Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 12/08/2026Fantastic Four story premises are everywhere for those with eyes to see 726623 0
Luke @imlukefoster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026As soon as I got to the end of the “Reed and Johnny in Ancient Rome” story, I knew that you almost certainly started by reading an article about the dodecahedrons and worked your way backward. Which I’m not complaining about at all. 170 0
Ash 🪲 @h3yd4v3.bsky.social · 13/08/2026WERE GETTING A FUCKING TREBUCHETstatic.klipy.comExcited Crowd Cheers and CelebratesALT: Excited Crowd Cheers and Celebrates 010 0
TomMasz @tommasz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Killed by a boulder from a trebuchet to the back of the head" is certainly worse than getting wrecked by the Fantastic Four. 020 0
probablynaut.bsky.social @probablynaut.bsky.social · 12/08/2026360 noscope headshot, you know that's going into their highlights video. between clips of surfing along the castle walls 010 0
Dr. André Habet @andrehabet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I always wonder how much you keep up with scientific publications to inspire your story premises. If I were a science teacher, I’d be using your comics in class as a jumping off point to discuss some of the topics discussed. Looking forward to sharing them with my niblings in a few years. 120 0
Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 12/08/2026In this story, the Fantastic Four travel back to 1304 and full-on hit a dude with a train 162104 0
![From a science.org article "Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet" ( https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet )
Excerpt reads:
To solve the mystery, Buckberry scoured the forensic and medical literature and searched through anatomical collections for equivalent injuries. “It looks like he was hit from behind by something traveling at a great velocity. The most similar cases I was finding were car crashes and people hit by trains,” Buckberry says. “But how do you get from there to a guy in medieval Scotland? What is large and moving very, very quickly in 1304 [C.E.]?”
Buckberry found the likeliest answer in history books. During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2pxxhwp2j3dybqa3mvyv6mwt/bafkreicgmd7aphwj5wfwm2d6soad3tkbp4v4szvdpku2op5bh42n6oweiy)
