Fantastic Four: Incursions #1 Pits a Gamma-Powered First Family Against a Cosmic-Charged Threat

Marvel's one-shot anthology corner keeps finding new ways to remix its own origin stories, and Fantastic Four: Incursions #1 is the latest swap. Writers Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan, with art from Paco Medina, take the premise of Marvel's classic multiverse-collision stories and apply it to two familiar names getting very unfamiliar powers.

The twist: this version of the Fantastic Four didn't get hit with cosmic rays on that fateful space flight - they got hit with gamma radiation instead, leaving Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny with Hulk-style abilities rather than their usual stretching, invisibility, rock-hide, and flame. On the other side of the incursion is a cosmic-powered Bruce Banner, who discovers that his universe and theirs are set to collide in just eight hours. What follows is a fight born less out of malice than a countdown clock neither side can stop.

It's a fun bit of power-swap counterprogramming in the vein of past Marvel what-if style one-shots, and it gives Medina a chance to draw a Thing-sized Hulk brawling across two realities at once. Fantastic Four: Incursions #1 is scheduled to hit shelves December 23.

Source: Comic Watch