First dead superhero?

[Horatio_Hellpop]

@kaylasdad99

P.S. Are they going to change their name to the Fantastic Three? Will they need to redesign their logo?

Does this count as a hijack?

The title is being canceled, and the replacement title will be called “FF.” FF might not stand for Fantastic Four this time; it might stand for Future Foundation, the think tank Reed Richards recently established with his brainy daughter and her friends.

And no, since the Torch’s death inspired this thread, that was no hijack.

[DrFidelius]

They’ve been known to hire in replacements to keep the active duty roster at four.

[XT]

Not really an answer to the OP, but I remember a comic book series in the 80’s or 90’s where basically all of the superheros died pretty regularly. IIRC, the main theme of the series was that there was a process to give people super powers to fight a nasty war against invading aliens. Unfortunately, by giving these folks super powers it starts the clock on a ticking time bomb. The newly made superhero could die any time in the next few months, and the death could range from a nuclear explosion to just dying quietly. In the end, all of them would die and a new group would go through the process. I don’t remember what the series was called now (Strikeforce something, IIRC), but I remember that the early ones were fairly good, and the story was compelling (to me at the time).

-XT

[Tom_Scud]

@kaylasdad99

P.S. Are they going to change their name to the Fantastic Three? Will they need to redesign their logo?

Does this count as a hijack?

@Krokodil

The title is being canceled, and the replacement title will be called “FF.” FF might not stand for Fantastic Four this time; it might stand for Future Foundation, the think tank Reed Richards recently established with his brainy daughter and her friends.

They have swapped in non-core members (She-hulk for the Thing for a while, for instance) at times to fill out the “4”.

[cmkeller]

xtisme:

Not really an answer to the OP, but I remember a comic book series in the 80’s or 90’s where basically all of the superheros died pretty regularly. IIRC, the main theme of the series was that there was a process to give people super powers to fight a nasty war against invading aliens. Unfortunately, by giving these folks super powers it starts the clock on a ticking time bomb. The newly made superhero could die any time in the next few months, and the death could range from a nuclear explosion to just dying quietly. In the end, all of them would die and a new group would go through the process. I don’t remember what the series was called now (Strikeforce something, IIRC), but I remember that the early ones were fairly good, and the story was compelling (to me at the time).

Strikeforce: Morituri

[BMalion]

Maybe it’s time to bring back Forbush Man.

[XT]

@cmkeller

Strikeforce: Morituri

That’s it…thanks! I couldn’t remember the other part of the series name. I probably still have a box of the early ones hanging around in a closet or something.

-XT

[Intergalactic_Gladiator]

@Krokodil

The title is being canceled, and the replacement title will be called “FF.” FF might not stand for Fantastic Four this time; it might stand for Future Foundation, the think tank Reed Richards recently established with his brainy daughter and her friends.

And no, since the Torch’s death inspired this thread, that was no hijack.

The Fantastic Four were a very adventerous team. They went to space, to the moon, they met the Inhumans and fought underground monsters. They battled Galactus to a standstill and saved Earth from Skrulls countless times. Their combination of scientific skill and can-do moxie thrilled generations of comic books fans.

Now their being replaced by a comic about a think tank? Dad, his daughter and a couple other teens in front of a white board? Aww come on!

[Son_of_a_Rich]

@kaylasdad99

P.S. Are they going to change their name to the Fantastic Three? Will they need to redesign their logo?

Does this count as a hijack?

Maybe they’ll bring back the original Human Torch who, ironically enough, was actually an android.

[Don_Draper]

@DrFidelius

They’ve been known to hire in replacements to keep the active duty roster at four.

So long as Reed doesn’t build a cutsey little flying robot with a horrible acronym like H.E.R.B.I.E. to take the Torch’s place…