Howard Mackie does something in the beginning of the Mutant X Series that I found a really great writing trick. We never really have a clear chance to settle into the time that is occurring. We read about Havok entering this strange new world and come to the close of that moment and when we rejoin Havok in the next issue we are smack dab in the middle of the next adventure with no setup. It helps to simulate for the reader the same emotions Havok himself is feeling.
It is nice to say good things about Howard Mackie after watching him saddled with the convoluted Spider-Man Clone Saga. Here he gets to take the Marvel toys and really shake up the sandbox. In Issue #2 we are introduced to the Mutant X version of the Fantastic Four. The story opens with The Six flying to answer a distress call from the FF concerning an invasion from a so called alien dimension. Havok is not only unsettled as he is now leading a team that is the world's best super heroic team, so he will be facing the misdeeds of his counter-part of this alternate Earth. See, apparently He and Sue Richards had an affair. It is an implied thing as we meet the FF and watch the two teams battle.
Break down on this Fantastic Four is as follows; Reed is still a genius and wears an armored suit with detachable extra arms, Sue wears a Stealth suit, Johnny is in a suit that lets him fly and throw fire, and Ben is still human and wears a big hulking armor with a terrible face. Reed is very off putting and later in the series we will see why. Sue seems glad to see Havok, while Maddie is not happy to see them together.
The rest of the story is a set up to get us to the nature of Havok as a traveller from another Earth. The resolution of that end of the story has a shock. As for the villain, he was strange. A small mentally powerful bug named Moot. Thing is he almost took over the FF and then Havok. So this starts the fun adventures of The Six and our alternate reality displaced Havok.
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After I posted this sarcastic post I saw that the AP had spoiled the death. So much for Marvel's Polybags. Maybe the writers should not give interviews before the release if they want to keep these things secret. It was not Sue, so it is another of the Four that is being extinguished.
The local paper has been running these little fine print things to do recently. This morning I thought the day was Wednesday as I saw a small black and white picture of the Fantastic Four. Then I found the info that because someone in the FF dies today that Marvel sent that book out one day early and it is bagged to keep the secret.
I guess that Sue will be killed. That would track at the current Marvel Comics. The sexy Mom is just in the way of Reed getting some hot honey action. It is needed for the story. How can the writers let Reed be with some of Marvel's hottest babes if Sue is around. No divorce as Joe Q mention when Spidey was magically unmarried. So I figure Sue is toast.
Dead forever, that is the statement. Until the next Skrull invasion I guess. Lot of dead forever characters came back it that mess from what I scanned as I looked in the House of Ideas windows. I am just figuring that it will one day be rectified. Now I could be wrong. It could be Johnny that has his fire snuffed. Maybe Reed is laid flat. My favorite guy Ben Grim might become dust. Could be. I still see Sue being subtracted from the team by killing her.
I am not caring. I haven't been reading new Marvel. I read the back issues that I love so much. Just like Joe Q told me to do. Back when writing was awesome and the stories heroic.
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