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Mike Wieringo's amazing connecting covers from right before his actual run as interior penciller started.
I love all of these. Marvel should have put out a big long door poster of them, like the one they did of Joe Jusko's Mary Jane pinup in the 90s.
and in the FF's case, it gave is this great silent retelling of the FF's origin by Tom Grummett, Scott Koblish, and Liquid!
lol and Franklin's cosmic powers are "gone forever"...
everything old is new again nowadays it seems
Same with this oddly dark piece. No idea why it exists, but it's fun to imagine what kind of comic it could have been part of.
"The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad" one-shot fits best at the end of Claremont & Larroca's run, before Pacheco's starts, but they put it at the end of this GN, halfway into Pacheco's run.
Either way, Pasqual Ferry art 👏👏
and Ben and Alicia's relationship ends "for good" for the umpteenth time, which I honestly wouldn't mind if anyone had done something good with him as a bachelor, but it was usually just an excuse to make him more lonely and depressed
In this issue, Ben Grimm canonically gives up smoking cigars for branding and health reasons.
I always love a good shot of Ben with a cigar because it's a very Kirby thing, but I get the modern context reasons for not continuing it.