Anyone reading Fantastic Four lately? Anyone can explain exactly what happened in the last two or three issues, because although I’ve been reading it for years and enjoying it quite a bit lately, this last story arc left me a bit baffled. Can someone basically sum up exactly who that alien creature was and …just what exactly happened?
Sure thing.
Reed, prompted by the government, was researching the circumstances of the FF’s origin. The government want to duplicate it. Reed realized there might be an intelligence behind the cosmic ray configuration - and took the team up to investigate the repeated phenomenon. They encountered this alien, who’s sort of high-concept and ill-defined. He was apparently part of a very rigid society, which he defied, and who decided to hunt him down. We don’t learn a lot about him, except that his mind contrasts with Reed’s and serves as a way for Reed to examine his own priorities.
The big bang stuff at the beginning of the universe that they went through - doesn’t fit Marvel’s cosmology, and seems like poor, heavy-handed writing to me.
Don’t look at it as a Fantastic Four adventure, look at it as Reed’s introspective navel-gazing. I suppose the polite term is “character-driven.”
I didn’t care for the ending, as you may have guessed. I might be able to answer your questions better from home.