CBR: 10 Reasons Marvel Needs The Fantastic Four NOW!

[Crimz]

Thanks.

It's weird that it seems like Johnny and Ben don't even know that they are rebuilding the multiverse. They just disappeared from the MU, without a trace.

[Xelossik]

Crimmz:

It's weird that it seems like Johnny and Ben don't even know that they are rebuilding the multiverse. They just disappeared from the MU, without a trace.

I found many weird things during ANAD Marvel.
I found good explanation for every single one of them.
Often in different books but i could find them.

That's why i think that there will be good explanation.

[Digifiend]

Thanks.

It's weird that it seems like Johnny and Ben don't even know that they are rebuilding the multiverse. They just disappeared from the MU, without a trace.

Yeah, the Power Pack story in Civil War II Choosing Sides was consistent with that. Alex (a member of the Future Foundation) is missing, his siblings don't know if he's dead or alive.

You both make good points. CaptCleghorn is right. The FF was at it's peak during the Lee-Kirby run and as I have been preaching for years now, the FF staff must find ways to "go outside the box". Then again, Crimz also makes a valid point to pose the question of "what would be considered out of the box nowadays and what could be done without erasing how the characters have been portrayed all these years?" To be truthful, logic would dictate that thinking outside the box would almost certainly require some major changes, either in the make-up of the team and/or in the personality/role of the characters. What major changes can be done to save the FF from a permanent place on the comic shelf? Here are a few options for all to ponder:

(1) Allow Ben Grimm to finally be cured and to go back and forth from human to the Thing at will.

(2) Let Ben marry and have a child.

(3) Have Johnny Storm finally marry and father a child.

(4) Reveal that Reed Richards and Medusa had a fling during the 1970's Reed-Sue separation and that Reed secretly fathered a child with Medusa. This causes Sue to walk out of the marriage and the team. Replace her with either Medusa or another Marvel heroine. Let the separation go on for at least 24 months. Have the fans vote and decide if the team is better with Sue or with her replacement. If Medusa is Sue's replacement, then Medusa needs some new power to go along with her deadly hair or else the fans will not see her as a valid replacement for Sue. The need for this development is to bring some startling suspense into the title. Also, the call for the fans to actually have a voice in the outcome is something that might just bring some new fans to the title. The son or daughter of Medusa and Reed could even be shown to be a young adult now and could be added to the team. With so many blended families in today's world, such a move would be reflecting the truth of American society in 2016 and yet would be "thinking outside the traditional FF box" so to speak! For those of you who have been calling for years for Sue to have her own title, if she were to leave the FF, maybe then she could strike out on her own and get her own book? Then again, maybe she could finally get together with Prince Namor?

(5) Something must be done with the children. Many want Valeria to be written out of the comic. Others want the children to age into their teens. I am inclined to agree with the second option. Either way, significant change should be introduced to the children as well. If they are suddenly brought to their teen years, they might even be able to become members of the team? (One logical way to get rid of Valeria would be for her to leave with Sue, if Sue were to leave Reed and the team.)

(6) The team must expand it's membership. There are various ways to do this. The most logical way would be for Ben and/or Johnny to marry women with superpowers and they would then be natural members of the team. Then again, aging the children is another way to go. Also, why not do both?

Would love to see Ben be able to change form at will like Amadeus Cho and Jennifer Walters can. And yeah, why can't he settle down with Alicia? You're also right about the kids. And the multiverse rebuilding thing gives them an easy way to age them up. Just say time passes differently where they are - of course this would also age up the Future Foundation kids, but it won't matter for most of them as Alex was already 19 and therefore an adult anyway, and most of the others are minor characters. Age them up by eight years or so - that would make Franklin 16 and Valeria 11 (older than Moon Girl, and the same age Molly Hayes was when she started out). Franklin would have his powerset and identity from MC2, while Val would also manifest some sort of powers (as the kids of mutates, they're probably mutants).