{"id":31503,"date":"2026-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31503"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T21:27:07","slug":"spider-man-fantastic-four-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/02\/27\/spider-man-fantastic-four-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man\/Fantastic Four 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue opens on Peter Parker going home to see his family. Oops! I thought this didn\u2019t mention them. Oh, well, too late now. And, to make matters worse, MJ & Aunt May turn into aliens right before his eyes, as the energy the baddies are pumping out around the globe is designed to help humans \u201cjoin with their culture.\u201d But it doesn\u2019t seem to be effecting Spider-Man yet, so he takes off to go try to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Has Reed & Sue\u2019s 2nd child, Valeria, showed up on the blog yet? Well, there she is. Her deal is she\u2019s smarter than Reed, which means she\u2019s mature for her age, but she\u2019s still a little kid, prone to little kids things, and that\u2019s a fun mix. She was born in a strange, transitional period for the comic, which is pretty unusual, such a big event happening in what amounts to a fill-in arc. And it was drawn by Mark Bagley, even. Yes, one more thing he did during USM. Anyway, Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo were the ones who got to really develop her character, and now Ringo is back on the job for awhile. As he & Waid represent, for me, the 2nd best FF run of all time, his final gig featuring them feels cool. I hope he enjoyed doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reed & Sue go on the offensive, but Ben & Johnny get them to stop before they can hurt any of these regular people who\u2019ve been turned into aliens. Reed sees the process in action, and it seems like the human bodies are being possessed by aliens. Then Ben shows Reed & Sue how they\u2019re completely unable to hurt or even bother the cat-faced guy, and they\u2019re all caught up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey drives them back to the Baxter Building as fast as he can, and they find the kids safe with Alicia Masters, Ben\u2019s longtime girlfriend (The real one, not the one Johnny married who turned out to be a Skrull, resulting in that mess we saw in FF 374<\/a>). Alicia surmises the aliens aren\u2019t interested in kids or the blind. Ben says they must be crazy to pass up the chance to be Alicia Masters. I just like how sweet that was. Alicia turns on the TV, and the former governor of New York, an a council member of the aliens, is explaining they have 4 billion souls ready to merge at any given moment, and Earth was a good choice because the population provided\u00a0a nice buffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey and Johnny go talk to Dr. Strange, but find he\u2019s been converted. There\u2019s a genuinely funny bit with him doing a card trick, and this gives way to a montage explaining some heroes are putting up a fight, a we see Ms. Marvel fighting War Machine and Luke Cage fighting Captain America. Back at the park, Se has tried making the lion guy\u2019s machine invisible, but he says he\u2019s done this so much he doesn\u2019t even need to see it. He also noticed the invisible Thing coming at him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reed explains he\u2019s done all the projections and theorizing he can, and come up with nothing. Spider-Man wonders what happens when the H\u2019moji leave their hosts, and Reed reveals he just so happens to have built a crazy spaceship that would let them see some of the places that have been colonized before, hoping that\u2019ll help. But there\u2019s only room for one person in the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good joke!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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44 years after trying out in ASM 1<\/a>, Spidey\u2019s finally on the team! But can they hope to win this one? I mean, probably, but we\u2019ll have to see how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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