North completely missed who the Thing/Ben Grimm is.
The Marvel character with the greatest will power of them all (even Cap) is reduced to a babbling cry baby.
He loses his power and instead of dealing with it or using multiple ways of becoming the Thing again, either by rocket, exo-skeleton, etc., he'd rather alter his mind into being a simp (that somehow only Alicia detects). That is NOT Ben Grimm.
And speaking of Alicia, even she could have seen the trope mugging scene coming.
The one saving grace this issue has is that North doesn't bore us with another multi-page science lesson. more
By: Ryan North, Cory Smith
Released: Mar 26, 2025
FANTASTIC THREE!
• After Ben Grimm has suffered a terrible (and very public) defeat at the hands of Doom, he's left lost, adrift - and more vulnerable than he has been in years. And when a trip to New York goes wrong and his fate suddenly turns from bad to worse, Ben has never been more vulnerable - and soon takes a shocking shortcut he wo...