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.
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Episode 310: Marvel Two-in-One #52 - A Little Knight Music
Episode 309: Fantastic Four #207 - Might Of The Monocle
Episode 308: Marvel Two-in-One #51 - Full House, Dragons High
Episode 307: Fantastic Four #206 - The Death Of The Fantastic Four
Episode 306: Marvel Two-in-One #50 - Remembrance of Things Past
Episode 305: Fantastic Four #205 - When Worlds Die
Episode 304: Marvel Two-in-One #49 - The Curse of Crawlinswood
Episode 303: Fantastic Four #204 - The Andromeda Attack
Episode 302: Marvel Two-in-One #48 - My Master, Machinesmith
Episode 301: Fantastic Four #203 - And A Child Shall Slay Them
Episode 300: Marvel Two-in-One #47 - Happy Deathday, Mr Grimm
Episode 299: Fantastic Four #202 - There's One Iron Man Too Many
Episode 298: Marvel Two-in-One #47 - Battle In Burbank
Episode 297: Fantastic Four Annual #13 - Nightlife
Episode 296: Fantastic Four #201 - Home Deadly Home
Episode 295: Marvel Two-in-One #45 - The Andromeda Rub-Out!
Episode 294: Marvel 2-in-One #1-6 - The Fate Of The Four
Episode 293.5 - Fantastic Four #1 Review & Dan Slott Interview
Episode 293: Fantastic Four #200 - When Titans Clash!
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