In the tradition on the mini series, "X-Men : the End", there is a new chapter, "Fantastic Four : the End". It's a story about the final days of the Fantastic Four. It's set many decades in our future. And it's brought to us by the fantastic team of Alan Davis and Mark Farmer. They've collaborated together in the past to bring us many great story arcs, for both of our big publishers. This is going to be another one to add to their list of classics. As I said it's set many years in the future. The Fantastic Four exist only in name, as the participants have long since drifted apart. Johnny has joined the Avengers, Ben & Alicia are living on Mars with their children while Alicia is active in terraforming the planet, and Sue in on a series of archaeological expeditions with the current one being at the bottom of the ocean. Only Reed has stayed in the FF headquarters, which is now an orbiting satellite. And he's become so obsessed with his experiments and participation in helping the citizens of earth become part of a galactic community, that he is oblivious to how long they've all been separated. Jen, She-Hulk, comes up to visit Reed, and counsel him a bit. She's the one to bring it to his attention that it's been over a year since Sue has visited, and several months since they've even talked. It's been longer yet since he's visited Ben & Alicia. It all seemed to fall apart after their last battle with Doom, in which he inadvertently killed Franklin and Valeria. That's an awful lot for the first issue. Oh, and did I forget to tell you that there's a group of anarchists trying to sabotage the whole galactic community thing, not to mention technology in general, and it's being led by Doctor Strange. Wow! How are they going to follow up this issue? I can't wait to find out.
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