All the more reason McDuffie will always be sorely missed...I say it A LOT: His run on
Fantastic Four should have been longer than it was. Among other things, he had an utmost brilliant take on the Reed/Doom rivalry, as gorgeously written and illustrated in FF Special #1/"My Dinner With Doom", which I hold to honestly be the last truly GREAT FF story ever written thus far.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any scans from that one-shot...just the cover, and that doesn't feature Doom, dagnabit! So here's a goody for not just Doom minions, but also worshipers of Loki, to make up for that:
There was once a time where I was interested in
Master of Kung-Fu and
Coyote (A series in Marvel's Epic line that I once thought was intriguing between digging the #1 cover since first seeing it in my Marvel history coffee table book, and its obvious utilization of Southwestern/Native American folklore), but that went by the wayside when I finally found out about Englehart thinking the Richards were boring
(seriously), and to the point where if he had his way, Reed, Sue, and Franklin would have permanently been retired from appearing in the FF title/possibly the MU in general. That Aron the Rogue Watcher dream mess that ended Englehart's run (don't let the John Harkness pseudonym fool you)? Pure and simply Englehart showing his butt about being forced by Marvel (as well as the fans) to bring back the Richards and in turn his being ridden out of FF on a rail...