I feel like Johnny had a buzzcut either in
Ultimate Fantastic Four, or Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's run...neither of which I would care to read again. This one's far less painful! From 2006,
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #14, "The Most Dangerous Game" Written by Justin Gray, pencils by Staz Johnson, inks by Jeremy Freeman.
Reed's search for intelligent life in space brings the Grandmaster to the Baxter Building, where he immediately slaps the Four into some games: the Torch in a flammable nebula filled with planets, the Invisible Woman in an invisible monster-filled maze, the Thing in a shrinking force-field, and Reed versus super-computer Intellitek. Most of the team has to work out the counter-intuitive solutions, or work their powers differently; while Reed just asks the computer if it was omnipotent, to prove it. He uses a fairly well known
paradox that for some reason I swore was from
Monty Python.
The Grandmaster then tries to make the Four fight each other, but Sue has more than enough willpower to not hurt her brother, and breaks them out. The Grandmaster is beaten, and the FF home in time for pizza.
Another week down! Have a good weekend!
Idk why but the Grandmaster's real name reminds of that one lyric from John Lennon's song Across the Universe, "Jai Guru Deva Om."
ReplyDeleteAlso, the title for today's adventure reminds of another somewhat related song title from The Cardigan's song "My Favorite Game."
The issue's tests, which are pretty decent, also remind me of one of my all-time favorite FF fill-in issues, #351, which you've blogged about before on here.