Never forget: The first Marvel movie was Howard the Duck.
In fairness, this was a slightlyless bizarre choice in 1986 than it seems in 2021, when Marvel movies routinely break box-office records and the Howard the Duck character is forever tainted by his association with this notorious flop. Before comics of the late 1970s and early 1980s by writer Steve Gerber and artists like Gene Colan were an underground hit, popular enough to inspire merchandise like Howard the Duck T-shirts and get their own spinoff newspaper strip for a time.
The technological limitations already make Howard — who was mostly portrayed by his stand-in and stunt double Ed Gale after the child actor initially cast as Howard couldn’t handle the claustrophobia of wearing the duck suit — an off-putting onscreen presence. But Huyck, Katz, and Lucas didn’t stop there. They leaned into the strangeness, putting Howard into one overtly sexual situation after another.
Howard, Beverly, and Jenning wind up in a car together and then arrive at a diner. Howard and Beverly try to get some beers and figure out what to do next, while the Dark Overlord threatens them and reveals his plan to zap even more Overlords to Earth. The last time I saw this movie, sometime around the late 1980s, Jones as the Dark Overlord was so frightening — particularly as his face became covered in sweat and hideous prosthetic makeup — it gave me actual nightmares.
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