World's Greatest Comic: The Fantastic Four Appreciation 2022

[Oberon]

Yes.

The fact that Johnny has these recurrent issues suggests a deeper dive would always be better, story wise, etc.

Who knows what things could be going on. For what it is worth my two favorite romances for Johnny are Crystal and Frankie-Nova.

[Frontier]

I think North will definitely write a better Sue and Johnny than Slott did.

[Riv86672]

The expected load of variant covers for FF 1! I have those Timeless Alex Ross variants for the FF, but it looks really sharp in black and white so I may have to double dip.

^^^That cover’s pretty great, but when it comes to the team’s new costumes…




…it looks like Ben Grimm has come up short(s) again. BOO!

[Shadowcat]

LOL!

Not so well-read anymore but Oubilette is a mutant or Eternal/related? Or just taking advantage of an opportunity?

She must be that red head, so help us all if Johnny gets a chance to flirt.

She’s a Morrison creation from his Marvel Boy mini. She’s…pretty bland, for the most part.

[Shadowcat]

Yeah Boiiiiiii



Also CBR are reporting that the Ross suits from his mini and his covers are the new suits going forward.

RIP Reed’s beard.

[danielsan52]

Hopefully the new writer will re-establish Franks as a mutant.

[CaptCleghorn]

Hopefully the new writer will re-establish Franks as a mutant.

Seriously. Going through early X-men origins, a cause for some mutations was the irradiation of a parent. And even though the X-gene is a thing, it's still comic book "science" and radiation (or cosmic rays) could change genetic structure to allow parents to produce children with the X-gene.

[CaptCleghorn]

RIP Reed’s beard.

Reed's beard was the second best thing to come out of Slott's run after Ben's new family.

[Digifiend]

Slott didn't give Reed the beard. Didn't he and several other heroes grow them in Time Runs Out, the lead in to Secret Wars?

[Riv86672]

RIP Reed’s beard.

Reed's beard was the second best thing to come out of Slott's run after Ben's new family.

^^^Crap on a cracker I failed to notice that.
Reed w. a beard worked perfectly. Another BOO!

[Crimz]

Issue 46 preview

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/08/19/ma...astic-four-46/

[Oberon]

I'm into the idea that mutants have some distant, genetic trace that connects their x-gene to Deviants.

So any non-mutants who become empowered, possibly have the opposite, long, distant, trace of an Eternal gene.

In the case of the 4, Cosmic Rays very radically changed their mutation - or maybe it is commiserate with Spidey's radioactive thing, or Hulk's gamma thing.

In other words, Celestials left traces of both deviant and eternal dna that would eventually manifest more over time.
Of course there could still be those who mutate without having this trace of gene, or maybe there are whole issues about the strength of these genes vs time-derivation.

If an Eternal gifted their DNA, oh 500, 1000, or 5000 years ago, how much stronger would those be, and in comparison to possibly millions of years ago?
Likewise Deviants and also Inhumans.

To me it seems apparent that over more thousands, even millions of years ago, lots of these descendants also interbred.

Creating various colonies: mole people types, avian types, aquatic types, and so on.

[Reviresco]

^^^That cover’s pretty great, but when it comes to the team’s new costumes…

…it looks like Ben Grimm has come up short(s) again. BOO!

LOL! Punny.

RIP Reed’s beard.

I'm in the 'good riddance' camp.

Issue 46 preview

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/08/19/ma...astic-four-46/

Ah, now I see the Namor connection.

[Digifiend]

Issue 46 preview

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/08/19/ma...astic-four-46/

So, Reed's sister is an ordinary marine biologist named Joanna Jeffers.

[KC]

I am excited for the new Fantastic Four series but I am not a fan of the new Fantastic Four cover logo.