1 -5 Barry Windsor-Smith
6 – 10 Barry Windsor-Smith & Kerry Gammill / Barry Windsor-Smith & Vince Colletta
11 – 20 Ron Frenz / Bob Wiacek
21 – 30 Al Milgrom / Klaus Janson
31 – 40 John Buscema / Steve Leialoha
41 – 49 Marc Silvestri / Joe Rubenstein
50 Jerry Ordway / Joe Sinnott
51 – 57 Jerry Ordway / Bob Wiacek
58 – 64 Jerry Ordway / Joe Sinnott
Letterer John Workman
Colorist Glynis Oliver
Cover Dated November 1986
Cover Artist Barry Windsor-Smith
Marvel’s 25th Anniversary Frame Cover! Which also means it is the Fantastic Four’s 25th Anniversary, hence all of the artists for this issue.
Thing is pretty down this issue. He goes to where the team crashed landed in their first appearance, in Stockton. Surprisingly, there is no monument, plaque or even a museum there. People can just walk right to the spot and see the skid mark in the grass that the spaceship landed.
I like how the feature villain is Mole Man, who is, of course, their first villain that they encountered. So it is his 25th birthday as well. Which is pretty cool, poor guy gets sidelined so often and isn’t that well remembered. From what I can gathered. After a few Google searches, I can’t even find that many websites that even bother to try to list their greatest villains. He seems to be in the Top Five, so that’s nice. Of course, Doctor Doom is first and he doesn’t even appear in this issue, so that’s the last we will reference him.
She-Hulk and Scott Lang are paling around with the Fantastic Four.
Thing is tired of being a monster and gets an old guy to take him to Monster Island, where he will become the best friend of Mole Man.
Thing gets dressed in a purple onesie and wears the Mole Man’s blue glasses. Thing gives the team a tour of the island. Reed doesn’t like the idea of Mole Man’s new machine, it can ruin the world.
Johnny’s face gets pretty messed up, so he can know what it feels like to be a monster. He doesn’t like it.
I like the subplot of Mole Man’s Danger Room that he uses to just have a fancy party with pretty people, even though they are all holograms.
Thing rejoins the team, Johnny face hits some water, and his face is fixed. Issue ends with the classic Fantastic Four all hands in, which is nice.
Who wins POV? Will they use it? Let’s Get Excited!
Episode 22, BB Comics comes back! That gets me pretty excited. I doubt I will recognize any of the names but here is hoping there are a few websites that have the artists available.
I adore Steve talking to the Live Feeders!
Vanessa feels like she may be a target, this week.
Jackie ends her service in the Big Brotherhood, and stripes off her armor! James can’t handle himself.
Shelli is concern about what happens if she chooses “Houseguest Choice” as it would make sense if she choose Vanessa, but no one wants her to play and risk her being safe. John says she can choose him. John goes and tells Steve the plan of Vanessa. Steve is torn, as he wants to tell Vanessa but he knows that isn’t smart. John says that Steve can choose him.
Liz is starting to have feelings for Austin, he is breaking her down. Julia is disgusted by it, as am I!
Veto Players!
Becky – Austin
Shelli – Houseguest Choice – Vanessa
Steve – Meg
Not the greatest grouping of players.
John is the host.
BB Comics! YAY!
The comics are –
John is Dr. Drill
Shelli is the Puma
Steve is The Engineer
Jackie is The Super ShowGirl
James is Super Camo
Austin is Austin the Barbarian
Liz is the Bikini Bandit
Vanessa is the Mad Hatter
Meg is the Big Apple
Julia is the South Beach Savior
Becky is the Trianiac
Audrey is The Blanket
Clay is Mister Perfection
La’Vonne is Momma Day
Jace is The Bro
Jason is Mylantor
Jeff is The Salesman
So happy to see this comp back!
Everyone seems to be pretty cool with their own covers. Shelli is ten years older than Clay.
The order (shown at least) was –
Meg – Becky – Shelli – Austin – Steve – Vanessa
I have already forgotten about Jeff, Da’Vonne and Jace.
Their shirts say “I Heart BB Comics” me too!
The BB Comic logo is a homage to the old school DC logo, that I sort of miss.
Meg – 15:37
Becky – 17:02
Shelli – 25:31
Austin – 21:20
Steve – 13:57
Vanessa – 21:44
Steve wins! Awesome!
Audrey’s should have been titled, The Wet Blanket!
I feel like they haven’t shown the comic book bedroom, in a while, as it looks completely different.
It could be more of a comic book room –
Vanessa is grilling James, about what the plan is. James doesn’t handle it well
Vanessa confronts Becky, about what her replacement nominee is. Vanessa breaks down that it has to be her or John, and John is a closer friend of Becky’s.
Vanessa ruins Jackie, Meg, Austin (for some reason) and James’ good time by barging into the room they are in and reconfirms that her deal with them is still good. Of course it is, they say. She leaves and they all laugh. Becky is growing tired of Vanessa’s paranoid feelings. Except that they are justified feelings.
Steve goes through the motions of ‘debating’ if he will use the Veto. He will, as he isn’t an idiot.
Becky nominates . . . VANESSA!!! Do not miss Thursday’s episode, there will be so many fights! Becky gets real with Vanessa, so she knows she is the target.
Double Eviction! Now we really can’t miss it! Those are the best!
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I like how these comics are cover priced $2.99, it would be more believable if they went $3.99.
Thanks to YouTuber Stardust for hosting the video.
I thought there were three songs from the first Fantastic Four soundtrack. I recall the film having a decent soundtrack (we played it quite often at Hastings).
Velvet Revolver was Slash’s other big band. I’ve always been a huge fan of Slash, especially when he was on Conan O’Brien.
He did a Secrets segment on Conan that was so funny! I can’t find his solo one but here is a video with one of his –
Thanks to YouTuber HyperTransience for hosting the video!
I wish the Axl Rose is a sexual anagram, had made the cut.
Nice, I found a website that has all of Slash’s secrets –
SLASH SECRETS
“I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.”
“I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.”
“One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop ‘n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.”
“If I ever go bald, I’ll kill myself.”
“The original name for Guns ‘n Roses was Roses ‘n Guns, but that just sounded stupid.”
“I once asked Axl why he left the ‘E’ off his name. He started crying and said he thought he’d spelled it right.”
“Almost every night I have a dream where one of my pet snakes eats all those boys in Hanson.”
“Someone once asked me what I liked better-kittens or puppies. And I said “‘It’s a tie man.’ They said- ‘Too close to call?’ I said, ‘No, man, too cute to call.'”
“My original nickname was ‘Splash’ because I loved that movie so much.”
“I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There’s the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he’s wild. And then there’s the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.”
“An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I’m not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.”
“Originally, I wanted to call the band ‘Guns ‘n Robots.’ I still believe that if we had just called ourselves ‘Guns ‘n Robots’ we’d still be together.”
Thanks for compiling these, ReddDragon!
One sad note, with the Secrets, was back in the Joe Quesada Message Board days, we were talking about our favorite Secrets, and the very next day, John Ritter died. He had such a great segment!
Thanks to Mrsilenciobackgammon for hosting the video!
The other music video released for the Fantastic Four soundtrack was –
Everything Burns, by Anastacia featuring Bed Moody
Thanks to markjohn1987 for hosting this video!
Though this song seems to have inspired –
Ellie Goulding’s Burn Burn Burn
Thanks to YouTuber EllieGouldingVEVO for hosting her own video.
It is like the exactly same song!
I do like how the music videos do make it seem like the first Fantastic Four film, was going to be pretty good.
Sort of like how Seal’s Kiss from a Rose, makes Batman Forever look like a good film
Thanks to IntheBeginning for hosting the video.
These films really do benefit from being condensed to three minute commercials with a pop song.
Who becomes HoH? It is Becky! Who will she nominate? And apparently there was a fight, right before the eviction.
Sorry this didn’t go up, yesterday morning. Sunday night got a tad intense over here. The Live Feeds have been blowing up, so a bunch of this episode and tomorrow’s episode, has been spoiled for me.
Steve hints, again, at his feud with Becky, what is this about!
I know Austin is being super cheesy but I need him to cool down, around Liz.
5 Hours Before Eviction. Johnny Mac states that he went from floater to major target. I didn’t even know that he was involved. I saw that Clay was on Twitter, and answering questions. I also saw that he blocked Jun Song, Big Brother 4 winner, apparently she gets blocked from several Big Brother houseguests.
Right now, in Retro Big Brother, we are on episode six of Big Brother 5, so fun to see how these Twins differ from our current Twins. One of them, has serious identity issues.
Vanessa confronts James, he doesn’t have a problem with her but she keeps freaking out.
Clay is telling people that James wants Vanessa out, they essentially just keep saying ‘shut up’ to each other. I do like how Clay stands up, to talk to James. Vanessa gets in Clay’s face, about throwing Vanessa’s name around. I do like how Clay, is done with this conversation. He knows he is going home in five hours, leave him alone. Vanessa starts crying and is so confused. John tells her that he made his own assumptions as did Clay but Vanessa doesn’t accept these reasons.
Becky wins all three prizes! Never a Have Not, $5,000 and HoH!
Becky has some surprises for her nominations. Steve is worried about being nominated as is Shelly.
Shelly is missing Clay, which makes sense.
What is Julia’s accent? She really stresses the end of her sentences, something that Liz doesn’t do.
John and Steve are chatting! John thinks Becky is hot.
If there is whispering, Production has to put subtitles on the screen.
Steve is close to Vanessa and John, that’s great news!
Becky’s HoH room is shown, still odd to me that James’ room wasn’t shown, as he had to share his first one, with Jason. Everyone comments on how big Becky’s boobs are in a picture with her dog. Her food basket is nothing but health food.
Shelli and Vanessa wold like Steve to be nominated, as he is still an oustsider. I imagine Steve is going to own the show, once there is only eight folks around.
Becky wants to backdoor Vanessa, but she wants her side of the house to keep it a super duper secret.
Steve is in the food room, and he spends a lot of his time alone, in the house. He dances and talks aloud, I feel like that’s how I would be in the house. I would be a mix of Steve and John. Production has to tell Steve to not trying to break the bottles, or to stop trying to balance the bottles. As he is going to break them. That Steve, keeps being given a segment, every other episode. Good on Production!
Vanessa talks to Becky and Becky lies to Vanessa, or rather, gives her the cover story. Shelli and Steve are going up.
#BasicBecky she doesn’t want to work with alliances, Vanessa acts pretty surprise – she doesn’t see it as that Becky just doesn’t want to work with Vanessa.
John and Becky are celebrating! Kiss some more! They don’t. Becky tells John the entire real plan, he is suppose to keep it a secret, he loves the plan.
Nominations! Shelli and Steve! But don’t worry folks! Do not miss tomorrow’s episode, I bet Production has enough footage to make both Wednesday and Thursday episodes pretty grand. Becky wants Steve to get his hands dirty and start playing the game.
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Here is the picture of Becky and her dog –
So glad I finally found a good quality version of it.
Head Writer / Coordinators Stuart Vandal & Sean McQuaid
Writers Ronald Byrd, Bill Lentz, Mark O’English & Barry Reese
Cover Dated August 2005
Cover Artists Mark Bagley & Morry Hollowell
I own this for the Ultimate Shadowcat references in a few profiles.
No reference of Shadowcat in the Fantastic Four profile but we are celebrating them this month, so we are including them here.
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Art by Adam Kubert
Ultimate Shocker, defeated by both Shadowcat and Spider-Man, on their first date.
Art by Mark Bagley
Ultimate Spider-Man, his profile ends with the statement that he is dating Shadowcat.
Art by Mark Bagley
The individual Fantastic Four members get their own profiles as well. I like how on the bonus page with Significant issues, all of them state “See Fantastic Four” except Human Torch gets Ultimate Spider-Man 68 & 69, when he met Peter.
Fantastic Four
Origin : Ultimate Fantastic Four 1 – 6
Significant Issues : Battled Van Damme (Ultimate Fantastic Four 7 – 12); explored N-Zone (Ultimate Fantastic Four 13 – 18); battled Rhona (Ultimate Fantastic Four 19 & 20); met zombie counterparts (Ultimate Fantastic Four 21, 22 & 23) Essentially the first 23 issues. Which gives us the time frame of when this handbook came out.
Shocker, who I really like
Origin : Ultimate Marvel Team-Up 6
Significant Issues : First encountered Spider-Man (Ultimate Spider-Man 8); second encounter (Ultimate Spider-Man 35); third encounter (Ultimate Spider-Man 67); faced Spider-Man and Kitty Pryde (Ultimate Spider-Man Annual 1)
Spider-Man
Origin : Ultimate Spider-Man 1 – 6
Significant Issues : First faced Kingpin (Ultimate Spider-Man 8 – 12); Green Goblin returned (Ultimate Spider-Man 22 – 27); forced to join Osborn’s “Six” (Ultimate Sinister Six 1 – 6); Kingpin returned (Ultimate Spider-Man 47, 48 & 49)
The CBS All Access description has Episode 20 being – Will it be Clay or Shelli leaving the Big Brother HOuse? Plus, the Hitmen are back!
It took a while for me to remember the Hitmen were Derrick and Cody. We’re at episode 28 of Season Four and I’m surprised by how often they checked in with old houesguests. That isn’t really something they do anymore, except as hosts for a competition.
Typing as such,k they really got away from the BBTakeover, didn’t they? Did they have more people lined up or were they hoping for more inspiration?
Another thing about the older seasons, Julie Chen did say “Bug First” so much! Once, it was three times in an episode!
Oh, my wife saw the previous Big Brother post and was not a fan of the pictures of Julia, so I’m going to have not posting any, for a bit.
oh Julie Chen, the hunters have become the hunted – do her writer love making her say such things?
I sort of like Julie Chen with glasses.
But First!
Veto Ceremony was Day 47.
Shelli is the target, but I imagine Clay convinces everyone to vote him out. We heard that the HoH comp was an endurance comp, so we were able to watch the hour and a half (maybe two hours) comp. Of course, dear reader, you already know that Shelli stays, but Becky wins the HoH, and by a lot!
The Sixth Sense alliance may be way over, before the votes are counted.
Calling the Hitmen the power couple of last season, is giving Cody a lot of credit.
I like that they worked Da’vonne into the BBSoundOff, she’s decent in small doses
I do like how the house has given Clay and Shelli, plenty of space. Is that really their first kiss? What has he been waiting for?
The rest of the house seems to be in the HoH room.
I like Jackie playing up being a Knight, in DR
Who cares if the house is reunited, let people vote the way that they want!
Derek, I do forget about him, but he really was one of the best players that game has ever produced. His daughter knowing Cody’s name, makes me think that the two guys have become close friends. I recall an interview of Derek’s that said that he was going to make Cody’s Christmas amazing.
Derrick, is how he spells it. Their families are super close! They see each other, once a month! That’s intense! Cody has done some modeling. Good for him. Derrick is clearly one of the better winners. Holla!
Speeches! Clay, some shoutouts. The houseguests are dressed for a physical challenge. Clay doesn’t want to stay in the house. Shelli cries during her shoutouts. I really don’t see them lasting as a couple.
The Votes!
Vanessa – Clay
Meg – Clay
Austin – Clay
Jackie (keeping the Knight helmet on, and cape) – Clay
Commercial Break
Liz – Clay
With five votes, Clay is out
Julia – Clay
Steve, he paws at Julia, who also paws at him, so sweat – Clay
Becky – Clay
John – Clay – people love him, as they should! We can hear the audience snickering
The house gives Shelli and Clay a private moment, which is nice. Poor Showmance peeps, Chen only cares about the one thing, but shame on the houseguest for being so one noted, as well!
John’s message is so awesome, Clay and John were a cute couple! Oh Meg, she’s coming for Clay, if Shellie doesn’t keep up her end.
Chenbot remembers to ask Clay about Drunk Meg. There was no real attraction there. Clay goes too far with him claiming that Meg is going around the house, trying to get a showmance going. Shame on you, Clay! Now you don’t get Shellie or Meg! You dummy!
HoH comp! It is that one where they slide down to the bucket, to pour whatever (oil, this time), to grab the ball and win.
Everyone is slated for the jury house! Julie Chen implies that a jury member will come back into the game.
The prizes are – HoH, $5,000 and Never Be A Have Not. But a smart houeguest can choose to grab the first two prizes and then the HoH but if they are dumb, and choose HoH first, then the game is over. Don’t worry, Becky isn’t a dummy and does it the right way.
Apparently, even if they don’t make the edit episodes, they have been doing Have Nots and such, which is another reason to do away with the Battle of the Block, as it takes too much time.
Not a bad episode, I’ll be curious how Becky’s week goes but I am not expecting many upsets.
Does anyone know of any Big Brother websites that are tracking the competitions, such as, which ones are repeated and the winners of those? My wife and I were thinking if a man has ever won this style of competition, as we recalled three women, who have.
Writers Sean McQuaid, Anthony Flamini, Michael Hoskin, Bill Lentz, Ronald Byrd, Mark O’English & Stuart Vandal
Cover Dated 2005 (hence the title!)
Cover Artists Tom Grummett & Morry Hollowell
I own this for the references to Kitty Pryde in the Franklin Richards profile.
Doctor Doom’s profile doesn’t even mention the time he help save Kitty Pryde from becoming a complete ghost.
Fantastic Four
Art by Mike McKone
Art by John Byrne
I do like how every individual member gets a profile, even though it just repeats most of the information from the team profile but from their respected perspectives.
Franklin Richards, Kitty is referenced in the Thanksgiving Power Pack story.
I can’t believe these two images were not anywhere on the Internet, I have to make the Internet have what I want from it.
Art by Terry Dodson
Art by Jim Muniz
I really like how these Handbooks from this era have a bonus section with important issues.
Franklin Richards
First Appearance : Fantastic Four Annual 6
Significant Issues : Named (Fantastic Four 94); rendered comatose (Fantastic Four 140 & 141); opposed Scratch, Salem’s Seven (Fantastic Four Annual 14); met Brain Parasites & created Ego-Spawn (Fantastic Four 227 & 228); briefly became Avatar (Fantastic Four 245); joined Power Pack, become Tattletale (Power Pack 15, 16 & 17); future self appeared (Fantastic Four Annual 23, X-Factor Annual 2, New Mutants Annual 6, Uncanny X-Men 14); became Psi-Lord (Fantastic Four 375, 376 & 377); organized Fantastic Force (Fantastic Force 1); restored to childhood (Fantastic Four 413 & 414); opposed Onslaught, parents lost (Onslaught : X-Men 1, Onslaught : Marvel Universe); accepted death of family (Daydreamers 1, 2 & 3); restoration of family (Heroes Reborn 1 – 4); met Puppy (Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four V3 9); restored sister Valeria, lost powers (Fantastic Four V3 49); dealt with Hell trauma (Fantastic Four 501 & 502)
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So the film has come out, to mostly negative or luke warm reviews. The director is telling everyone, that will listen, that FOX stepped in and changed the film drastically. Will there be a Director’s Cut of teh film? I sure hope so! Though, why the studio would agree to release a much superior film, a cut from the director who has been insulting to the studio, is beyond me. I would like it, just to see all of the filmed scenes.
The Fantastic Four 20th Anniversary (and Marvel’s!)
I own this just for the cover, pretty cool how Kitty Pryde made it but Byrne wouldn’t leave his greatest co-creation absent such an historic event!
Typing about historic, this is the extremely famous, Fantastic Four “Terror in a Tiny Town” story which is just awesome! Doom has shrunk the FF and they figure it out but the way they do and the way they escape is such classic! No wonder it has been reprinted as often as it has!
This is one of those comics that I can’t believe I own.
This would make a good plot to a FF movie. Couldn’t be the first one but it could work as a third.
Part One
Issue opens with a flashback / dream sequence of the Fantastic Four’s fateful original space trip. Johnny wakes up from a recurring dream. The Fantastic Four are just regular folks in a small town. Ben isn’t the thing, he is married to Alicia and Puppet Master is happy for his daughter and son-in-law. The entire team is having these dreams.
I like the idea, without their powers, that Reed and Sue are in the throes of an awesome marriage. Franklin is their son in this land.
Reed isn’t very good at his job as a researcher / professor. Professor Vaughn is constantly on his case and undermining him. Reed suspects the dreams mean something, so he cuts himself pretty deeply. He gathers his family together and tells them that they are living fake lives. They confront Puppet Master, he reveals that there is a ruse but it is worst than they know. Just then, a voice bellows from above. A giant Doctor Doom is watching over them.
Part Two
Doom has the team, plus Alicia and Franklin hooked up to machines that surround Liddleville (get it?). Doom’s main plan is to just let the team live the rest of their days in miniature bodies.
Reed is creating a plan of action. Poor Ben, he has everything he ever will want right here.
Reed created a machine that will zap them with cosmic rays. Ben volunteers to go first. It works and now he is a little Thing. They all get their powers back and start fighting little Doombots. Once they are free of Liddleville, they try to break the machine. Sue saucers off to find Doom, who is playing the piano like a pimp. Sue sees Doom’s unmasked face. Doom heads over to Liddleville and tries to blast the Fantastic Four, he overloads the machine and the heroes are free and back in their bodies.
When Doom zapped Liddleville, he created a loop and is now stuck in the puppet Vaughn body, that he was using to mess with Reed.
There is a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back-up story.
There is a Hostess Fruit Pie ad with the Hulk vs Phoomie Goonies.
If you ever wonder, What If Ben stayed in Liddleville, What If? 109 is the issue for you.
Shelli has to pull Clay back, from yelling at James. Apparently, James did three years in prison!
Vanessa confronts Clay and Shelli about how they threaten to blow up Vanessa’s game. Shelli has to try to calm Vanessa down, too. Vanessa goes to the other side of the house, distantly herself from the couple, so hard. Once again, eliminating one person, seems to have brought the entire house together.
Dman Julia, in that blue bikini, dman!
Shelli and Clay chat with James.
Shelli is crying, that she won’t go to Jury with Clay. Austin overhears this and realizes that he will be going to jury with Liz. oh man, that guy may kill her! Someone keep him away from her!
Veto Comp! Something to do with Royalty. Another decent outfits comp. I would try to keep all of my outfits. Jiz is the host, but I can’t figure it out. This is one of those classic, trade Big Brother games. So you can win a prize but have someone take it from you.
GameofThrows, they are throwing balls
Round One
Vanessa scores a 26
Clay – 19
Becky – 11
Shelli – 22
Jackie – 1
James – 29
Jackie is out, she claims the Sixth Place Prize – Veto, so lame when the Veto is the first prize!
Round Two –
Clay – 22
Becky – 17
Shelli – out of bounds
James – 33
Vanessa – 17
Shelli claims her fifth place prize – Knight in Shiny Armor – She is in the Big Brother Knight Brotherhood. She trades it for the Power of Veto. Jackie now is a Knight, sounds pretty good
Round Three –
Becky – 7
James – 33
Vanessa – Out of Bounds
Clay – 33
Meg is super rooting for Clay.
Vanessa claims fourth place prize – Castle Vacation – She is keeping the Ireland vacation
Round Four –
James – 29
Clay – 16
Becky – 20
Clay claims third place prize – so there is no way for Clay and Shelli to keep the Veto. Night in Shiny Armor, must stay close to the Knight, and shine armor. Clay takes the Ireland trip, so Vanessa is the Squire
Round Five –
James – 10
Becky – Out of Bounds
Becky claims 2nd place crown – $5,000 – she keeps the money
James claims 1st place prize – Castle Guard – Must complete the regiment 2024 times. If he doesn’t complete it, he can’t play in the next comp.
I forgot that James has a daughter. He takes the veto, and Shelli now has to complete the task. James mentions how Clay can take Shelli to Ireland, I bet he doesn’t take her.
Shelli is acting like they are getting married, after this. I don’t see it happening.
OH! Meg and Clay are having a very long hug. John Mac doesn’t know what he is seeing. She can’t promise to vote him out instead of Shelli. Since when did Meg and Clay have a friendship. #BBScandal, indeed! This is still going on! Meg wants to get Clay drunk in NYC! Oh My!
Vanessa and Jackie get their costumes. Jackie looks completely flat chested, who knew that was possible! Vanessa has to shine Jackie’s armor for 24 hours.
Shelli has to do 2400 swiping, stabbing and a third thing. She has 24 hours. Every 100 of these, she has to ring a bell.
Come morning, Shelli has to do only a thousand more! 1648. 1770.
John and Steve are talking!!!
1842. 2007. 2110. 2200. 2395. Five more! She did it!
Brittany, from last season, seemed like it was a harder challenge as she had to kick a soccer ball into a net.
Shelli and Clay kept talking about how they have one more move, and I kept thinking that they were done and there were no more moves, except for walking out together. I hadn’t thought about how they could convince James to use the Veto. They try to convince James to put Austin up.
Veto Ceremony
Clay uses his speech time to confess his love for her. Shelli, echoes his feelings but gives a speech about fairness.
James will not be using his Veto! Shelli is going home, right?
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Here is a few pics of Julia in that bikini –
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We conclude the mini-Mike Carey event with this issue!
So great that Ultimate Shadowcat was already becoming one of the main X-characters at this point.
She makes her appearance last issue but she is the main threat to both issues here so I finally looked Rhonda Burcill, who is the Ultimate version of Thinker – hence why she has Awesome Andy – who she calls, Robby, which is obviously a nickname off of Robot. One would think a super genius would have a bigger name for such things. She originally appeared in Ultimate Fantastic Four 19 and 20, which were also written by Mike Carey. So now that we know that, we should be able to enjoy the issue properly.
I’m not sure what happened to me when I first read these issues but I remember not liking them and feeling like I was missing so much or that the issues were confusing. I probably just read them too quickly, or something. Maybe even alphabetical order? That could have been the case.
Issue opens with Yu art, as we see the X-Men realizing they have been had.
Baxter Building, New York. Reed is being mentally teased by Miss Rhona Burchill. She starts mentally taking down guards.
Wolverine gets back on his feet and fights Thing.
Wolverine gets a bit of an advantage over Thing. Then embarrassingly takes taken out by his own flu. I like having some fun with Wolverine, he’s a character that can easily kill everyone in the next room, so you can put him in silly situations like this as it won’t damage him at all.
That is a great look between Ben and Reed.
Reed, smartly, wants to make a truce and goes directly to Shadowcat, the only brain the X-Men have.
Rhona starts going a tad insane with having so much mental powers so quickly. She’s smart, so she has a decent grasp on her new powers.
Reed is impress with what Xavier and Magneto was able to build, which they really don’t get enough create for all of their gadget creations. Sure, Cerebro gets mention but they had to build fancy planes and uniforms. Heck, even the Danger Room had to be designed and programmed.
We learn that the X-Men uniforms block themselves from Sentinel scanners, which is handy.
Shadowcat asks if Reed ever had a girlfriend, she probably just feels like it is nice to talk to a guy who doesn’t try to make fart noises with his own mouth after the first three minutes of meeting him.
I still prefer Shadowcat with Spider-Man but I wouldn’t have minded Shadowcat dating Reed, though he turn out to be a horrible person later – from what I’ve read about and seen in Cataclysm. Plus, there would be no way for Proper Kitty and Reed to date, so it is fun to wish for Proper Kitty and Spider-Man to date as that is an option.
Reed is stun and doesn’t know how to talk to a woman, romantically, who isn’t Sue. Why would anyone else want to talk to him about such matters? He has no time for that, he only has eyes for Sue.
Reed was able to make Wolverine better but he won’t be at full strength in a while. Shadowcat recognizing him as their heaviest hitter is accurate. Thing might take offense to that but Wolverine has a killer instinct that Grimm doesn’t have.
Johnny can’t figure out why Kitty isn’t talking to him but talks to Reed. Sue isn’t impressed. Their father wants the Ultimates to deal with Rhona.
I was just thinking if this series was to tie into one of the Fantastic Four films but the first one came out in 2005 and the sequel was 2007, so that doesn’t time out.
Reed created refractions shields, so they have a better chance of not succumbing to Rhona’s mental powers. He mentions that Human Torch’s shield only works up to a certain degree, so now we can expect him to get at least as hot as four hundred decrees. Don’t worry, it never becomes an issue. It is only an example of Reed having to tell Johnny what is up.
Since Rhona can control machines, they have to part the Fantasti-car a distance away and walk the rest.
We get the Rivalry of Iceman and Human Torch, which is as natural as sharks and bears being nature’s best friends.
Thanks to YouTuber zombiefeast for hosting the video. I really do miss Space Ghost Coast to Coast. This is from the Kentucky Nightmare episode, Season 7 Episode 1.
Not a fan of Reed calling the team of Shadowcat and Invisible Woman, girls, but that’s Ultimate Reed for you.
Sue and Kitty would be my ultimate heroes turn villains duo, as they could kill people so fast and easily!
Instead, Sue tries to undermine Kitty, probably due to Kitty’s slight interest in Reed.
Shadowcat’s plan is to phase her hands through the electronics and disable them. Sue has a faster plan, to set off miniature force fields, have them expand and take out an entire wall in a few actions.
Which I sort of like a Sue Storm with attitude, something the 60s version wasn’t really allowed to have. She isn’t defined by her gender or who she is with or who she has birthed. I’m sure she is considered the strongest member of the team like her proper version is. She would have to.
There is a two page Daily Bugle styled Bullpen Bulletin. Storm 1 of 6, learn the full story of Ororo’s past. Astonishing X-Men 13, he wait is over and it’s time to rock! Ultimate Fantastic Four 27, featuring Ultimates, and President Thor? X-Men 182, the return of Apocalypse! New Excalibur 4, the team is formed and they’re not happy about it. Uncanny X-Men 469, An X-Man takes teh law into their own tank. Wolverine 39, a deadly showdown with the Winter Soldier! X-Men Deadly Genesis 4 of 6, Professor X’s darkest secret stands revealed before all! New X-Men 23, X-23 must make a difficult choice!
Iceman saves a boy, the boy is under Rhona’s control. Ben and Reed get into the cargo bay. Thing fights Robbie.
Rhona takes control of the two boys and have them fight each other.
Shadowcat tries to sneak attack but is too close to Rhona.
If Shadowcat could have phased her hand, the story would be done.
Rhona takes control of the ladies’ minds. Before she can do anything though, Reed comes busting through the wall.
Thing is under Rhona’s control and starts fighting Reed. Reed takes a page out of Rhona’s book and gives her a adapting virus.
Rhona is escaping while the heroes are regathering their thoughts.
Wolverine has a plan to ensure that they never have to worry about Rhona again. He cut her secondary fuel line, which causes her flying car to explode.
Wolverine tries his best at a lame hero line but I can’t believe everyone just stands around, wiping their hands clean of the situation. Wolverine just straight murdered someone and they just shrug their shoulders. So bizarre!
Baxter Building. The Next Day.
Reed has cleaned up the Cerebro components. Yu has taken over for the issue. Which I wonder why he even did that for? He got to draw only three pages. Was the script not long enough and Carey had to add a few pages? Was Yu just looking for work? The pages are nice but I’m not sure why they switched artists.
He drew the X-Men Away Team page, so maybe Ferry only wanted to do the Fantastic Four pages after having to do all of the X-Men pages in the previous chapter. Is that even a reason?
Lieutenant Lumpkin, that is quite the upgrade from postal carrier, but it could be his son too as he is quite young here. Or it is a familiar last name.
Human Torch tries to hit on Shadowcat, she’s seeing Spider-Man, so why downgrade? As far as I know, he never tries to hit on her again once he is living with Aunt May. We’ll have to pay attention to that once we review those issues.
Wolverine is going to dry the Rolls Royce back to Salem. Jean Grey and the X-Plane fly above them, offering to pick them up but Wolverine wants the drive. Would that plane be able to load the car into it? It seems too sleek for that.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 