Storytimes for previous issues>148745864>149959498Also going to storytime Ben's story from Fantastic Four Fanfare #4 since that's what I was expecting this issue to be.
>fucked up the linksGreat start>>148745864>>149959498Uh, bump if you're reading
>this is it for Ben vs JuggernautAnd here I was expecting this to be an issue-long fight with a proper ending
Final issue in 3 weeks.
And now for Ben's story from Fantastic Four Fanfare #4 where he actually clobbers some motherfuckers.
Some very deep cut picks in this one. Can you recognize them all?
>Galactus is just going along with Namor's plan because he's tired of Famtastic Four's shit
ENTER
>>150170511I recognize only Medusa, the Awesome Android, the Monocle guy, The Brute (counter eath version of Mister Fantastic) Braind Drain Giganto, Blaastar, Quasimodo, Invincible man, Blastaar, Dragon Man, Devos the devastator(?), Psichoman, the Power Skrull(?).The guy at right in the second row is perhaps thealien dictator of that one shot story in the first FF issue? The one in the far left is that alien robot who gighted The Thing in that gangster style alien planet?
And that's gonna be it for today. Be sure to buy these in your local comic store if you liked 'em. Or something.
>>150170678Lol, I typed two times Blastaar.The dictator I was referring to was not in the first issue but among the first ones.
>>150170182>head by a rock guy as he's being blasted and punched all over the placeHow is this girl in piece?
>>150170678>Medusa>The Brute (counter eath version of Mister Fantastic)>Braind DrainI'm thinking these are Titania, Darkoth and Dr. Sun respectively. Whoever the skrull guy is does not look like Paibok, so I'm at loss here.>The guy at right in the second row is perhaps thealien dictator of that one shot story in the first FF issue? Kurrgo? Yeah that looks like him.>The one in the far left is that alien robot who gighted The Thing in that gangster style alien planet?Torgo? Doesn't look like him, and I'm really at loss who even could it be.As for others.>2nd in row 1, the one Ben clotheslinesGregory Gideon>4th in row 2Either you're right about it being Kl'rt or it's Dark Raider (alternate Reed from Earth where the rest of F4 got killed by Galactus, I think)>1st in row 3Man-Ape>2nd in row 3Needed to look him up, but apparently it's Commander Kraken>3rd in row 3Mowfus, aka Monster from the Lost Lagoon?>last in row 3Eel, apparently>2nd in row 4Brutacus of the Salem SevenNo clue who the horned helmet guy next to Constrictor is, the guy near him, 1st in second row, the skrull dude or the last one in the bottom row are.
>>150170223A payphone?A WORKING payphone????
>>150171312This story is taking place during Byrne's F4 era I'm assuming the writer forgot about the sliding timescale
>>150170764Entirely worth it to see Namor go "abloo-bloo-bloo"
>>150170372I take it Sara is not a yahoo then?
That was a big waste of time.
>>150170595Not going to say it
>>150170129>no, shut up Cobra, none of us are doing that
>>150170105Is this the thread we go to to talk about the blue eyed idol ta millions?
>>150170493It’s weird that he had a story when the issue was mostly Sue-focused.
>>150170972Ah, I have the vague impression that the horned guy was one od the Salem Seven but' I wasn't totally sure.If I remember well, even Doom used the invicible man costum in a story, but I doubt it's that version in the panel.The last one in the bottom row is a mistery. My only idea was Swarm, the guy made of bees, but he should have a hood.
>>150172232Yup!
I'm too casual. What was his status with Alica in 1974? I realized I might be trying to backport future relationship status when seeing him appear in a different book.
>>150170472>Serpent Society with King Cobra in charge>Juggernaut a bad guy working with Black Tom>Moonstone in her original costume>Hitler and the Super Apes are alive>Original Sinister Six, without SandmanIs this mini set in the past, or an AU, or is Marvel healing?
>>150172978Set in the past, at the time of Byrne era F4>Darren [Shan], the editor of this book nudged me towards a John Byrne-y FF time period so that we could tell an evergreen-type Thing story without getting wrapped up in current continuity. It's in continuity. It counts. But we're not messing things up for Ryan North and his team. The cool thing about a Byrne FF era story is that means it's also the Claremont X-Men era and the Miller Daredevil era. Roger Stern Avengers. Black suit Spider-Man's out there flipping around... There's a lot of fun, classic Marvel stuff we're cooking into this book.https://www.cbr.com/marvel-fantastic-four-thing-interview-tony-fleecs/
>>150173151OK, thanks. Now to nitpick the Serpent Society continuity, as Cobra didn't become King Cobra until Acts of Vengeance in 1989, after Princess Python quit and Death Adder died. And Death Adder is meant to be mute but he's talking.Original Hate-Monger was trapped inside a Cosmic Cube back then, too.
>>150173302If you want to nitpick even harder, Serpent Society, and not even a full roster, already gave Ben tons of problems in one of the Marvel Two-In-One issues, so them being the ones scared of facing Ben while shitters like Grizzly, Jigsaw and Spider-Man's entire rogue gallery try to take a stab to him feels weird.But then again, maybe Ben's rep just grew since then.
>>150173302This reminds of that one website where a guy was doing reviews of comics and tried to work out what order they would go in. Sometimes there were seemingly impossible events back then as well.
>>150170472My boy Ben's been getting an insane amount of love recently and I'm all for it
>>150170764Oh no Namorsisters
>>150172368The last two issues of this have basically been >Ben Grimm is the fucking bestSo I wouldn't be surprised if they have a surplus of those stories
>>150172827Wasn't this around the time she got replaced with Lyja then broke up with him to get with Johnny or am I off a few years
>>150173345>But then again, maybe Ben's rep just grew since then.Did the Champion fight take place after that Serpent Squad story? That would work as something that really boosted Ben's rep.Cottonmouth should be the guy who tries to bite Ben and breaks all his teeth, not a guy who just nopes out of this.
>>150173658IIRC the Alicia/Lyja switch occurs around the time of the first Secret Wars, she hooks up with Johnny before Ben comes back from Battleworld.
>>150173847>Secret Wars was 84Off by a decade
>>150170425Viper is so yummers, that was always her best haircut
>>150174455Did they drop the "part of her face covered by hair is scarred" thing because there were a bunch of people running around with the same gimmick, or did she get it repaired later.
>>150174509Artists just forgot about it at some point, I don't think anyone actually wrote an explanation. It may have been around the late 90s when she was married to Wolverine.
>>150174509They never explain how it got fixed but after a Wolverine issue by Frank Tieri it just got consistently drawn as spotless and unmarred. Maybe she just had some funds from her Serpent Society leadership time to heal it up or something.
>>150174594>Behold the regenerative powers of injecting snake venom into damaged tissue!
>>150174628Knowing the Marvel universe there probably is a snake that heals with its toothy juices instead of killing with venom
>>150170309>>150170322The colors, texturing, and expressions are top-notch
>>150170450>Hammerhead is producing exploding lolis
>>150170493Nice to see Constrictor get a win, also based of him to pull of a suplex
>>150170735The art here is genuinely superb, love the impact and background emphasis
>>150170472I feel like Marvel really has it out for Diamondback
>>150170129Death Adder is mute
>>150170764>Sue and reed knows more of kayfaybe and wrestling than namor>namor thinks its realSue and Reed are literally The Ms and Mr Michaels
>>150173302https://youtu.be/n6p5Q6_JBes?si=DJi1e5qPligrfdsr
>>150173952wuh oh
Okay
>>150170671Snowbunny Mind Control
>>150170764>fucking sobbingkek
