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The Day I Was Galactus
2007-10-11 12:25:41

Galactus at work

Galactus!

By now, some of you may have visited your local Best Buy, and purchased the special Silver Surfer statuette-and-digital-comics-DVD that's available exclusively through them. If so, you'll have seen a video we shot especially for them, depicting life behind-the-scenes here at Marvel, in which I am dressed as Galactus.

This was not my idea.

It was, in fact, Joe Quesada's idea. Joe floated the idea tentatively while we were at lunch, and then, a few hours later announced to the assmbled group that I'd agreed to do it.

There was no agree.

The Galactus costume itself had been borrowed from WIZARD for this shoot, as had the Doctor Doom attire that's also in the short. It had clearly been worn many, many times before this--which makes me wonder which of the WIZARD staffers is the one with the Silver Surfer fetish.

A few points about the suit:

1) It has no real shoes. At the bottom of the booties are these sort of slip-in blocks of wood. They're extremely short, which makes walking or even moving around extremely hazardous.

2) The headpiece is all soft foam, but it's nevertheless bulky, and completely changes the distribution of weight across your body--so it becomes hazardous to walk or even move around.

3) The little mask-thingie will inevitably shift itself directly into your eyes, no matter how you try to adjust it. And making any sort of delicate adjustments is impossible in the big foam mittens that are part of the suit.

Combined with my natural lack of camera presence and delivery, and it's a performance for the ages. Fortunately, most of the other folks in the video are pretty good, and the whole thing was expertly edited together from what seemed like mountains of takes by Marvel.com's new video editor. So it turned out all right, all things considered.

But Bob Harras never asked me to do anything like this. I'm just sayin'.

More later.

Tom B

Wow
Suddenly I'm very glad the movie didn't fully show Galactus.

Posted by CodeGuy on 2007-10-10 18:51:48

Lost FF issue
When will the "lost" issue of Fantastic Four that is included with the Silver Surfer figure be published on paper?

Posted by tech knight on 2007-10-11 00:28:29

awesome
Haha you make an awesome Galactus!

Posted by beta-ray on 2007-10-11 00:43:23

Oh man, Mr. Brevoort, I feel for you. You have to find a way to get back at Joe now.

Posted by ljacone on 2007-10-11 08:19:49

this is possibly the funniest thing i have ever seen

Posted by tstonyts on 2007-10-11 08:33:25

The Web
I hope this video ends up on the web some day. Please let us know if it ever does.

And from now on I'm thinking of this image as Galactus' cousin, Fred Galactus.

Posted by CodeGuy on 2007-10-11 10:42:54

Huh
That almost sells me on the special edition of the movie...

Posted by PseudoSherlock on 2007-10-11 14:10:08

hmm
you should make a series, sort of like Chad Vader, but with Fred Galactus

Posted by alan parker on 2007-10-11 14:40:17

I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can file a lawsuit of that. For something.

On the other hand, I'll now rent the DVD at least, solely so I can see this, so Joe (and you) sort of got a sale.

Posted by motteditor on 2007-10-11 18:09:19

SWEET
I can't WAIT to see it! (sorry I already haven't...)

by the by, that "statuette" is actually a die cast metal TOY made by hasbro, which was released on a large scale-- you can find them in the toy isle, in case anyone's interested.

Posted by Marcus Spector on 2007-10-11 20:59:58

Payback
Hahaha now Joe should have to be the Blob for holloween, easy costume and plus Joe in spandex would be a prefect paybeack !!!!

Posted by silversurfer1411 on 2007-10-12 14:44:36

Ah yes...
I was Galactus too once...

Posted by daifunk on 2007-10-15 01:04:17

So that's where Galactus was hiding...
in your office!

More suffering in the name of art, well done sir! I would also like to see the video online.

Posted by coldwarmyth on 2007-10-17 18:26:46

Lucky
I wish I could wear that to school lol.

Posted by HulkBanner12 on 2007-10-24 16:30:47

GULACTUS I HAVE IN MY HOUSE ON MY DESK
HE IS LIKE THE WATCHER BECAUSE HE IS ALWAYS LOOKING AT ME !

Posted by captain america on 2007-11-04 00:47:59

MORE ORIGIN MOVIES??????
COULD IT BE WE ARE IN FOR A LONG LINE OF X-MEN ORIGIN MOVIES??? GOOD? BAD? WHO KNOWS????? POSSIBLE STORY'S THAT WOULD BE AWSOME!!!!!??? ( NIGHTCRAWLER? BEAST?) TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.....AND ALSO TELL ME IF YOU KNOW SOMTHING I DON'T ...HAHAHA

Posted by JOEPADOKE on 2008-05-02 22:55:23

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