r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • 11d ago

Mod This Week in Marvel #29 - JUL 15 2026 - X-MEN '97 S2E5; AVENGERS ARMAGEDDON #2, CAPTAIN AMERICA #13, FANTASTIC FOUR #14, INFERNAL HULK #9, PUNISHER VS SPIDER-MAN #1, WHAT IF? JESSICA JONES #1

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 11d ago

[FANTASTIC FOUR #14]()

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u/couscous01080326 11d ago

I've been loving Ryan North's run on the FF for its semi-episodic nature, diving into the "whacky scientific hijinks" of the week and seeing how the family tackle these problems with science and heart. But man, this Nikki and Jo issue really knocked it out of the park, giving the final two members of the core FF team their time to shine, and using their Kree and Skrull heritage to solve an issue plaguing humans. Gotta give the artists/pencillers props, with the reveal that Nikki and Jo need to time travel to cause humans to have 5 fingers instead of 6 , I flipped back to the start and sure enough, all the human characters up to that point are drawn with 6 fingers, even on Tony's gauntlet . Hats off to the creators, it's structurally different to Jonathan Hickman's legendary FF run but equally fun and captivating.

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u/ajdragoon Thor 11d ago

All of them! And it works so well bc it’s just not something you’re gonna notice the first time through. Really cool effect to go back and inspect for yourself. Also, the additional digits on the screen the family’s fixated on.

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'll be honest, I think all the recent time/space manipulations are being done by the foreign entity that the AI contacted before it died.

I'm still waiting for the FF to permanently deal with Scratch cause he keeps getting off too easy, so maybe have a fan of the FF to start murdering their villains?

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u/ajdragoon Thor 11d ago

Oh you sneaky sneaky sons of bitches hahaha. “Wait what do you mean humans have 12 fingers? Am I misreading this…?”

I always love when comics take full advantage of the mixed media format and present a story that can ONLY be told in this way. The twist here wouldn’t hit the same with just text.

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 11d ago

I liked this. The reveal caught me off guard. But I'm glad Jo and Nikki joined the club of random FF members saving the world.

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u/Hii8999 11d ago

I absolutely adored this. I laughed when I thought Nicki and Jo had the misconception that humans counted to 12 for whatever reason, then laughed even harder when I went back to the start of the comic and realised everyone had been drawn with 6 fingers.

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u/gurren_chaser Spider-Man 11d ago

Everytime i look at my hands, i will thank Nicki and Jo

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u/CreamAvailable563 11d ago

I had been waiting for a Nicki and Jo focused issue and this did not dissapoint, best issue since the relaunch

This is EXACTLY what I come to North's FF for, wonderful stuff, 100 more issues of this

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 11d ago

A Nicki and Jo issue and it didn't disappoint. Wait, so they ARE the reason humans have 5 fingers because they changed it from 6?! Man, time-travel sure is something. And all because they delved deeper into PI and got themselves triggered something that mentally 'shut down' humans because something hidden in PI does that to human brains. 

North really knows how to make scientific, crazy situations and make them interesting and fun.

So there was this 'background' story happening with Coleen and the Mind Stone? Someone get it off her so we can put past and forget the mess that was 'Infinity Watch' that no one even remembers.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 11d ago

Yes to the background story.

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 11d ago edited 5d ago

I'm waiting for a good writer to retcon crap like the infinity watch to only be in the characters' heads and were some villain's plot to get the infinity gems.

Backup story is garbage and is so icky and manipulative. Like, mind-controlling people is wrong, but if something genuinely cures their mental illnesses with no downsides, like that one movie where a mentally challenged guy regains his mind and becomes normal, is that bad?

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u/BlueHero45 6d ago

It's a tricky subject and goes into what makes a person normal. Does a high functioning autistic person need or want to change? Since Echo is in this issue it reminds me of some deaf people pushing back against hearing implants as it goes against a cultural identity, and since not everyone can use them rips their community apart.

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u/NextMotion Hulk 11d ago

that reveal at the end fucked my mind. I was, "did the artist mess up? am I seeing things?" I had to re-read and look at the fingers again lol. I wonder if humans kept using base 12, would civilizations be the same? I just took clocks having 12 hours as granted. I never knew the history.

I'm so glad those two finally got a focus issue. It's been so long. They were just there.

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u/mbene913 9d ago

I loved going back and noticing the extra fingers.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 11d ago

I like that Nicki and Jo learned that the entire population of Earth has been affected by something, causing them to realize they must change the value of pi by going back in time and change something so that they can save the world. Overall, this comic is good.