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This Review Was Submitted by Spider-ben

Writer: Mark Millar
Artist: Greg Land and Matt Ryan
Cover: Greg Land
Variant Cover: Arthur Suydam

This is the moment fans have been waiting for: the Zombie Fantastic Four escape and begin to cause chaos for the Ultimate world. To make matters worse, Johnny is still sick and infected with a parasitic creature from the Nihilus universe, and the rest of the team is off in Latveria consulting with Dr. Doom about curing Johnny’s condition.
In Latveria, the team tells Doom what has happened.

Doom realizes that the creature only seeks to infect a person with unlimited and great powers to use as a host. This is really cool because it shows that Johnny really has some great power that he hasn’t mastered yet, setting us some cool stuff he can do in future story arcs. Back to Doom—he states that he can recite a spell to extract the creature from Johnny and send it back to it’s dimension, but he has no desire to.

Ben and Sue are furious, and Reed tells Doom he will do whatever he wants in order to help Johnny. Sue gets another shock when she realizes her mother is working with the good (or is that bad?) doctor. Sue is furious, but her mom explains that Doom financed her research and helped her gain all the information about Atlantis. If not for Doom’s money and help, her project never would have happened. I love Sue’s response to her mom “he tried to kill me with poison gas? Doesn’t that mean anything to you?” Sue’s mom is as cold and dark as Doom himself. Reed and Victor go to his quarters and Doom proposes a way to save Johnny. If Reed agrees to switch minds with Doom, he will extract the creature within Johnny. Reed also finds out that Doom himself used a spell to put the creature in Johnny. Johnny did not bring the creature back from his adventure in Nihilis’ dimension.

Reed is furious but sees no other option. They switch minds and “Reed” and his team return home, leaving a sobbing “Victor” in his lab. To make things worse, the Zombie FF have created a new device to bring their companions from the Zombie World to the Ultimate Universe.

Thoughts/Comments:
Ever since they took over the book, Millar and Land have made Ultimate FF one of my must read books. This current arc is incredible! We have Zombies, Johnny dying, Sue’s mom working with Doom, Doom’s dilemma he forces upon reed, and more! I love this arc! Greg Land is the man. His pencils are so lifelike and beautiful; he is one of my favorite artists. Anyways, I love the story, I love the art, I give this issue a solid A.