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check spoilers forG.O.D.S. # 7!TheFantastic Fouronce set off on a space - faring delegation that change their lives forever , and now Marvel has just introduced another group whose own flight makes them both line of latitude and opponent to the FF . The tragedy of this other group is that their own accident pass water them dupe , not heroes . According to all official report , there was never a Russian Fantastic Four equivalent , but there ’s still one hero who remembers them .
InG.O.D.S.#7 , readers are introduce to the cosmonauts of the rocket Vostok 7 , a Soviet combining weight to the Fantastic Four whose own space flight was far more tragical . found in 1963 , Vostok 7 almost now disappears , lost somewhere outside the even universe .
G.O.D.S. # 7is spell by Jonathan Hickman , illustrated by Valerio Schiti , colored by Marte Gracia and lettered by VC ’s Travis Lanham .
This ocean trip collimate the Fantastic Four in some obvious way . For starter , the FF ’s own space journeying was earlier congeal in 1961 , whenFantastic Four vol 1#1 was published . The FF ’s end at the time was also to beat the Soviets to blank space , which makes it fun that there was in fact a nigh - simultaneous Soviet mission doing much the same .
Fantastic Four # 1is spell by Stan Lee , penciled by Jack Kirby , inked by George Klein and Christopher Rule , colored by Stan Goldberg and letter by Artie Simek .
Marvel has revealed several of the new godlike characters featured in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti ’s upcoming G.O.D.S. mirthful miniseries .
These Russian Explorers Don’t Get The Fantastic Four’s Happy Ending
As seen inG.O.D.S.#7’spresent - day story , the crowd of Vostok 7 have been trapped , unaging , in another attribute ever since , and begin rapidly aging when they return to reality . While the crowd do n’t get superpowers like the FF , they ’re still change forever by weird sci - fi science . These latitude are n’t limited to the issue ’s game either.G.O.D.S.colorist Marte Gracia limits his palette to bold shades of red and grayscale in the takings ’s possible action , mimicking the interior shot of the rocket fromFantastic Four#1 , which likewise used hot colors .
G.O.D.S.#7 centers on the character of Dmitri , the boy of the Vostok 7 cosmonaut , who risks his own biography to deliver his parents from their potentially unceasing fate . It ends with Dmitri potentially lost in this property forever while attempt to save his lost Padre . This dimensionbrings to take care the Negative Zone , the alternate property introduced in the Fantastic Four ’s escapade . While the Fantastic Four do n’t travel to the Negative Zone in their mainstream origin , it ’s a staple of substitute retellings of that story , most notably inUltimate Fantastic Four#1 - 3 , where it ’s called the N - Zone .
Ultimate Fantastic Four#1 - 3 are write by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar , pencil by Adam Kubert , inked by Danny Miki , color by Dave Stewart and lettered by Chris Eliopoulos .
Jonathan Hickman Loves Both Fantastic Four Parallels and Soviet History
This line of latitude Fantastic Four is utterly in character forG.O.D.S.writer Jonathan Hickman . Hickman is mesmerized with the mind of persona and group that duplicate each other , and also has a affection for writing twentieth one C history into his books . His bookThe Manhattan Projectsalso focuses on the scientists of the 20th century , including the Soviets , while another title , The Black Monday Murders , has parallel groups of Americans and Soviets in the 1980s . By raise the political and social divides of the recent past , Hickman can build his thematic and type parallel in fun , unexpected ways .
The Manhattan Projectsis make by Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra , whileThe Black Monday Murdersis written by Hickman , illustrated by Tomm Coker , color in by Michael Garland and lettered by Rus Wooton .
Even within the Marvel multiverse , Hickman is fascinated with mirror and line of latitude to the Fantastic Four . Hickman ’s ownFantastic Fourrun centers on an interdimensional council of evil Reeds ’ Richards and what fork mainstream Reed from them . It ’s also under his tenure that theReed Richards of the original Ultimate Universebecomes the perverted villain The Maker . While Vostok 7 is n’t a literal FF variant , it ’s still well within Hickman ’s wheelhouse of exploring how dissimilar parallel and counterbalance versions of theFantastic Fourimpact the Marvel multiverse in different ways .
G.O.D.S.#7is useable now from Marvel Comics .
G.O.D.S.#7 ( 2024 )
