In a preview for Fantastic Four #35, Marvel's first family try to deal with the fallout of their last encounter of the Doom kind, while another villain convenes with like-minded foes.
The issue will feature three short stories as a celebration of the team's 60th anniversary in Marvel Comics. The cover features the team and close allies, such as Spider-Man when he joined the Future Foundation, Black Panther, who first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 in 1966, and others. Based the preview, the team will be reeling from the previous "Bride of Doom" arc, while Kang the Conqueror and his variants plot and bicker together.
The preview opens with the Fantastic Four arriving back at the Baxter Building. In the last arc, Johnny Storm was punished by Doctor Doom for having intimate relations with the ruler's bride-to-be, Victorious, by using a device called the "Armagedron" to lock the Human Torch in his fiery state forever. Two pages of the preview see the team going home to deal with the problem and find a cure, which will be further explored in the following issue as well.
The other side of the preview sees a gathering of conquerors, or at least the variants of one conqueror. Kang the Conqueror, a descendant of Mr. Fantastic, meets with his variants, Rama Tut, the Scarlet Centurion and Immortus within the intended tomb for Rama Tut. Absent from this gathering are other Kang variants like Iron Lad and the latest version of Kang, a young Nathaniel Richards running around time in the pages of the Kang the Conqueror mini-series.
Here on these pages, the rulers argue with and insult one another. Rama Tut calls his other versions "worthless," while Kang describes Immortus as a "dusty, archaic academic" and claims that he was "embarrassed [he] ever was the Scarlet Centurion." However, Kang does not realize that there is another variant set to arrive to the gathering, a future version of himself.
Immortus reveals this information. This version of Kang was recently adapted as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) in Loki on Disney+, with Majors set to return as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In the preview, Immortus tells Kang that even he has "a future," implying that Kang isn't the last variant in their line as he believes himself to be. The preview and solicitation for the issue can be found below.
FANTASTIC FOUR #35
- DAN SLOTT & MARK WAID (W) • JOHN ROMITA JR., PAUL RENAUD & Jason Loo (A)
- Cover by MARK BROOKS • Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
- Variant Cover by ELIZABETH TORQUE
- Hidden Gem Variant Cover by JACK KIRBY
- VARIANT COVER BY PAUL RENAUD • VARIANT COVER BY BETSY COLA
- MARVEL GAMES VARIANT COVER BY NETEASE
- A TITANIC 60TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE!
- The entire Kang bloodline is out to destroy every era of the Fantastic Four! How can Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny hope to survive simultaneous attacks across their lifetimes by Rama Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, Kang the Conqueror and Kang’s final descendant, the sinister Scion?! Join the FF and some special surprise guest stars as John Romita Jr. returns to Marvel and joins forces with writer Dan Slott for this celebratory adventure! Marvel’s First Family will literally never be the same again!
- Plus: Mark Waid and Paul Renaud deliver dramatic new insights into the origin of the fabulous foursome in an all-new anniversary tale!
- 96 PGS./PERFECT BOUND/Rated T …$9.99
Fantastic Four #35 will have stories written by Dan Slott, Mark Waid and Jason Loo, with interior art by John Romita Jr., Paul Renaud and Loo. Other contributors to the book and its variant covers include Cam Smith, Mark Morales, Rafael Fonteriz, Scott Hanna, J. P. Mayer, Erick Arciniega, Marte Gracia, Joe Caramagna, Carlos Lao, Mark Brooks and others, with a special 1:100 variant with Jack Kirby's artwork. The issue goes on sale from Marvel Comics on Sept. 15, 2021.
Source: Marvel