers inducing fright of pod people from the planet Mars by switching a car engine on.
Come on Guillero Del Zoro - Lesss trancing like a cat on a hot tin shack, and more nudie lady pyromancers if you please!
And as for you invasionary space monsters - less pretending to be a meteor, and less tampering with the 'leccy. Prices are bad enough without you piddlign about with it and pitting us against each other.
Or something.
* NOT THE ONE IN THE ICY WASTES. THE ONE WHO SEZ "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME". CLOBBER BEING ANOTHER TERM FOR CLOTHING, HE'S PROBABLY BEING ALL GIRLY AND GOING OFF SHOPPING FOR BLOUSES AND BRAS. WHEREAS THE OTHER THING, IN THE ICY WASTES, WAS ALL SPACE MONSTERY. AND IT DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT THE WILLIES UP PEOPLE BY PONCING ABOUT WITH STREETLIGHTS. OH NO. IT'S ALL IMMEDIATE ASSIMILATION AND THE POD PEOPLE EFFECT AS IT SHOULD BE.
