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 272: Marvel Two-in-One #35 - Enter: Skull The Slayer And Exit: The Thing
Episode 271: Fantastic Four #190 - The Way It Was
Episode 270: Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2 - Death Watch!
Episode 269: What If? #6 - What If The Fantastic Four Had Different Powers?
Episode 268: Marvel Two-in-One #34 - A Monster Walks Among Us
Episode 267: Fantastic Four Annual #12 - The End Of The Inhumans... And The Fantastic Four!
Episode 266: Marvel Two-in-One #33 - From Stonehenge... With Death!
Episode 265: Fantastic Four #188 - The Rampage Of Reed Richards
Episode 264: Marvel Two-in-One #32 - Only The Invisible Girl Can Save Us Now
Episode 263: Fantastic Four #187 - Trouble Times Two
Episode 262.5 - Marvel Two-in-One #1
Episode 262: Marvel Team-Up #61 - Not All Thy Powers Can Save Thee
Episode 261: Marvel Two-in-One #31 - My Sweetheart, My Killer
Episode 260: Fantastic Four #186 - Enter: Salem's Seven
Episode 259: Marvel Two-in-One #30 - Battle Atop Big Ben
Episode 258: Fantastic Four #185 - Here There Be Witches
Episode 257: Marvel Two-in-One #29 - Two Against HYDRA
Episode 256: Fantastic Four #184 - Aftermath: The Eliminator
The Fantasticast Episode 255: Marvel Two-in-One #28 - In The Power Of The Piranha
Episode 254: Fantastic Four #183 - Battleground: The Baxter Building
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