Fantastic Four: First Foes Turns Its Spotlight on Dragon Man - and Ben Grimm's Body Image Crisis

The Fantastic Four: First Foes anthology isn't done mining the team's rogues' gallery. Dragon Man #1, written by Greg Pak with art by Mark Buckingham and a cover by Phil Noto, lands September 30 and pairs an origin-style look at the android with an unexpectedly personal Thing story.

The issue catches Ben Grimm accompanying the Fantastic Four to a public event at Columbia University, where a startled student's reaction sends him fleeing into a campus laboratory - and straight into Dragon Man, who he initially mistakes for a museum exhibit. From there, the story digs into whether a cure for Ben's condition might actually exist, using that question to explore his body-image anxiety alongside Dragon Man's surprisingly sophisticated inner life.

It's a smaller, more character-driven entry than the main First Foes event that wrapped up earlier this month, but it fits the anthology's mandate: give one of the FF's foundational villains room to be more than a monster of the week.

Source: Bleeding Cool