This issue we learn why is it that Reed chose Tony's side in the conflict. It all started when he read Foundation, by Isaac Asimov, when he was 12 years old. It was unusual for him to read anything besides non-fiction, " . . . but this book had an idea in it that excited my imagination. Asimov called it psychohistory. It was a fictional branch of science that used equations to predict future trends by mathematically modeling history. It was the first entirely new field that I ever created." He's explaining all this to the Thinker, because he's the only one that might be able to comprehend his equations, let alone check his work. He felt that he had it right the first time, but now he's having doubts. "I can predict societal trends to an extremely high degree of accuracy. I've been able to do it for years. Tony saw it coming first. His procedure was undisciplined based on hunches, not science. That's why I ran the numbers. A series of societal earthquakes, powerful enough to utterly destroy humanity." The Superhuman Registration Act was one of the few things he could find that might be akin to putting his finger in the dike. After listening to the whole explanation, Thinker tells Reed, "I've never been able to beat you. But now I've seen you lose. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"" The real problem is, while Reed and the Thinker were debating this, Sue was in the room listening. So this is driving a wedge further between the two. I don't know how the team going to be able to pull together after this. Great story by Dwayne McDuffie.
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