#Johnny Hickman

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"Blue blue is the sun Brown brown is the sky Green green of her eyes A million miles a million miles"

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Fantastic Four Fanfare #2 by Mark Buckingham, John Tyler Christopher, Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver. Variant covers by (1) Russell Dauterman and (2) Nicoletta Baldari. Main cover by (3) Claudio Castellini. Out in June.

"The celebration of Marvel’s First Family continues, with three all-new tales from Marvel’s finest talents! Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver reveal just what happens to the cosmic quartet when Friday the 13th rolls around. John Tyler Christopher spins a tale about Reed Richards receiving messages from himself in the future. And Mark Buckingham tells the story of two of Doctor Doom’s underlings who have been made responsible for the master’s killer robot, the Seeker!"

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Comercializar este aspecto

Fantastic Four (1998) #583 Jonathan Hickman (Escritor), Steve Epting (Dibujante)

— Johnny Storm: Que sí, que podemos comercializar este aspecto. Juguetes, juegos, muñecos de monos de piedra. Será bueno para ti, Ben. — Ben Grimm: Johnny, te juro que voy a…

[puppylie]

Few issues later...

[gh0stofstarman]

A while ago I found this essay talking about Reed Richards and his autism coding. This isn’t my writing, just to be clear. While it’s just a draft, I was really impressed with the findings. Of course Marvel has never explicitly stated Mister Fantastic is autistic, but many authors clearly do view the character as on the spectrum.

I’d heavily recommend reading this bit. Heck, it brings up a lot of why I love Mister Fantastic as a character, and how he’s been mishandled by other writers.

[johnnywait]

FF #17 (2011)

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Fantastic Four (1998) #587 by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting

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what is the timeline of:

-Reed, Sue, and the Foundation leaving Johnny and Ben behind

-Ben and Johnny’s adventure in Marvel’s 2 in 1

-Peter getting mentally and physically hijacked by Otto

-Peter getting back into his own body and continuing Parker Industries and buying the Bacteria building

-Peter losing the Baxter Building and his company failing

-The FF come back home

Just wondering like timeline wise where all this stuff takes place? And maybe what comics, but beggars can’t be choosers fr. Thanks!!!

Okay, a rough timeline here. Sorry it took me forever to answer this, I'm going to try to start slowly going through my ask box and getting to a few easier to answer questions.

So, in chronological order:

Peter is bodyjacked by Otto starting with Amazing Spider-Man #698. (If you're going to read this period, be aware there's a bunch of side issues labeled things like ASM #699.1 and #ASM 700.1-700.5. No I don't know why they did this. Yes it does look stupid. #700.5 does have a brief, cute Spideytorch story that has nothing to do with Otto bodyjacking Peter.) Conveniently, when this happened, Johnny was in space with the rest of the Fantastic Four, his powers going haywire. This is in Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four run. Peter is mentally present for a while before Otto "erases" him from his mind. Otto never interacts with Johnny when he's in Peter's body.

Peter gets his body back in Superior Spider-Man #30. Do not bother reading this unless you have to, it won't make sense without the rest of Superior behind it. (In general I only recommend reading Superior if you need to for fic purposes or if you want to experience the worst of Dan Slott's impulses as a writer.) Just have these nice panels.

At this point, Spider-Man renumbered back to #1 with Amazing Spider-Man (2014). This is when Peter continues as CEO of Parker Industries.

There's quite a bit of canon between Peter regaining control of his body and Johnny being left behind by Reed and Sue. Most important for Spideytorch purposes is Robinson's Fantastic Four run, where Johnny loses his powers. Peter is a pretty big player in Johnny's plot here. Peter and Johnny also don't reunite until after Johnny has lost his powers.

(ASM (2014) #1)

He uses Peter as a personal taxi at this point.

(FF (2014) #14 and #642)

When Johnny gets his powers back, we're pretty much immediately plunged in Secret Wars (2015), a huge and actually well done comic event written by Jonathan Hickman. Basically! Reality is smashing into other realities and all of reality is going to be destroyed. Luckily Doom is here to make himself God King of Everything. When reality is restored by Reed via Franklin's powers and the Molecule Man, he and Sue take the children on a road trip to restore every universe. Ben and Johnny are left behind in the newly restored 616 universe. Extremely good comic, very plot focused.

Oh, by the way, Doom made Johnny the sun in Secret Wars. Like literally the sun.

(Secret Wars (2015) #3)

So that's fun. Iirc, he doesn't remember this, but Peter sure does! He was outside of the weird reality stuff that was going on (it's a whole thing) so he retains his memories from Battleworld.

This is when Johnny starts wearing the gold and black suit. He's on two teams at this point: the Inhumans and the Uncanny Avengers. Ben has left for space with the Guardians of the Galaxy. At some point between getting left by Reed and Sue and Ben leaving to join the Guardians, Ben and Johnny had some kind of spectacular fight. We have a couple of context clues that suggest it was about Reed and Sue, but we don't know exactly what went down. The important thing is that it was bad enough for Ben to leave for space. This becomes one of the Great Johnny Depression Eras.

Peter buys the Baxter Building in this period of time to hold it for Johnny until the Fantastic Four return. He moves Parker Industries into the Baxter Building as his New York headquarters.

(ASM (2015) #3)

I don't recommend a lot of ASM (2015) but Johnny was in it a lot. The one thing about Slott is that he's going to write some Spideytorch.

Peter loses the Baxter Building when he absolutely and knowingly trashes his own company during the Secret Empire event. It was fun as hell.

(ASM (2015) #31)

I am a fair and honest hater: when Slott sticks the landing, he really sticks it.

So yeah obviously Peter loses the building over this. Peter and Johnny do their usual blowing up at each other and then making up five minutes later, this time with added passive aggression. Spider-Man also returns to legacy numbering at this point.

(ASM #790)

This is when Johnny and Ben's big adventure in Marvel Two-in-One (2017) begins. A couple of cute Spideytorch moments in here and an arc that could have been incredible for Spideytorch but instead just kind of really sucks when it comes to Evil Peter characterization.

Fun fact: we still have zero idea how powerless Ben and Johnny got home or repowered because the series just kind of cuts off at #10 and then the last two issues take place after Reed and Sue's return. So that sucks.

(Marvel Two-in-One #4)

Look at Johnny's little face when Peter calls him his friend. This is one of my favorite Johnny costumes.

After Marvel Two-in-One, Johnny and Ben are reunited with Reed and Sue in Fantastic Four (2018) #1. And there you have it! A timeline of Johnny having a Terrible Time but at least he got to hang out with Peter a lot.

(FF (2018) #2)

[sciderman]

Have you read some fantastic 4 comics? I need some recommendations cause there is so much and I’m overwhelmed

when you're overwhelmed i always say... start from the beginning. johnny faints in like, every issue. it's very camp. it's very comic book. like, when you read it you'll get it. you'll be like "woah. of all the comic books i read this is by far the most comic book." 60's F4. as god intended.

my knowledge on f4 is far from expansive but if you're looking for something more modern, jonathan hickman is good and generally very well-loved. FF is a gut punch.

i haven't read any of the more modern stuff though, on principal. i'm very temperamental about slott and, even more recently... the moustache... the moustaaaache....

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(pic unrelated I just loved this line and don't know when else to post it)

Still being lazy and not starting the Hickman run, but I did watch the movie! It was really solid but I don't have a lot to say? Idk. Chris Evans was perfect as Johnny just like I thought. A lot of their interactions with each other from the beginning were pretty perfect. Doom felt a little silly maybe but still insanely cool, I hope he's even better when he comes back.

I'm also going to a convention soon and I just bought my Fantastic Four suit!! I have long blonde hair that looks a ton like classic Sue's so I was gonna go as her, but I just love Jonathan too much. And it was like, either dress as "Sue" but it's just me in the suit going "Hi I'm Sue."

OR

It's me in the suit with a leather jacket and shades and my hair slicked all cool and I get to be Johnny Storm except in real life 🤯 And flirt with the Spider-Men,,,

So yeah by the end of the month I'll be dressed as Johnny I'm so excited, I hope I do it justice. Should I post it here?

[vertigoartgore]

2009’s Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #570 cover by artist Alan Davis & inker Mark Farmer. Also used years later as the cover of Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection Vol.1 TPB (2018).

[geekcavepodcast]

"Fantastic Four Fanfare" Celebrates Marvel's First Family

To celebrate The Fantast Four: First Steps film (in theaters July 25, 2025), Marvel Comics will release variant covers, new collections, and more.

Fantastic Four Fanfare is a four-issue limited series set across the Fantastic Four's history. The series will feature new stories from Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid, Dan Slott, Alan Davis, J. Michael Straczynski, Chip Zdarsky, Mike Allred, Mark Bagley, and more. Each issue will spotlight a different member of the team.

Fantastic Four Fanfare #1 includes:

a prank war between the Human Torch and the Thing from Mark Waid and Ramon Rosanas,

an underground adventure from Alan Davis, and

Mole Man interrupting Johnny Storm on reality TV from Andrew Wheeler and Sara Pichelli.

Fantastic Four Fanfare #1 (of 4), featuring a cover by Matteo Scalera, goes on sale on May 7, 2025.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Matteo Scalera's Cover of Fantastic Four Fanfare #1)

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Algo que hacer

Fantastic Four #601 Jonathan Hickman (Guionista), Steve Epting (Dibujante)

— Spider-Man: ¿Johnny? — Johnny Storm: Sí… en serio, ¿qué llevas puesto? — Spider-Man: Reed y los chicos han hecho uniformes nuevos. — Johnny Storm: Pues son un horror. — Spider-Man: Estás muerto. Te moriste. — Johnny Storm: Más de una vez, y sigo siendo más guapo que tú. — Spider-Man: Dios mío… — Johnny Storm: Soy yo de verdad, Pete. — Spider-Man: ¡ESTÁS VIVO! — Johnny Storm: Vale, vale, bájame. Bonitos fuegos artificiales. — Spider-Man: Sí, el fin del mundo, invasión Kree. Sabes de qué va. — Johnny Storm: Sí, sí que lo sé. Sujétame a Annihilus. Hay algo que tengo que hacer.

— Iron Man: ¿Es ese…? — Susan Storm: Dios mío… — Ben Grimm: ¿Qué…? Oh. Menuda cosa…

— Centinela Kree: Iniciad eliminación, completadla y pasad al blanco suplementario. ¡Alerta! Revisión de amenaza matriz. Blanco primario aumenta resistencia. Calculando tiempo de tarea. Calculando. Comunicad plan temporal corregido. — Ben Grimm: “Comunicad plan temporal, corregido”. ¿Es así como un robot pregunta qué hora es? Dejadme que os ayude con eso. ¡ES LA HORA DE LAS TORTAS! ¿Estás bien? — Alicia Masters: Sí. — Ben Grimm: Vale. Tengo que trabajar, Alicia. — Alicia Masters: He oído a todos. Lo del cielo… ¿De verdad era…? — Ben Grimm: Me dispongo a averiguarlo.

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Which is your favorite F4 arc?

Oof this is a tough one.

Mark Waid's run had several classics, like Unthinkable, or the one where Johnny becomes Galactus's herald.

Jonathan Hickman's entire run was part 1 of his grand scheme at Marvel, concluding with Secret Wars (2015) which I would consider a great Fantastic Four arc

Even John Byrne did way more for Sue's character than any other writer before him, and for that (and only that) do I give him props.

But alas, it has to the The Council of Reeds.

Look, that arc, even though it was pretty short, kinda hijacked my brain for a bit. I read it during a pretty dark time in my life where it felt like I had to choose between something that gave me intellectual satisfaction and my best friends, very similar to what Reed went through. The line "You'll be back, you ALWAYS come back" still haunts me.

Ultimately that storyline inspired me to make the right decision.