Fantastic Four: Forever Premiere HC [2012] by Jonathan Hickman

FANTASTIC FOUR: FOREVER PREMIERE HARDCOVER

Human Torch having wrestled the cosmic control rod from Annihilus returns within the Fantastic Four #600. The Kree Armada has orders from the resurrected Kree Supreme Intelligence to burn the Earth. But now in control of the cosmic rod, the Human Torch commands the Annihilation Wave and the Light Brigade to protect Earth. The Annihilation Wave and the Kree Armada battle it out before the Inhuman cityship joins the fight against the Kree. However the debris of their battle are destroying the Earth.

SERIES HIGHLIGHTS

- Medusa accepts her place as one of the many wives of Black Bolt

- Reed Richards meets Galactus warning him about the dangers of the Galactus Seed

- Galactus warns him what his son Franklin is doing

- Franklin Richards has created a universe

- Reed Richards summons Galactus to handle the Kree Armada as the Celestials arrive

- The Kree Armada retreats with the Inhumans following their trail as Galactus battles the Celestials

- Valeria offers a way to stop the Celestials but they combine to send Galactus to Earth

- The Fantastic Four uses the Sol’s Anvil to stop the might of the combined Celestials

- The Fantastic Four make their stand against the Celestials as their adult children arrive from the future

- The adult Franklin temporary sends the Celestials away and reunites with his younger self

- Nathaniel Richards reveals this is the day Reed dies unless his son saves him

- Galactus is revealed to be Franklin’s herald and takes on the Celestials

- The Celestials are destroyed and tomorrow is saved forever

- Nathaniel and Reed travel one thousand years into the future

- Franklin and the Thing who ages one week per year are still alive in 3012

- Thing gives a speech to the graduating class of the Future Foundation in 4012

- Thing is lonely in 5012 and passes away in 6012 as Franklin returns

This hardcover collects

Fantastic Four #600–605

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5