All-New, All-Fantastic Avengers #105 – ‘Haste Creates Waste’

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The android Jocasta pilots an Avengers skycycle above the streets of New York City, with Miles Morales (wearing his Spider-Man mask) seated behind her. She says, “You are riding this skycycle unsafely, Miles.” The title of this comic strip, “All-New, All-Fantastic Avengers Presents… ‘Haste Creates Waste’,” is visible at the top of the image.
Miles asks Jocasta to explain again how she knows the Fantastic Four, and she says it’s through Tony Stark; he and Reed Richards - Mr. Fantastic himself - have been friends since grad school. She orders him to hang on, because they are nearly late.
Jocasta points the skycycle back toward the ground, and Miles grabs her around the waist, even as he cries out, “Wait a second! I don’t feel comfortable touching your hhhiiiii - “
On the rooftop of the Baxter Building, Ben Grimm (AKA The Thing) waves at Miles and Jocasta. She tells Ben that she was told, by Tony, to blame “traffic,” as Miles leaps from the skycycle onto the roof.
As Jocasta flies away, she remarks that Tony asked her to get back to Avengers Tower in time for brunch. Ben and Miles discuss her odd, amusing behavior.
Ben welcomes Miles to the Baxter Building, and tells him to relax a little. Miles replies that he thought you were supposed to be on your best behavior at an internship; he thinks he’s interviewing for an internship with the Fantastic Four.
Inside the building - where Miles is stunned by the visuals within - Ben explains to him that he had Tony Stark’s recommendation, which means he doesn’t need to be interviewed. Before he’s able to continue…
…Ben’s cut off by the arrival of Johnny Storm, The Human Torch, who leaves a trail of fire through the air as he flies.
Johnny deactivates his fire powers, and Ben introduces Miles to him.
As a prank, Johnny sets Ben’s back on fire. As the flames peak and start to die, Ben threatens to beat Johnny to a pulp. They’re interrupted before the fight can really start by Johnny’s sister, Sue Storm-Richards, The Invisible Woman, who threatens to send one of them to live on the moon for a week.
At the top of the image, Johnny and Ben apologize to Sue for their behavior. On the bottom of the image are the credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, the creation of Marvel characters by actual human beings, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.

This is a big deal for me, this week’s comic strip. Not only do I get to introduce the rest of the Fantastic Four (Reed had a line of dialogue in the inaugural “No Sleep ‘Til Jonah” post), but I’m also trying to take better advantage of the storytelling flexibility I have here on the website (versus the limitations of Instagram, where the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe was born). I don’t think I’m going to take my toy comics to a Bill Watterson-like place, not at all, but the individual comics can, hopefully, start to flow more naturally, smaller moments can land with a little more meaning, and the big moments can be as big as they deserve to be!

So, I have a lot of opinions about the Fantastic Four. While Captain America has long been my favorite superhero, and the earliest comics I remember buying are a melange of Star Trek: The Next Generation, part of a Spider-Man crossover, “Round Robin: the Sidekick’s Revenge,” the aforementioned Cap, and Avengers West Coast, the comic that I loved the most, and the most unconditionally, has always been the Fantastic Four. I got some collected reprint volume of Fantastic Four comics from the library that included the unbeatable original Galactus trilogy (#48-50), and I was irrevocably hooked from that point forward.

I think the original Kirby/Lee run on the book – 102 regular issues, and 6 “annual” special issues – deserves to be in the conversation for the greatest achievements in American art. The uncorked imagination of it, the boldness, the relentlessness of its invention… It will never cease to astound and compel me (even if some parts haven’t aged well, not at all. They are all at least more than 50 years old).

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