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So, even Stan
and Jack kept turning up the volume -- and, alas, those who followed in
their wake did not quite have the same magic. (Did the MU really need a
cosmic being who looked like Whoopi Goldberg? Is the best way to defeat
Galactus really by getting him drunk?*)
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Well, JB, I think you are being a bit unfair
now. The "drunk Galactus" plot was for an Hercules limited series where
the title character, never one to have a brilliant plan to defeat an
adversary many times more powerful than himself, THOUGHT it was the
best way he had to "defeat" Galactus. That strikes me as something that
both the Marvel and the mythological Hercules would think of,
regardless of the efectiveness.
And reading the story, it is clearly shown that
Galactus didn't get drunk, just amused by a tactic that he most
definitely never had seem used against him and decided to play along.
You may (rightly!) complain that this would be
out-of-character for Galactus to do and also that he would NOT take out
his helmet for any reason, but Hercules "plan" does make sense for the
character. It's Hercules (and Marvel Hercules at that!), not Reed
Richards or Captain America!
And I do agree with your complaints about the
excess of all-powerful beings on the Marvel Universe. Although I do
have an irrational love for the Celestials (and anything from Kirby's
Eternals, to be fair).
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