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On 4/7/2024 6:28 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/6/2024 11:26 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>> On 4/6/2024 5:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <uurujd$26es8$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yesterday, I got through a soap, and a Tubi movie!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I saw GHOSTBUSTERS in the theater. It was okay. I think I'd have liked
>>>>>> it more without the kids. Why does Hollywood feel it's necessary to
>>>>>> insert either kids or a love story into every movie?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Except for the increasingly terrible fantastic, four movies, which have a
>>>>> built-in 16-year-old that they insist on casting with obnoxious actors, a
>>>>> decade too old.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What movie is this?
>>>
>>> Any of the Fantastic Four movies.
>>
>> Johnny Storm is 16 in the comics?  I'm pretty sure he wasn't 16 in any
>> of the animated series either.  He was a robot once, but not 16.  ;-)
>>
> 
> He was when the story starts, and four out of five fantastic four movies
> are origin stories. In fact, I’d place him at younger, except that he
> tinkered with hot rods, and Was barely old enough to drive. His older
> sister was pretty much jailbait herself.  Johnny was a high school student
> and a contemporary of Peter Parker.
> 
> OK research can be fun. :-) Ian‘s Wikipedia article flat out says Johnny
> was 16 when he got his powers although they don’t have a cite for it.
> Several articles confirm he’s the same age as Peter Parker. He and Parker
> both checked out Empire State University at the same time but Johnny put
> off college because he was busy saving the world all the time. He ended up
> going at least briefly to a couple colleges, one at the same time as Jean
> Gray of the X-Men.
> 
> But he was never actually shown graduating high school. It’s assumed he did
> since he eventually went to college. It’s also assumed he missed graduation
> because of that being busy saving the world pesky stuff.
> 
> It’s surmised that the missed high school graduation occurs somewhere
> between issues 35 and 41.
> 
> https://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/fantastic-four
> 
> This appropriately covers dragon man in calamity on the campus, a couple
> attacks by the frightful four and a trip off world, and then losing their
> powers and daredevil helping them fight Dr. doom. That was an extremely
> cool crossover because they actually had daredevil artist, Wally Wood come
> in and draw just the daredevil character within a book otherwise drawn by
> Jack Kirby. I’m not really sure why the boundary of that ends with 41 and
> not 43 which is the conclusion of that storyline.
> 
> Anyway, yeah, he was sort of busy.
> 
>>>
>>> It’s amazing that they keep making them, and they keep making them worse.
>>>
>>> Joseph Quinn is 30
>>>
>>
>>
>> Who *is* this guy?!?  I go to a lot of conventions and for about a year
>> now I would *constantly* see people on Facebook and Twitter asking for
>> him to make convention appearances.  I thought it was a running joke or
>> something.  I never heard of him before.  I googled him and confirmed he
>> was a real person, but it still felt like a running joke.  Then he gets
>> cast as Johnny Storm.
> 
> I never heard of him. Isn’t he the guy who took over for Daniel Jackson
> while Jackson was dead?
> 
Actor Corin Nemec played character Jonas Quinn.

> 
>>
>>
>>> Michael B. Jordan was 28
>>>
>>> Chris Evans was 24 and then 26
>>>
>>> Jay Underwood was 26
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I got to meet Jay Underwood at last year's Vegas Star Trek convention.
>> I completely forgot he was in Voyager.  Although I wanted a "Fantastic
>> Four" picture autographed.  Second choice would have been "The Boy Who
>> Could Fly."  I was surprised he didn't have any "Not Quite Human" photos
>> on his table.  I forgot to ask about that.  I asked him about "Star
>> Command" and he shocked anyone remembered it.
>>
> 
> L O L I never heard of this guy either outside of that FF movie and I had
> to look up his name for that.
> 

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