Ultimate Fantastic Four: President Thor, Part 3
Issue: #29
Writer: Mark Millar
Pencils: Greg Land
Inker: Matt Ryan
Colors: Justin Ponsor

Johnny and Reed mourn over Susan’s body; Reed then proceeds to wrap the Skrull ambassador up in his elastic limbs. Johnny tells Jasmine to save Ben, then begins to heat up. Reed tells him to burn as hot as possible – they’re going to burn the ambassador to ash in order to stop him. When the flames are gone (along with Reed’s body), the ambassador is unharmed, and kills Johnny with his own flame.

People are dying everywhere. Jasmine has taken Ben as far away as she can, which isn’t far at all. Ben watches as the Skrull armada descends to Earth. The ambassador finds Ben and tells him that the Skrulls have conquered millions of worlds using this drug, and that the troops are picking off those mutants and super-humans whose abilities don’t rely on the drug. The ambassador counts off last living humans, until he comes down to one.

At that moment, Ben begins to laugh. The ambassador is puzzled at Ben’s behavior, but Ben explains that since the anti-assassination suit the Skrull is wearing is powered by the super-abilities around him, now that there are no more super-people, the suit’s ability to protect its wearer have vanished. He punches the Skrull, then steals the suit, determined to use Reed’s time travel device to prevent the invasion from happening.

Ben breaks into the time travel facility and initiates a time jump to the day of the teleportation experiment that resulted in the Fantastic Four, but discovers he’s too late to stop it. He tells the computer to send him back further. The Skrulls break into the facility as he makes the second jump. This time he succeeds in sabotaging the experiment, but is almost stopped by the time-traveling Fantastic Four who have just met with the other future Reed Richards. When The Thing punches him in order to make him stop, Ben reveals himself in his human form – and the argiopes attack. Desperate, Ben tells the time travel computer to take him to some other time, and he is transported back to South America five hundred years in the past. The teleportation experiment goes on as planned, and Ben Grimm remains as The Thing.

In the future, newspapers reveal the discovery of an alien body in the Chilean temple, and Ben Grimm sits on a park bench in New York City. At the Baxter Building, the zombie version of Reed Richards expresses a lack of sympathy for Ben, then warns that he and his group are almost ready to make their move for freedom.

In the park, a woman walks up and sits down next to Ben, commenting that she’s attracted to sensitive men who are in touch with their feminine side. She’s Alicia Masters, and when Ben asks about the sunglasses she’s wearing, she tells him she’s blind. Ben sees his chance and strikes up a conversation with her. As they talk, a mechanical bird flies overhead and records them. In Latveria, Victor Van Damme comments that The Thing has found a mate, but it doesn’t matter – Van Damme’s plan goes into effect tomorrow.

Submitted By: Seldes Katne