The weekend goes on

Sue Storm NEVER looked this good in the comics

Yep, I took leave from work. No Monday blues for me this week. Saturday was jam packed with stuff to do. Got woken up by The Pan at unearthly 7.50 am to get up to go to school. Damm school lasted till about 3.40 pm. Painful painful but not the worst ever. The lesson learnt; class geeks will always be f-ing class geeks. They freaking beat you to everything except being you. Damm these freakos. A bunch of us watched Fantastic Four after class. Decent show to say the least. Having Jessica Alba made it all the better. Then it was off to bowling again. I was convinced to go bowl by an ex-team mate. First mistake was to use 2 totally unfavourable balls. I dragged 2 of the oldest bowling balls to the bowling alley without thinking why I never liked using them in the first place. They were uncomfortable as hell. I averaged about 150 winning a couple of bets in the process. I love winning free drinks.

The only thing about the movie that kinda dissappointed me was Dr Doom. His story somewhat differed from the comics. As to how he got that scar and the mask, it goes something like this. I borrowed this from wikipedia.

The focus of Doom's research was to construct a trans-dimensional projection device with which he could communicate with his dead mother. There was a flaw in the design which Richards pointed out to him, but Doom's pride prevented him from accepting Richards' advice and fixing the device before testing it. The machine worked perfectly for two minutes and 37 seconds, in which time Doom discovered that his mother was trapped in Mephisto's Hell. Then the device exploded, permanently marring his right cheek with a long, jagged scar. Other Marvel stories have advanced the idea that Doom is massively and permanently scarred all over his face. Whatever the truth about his appearance may be Doom refused to acknowledge his own fault in the matter and blamed Richards for the accident, finding it easier to believe that Richards had sabotaged his work out of jealousy than admit to his own imperfection.

Doom was expelled from school afterward, and traveled the world searching for a cure for his scarred face. In some versions the scarring was not particularly severe, but Doom was overly sensitive about it as a symbol of his failure. Eventually Doom discovered a village of Tibetan monks amongst whom he lived for a number of years. They assisted him in crafting a suit of body armor that concealed his "deformity," and in some versions of the story (small-scar Doom) seriously burning himself when he ordered the mask be put on while it was still red-hot. This suit would become his trademark, and thanks to his technological enhancements puts him on par in terms of personal power with most superheroes in the Marvel universe. He then returned to his homeland, overthrew the standing government, and crowned himself king. Ruling with an iron fist and an equally strong will, Doom began to redirect the small nation's resources to help him realize his goals.

As for the Fantastic Four, their story was just a lil bit off. The movie describes them as going to space in one of Victor Von Doom's inventions. In the comics, it goes like this.

The Fantastic Four acquired their superhuman abilities after an experimental rocket designed by the scientist Reed Richards passed through a storm of cosmic rays on its test flight. Upon crash landing back on Earth, the four occupants of the craft found themselves transformed and possessed of bizarre new abilities.

Jessica Alba makes up for all of this. I'm looking forward to Part 2 of this movie if ever there's part 2.

Quote of the day : It's clobberin' time!