Sep 17, 2025
Plot
This comic supports the ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM event.
The rather damaged Time Sled arrives at the Fantastic Four's country house on the morning of that day, where Doctor Doom sends them to all eras of time.
The Fantastic Four and their children try to decipher a Braille inscription that explains what is going to happen, and then they realize that Doom has a device that prevents time travel so no one can stop his rise to power.
In Antarctica, this device, a mixture of magic and quantum theory, prevents time travel. Doctor Doom confronts them, and Johnny tells Reed and his team that he uses fire, which appears transparent because it glows in the infrared spectrum. He tells Reed that he must change the configuration of the connect
ions. In this way, the Fantastic Four deactivate this machine and defeat Doctor Doom, who retreats but remains Emperor of the Planet.
Art
Humberto Ramos showcases his artistic skills, elevating the action sequences with his distinctive style and recreating each era in a completely different way. The color palette is brilliant and highlights all of Ramos's wonderful strokes.
Summary
An interesting and fast-paced episode featuring the classic Fantastic Four story formula: action, science fiction, and adventure more
Oct 03, 2025
I found this 3 issue story to be really entertaining and in a way a perfect showcase of how a classic doom/f4 story would play out written by North.
What i want to say is that this story carry over all of north quirks that make this run so spectacular, even more so to an extent. it's definitely more consise, it's tense and it's overtop. Some decisions would not make sense in the plot, it may look like plot holes but those decisions are fruit of how animated, how ridicolous are those character. Ofc doom could get rid completely of the 4, it would be easier to do even than scheme such a master plan, but we talk about ego, of pomposity , all things that make way more sense to the character that North writes. what i am getting to is that t
he decisions make sense for the way North writes. All those are brilliant characters, but are also flawed in a very stupid way and this is part of the fun and this is something that Lee did too. It's a concept like Parker's luck, it does not make sense logically, but it makes the comics way more fun and it fits the atmoshpere.
That being said i do think the comics has some things to say. Yeah, those are things that may have been explored before too, but i feel the comics understands this and does not focus this much on them. For example, if we look into how exactly doom got defeated or how exactly the f4 managed to fix their situations we will see that everyone of them did their part, they all worked as a team with no ego, as a well oiled machine to defeat a seemigly undefeatable situation, sometimes having to go through horific things to do this. Even when they go purposely divided, they managed to find a way to work togheter because they knew this is the only way. They sacrificed and sacrificed to go through the obstancles. So it was a good showcase of what makes each member valuable and how togheter they are stronger and they know it, they accepted it, which obviously contrasts victor.
The way north writes Victor here builds on top on what he did in the previous series. In the title he is usually way more ''fun''', way more obviously driven by his innability to accept his mistakes and desire to prove himself. He wears his psychological issues on his sleeve, even if he has a jacket over this sleeve. My point is that it's obvious what drives him and how exactly this need to prove himself the better man, without actually doing the work of becoming the better man is his demise. He believes he is better a priori or at least he wants to believe it. In the end, which is one of those rare moments when this comics actually tells you what it means this becomes obvious, when reed says exactly this, which again shows the difference between him and the four heroes. Still there is something to be said about doom's persistent and power of will of how mindbending, how universe bending is his stuborness and it shows that reality really is in the eye of the beholder. We think he lost because of his endless stuborness that could not match the finite nature of reality, but he does not see it this way.
And for final what i mean by this being a classic tale. This story shows us why doom always losses, it shows us why he is threath, it shows us the extreme version of how every tale of the beggining of time of doom and the f4 goes. its both a simplified version, which makes it classic and both an extreme exaggerated version. Every story beat could be read as question and answer from one party to the other and vice versa, till in the end doom did not have the answer . this create a very cool push and pull to the story, moments of hope next to moments of complete disperation. It's tense, it feels big and at the same time, it never losses it tone and it's track. I think this is exactly what makes this story so masterful, because it manages to both have that timeless quality about it and this have his own voice, while being so entertaining and breathtaking throughout.
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