The Fantastic Four #600

[sherkahn]

The threats just keep on coming.

And, oh yeah, we learn a truth about the nature of the Negative Zone.

MASSIVE SPOILERS and some gore behind the cut.



The War of Four Cities continues.


The Kree invade.
The Annihilation Wave invades.
The Inhuman king and his wife launch THEIR counter assault.
Namor and his Atlanteans hold the line.

And Earth's defenders hold back the assault on all fronts..

But that's not whatyou are here to see, you've seen it dozens of times in the past 40 years of Marvel. THIS IS what you came to see.

This is how the Human Torch died.


This is what triggered his return.


Turns out you can't really die in the Negative Zone, as the Anti-Priest kept preaching.

Here's how they did it.


And after months of repair and combat arena events and meeting up with the Light Brigade (members of the alien Inhuman elite from the Badoon/Centauri/Dire Wraiths/Kymelian queens) we come to this.


Johnny Storm now leads the Annihilation Wave.

I'm not doing this story justice. You need to get this. It's one of the better "returns" yet to occur in comics.


Welcome back, Johnny.

Comments

[jlbarnett]

well, I'm glad I dropped this just as they were starting the 4 cities war thing.

I do recall they said that future Franklin's favorite hero had switched from Spidey to Johnny. Seems strange if Johnny ended up turning bad.

[darkknightjrk]

Well, I would assume that Johnny will do a face turn pretty soon.

[hyperactivator]

Okay where is everybody getting this "Johnny is evil now" thing? He defeated the omnicidal maniac and stopped an evil army from invading earth. How is that evil?

Yes he's in control of that army now but again how is that evil if he hasn't done anything evil with it?

Your not making sense.

[icon_uk]

Based on the pages here, where he's tortured by the bad guy and eneds up seemingly working for him, to the extent that Johnny Storm now leads the Annihilation Wave, and given what the Annihilation Wave had done before, it seemed a reasonable assumption

[hyperactivator]

1. He was enslaved and forced to fight for the bad guy's amusement.
2. I repeat isn't shown doing anything evil and yet everyone assumes he's evil because he's in control of an evil army?

How is it reasonable that a good guy defeating a bad guy and holding him captive means that the good guy has turned evil?

Does power autimaticly make one evil?

Or is his leash holding pose too sexy too for a good guy?

[icon_uk]

1) And totured repeatedly past any normal human levels.

2)yet everyone assumes he's evil because he's in control of an evil army?

Yeah, that would actually do it for most people; Based on the pages we can see, we have no sign that the Annihilation Wave is doing anything different from what it normally does; annihilating everything. That is pretty much by definition evil, and the guy in charge has, as far as we know, been tortured past breaking point and is leading them in their "Annihilation Wave".

It would be eminently plausible to read this as that he had been turned to evil by Annihilus