Fantastic Four #587 & #588 Review (P.S. The videos may not work due to my stupid computer)

So there has been too much in the last several years going on in the Fantastic Four comics for me too cover, but this is Fantastic February and there is no way i could let it end with out reviewing the two most important F4 comics at least in my opinion. What we have here is the death of Johnny Storm and the end of the long running Fantastic Four series, so here we go. So in this second to last issue we have Sue becoming the Queen of a lost tribe of Atlanteans and planting a well deserved force field gauntlet punch into the face of Prince Namor. We also have Reed fleeing a planet that is about to be devoured by a betrayed and super pissed Galactus and trying to get others out alive. But our main story is focused on a human Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and a rag tag group of the F4's collected orphans and their son and daughter fighting off an invading army of Annihilus' creatures trying to break out of the Negative Zone and unleash terrible destructive chaos on Earth. They are however hopelessly outnumbered and in a noble attempt to stop the oncoming hordes the Human Torch, Johnny Storm, locks himself inside the negative zone while the offspring seal the doors. Ben pleads for Johnny to come back and sadly becomes The Thing again too late as Johnny bids farewell. As the ravenous mass approaches Johnny Storm utters his last words in true Human Torch fashion, with rebellious strength and undaunting bravery best shown with this video:

But it probabaly won't work because my computer hasn't been working right so here's the page:


RIP To one of my favorite comic book characters. In issue 588 we get a nearly completely silent comic. For the first half there is no dialogue. We see Reed confront Annihiulus to find him holding Johnny's suit "confirming" that he is dead. We also see Sue has completely shut down and her and Reed have grown distant. Ben gets in a fight with Thor and the Hulk, it seems like his way of coping, then he breaks down and cries. We get a solemn funeral that even Dr. Doom attends and an incredibly fitting monument to Johnny. The most touching however is probably when Spider-man comes to talk to a very heart broken Franklin Richards(Sue and Reeds powered son) Spidey true to his form comforts him especially when he identifies with Franklin in wishing he could have saved his uncle. All in all a great memorial to a great character. The end however is ruined to me as we see the preview for the new series Now i think the new costumes are cool and interested to see where this all new FF series goes especially with all the mystery from the last few but i feel like its so harsh to kill him off and then replace him with Spider-man. The only way i accept it is because if there is anything I've learned in comics is dead is rarely dead, and a character like Johnny Storm can't just disappear, plus there have been murmurs he will have his own series. And in the mean time Spidey is so much like the Human Torch in being the humor and he also has that wit with The Thing, plus he is helping Franklin cope so i will cope for now. So this concludes Fantastic February! I hope you liked it! Thanks for reading!