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'Fantastic Four' to kill off a 'core character' in the new year
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Jan. 26, 2011 will be a memorable day for comic book fans and a really bad one for a certain member of the Marvel Comics family.With Issue No. 587, the current "Fantastic Four" storyline, "Three," will conclude and according to an interview that Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort gave CNN, "A core character from the series, whom you've seen in the [2005 and 2007] films, will be no more."
Don't get your hopes up that they're going to pull a fast one though and kill off Victor Von Doom, aka Dr. Doom, even if he was in both the films.
"The hook is the fact that one of the four characters will be shuffling off this mortal coil. That's really a small part," Brevorrt says. "What we're actually doing is completely transmogrifying the 'FF' as a thing. At the end of this story, there won't even be a book called 'Fantastic Four' anymore; there will be something new that will be interesting and exciting. Out of this moment, a new thing will be born."
That new thing is called "FF" and will premiere in March.
So whose number is up? Sue Storm? Her brother Johnny? Reed Richards? Or poor, beleaguered Ben "The Thing" Grimm?
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2 will become 1 :-D
Bye bye blind but fine Alicia
I have a feeling Johnny Storm is about to become The Inhuman Torch!
It will be Johnny or the woman.
Yeah, one of the FF will dead soon... then be resurrected by the end of 2011. Comic book characters never die, especially if they were created by Stan Lee.
Did they just give away the entire mystery with the final quote?
"Out of this moment, a new thing will be born."
My guess is Ben Grimm is no more...
Wow, are you guys on top of things. This was announced...5 months ago.
You know I'm not sure how you can "kill" any of them off. I mean, its going to be difficult to kill Ben since his body is basically rock, reed stretches, Sue is invisible and Johnny is all fire. Hmmm.
Dr.Doom is the best villian ever! So he's not going anywhere. Who ever it is will probably be brought back.
comic fans already know its going to be johnny since all the other three members have left the team or died over the years, johnny has never been away from the team. A side note, Spiderman will be joining the team to take his place.