Scott McCloud's DESTROY! One Gargantuan Fight Scene Fills Up This Giant Comic!

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[@mws8389]

@@graham2021 It could also be because Dekko was Zot!'s most popular character at that point (according to a readers' poll in issue 10). This might have been a wink to his readers.

[@justintalamantes4352]

I was hoping you guys wouldn't cover this issue until I had my hands on a copy. With the Kayfabe effect, it may never happen now! Keep up the awesome work boys!

[@johnglue1744]

That was the Chrysler Building top he was using as a weapon. Cool video. The comic looks like a fun read.

[@HansRickheit]

1986 was a magic year for a comic collector, especially for me. I was just turning 13, and all sorts of crazy independent books were hitting the shelves, including lots of interesting b&w titles. A possible topic for future video might be just a "Year in Review" of 1986....

[@jawsquid]

I can't believe I didn't know this existed before now. This is very good. Thanks for sharing, as ever.

[@ja_no]

17:00 That's fun- the buildings kinda work like speedlines, everything points to, or away from, the point of impact.

[@josenieves7514]

Love hearing Ed tell stories destruction he caused as a young kid...

[@JimMahfood]

Inky toothbrushes, gang! Proceed with caution...

[@georgesmith731]

the two panels with verticals lines behind it informed all of my comics after that this issue is probably the most influential comic in my life

[@mattprather3140]

Thanks for the look. What a fun book.

[@mikemarcotte5962]

Still have mine. Despite its high(at the time) price, I couldn't resist. Storage over the years has been challenging at times, though. Hilariously insanely entertaining.

[@ericcampbell6632]

Love y'all channel I listen while I'm drawing my pages.

[@fad23]

DESTROY! I had both versions of this, the treasury sized and the 3D edition. I wish I still had them today. I'm a massive McCloud fan.

[@fad23]

Zot! is my favorite comic.

[@fad23]

The end of the color series of Zot! remains with me ideologically and to some extent Destroy follows the same ideology, as opposed as they may seem.

[@fad23]

Looking at the book like this reminded me a little of Matt Feazell.

[@mws8389]

@@fad23 From Scott's afterword in Destroy!! (SPOILER for ZOT!): "My color comic ZOT! had hit its tenth and final issue that summer and toward year's end I was ready to get back into the thick of things [...]. Anyway, I wanted to do a couple of odd projects while Eclipse and I discussed ways of bringing back ZOT! without losing our shirts. Somewhere in the back of my mind, this vision of the ultimate fight comic was still rattling around. I mean, here I was, just coming off a comic where one of the big questions was "isn't justice more than just a punch in the mouth?" Wouldn't it be fun to have one last shot at the kind of comic that prompted that question in the first place?"

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@@fad23 After Scott McCloud put his regular comic Zot! on hiatus after issue 10, he made Destroy!!, and Matt Feazell made Zot! 10 1/2. The next year, Matt made Zot! 14 1/2.

[@kenking3587]

One of the biggest laughs I ever had in a comic store was reading this when it was new.

[@TheTonyFigueroa]

Superman vs Doomsday shouldve been like Destroy!

[@russworks2882]

Oof. Tour de force stuff. I'd like to see an analysis of one of those big Kirby fights, like the Thing/Hulk in FF #25-26, which is mostly choreographed violence, but somehow has a strong underpinning of character drama. Prior to Destroy, the book-length superhero fight was something that was mostly in Marvel comics, and mostly in contrast to the sedate fights in DC.

[@steveosteveareno2670]

That's the crown of the Chrysler Building being used as a weapon!

[@Ontonaut]

The 3D version was awesome. So much fun. The end map traced the fight through Manhattan, including where they crashed into and destroyed the offices of DC and Marvel

[@supernumb1352]

The art is drawn on 18x24" paper.

[@rabbitsnrayguns]

I had this!!! Very influential!

[@samaxamen]

Amazing!

[@steelbat54]

Great stuff. Never knew this existed.. info: that’s the Chrysler Building he was using as a weapon..

[@mws8389]

The Chrysler Building had an unusual role in issues 3 and 4 of ZOT!, the comic McCloud had been drawing in the two years before Destroy!!

[@HansRickheit]

I remember I couldn't afford to buy it at the time when it came out - I was 13 years old. I did eventually get the #-D version in the 50¢ bin. It looks best at full size

[@1971thedoctor]

I didn’t know how big this comic was. Love action in comics, Kirby was the best at showing action.

[@neilsanzari9723]

You guys should review FF#112, because it kind of deconstructs the superhero genre. Hulk and the Thing fight across the City, and I think Reed gets sued for the damage after Ben dies trying to save New York. It’s what sold me on comics as a kid, watching Manhattan get wrecked by these titans. Oh yeah, I forgot Ben was out of his mind from one of Reed’s experiments to cure Ben. The previous issue was called The Thing runs Amok. He’d gone psychotic, and runs into the Hulk in Central Park by 59th Street. So maybe the Hulk inadvertently saved NYC.

[@neilsanzari9723]

This wasn’t the kind of thing you saw in a DC comic at the time. Their characters were always so well adjusted, especially Batman who found the outlet for his rage behind the mantle. Later when the Man of Steel came out in theaters, they pulled a Marvel move by wrecking the City to pieces to mimic the trauma of 911. I love that movie.

[@neilsanzari9723]

It’s funny, I used to work in the Chrysler Building, and then years later in the Flatiron.

[@albertobertola3453]

the boys to cartoonist kayfabe.

[@sammygreen9652]

This is every twelve year olds superhero hero dream come true.

[@kgreene317]

Reminds me of early George Perez.

[@Cwhitey1967]

I have this but a smaller format and in 3D.

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