[This is reviewed on 21st Dec 2017]
What is wonderful about this issue is that while it has 2 tales in one comicbook, none of it feels like a throwaway and both stand equally strong. In fact, on the inside, it opens up not with Mr Impossible but with the quieter tale of a day in the lives of the Four
We see them during downtime as they go about the city encountering other people including children who are at the early stages of hero-worshipping the Four and actually being friendly but then comes the best part of the entire comicbook ... fan mail ... with the thing feeling down and opening a box hoping it contains something lovely only for it to turn out to be a joke mail with a punch! Literally!
And then came the shocker as a depressed Sue feels that she is not contributing enough to the team and their adventures and that it would be better for her to leave them be. It is certainly heartwarming to see everyone coming together to rally her moods and tell her not to read too much into all the fan missives. This is actually a good thing even in today's internet technology where everyone is forwarding stuff without thought of what harm it can be especially if it is malicious and not based on real hard facts
We also saw that at this juncture Reed was developing serums to test on Ben that gave him the ability to turn back to Ben Grimm human not the rocky Thing albeit the formula works for very short span of time ...
And then on the flipside we learnt of the origins of the Impossible Man, why he came to Earth and how the Four tried to stop his menace only to learn that it is ... well, impossible as he can transform into anything. However, the key to his defeat is to ... ignore him and whatever shenanigans he gets up to and once he is bored, he will move on! Hah! What a concept! Of course this is during the era of less grim n gritty heroes and villains. If told today or even mid 90s, you will see Impy threatening death and destruction all around just to get the heroes to "play" with him ...
Ratings: 7/10
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