Return Of The Bollocksfish
Hello, and welcome to episode 248 of The Fantasticast. Each week, Steve Lacey and Andy Leyland guide you through every issue, guest-appearance and cameo of The Fantastic Four.
Today, we peer through the windows into a strange parallel world of what might have been. For, none save The Fantasticasters (and their guest) can truly know what could have happened, but for the invisible workings of an incomprehensible fate. Today, we answer the question, What If Spider-Man Had Joined The Fantastic Four, as we read What If? #1.
We're joined by our episode image designer Sam Savage to look at the first of many Marvel titles devoted to the alternate worlds where history took a different turn. Roy Thomas, Jim Craig, and Pablo Marcos come together to retell and revise Fantastic Four and Marvel history. Will The Watcher's narration irritate us all? Will the Earth explode? Will we spend too long recapping fight scenes that have little-to-no bearing on the plot? Find out, as we enter Earth-772!
We also take some time at the start of the episode to pay tribute to Len Wein, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this week.
Sam can be found on instagram as slpsavage92
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Original artwork by Michael Georgiou. Check out his work at mikedraws.co.uk
Episode cover design by Samuel Savage.
Episode 350: Marvel Two-in-One #69 - Homecoming
Episode 349: Fantastic Four #224 - The Darkfield Illumination
Episode 348: Marvel Two-in-One #68 - Discos and Dungeons
Episode 347: Fantastic Four Annual #15 - Time for the Prime Ten
Episode 346: Fantastic Four #223 - That A Child May Live
Episode 345: Marvel Two-in-One Annual #5 - When A Stranger Calls
Episode 344: Marvel Two-in-One #67 - Passport to Oblivion
Episode 343: Fantastic Four #222 - The Possession of Franklin Richards
Episode 342: Marvel Two-in-One #66 - A Congress of Crowns
Episode 341: Fantastic Four #221 - Tower Of Crystal... Dreams Of Glass
Episode 340: Marvel Two-in-One #65 - Serpents From The Sea
Episode 339: Fantastic Four #220 - And The Lights Went Out All Over The World
Episode 338: What If? #21 - What If... Sub-Mariner Had Married the Invisible Girl?
Episode 337: Marvel Two-in-One #64 - The Serpent Crown Affair Part 1 - From the Depths
Episode 336: Fantastic Four #219 - Leviathans
Episode 335: Marvel Two-in-One #63 - Suffer Not A Warlock To Live
Episode 334: Fantastic Four #218 - When A Spider-Man Comes Calling
Episode 333: Marvel Two-in-One #62 - The Taking of Counter-Earth
Episode 332: Fantastic Four #217 - Masquerade!
Episode 331: Marvel Two-in-One #61 - The Coming Of Her
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