Judge of all the Nu-Earth

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Four pages from Fantastic Four #586.

 

"Three" continues; this is an oddly-structured story - there are three different plots going, none of which as yet have anything to do with each other.  All the stories are good, mind you, but we'll see how this all ends up fitting together.

Anyway, Reed's plot is that Galactus and the Silver Surfer have found the body of the dead future Galactus from Mark Millar's Fantastic Four run, and want answers; Reed explains the situation, and Galactus travels to Nu-World (picking up Alyssa and her husband from, er, somewhere along the way) to investigate.





Tune in next month!

Steve Epting continues to be a curiously inspired art choice; if you'd asked me to name a list of artists I'd like to see draw the Four, he would never have been on it, but it turns out he fits the book well.
 

Comments

[glprime]

Human: Wait! You're gonna eat our planet!?
Galactus... Dude... I'm Galactus. All I do when I show up is eat planets. That's been my schtick since literally forever. What part of this is are you not getting?

[toby_wan_kenobi]

It says "Devourer of Worlds" right on the business card. I got it nicely embossed on a cosmic letterpress and you didn't even bother to read it?

[darkblade]

In my defense I thought one of the Os was a black hole.

[vitruvian23]

Right, and it's not the original Earth that he once swore not to eat, although I've lost count of the number of times he's claimed backsies on that.

Plus, he should know from previous experience (as shown in Hickman's SHIELD miniseries) that fake Earths both taste great and are no less filling.

Say, does anybody recall how many Counter-Earths, if any, he's eaten?

[badficwriter]

Nu Earth had potential. They pretty much wasted it. And time travel is almost always a bad story, leading to eating yourself kind of story logic. Glad the damn time travelers will be mostly gone, but it's a shame it was all done so badly.

[ogrebear]

Now that's badass way of killing off the previous writers subplots!

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Yeesh. I wish Marvel writers wouldn't insist that the future is somehow fixed. It gets kinda old.

[vitruvian23]

Well, it's clearly not fixed, since there have been multiple different futures shown. If the future of the inhabitants of Nu Earth were the only one, there'd be no Kang the Conqueror.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I know. But the Big G asks 'Can this be avoided?' when he should know that simple awareness of the event allows it to be prevented/create another future.

[vitruvian23]

"This future, these actions... can they be avoided?"

Logic, Galactus, logic. If the answer is no, and the future is immutable, you will somehow find yourself unable to eat present Earth. Period. If you *are* able to make good on that implicit threat, then there's at least *one* way of avoiding that future. What you really meant to ask was, is there any way *besides* eating present day Earth to prevent the Nu-Earth future, but boy, you could have phrased it better.

Also, logically, if the future can be changed at all, there are plenty of such ways, even apart from Reed Richards fixing the Sun or finding bread basket planets to feed everyone. The first one that occurs to me is Galactus writes himself a giant Post-It reminding himself to be on the lookout for ingrate humans looking to kidnap him as a power source 500 years from now. Doubt they can do it without the element of surprise, after all.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, they didn't kidnap him. IIRC, one version of Galactus attacked the future earth, trying to eat it with Richards dead. The heroes teamed up to stop him, and pulled it off at high cost.

Galactus really comes off as a dick though, eating a world simply because they successfully defended themselves and killed a version of him in some alternate future.

[vitruvian23]

I didn't recall the part where they had a Galactus handy because he attacked Earth after Richards dies. In that case, it's even simpler; the douche just needs to write himself a memo *not to attack Earth* in the future, and problem solved. Honestly, shouldn't he have that down as a rule by now anyway? It's not like Earth hasn't been his single biggest hassle in his whole tenure in this universe.