And people think Surfer can beat Superman?

This should shed some light on the incident from the writer himself.
http://www.thevhive.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=DWAYNEMCDUFFIE&msg=1493.1

Okay, I'm going to do this once, which is one more time than I should:

The Panther didn't expect the hold to work, just to distract the Surfer long enough for another team member to get a shot in, likely the Thing. The Surfer could have escaped at any time. He was about to demonstrate so when Stardust zapped the Panther from behind, not out of concern for the Surfer, but out of indignation at the Panther's impertinence. Putting the Surfer in a wrestling hold is no more stupid than punching him, which people do all the time. Neither gambit is likely to work. Frankly, a realistic representation of the Surfer's powers (he moves and reacts at FTL speed, he's all but invulnerable and he has energy projection powers) means no interaction with other less powerful characters whatsoever, and that's not fun. I dealt with that by making it clear that the Surfer doesn't want to hurt his friends Ben and Johnny (and their traveling partners) if it can be helped. You'll note he never hits them very hard and gives them many chances to back off. I thought this was obvious in the text, but given the number of complaints I've received, next time I'll try to make the obvious more...obvious.

I will concede that I thought the Surfer was a humanoid wrapped in cosmic tinfoil (as Galactus said in the Surfer's origin story and as strongly implied in many other appearances over the years) and not a man-shaped pouch of cosmic energy, as many of the comments I've read this week insist.

He didn't explain why the Black Panther could rip Surfer's arm off. ermm

😛

"You'll note he never hits them very hard and gives them many chances to back off. I thought this was obvious in the text, but given the number of complaints I've received, next time I'll try to make the obvious more...obvious."

Translation:

Next time I screw things up. I'll make sure to come out with better excuses of how things are obvious....except for the obvious fact that I screw it up.

I know I'm just a devil. 😈

You'll note he never hits them very hard and gives them many chances to back off. I thought this was obvious in the text, but given the number of complaints I've received, next time I'll try to make the obvious more...obvious.

Originally posted by Validus
I like that subtle insult he threw in there. Looks like Dwayne took an intro course at the Validus School of Internet Dickery. 😮‍💨

I saw no insult.

It must just not have been... obvious enough.

Originally posted by Validus
Looks like Dwayne took an intro course at the Validus School of Internet Dickery. 😮‍💨

Didn't Rosie O'Donnell blow that school up? 😕

Originally posted by Evil_Ash
Didn't Rosie O'Donnell blow that school up? 😕

From: Maestro (DMCDUFFIE) 1 May 19:09

I get it, you're very angry about a scene in a comic book. Please feel free to go on about it for as long as you like. Your tone is bordering on rude, though.

For the record, I think "injustice" is a rather strong term to describe the (allegedly) incorrect use of a hammerlock in a fight scene.

The guy is hilarious. 😆

Originally posted by Validus
She did but then I switched over to internet courses.

Be careful...

I've heard that she has joined forces with Michael Moore to stop your internet courses. ermm

People need to give mcduffie a break, its not the first or the last time something goofy like that has happened in a comic book. Someone puts Surfer in a move and it's a complete 'injustice' to the character, but when Batman throws down with Superman[something he should never be able to do], its one of the best selling arcs of Batman in recent years. lol. Surfer fanboys must be dicks.

Originally posted by Juntai
People need to give mcduffie a break, its not the first or the last time something goofy like that has happened in a comic book. Someone puts Surfer in a move and it's a complete 'injustice' to the character, but when Batman throws down with Superman[something he should never be able to do], its one of the best selling arcs of Batman in recent years. lol. Surfer fanboys must be dicks.

😂

No shit.

Originally posted by Validus

Now all the Surfer fans out there know what it feels like to be a GL fan...ermmnone

I seriously can't believe this utter crap. even if surfer just stood their they should not have been able to budge him let alone what they did that is just insane and I'm just going to say the worse PIS feat to date on this one. This makes the nitro wolverine thing look tame

Originally posted by jasofisc
I seriously can't believe this utter crap. even if surfer just stood their they should not have been able to budge him let alone what they did that is just insane and I'm just going to say the worse PIS feat to date on this one. This makes the nitro wolverine thing look tame

The author admitted it was PIS. Don't sweat it.

Originally posted by Juntai
People need to give mcduffie a break, its not the first or the last time something goofy like that has happened in a comic book. Someone puts Surfer in a move and it's a complete 'injustice' to the character, but when Batman throws down with Superman[something he should never be able to do], its one of the best selling arcs of Batman in recent years. lol. Surfer fanboys must be dicks.

Originally posted by Validus
Now all the Surfer fans out there know what it feels like to be a GL fan...ermmnone

Surfer = small, homeless, young, girl.

Originally posted by Juntai
People need to give mcduffie a break, its not the first or the last time something goofy like that has happened in a comic book. Someone puts Surfer in a move and it's a complete 'injustice' to the character, but when Batman throws down with Superman[something he should never be able to do], its one of the best selling arcs of Batman in recent years. lol. Surfer fanboys must be dicks.

Originally posted by long pig
Please, when Batman did that I sent D.C a ****ing mail bomb laced with arsenic and I even rubbed my ass on the package.

Originally posted by Juntai
People need to give mcduffie a break, its not the first or the last time something goofy like that has happened in a comic book. Someone puts Surfer in a move and it's a complete 'injustice' to the character, but when Batman throws down with Superman[something he should never be able to do], its one of the best selling arcs of Batman in recent years. lol. Surfer fanboys must be dicks.

Agreed. They need to put this bastard to write steel asap. Steel needs some outlandish feats as well.

Too bad his explanation, was little more than an excuse for what happened.

What he said, and what saw print were two entirely different things. Maybe the artist fukked up, but ehh.

And to Jun....are you talking about Hush?

At least Hush had kryptonite in play.....

BP didn't even pull out a generic power inhibitor, or even have one already in play, that would've lowered the power levels of the heralds significantly.

That would've been a prep feat for BP, and not take anything away from the heralds in the process.

If i can do this for my spare time, wtf is Marvel paying writers for?!

Steel could throw Superman into the sun and somehow, in doing so, kill Superman. Reaction would be interesting to say the least.