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The following contains major spoilers for Fantastic Four #29, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Marvel’s First Family have just taken down a pillar of Doctor Doom’s regime, and all by saving millions of lives.
Fantastic Four #29 opens to find the eponymous heroes and their allies spending an otherwise ordinary day out in New York City, only for tragedy to strike when mob violence befalls a family of four unsuspecting vampires. When the vampire parents in question lose their lives, it falls on the Fantastic Four to care for the newly orphaned children now left with no one else to care for them. Of course, the Fantastic Four are far from suited to taking care of bloodthirsty youngsters, though they are more than capable of coming up with an alternate solution. Before long, Reed Richards has not only crafted a sustainable, cruelty free substitute for human blood, he has struck down one of the cornerstones of the so-called supreme leader Doctor Doom’s dangerous propaganda machine.
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Written by RYAN NORTH
Art by CORY SMITH
Inks by OREN JUNIOR
Colors by JESUS ABURTOV
Letters by VC’s JOE CARAMAGNA
Design by CARLOS LAO
Main cover art by JOSHUA CASSARA & DEAN WHITE
Variant covers by E.M. GIST, GREG LAND & RACHELLE ROSENBERG, and PAOLO MOTTURA
The recent outbreak of vampirism that has swept the Marvel Universe was ushered in during 2024’s Blood Hunt crossover event. Blood Hunt saw none other than Blade, then possessed by the very first vampire known as Varnae, coordinate a carefully calculated series of simultaneous attacks all over the globe. After blacking out the Earth’s skies with a shroud of Dark Force energy, Blade’s vampire army swarmed over every populated area they could find, laying waste to cities in nearly every country and transforming countless civilians and superheroes alike into members of their undying legion.
Among those to fall to Blade’s vampire army was Doctor Strange, who managed to save his consciousness from becoming accursed by separating his astral form at the last possible moment. Unfortunately, this meant that there was little the Sorcerer Supreme could do to solve the problem at hand. As such, Strange had little choice but to acquiesce to Doctor Doom’s demands that he relinquish his mantle as Sorcerer Supreme. While this paved the way for Doom to save the world by parting the Dark Force cloud blacking out the skies, doing so came with the side effect of making the world’s vampires completely immune to sunlight.
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After taking up the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme of Earth and bringing about an end to the Blood Hunt, Doctor Doom sealed himself away from the rest of the world. Hiding away in his home country of Latveria, Doom plotted for months before the Fantastic Four eventually broke through the mystic shield he had erected around the Latverian borders. Eventually, Doom tricked Marvel’s First Family into helping him hunt down the mythical Fated Blade across both time and space, with which he was able to finally kick off what fans know as Marvel Comics’ currently ongoing “One World Under Doom” crossover event.
Fantastic Four #29 is available now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel Comics
“}]] Reed Richards just solved the Marvel Universe’s vampire problem, and doing so may have paved the way for bringing an end to Doctor Doom’s new regime. Read More