Marvel solicits for December

[nomadicwriter]

CBR has the Marvel comics solicits for December, wherein the Doom story in Fantastic Four and FF continues under the new writers:

FANTASTIC FOUR #15
MATT FRACTION & KARL KESEL (W) * RAFF IENCO (A)
Cover by MARK BAGLEY
DOOMED! Part 3: The Elements of War
* The Fantastic Four struggle to stop the molecular plague destroying their powers and bodies.
* Standing between them and the cure: the Frightful Force, an army of their greatest foes, led by one of the F4’s own who betrayed them! Their only allies: another Fantastic Four!
* Meanwhile, Dr. Doom, Kang, and Annihilus come to an ominous meeting of the minds...
32 PGS./Rated T ...$2.99

The Council of Dooms appear again on the cover of this one.

FF #15
MATT FRACTION & LEE ALLRED (W) * MICHAEL ALLRED (A/C)
* Invasion Latveria: the Video Game!
* Four stand-in replacement heroes and a dozen kids versus Dr. Doom, now transformed into the ultimate power in the universe: Doom the Annihilating Conqueror! What a time to run out of quarters!
* Game over, man! Game over!
32 PGS./Rated T ...$2.99

And a Doomy cover here as well.

Comments

[nomadicwriter]

Heh. You're clearly trying a lot harder than I am to reconcile whatever's going on with the Fantastic Four; I've just mentally classified it as "handwavy degenerative thing" and stopped paying much attention to the words.

Honestly, there's a lot in Fraction's run that really doesn't bear up under examination. I'm not enthused to see the Council of Dooms from F4 #9 are coming back, since nothing about their part in that plotline made any sense at all. And yeah, this whole Doom the Annihilating Conqueror thing seems to very much Silver Age style "Villains! Doing Villainous Things because they are Villains!" without much thought put into why they'd even want to work together, never mind merge themselves into some sort of combined entity. (Why would Doom ever agree to go for that? Unless maybe he's got some idea he can override the others' personalities and steal their powers for himself, perhaps? I hope that's what that FF cover is hinting at, but I'm not really holding my breath for a proper explanation.)

And obviously Sue's leg is invisible, Reed's stretched his away, and Ben's fell off along with all the rock plates he's been dropping. Their issues with their powers are getting out of control! :) I do like Ben's blue sweatshirt, though.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I just really like science. Seriously, science is amazing. I'd love to be able to handwave the issue away, but then Fraction uses words that do not mean what he thinks they mean and I sadface.

The Council of Doom felt a bit like a retread of Hickman's AU!Reeds run. Plus, the whole 'Doom merging with other villains' was also done recently in Red She-Hulk, so. I can buy Doom and Nate/young Kang/Kid Immortus/whatever he's calling himself these days, but I have no idea why Annihilus is involved, unless he (it?) is trying for suicide-by-Fantastic-Four. I hope all three of them have their own agenda and the Doom the Annihilating Conqueror thing is just a smokescreen. Or old!Johnny trolling the FF, I can work with that. (If you're curious, I thought it made sense in Red She-Hulk.)

Yeah, okay, let's go with that. Still pissed that the powers are inconsistently affected, but I should stop overthinking things. I'm mad jealous of Ben's sweatshirt.