Can anyone explain the XVerse to me? In one comic, Xavier's a comatose captive of a drug-addicted and loopy Magneto, in another he's calmly reassembling the New Mutants. And Wolverine! He just died, after killing Jean Grey, except not, I'm sure. He's also with Nightcrawler in Hell, learning that Satan is Kurt's dad.

CaBil, I kinda suspect what you do, mostly because we haven't seen a body on the paper, or anything right up in her court. But I'm not wedded to it.

ita, the thing that started the train of thought for me was Doom learned of the posion from Reed? And Reed didn't think Doom would use that way? Reed is way to smart to fall for that, and giving Doom something that would cause the illusion of death would be within Reed's gameplaying character ...

You make a good point.

Do we know who the BOOM guy is? Is it The Thing? I felt like I was following all the parallels last issue, but now I'm lost again. Too long between issues.

My suspicions is that it has to be The Thing. He is only member of the FF with super-strength. The man in the pool of water probably was Johnny. Which makes me wonder where Sue is ?

Which makes me wonder where Sue is?

Anywhere she wants to be, I guess. Your assertion about the guy in the water sounds right, but how does that stop him from doing his thing?

Rereading 1602 #4, I have some ideas, but I thought the spoiler rule was a week. I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

Whitefont for a week, right?

The blurb at the front of the thread says "Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release." I'm not sure if that means whitefont is OK during the first week or no whitefont for a week. I'm so confused.

ETA: But apparently not confused enough to avoid being slutty.

On edit: With 1602, we've been having whitefonted discussions starting on day of release, so if you have speculation/analysis, please do share.

I have to re-read, but I was quite amazed at how much happened in this issue. It was also great to see even a little bit of the Fantastic Four. It's interesting that Doom isn't disfigured in this timeline. It also seems that Reed has some inkling about why things are happening.

Other things I noted:

What's up with the pterodactyls?

It seems that Bruce Banner is working for Not-King-Yet James. I wonder if James will do something to piss him off. That could be fun.

So, the Black Widow betrayed Daredevil. Not a surprise by any stretch of the imagination.

Peter seems to be getting beat up quite a bit. This amuses me.

justkim, it probably needs to be made clear, but the practice has been whitefont for the first week.

Anne, the pterodactyls made me think of the Savage Land. Seems whatever went wrong went wrong before colonisation started, then.

In unrelated (and old!) news -- Donna Troy is dead! I'm so hurt by this. I liked her.