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Post by Benjamin Haines on Feb 11, 2011 3:14:41 GMT 2
Even CNN thought this was worthy of a news article all its own. Some major changes are apparently taking place in the world of Marvel comics. In a nutshell, The Human Torch is dead, Spider-Man is taking his place in the Fantastic Four, and the Fantastic Four is now going to be called the Future Foundation.  Oh, and they all have Stormtrooper costumes now. Yeah. |
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 11, 2011 5:19:39 GMT 2
Meh. I like spidey filling in since he's been a friend of Torch's forever, but that image is horrible. Also, it makes no sense to make him a permanent member because now you've got the beloved celebrity Fantastic 3 (and children) with no secret identities and this vaguely menacing masked man with a dubious reputation. Also, the costumes are awful. Did Marvel just commit franchise suicide or what?
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 11, 2011 21:57:22 GMT 2
I buy a variety of Marvel comics, but they're UK reprints that collect about three US comics into one, and so I'm about a year or so behind everyone else.
I wouldn't put too much stock in it. It'll just be another attention grabbing headline/image to get people to buy the comics. Yeah, they're really going to kill off Johnny Storm.
There's a popular opinion that there are only three people who stay dead in comics.
1. Uncle Ben
2. Jason Todd
3. Bucky
How'd that work out again?
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 12, 2011 3:38:59 GMT 2
Also, Martha and Thomas Wayne. Jason Todd has been back about a dozen times and isn't Bucky the current Captain America? Both were villains, of course. So that leaves Uncle Ben. He'll probably come back as a villain too. They tried to pull some bullshit with Thomas Wayne a few years ago, but I think that one turned out to be bull.
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