Okay, Jonathan Hickman presented some fantastic ideas here . . pun intended. Basically, since the last time the Fantastic Four saw Nu-World, their sun collapsed in upon itself creating a black-hole. Nu-World is on the edge of the event horizon of that black-hole, so . . time travels faster than normal for them. Even though it's only been a couple of weeks since they were last here . . it's been 8 years for the people of Nu-World. In that time Lightwave and Ultron have taken over as the world leaders. And they can't use the portal to get back to Earth because it was damaged when they first got here. Luckily . . the kids stowed away on Ben and Johnny's little vacation here, so . . Valeria is along for the ride. And as she tells Ted Castle, the architect and constructor of Nu-World . . 'Promise me you won't tell anyone, but I'm already smarter than my dad.' So . . long story short . . Ted has gotten old . . Alyssa is reduced to a brain living in a robot who is killed by Psionics, Johnny's old girlfriend who is now working for the bad-guys, when they come to break out Ben who was captured when they first got here. And Valeria helps Ted build a new portal for them all to get back to Earth. Everyone else though has decided to stay because they want to go down with the ship . . I guess. The other great idea Jonathan had with this story is to wrap it all up in one issue. I could see this one being dragged across 3 or 4 issues, but . . most of it would've been filler. I mean, sure the people of Nu-World are gonna come back to be a thorn in their side . . sooner or later. But . . we don't have to get into all of that right now. That'll just be a plot thread hanging there for later on. So overall . . I'm very pleased with Jonathan's work on this issue. It was exciting, original and precise. Thank you very much. Neil Edwards does the pencils on this issue. Dale needed an issue off? Already? He did 24 issues of JSA without missing an issue. What's up? Anyways, I liked the book. It was . . . wait for it . . . Fantastic!! You knew that was coming. Right?
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Fantastic Four #573 - Marvel
Okay, Jonathan Hickman presented some fantastic ideas here . . pun intended. Basically, since the last time the Fantastic Four saw Nu-World, their sun collapsed in upon itself creating a black-hole. Nu-World is on the edge of the event horizon of that black-hole, so . . time travels faster than normal for them. Even though it's only been a couple of weeks since they were last here . . it's been 8 years for the people of Nu-World. In that time Lightwave and Ultron have taken over as the world leaders. And they can't use the portal to get back to Earth because it was damaged when they first got here. Luckily . . the kids stowed away on Ben and Johnny's little vacation here, so . . Valeria is along for the ride. And as she tells Ted Castle, the architect and constructor of Nu-World . . 'Promise me you won't tell anyone, but I'm already smarter than my dad.' So . . long story short . . Ted has gotten old . . Alyssa is reduced to a brain living in a robot who is killed by Psionics, Johnny's old girlfriend who is now working for the bad-guys, when they come to break out Ben who was captured when they first got here. And Valeria helps Ted build a new portal for them all to get back to Earth. Everyone else though has decided to stay because they want to go down with the ship . . I guess. The other great idea Jonathan had with this story is to wrap it all up in one issue. I could see this one being dragged across 3 or 4 issues, but . . most of it would've been filler. I mean, sure the people of Nu-World are gonna come back to be a thorn in their side . . sooner or later. But . . we don't have to get into all of that right now. That'll just be a plot thread hanging there for later on. So overall . . I'm very pleased with Jonathan's work on this issue. It was exciting, original and precise. Thank you very much. Neil Edwards does the pencils on this issue. Dale needed an issue off? Already? He did 24 issues of JSA without missing an issue. What's up? Anyways, I liked the book. It was . . . wait for it . . . Fantastic!! You knew that was coming. Right?
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I like the fact that there was some closure to the Nu World stuff. It could be back in the future (I'm sure it will be), but it could also be that the black hole really did destroy everything. If Marvel never wanted to deal with those characters again, they've tied it up pretty nicely. It was sad to see Alyssa get turned into a brain though...
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Lightwave and Ultron have to have figured out that they rebuilt the portal, and their plans for world domination are pretty much gone here, so . . I don't think they'd give up that easily. And . . it was even sadder to see Alyssa smushed like a bug.
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