My Fantastic Four-ay: Part Fourteen.

[NOTE: this entry involves the last two panels of Fantastic Four #18, the 2026 series, which came out just last week as I write this.] So when we last left our intrepid team, they were about to be face-to-merged-faces with this alien warlord fella, an amalgam of two powerful and warring alien brothers who somehow combined as a result of one of Reed’s devices. And most of the first half of #298 was dedicated to that confrontation, as the being reaches Earth and immediately falls into conflict with the FF, including this fiery battle with the Human Torch: Now, this aside doesn’t really tie into the point of today’s entry, really, but it felt like for a time we were always seeing Johnny’s Nova Flame power, his one shot all-powerful burst that uses up all his available energy. Seemed like that was a last resort option that got used in a whole lotta “last resorts,” and it felt a little diminished every time. But hey, that’s just me. Anyway, it’s about this time, after the Thing enters the…