Last Planet Standing #4

 




Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Pat Olliffe

Synopsis: The Silver Surfer returns to Earth to stop Galactus. 

Comments: The looters have a point. The city is being destroyed and American Dream cares about looting? 

Ever since I saw the prop of the Silver Surfer's board in Spider-Girl #3, I wondered what had become of him. 




Sabreclaw is in the same panel as his father Wolverine and his sister Wild Thing, but he doesn't interact with them. Sabreclaw's line "Hey man, it's our world too." is similar to Atomic Skull's line in the final episode of Justice League Unlimited, "Destroyer." Atomic Skull says, "Hey, it's our world too."  "Destroyer" aired May 13, 2006 and this issue was published June 21, 2006. Dialogue is one of the last things added in collaborative method Tom DeFalco usually works in. 




Dominas mentioning that he was a bureaucrat before becoming Galactus' herald and now he is engaging in genocide of the universe reminds me of  Adolf Eichmann. The Nazi war criminal was on trial tried to present himself as just a bureaucrat doing his job, which led Hannah Arendt to coin the term the "banality of evil." 



Vision is as dead as Duke was in GI Joe: The Movie. Check my next post for what I mean by this. 





Spider-Girl having to be convinced to join in the fight against Galactus reminds me of Fantastic Four #243 where Spider-Man and Daredevil watch the Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange, and the Avengers fight Galactus, but decline to join in since they think they would have anything to contribute. Spider-Girl joining the fight seems to be a Take That! to that scene. 




 American Dream mentioning joining Spider-Girl on the beach echoes Spider-Girl saying she wanted join American on a beach in Spider-Girl #92. 







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