Fantastic Four 587

**Matt Doc Martin** · 01-25-2011, 03:46 AM

Someone dies.

Big (non) surprise: It is spoiled at 12:01 a.m. Eastern, to AP or all bloody people.

Why, Marvel? Why bag the issue, pump up surprise, then let it get published on news sites?

The fans and the LCS both get hosed in the deal.

It is hard to remain a Marvel Zombie.

**Matt Doc Martin** · 01-25-2011, 03:47 AM

By the way, I know who dies (again, I was spoiled), but if you want to know, it is

Spoiler:

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**zemo** · 01-25-2011, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Matt Doc Martin

By the way, I know who dies (again, I was spoiled), but if you want to know, it is

Spoiler:

.

...seriously?

**Kevin T Brown** · 01-25-2011, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by zemo

...seriously?

Um, no.

Spoiler:

**Gail Simone** · 01-25-2011, 04:41 AM

It's impossible to keep a secret these days.

Really, it's not necessarily anything Marvel did!

**Lester C.** · 01-25-2011, 04:41 AM

I give it a year or two at the most. They have tried killing a member of the original four before and it never works out in the long run.

**Basque** · 01-25-2011, 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by Lester C.

I give it a year or two at the most. They have tried killing a member of the original four before and it never works out in the long run.

Shouldn't that be self-evident at this point? I mean, obviously the status quo will return. I think even Marvel freely admits this. Are there really any comic fans out there who naively think that one of the FF has died forever?

Someone else did this math, but I think it's probably a good indication of what's going to happen:

587 + 12 = 599

After issue #587, the series ends and a new series "FF" starts at #1. This will go on for a year (12 issues) and then, bam, get renamed Fantastic Four with the original numbering returned just in time for issue #600. And probably also the return of ___________.

**t.c.johnson** · 01-25-2011, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by Lester C.

I give it a year or two at the most. They have tried killing a member of the original four before and it never works out in the long run.

I don't know how it is going to stick, but Hickman also already has an end game firgured out.

**Ziggy Stardust** · 01-25-2011, 05:47 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin T Brown

Um, no.

Spoiler:

About damn time!

**Endy52** · 01-25-2011, 05:53 AM

Marvel's just trying to get ahead of the information avalanche that's going to be spilling across net boards today. No fault there.

Death has become a plot device, and vastly overused IMO.

However, Hickman's plan for the FF had played out well so far; best FF I've read in a long, long time. Very cerebral with Reed, very down to earth with Ben, and all points in-between. His partial solution for Ben's predicament was (dare I say it) fantastic.