Fantastic Four #10

[laughing_tree]

PLUS: A bonus page written by Jonathan Hickman - WHO ARE THE G.O.D.S.? -- Issue's solicitation

Comments

[thanekos]

I genuinely respect the scope and reach of whatever entity can build innocuous-until-they're-not panels into buildings everywhere.

[cainofdreaming]

Yeah, the window fitters guild is a force to be reckoned with.

[scorntx]

The amazing apathy of (what I feel safe in assuming) New Yorkers that means;
A: Someone can nick an entire city block and no-one's even looking up from their phones, not even to take a photo.
B: Members of A.I.M. can be just casually strolling around and no-one's looking at them, either. Not even to ask if they're responsible for the missing chunk of city.

[cainofdreaming]

Eh, they're members of a clandestine terrorist organization. It's the heroes you gotta watch out for. /Marvel universe civilian logic

[tcampbell1000]

You got a point about the A.I.M. guys, but (puts on "pundit" hat...)

The city block was revealed to be missing in Fantastic Four (this run) #1, and its loss was explained (to us) in #4. So it's not surprising that the shock's worn off by now: Marvel's New Yorkers have dealt with weirder. (Actually, I'm mildly impressed that this page shows Hickman did some homework about what was going on in FF before putting this out.)

[scorntx]

(That's what I gets for not keeping up with stuff.)

To be fair to him, Hickman does seem to usually do his homework.
He's just not always good at showing his working.

[shakalooloo]

New York does also currently have an embassy to a Hell dimension and regular patrols by giant mutant-hunting Iron Mans. Something NOT being there is less worrying than something that IS.

Very weird there aren't bundles of flowers and such stacked up in a makeshift shrine to the departed, though. The placard-wielding "The Fantastic Four suck" must have gotten bored after the first month or so of protesting.

[iamrman]

I'll be glad when all this G.O.D.S. nonsense is done.

[tcampbell1000]

I'm prepared to withhold judgment about the event itself. And I respect that Hickman's doing a lot of work (and, I hope, being paid well) to put out a wide variety of one-page promos for it. But I have no idea what this is all supposed to add up to: it's like trying to read the text of one jigsaw piece per day.

I don't really need a promo to give away all the secret sauce--it's better when it doesn't! But with I-don't-know-how-many promo pages to fill, Hickman seems caught between saying the same thing way too many times, or this approach, where mildly entertaining things are happening but no one can tell you what they are. "Cosmic entities will be doing cosmic entity things and upsetting the balance" seems to be all we really know.

[scorntx]

Judging by the promos and solicits, at least some of it seems like a bit of Kirby-esque "throw lots of mad stuff at the wall and see what happens".

[super_fly]

No G.O.D.S. no K.I.N.G.S. only M.A.N.

[john_drake1964]

"Would you kindly. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase?"

[lbd_nytetrayn]

The more I see "WHO ARE THE G.O.D.S.?", the more I hear it in Jerry Seinfeld's voice.