THING - FREAKSHOW #1: Ben isn’t feeling much like attending the parade that NYC is throwing in the Fantastic Four’s honor, but he’s duty-bound. The festivities are cut short when the Wrecking Crew attacks, but that does little to improve his mood. Maybe a vacation is in order…
EXILES #16: Nocturne is mourning Thunderbird, who they had to leave behind on a previous mission, and we’re privy to flashbacks of their doomed whirlwind romance.
FANTASTIC FOUR (v3) #59: Having conversed with other versions of himself from across the multiverse, Reed may have found a proper way to deal with Ben’s little hostile cloning problem. But at what cost?
FANTASTIC FOUR (v3) #58: Reed has bought the team a bit of time by transporting Ben and his homicidal reproductions into a temporary pocket universe, but in 4 hours, they’ll return to Earth angrier and more plentiful than ever.
FANTASTIC FOUR (v3) #57: The Thing’s body starts shedding distorted duplications of himself, and now he and Reed have a whole army of Things looking to clobber them.
FANTASTIC FOUR (v3) #55: While Ben and Johnny are running an errand for Reed, the Skrull’s Grand Acquisitioner steals the Fantasticar out from under them.