Marvel Comics and Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1 Spoilers and Review follows.
Watcher’s Secret History Comes Back To Bite Everything and Everyone?!
The book has a few variant covers below on top of the main cover above.
The promise of the issue can be discerned from its solicitation.
FANTASTIC FOUR: RECKONING WAR ALPHA #1
DAN SLOTT (W) • CARLOS PACHECO (A/C)
Variant Cover by BRYAN HITCH • Variant Cover by STEFANO CASELLIFIFTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING — AND IT ALL KICKS OFF HERE!
In a time before the Kree, Skrull or Shi’ar Empires. Before the emergence of Galactus. Before the birth of Asgard.
There was the First War. The greatest war to ever rage across the Multiverse.
Today, it is re-ignited. This is the Day of Reckoning.
And all that stands between all of reality and revenge from the dawn of time are the heroes of Earth, the Fantastic Four and the mind of Mister Fantastic.
Starring the FF, She-Hulk, Jack of Hearts, the Unseen, the Silver Surfer and everyone in the whole damn Marvel Universe.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
The OG Nick Fury, now the Unseen herald of the rogue Watcher Uatu, comes with news of a secret entity arming the most violent alien regimes of the 616 universe.
That leads to the summoning of all the Watchers home as the weapons appear to be from the First War and belong the precursor to the Watchers.
The Watchers may even need to ignore their non-interference edict for this reason to stop the Reckoning War before it begins, but they’re too late as one such weapon disintegrates Earth’s moon!
That leaves NYC, among other cities across the globe, under siege by the moon’s debris.
The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, but not Eternals or Inhumans, work to protect NYC as the Brotherhood of violent aliens attack; this time its the Badoon.
She-Hulk, in the midst of this battle and dodging debris…
…time masters Justice Peace and Justice Love are observing, but only She-Hulk sees them.
They leave as quickly as they arrived as readers see that elsewhere the cosmic entity known as Eternity is dying from poison and the Silver Surfer is racing to find a cure.
The Fantastic Four head to space to see if this can all be averted or better understood there and they find out the OG Nick Fury isn’t dead, but alive.
He tells them it is the Reckoning behind all this not the Badoon causing…
…Mister Fantastic to access the Watcher’s Cylopedia Universum and…
…through that we get three pages that show us the pre-history of the Watchers and…
…the First War and why they moved to a non-interventionist role, but…
…the Reckoning (aka the Prosicilians who were aliens were selected by the proto Watchers aka The Luminous to receive advanced tech, but it all went to hell) are out for revenge and…
…the Watcher’s cosmic tome has left Mister Fantastic with a power upgrade.
The book ends with the Wrath of the Reckoning ready to emerge from the wasteland of the planet Prosilicus ravaged by the First War.
The Pulse:
A dramatic and action-packed beginning to Marvel’s next event-within-a-series. Solid art and decent plot. I felt the story was generally accessible for folks that do not regularly read the FF. I am intrigued. 7.5 out of 10.
