Thursday, April 10, 2008

Fantastic Four – Rising Storm | Comics

After having his home world devoured and completely destroyed by mighty Galactus, an extraterrestrial being named Zius from a distant planet has devoted his life to save other planets from great devourer’s wrath. He developed a very advanced cloaking technology which is capable of rendering entire planets invisible and thus, saving many of them from Galactus. He learnt from Shi'ar and Skrulls, that there is something in this known universe which can negate his technology, leaving those planets vulnerable to the World-Eater.

Zius then immediately traveled to Earth to eliminate the very cause and found it within Susan Storm; Invisible Woman of Fantastic Four. Upon incapacitating her friends he proceeds with her execution so that the Destroyer of Worlds couldn't find those cloaked worlds using her power. In a desperate attempt to save her, Mister Fantastic charged her with a blast from his weapon and claimed to Zius that he has taken her power away so; she is no longer a threat to his mission. He checked in to verify and find it to be true.

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Fantastic Four – Rising Storm | Comics

As Zius and his survivors were heading back, Reed explains that his act actually saved her life by swapping her powers with her brother Johnny Storm. Before he could swap her powers back to her, Galactus himself appears on Earth. Not only had he destroyed Zius’s ship in his single grasp, he also abducted Johnny to be his newest herald. Even a genius like Reed Richards who is always prepared for every situation was completely taken aback by the complexity of their current situation and doesn't know what to do next.

Since Susan had no prior experience of controlling her new-found power of pyrokinesis, she almost dropped The Thing from great height when she was trying to catch him mid-air like Johnny does. Infuriated at Reed's power-swapping idea and gotten her brother being drafted into service of Galactus. However, he is worried more about Johnny pissing off his abductor. He is ejected into space to find himself facing against an alien warrior Kaargan the Unforgiving, who seeks revenge on the World-Eater for destroying his planet.

Now juiced up with power cosmic he unknowingly splitting his attacker in layers and then pieced him together realizing the extent of his capability. He explores the galaxy to face hostile reactions from many alien races towards him who identifies him as a harbinger of death. Meanwhile, with help from their old-friend Quasar, Reed, Susan and Ben Grimm decides to go for a rescue mission to save Johnny. The real question lies here is that even if they manage to find Johnny, how on Earth they are going to save him from mighty Galactus or even stand up against his near-limitless cosmic might?

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New Herald of Galactus

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Fantastic Four – Rising Storm

"Rising Storm" is a four part Fantastic Four storyline concluded from "Disassembled" storyline and ran from issues #520-524 of the first monthly ongoing volume of the series from Marvel Comics. Writer Mark Waid (Onslaught Saga, Original Sin) continues his amazing storytelling with his fantastic visionary collaborator artist; the late Mike Wieringo (Tellos, The Flash). This tale of cosmic adventure featuring the planet devourer Galactus and another classic character Quasar in one epic collision that went totally unexpected. This one happens to be the final storyline of Fantastic Four ongoing series where Waid and Wieringo ever teamed up.

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Ascension To Power Cosmic

The story picks up from the aftermath of previous arc "Fortitude" and involves Johnny Storm becoming a new herald of the World-Eater, much like Silver Surfer. Away from home, Johnny rediscovers himself and figured a lot about his family while holding him against countless alien races wanting to kill him all by himself. In a surprise twist, his captor also came to see the lives of humans on Earth from a mortal perspective, as he previously belonged to a race of explorers and used to go by the name Galen. Once he shared his origin about how he came to be who he is today, the former Human Torch realized that they are much alike in some manner.
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