As I've mentioned before, Marvel's currently shaking up the status quo via their Civil War series. Spidey's unmasked on live TV, the Avengers are split down the middle on the Superhero Registration Act, and some of the villains have been deputized and sent out to bring in rogue heroes!
Now comes a teaser from Marvel asking is this the new FF? Pictured are two of the current Fantastic Four, the Thing and the Human Torch, but in place of the Invisible Woman and Mr Fantastic are the newest married couple on the block, the Black Panther and Storm, the latter being familiar to many from the X-Men movies. Not only would this make the FF more racially divided than it's ever been - and let's start counting the hours until some writer refers to either or both of the new members as African American, rather than simply African, which is what both are - but it also breaks from the long-standing tradition of having each member somehow 'related' to each other (even Ben Grimm was Reed Richards' best friend in college, before cosmic rays worked their magic on the foursome).
With a new FF movie coming out next year, I have no doubt this won't last. It shouldn't be long before the original FF membership is resumed, but in the meantime this certainly has the potential for some interesting stories.
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