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Day 49 of FF posting thru screenshots and I must say, there's some good thriller feel to a book occasionally. It doesn't elevate to scares beyond a good goosebumps, but it really feels great. Also Reed Richard is canonically in a c-cage according to the first panel here and that's just great.

Reed, in disbelief saying "He activated the IMPREGNO-LOCK inside!"

Reed slightly jostling Sue in an attempt to calm her. "You've got to snap OUT of it!"

Sue says "I can't HELP it, dear! I've never felt so -- so APPREHENSIVE!"

Reed thinks: "Some may LAUGH at a woman's intuition -- but-- sue's never been WRONG Before!" god what a feminist, I swoon

Ben reading a horror book gripin on it. as a hand reaches for his shoulder. As the hand grasps his rocks, the lights cut out.

Panel one, looking mad as hell and in light Ben says: "Aww, who'd be dumb enuff to fall for stuff like THIS? These yarns must be written fer KIDS or somethin'!"

Panel two, from a head on angle, the book sightly lowered lights out, and ben looking wigged out he says "You don't catch a SOPHISTICATED guy like me gittin' hung up with-- with-- I don't remember nuthin' on my SHOULDER-- when I STARTED readin'--!"

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Day 48 of posting FF screenshots thru my readalong. I'm just going to highlight one thing today. The Negative Zone. This splash page that has been duplicated or replicated by many an artist including recently by the legendary Alex Ross in Full Circle. Just a gorgeous display of talent & wonder.

Yellow dodads making a simplified house shaped pentagon with a eventually intersecting bars of orange as the human focus for it reveal a window into the negative zone. Reed Richards in the foreground hosting this machine with Ben even more in the foreground shocked. What they see is a scale less blue ghost insect person with winged arms and Hugo Strange's glasses. Behind it there are blacks and purples of space. The first peak into the negative zone is stunning in a way I find hard to articulate beyond just going 'look at that'!

Reed says "Don't you realize how URGENT this is-- how much DEPENDS upon it??

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Day 47 of FF posting thru my backlog of screenshots & playing awkward catchup if I forgor. Day 3 of BP posting & I will say, I end up more positive than negative. There's gutter racism, but his grief, skill, & personhood are real. There was maybe a good intention S&J were aiming at that is lost now.

BP gassing the fuck outta Sue. Green gas shooting from his four finger tips sans thumb.

BP says "You are fortunate in ONE respect, young lady! Unlike the claws of my namesake, MINE have the power to emit a harmless SLEEP GAS!"

Sue, dozing the fuck off saying "Ohhhh...!"

Klaw's vibro elephant made of sound they're all red for some reasons. It looks CRAZY.

All 4 FF members hands on Black Panther's back pushing him forward (Only 3 are drawn but I assume Sue's is invisible there for equality)

Reed says "There's no reason for the BLACK PANTHER'S Career to come to an end! The world will ALWAYS have need of a dedicated, powerful fighter against injustice!"
Johnny says "Reed's RIGHT, fella! The way things are going today, you never hear of a super hero being out of work!"
Ben agrees "Anyway, with a costume like THAT, ya can always become a RASSLER, or a new kinda FOLK SINGER!"

BP says "I shall DO it! I Pledge my FORTUNE, my POWERS-- My very LIFE-- to the service of all mankind!"

Cover page showing Klaw's new look and pitching him.

Text "The Fabulous F.F. are trapped by the uncanny return of KLAW The MURDEROUS MASTER OF SOUND!"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Day 46! FF screenshots, problematic language & rep, color errors. This post has everything. My voice doesn't really matter here, as a cracker. I just know I should call it out that this is the portrayal. He is an important character & it sucks BP is given this poor welcome. He isn't even named here.

Ben looking at BP sympathetically while Reed looks at Ben unsympathetically. BPs face is obscured so it's hard to say how he looks. Probably annoyed based on...

Ben: "Look, kiddo -- why dont'cha save yer-self the trouble? I know the rest by HEART! Every-thing wuz hunky dory until the greedy IVORY HUNTERS made the scene!"
Reed: "BEN! For the LAST time, will you remember that we're his GUESTS?!"
Black Panther: "Do not be con-concerned, Reed Richards! I realise my tale may sound contrived to you!"
Ben: "You aint just whistlin' WATUSI, Pal!"

BP as a kid mourning over his dad's body in the foreground.
Caption "In that split-second, my boyhood ended -- as the new CHIETAIN of all the Wakandas was born" (TG's note they call the people of Wakanda 'Wakandas' in the early years for some reason)

Baby BP: From this moment forth -- I live with but one thoguht -- one aim - one goal!! This deed must be AVENGED! Klaw shall PAY -- in FULL MEASURE! I shall be as strong-- and as earless-- as the sacred BLACK PANTHER!! This do I swear to T'chaka -- my father who is no more!"

And Here's out dicey caption box at the bottom: "To the male wakandian, the black panther represents a figurative god image, and is considered to be a sacred being -- as the cow is venerated in India! -- Religious Fanatic Stan."

Ben holding up a gizmo above his head with a grumbly look on his face. BP watches in the background, grinning like a loon.

BP says "No, my grumbling, gregarious, gravel-voiced friend.. I do not PUT YOU ON! You hold in your hands the most powerful portable EXERCISER on earth! IT can generate a force equal to the press of TEN TONS for you to test your strength against! I trust it will afford you many pleasant moments of relaxation!"

Ben thinks: "Exercise?!! That's the ONE thing a cracker like me DON'T need!.. But I ain't got the heart to TELL 'im that!"
Ben says: "Yeah! It's the cat's pajamas! It'll keep me offa the STREETS, anyhow!"
Ben thinks again: "Come to THINK of it, this Gizmo ain't BAD! And it's cheaper'n Vic Tanney's!"

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Day 45, Happy valentines day... Posting FF thru screenshots and I will instead of doing my Black Panther info dump as planned be highlighting Ben in bondage gear. It's not the first and it won't be the last!

Ben in a yolk attatched to a chain of alien prisoners. Why? Who can remember.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Day 44 of FF through posting, I hope you're doing well. In the 2ish arc for Black Panther's intro we get a cast member of note beyond the F4. Wyatt Wingfoot (he's not an atlantian w/ that name, he's a Indigenous American from a fake tribe) rough start, but he's fun enough overall & is a cool guy.

Cover blurb saying "Also featuring: The Way-Out and Wonderful WYATT WINGFOOT!"

Johnny Storm talking to Reed with a wan expression on his face. Johnny asks "But look... Can I bring my buddy, WYATT WINGFOOT? He'll FLIP!" Reed says "Sure, Johnny!" and I've highlighted this panel before but JFC, what a choice to invite a friend from college to an adventure across an ocean.

Wyatt knocking a Wakanda on his ass to help the FF as Black Panther is hunting them. Big punch with the man falling ass over teakettle.
Caption says "But then, with the stealthy slience of his proud, red-skinned forebears, the indian youth STRIKES!"

Wyatt thinks to himself "If I can cripple the Black Panther's COMMUNICATIONS, it may help the F.F.!"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Day 43 of FF screenshots thru my read. This weekend is gonna be all about the introduction of the black panther (and his cascade of characters, none of which are other wakandans) It gets dicey & will get dicier as we go culminating in some racist shit, but for how. It's cool & light! We'll get there

A zoomed in shot of the first FF cover with BP

A baby in wakanda, (they're all grey because of printing as I understand it) & that baby looks like just a small small man.

Black Panther in the shadows thinking and looking cool as hell. Or like Slim Cognito

Black Panther fleeing from assault saying "And now, only my panther SPEED can save me from the HOLOCAUST which is about to befall--!"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Day 42 of FF posting as I try to desperately avoid the Black Panther intro... It's very dicey. Look! Some inhumans stuff! They showed up, were unbelievably popular, but god did Stan & Jack get bored of them immediately. Dropping the first arc with a massive whimper rather than any size of bang.

It's almost midnight. Ben and Reed are beating the fuck out of Galactus in what should be the third book of the inhumans story and arguably the first fastball special.

Watcher is a fucking cheater, and there's words a gizmo and Reed/Sue here but again, I'm sleepy and lazy.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Day 41 of FF thru screenshots as some foolhardy effort to communicate about art. Art in the sense creativity given form. That said this one's about the drawings. I feel like I might just give too much love to Kirby... I won't stop. The man maybe would hate me, but god did he know how to serve cunt.

Ben in a suit jacket and nice shirt with a loose tie, looking shocked. He's straining against it real sexy. Saying "I-I've become the THING again! Now I can go BACK 'n clobber that creep who's posin' as ME!"

Thing pondering as Sue looks like she's wigging the fuck out. Though it's actually Janus in disguise faceturning as he tries to kill Reed

Ben thinks: "All these years-- when I thought I never got the breaks -- now I know the TRUTH! It was MY fault -- nobody else's! I wouldn't work HARD enough-- I wouldn't make the sacrifices that a REED RICHARDS would--! I never SAW things so CLEAR before! It-- It's almost like I've REALLY become the THING -- not just an imitation!"

Sue yelling "Pull him in ben! Quickly-- BEN!"

Black Panther, lighting a cigarette looking cool as fuck before giving the FF the rundown on Klaww.

Wyatt Wingfoot, too pale, but looking damn foine.

Day 40, we did it, an arbitrary number of FF posts via screenshots that was surely effective & consistent. I'm gonna throw out a fascinatingly striking image of the effects of Galactus slurping up a planet, the seas being boiled off with the living creatures laid aghast & stranded. How freaking cool

A whale, octopus, a toothed bottom feeder and eel equivalent on an alien planet suffocating or already suffocated after the effects of Galactus boiling off the ocean/seas.

The Watcher or Silver Surfer, idk: "Within a matter of MINUTES, Galactus' elemental converter will have dehydrated every sea... dried out every body of water known to man!"

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Day 39 of FF posting thru screenshots. SuperbowlLX was kinda bad, but you know who wouldn't have cared? Gridiron star pre-Thing Ben Grimm. Here he is framed poorly because I was obsessed with how much leaded gas exhaust he was slurpin' up before the Cosmic Rays. Also how fucking cool was Bad Bunny?

Sexy Ben Grimm flirting with dames who leave him in brain deadening leaded exhaust. His coach is pushing him to be a team player.

Day 38 of posting thru FF (and also catching up on after a busy weekend!) screenshots. This one's about the light and shadow used with the primary colors of blue, red, & yellow. Making things dim, reflective, dazzling and atmospheric. Look at these oozy drippy shots and say you don't feel something.

Ben covered in a blue dimness in contrast to a massive explosion saying "We needed YOU ta tell us that??"

Reed glowing because he's got the grand nullifier, a space macguffin that we've used to bluff Galactus again and again. Watcher's prattling about it's powerlevel.

The FF covered in a vast yellow light emminating off of Galactus as if he was a greek god showing his true form. The power of it is blowing them over. Reed says "He's beginning to GLOW.... to VIBRATE... luke some etheral titan! GET BACK... ALL of you! This sight was never meant for human eyes.

Some jobber is using an energy ray that paints him in yellows and reds with reed unconscious on the bottom of the panel in deep blues. The jobber's prattling about how good he is at this and how cool he is.

Day 37 of posting through FF via screengrabs. Let's hear it for the pups! Jack Kirby had never seen a dog in his life, and really just took a guess as to what they could be. Sometimes they looked passable, othertimes they were an afront to life and nature. That's just great.

Lockjaw arching his back and moaning like he's taking backshots

Lockjaw again but HE'S MELTING, SOMEONE HELP HIM, CRYSTAL DON'T JUST STAND THERE, REED GET A BUCKET.

TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Day 36 of FF posting until it comes to something. This one needs to be a short one because the world is killing me. Fuck ICE. These Wakandans knew ACAB, especially in the US & them maddogging him gave me a lot of life reading it and then again now, in retrospect. Stay safe y'all.

A dumb fucking white cop lookin racist in the foreground with two africans in traditional garb in the background staring at him wearily.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Day 35 of FF posting thru screenshots. December was a busy month for me in reading in 2024, from Galactus, all the way to Franklin & beyond. But to get into it lets look at Johnny. They never really nailed down his age in a way that matters. Overwhelmed, boyish, petulant, and unc all shown here.

Johnny absolutely fucking melting beyond any understanding of survival as the Watcher shunts him to Galactus homebase thousands of lightyears away. Off screen the Watcher says "TRUST me! Banihs FEAR from your heart! You shall travel by TIME SPACE DISTORTION! We must force open the very fabric of time itslef! Let it be done... NOW!"

The most Archie and the gang Johnny's ever likely looked, smiling up at Reed thinking about going to africa and he says "That's the gearest! But look... can I bring my buddy WYATT wingfoot? He'll FLIP!"

Reed says "Sure, Johnny!" and like, both johnny and wyatt are in college, but still this feels crazy.

Johnny playing with his nephew Franklin, his arms jacked, his hands massive and Franklin the baby adoring it.

Johnny says "HEY, Frankie... you're looking more like your uncle JOHNNY every day! But when are you gonna learn to say FLAME ON?"

Franklin the baby in baby talk "Fwamm omm!"

Johnny "ATTA BOY! You ALREADY sound better than BEN!"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Day 34 of FF thru my screenshots & I have an anecdote about buying a home. When an inspector does a walkthru, & he finds some funk that 50 years ago would've been Asbestos, he can't call it that w/o testing, so he'll call it "asbestos suspect materials". Here we see Thing in "Cum Suspect Materials."

Ben Grimm drowning in "sand" as he tries to do patter.
Thing: "No crummy hunk'a sand is gonna polish off the blue-eyed THING! Once I git my PAWS on ya, there won't be enuff left to fill an HOUR-GLASS with!"

Likely Sandman: "Think so? Here I AM, you lumpy windbag! Come 'n get me!"

Ben as well as reed and sue drown in "sand" and I'll be honest, I am in too much of a funk rn to do the whole textual description for the dialogue, I apologize. They're talking about escaping is the TL;DW.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Day 33 of FF posting thru old screenshots & this is the second & last batch from Nov. 2024. Busy month Nov always is, 4 me but this one's specifically for Jack's goofy fucking faces. For how good he is, sometimes the mugs pull the strangest faces you've ever seen. I love it. Also some Stan misogyny.

The dumb dumb Dragon man Screaming with RRRRR as he side eyes his prey. The look on his face is that of an over expressive anime mug with a big bulbous head.

Ben Grimm mouth agape thinking something we can't see seemingly screaming. His face is screaming in a way I can only describe as the scream at the end of the Ahhhh!!! Real Monsters intro.

The Watcher on the cover of the first Galactus book looking like the edible just hit and his partner is trying to have a serious and depressing talk with him.

Reed with a beaver tooth whirring some gizmos with Bob haired Sue looks on in consternation. Reed's face is wrinkled and kinda shocked, makes sense he's old with a speech bubble like this "Stop sounding like a WIFE, Sue! I still make the decisions for this team! A man's LIFE may be at stake!" and people wonder where the namor stuff comes from SMH.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Day 32 of FF posting via screenshots. Can't believe I could count past 31. This one's for the inhumans, who didn't work to begin with, get dropped 1/2 way thru an issue, & continue not to work til today basically. They're so frustrating but the Romeo/Juliet stuff from Johnny & Crystal is a standout.

Ben holding up Reed and Sue from falling into attilan for the first time as the rocks crumble beneath him, Johnny soars around looking for his new Love of his Life. The look of Attilan is gorgeous, fully grayscale and full of detailed architecture.

Johnny and Crystal giving googoo eyes at each other while in the background Ben stares at them arms cross with a "what the fuck is this" look plastered on his face.

Maximus the mad, ending the second inhumans book by killing all humans on earth who aren't inhumans with the humankillerinator

3 panels, first Maximus raises his fist in triumph and says "At the press of a button it will set up vibrations in the earth's atmosphere... vibrations so delicate, so sensitive, that only HUMANS will be affected! Now with one stroke, I DOOM MANKIND!" Is it a press or a stroke Stan, come on.

Panel 2 Maxi presses the button on a machine with a click and says "And, when it is done I shall rule the inhumans... and we shall inherit the earth!"

Panel 3 the earth seemingly in cataclysm with the caption "Thus the fateful button is pressed, and one of the most startlingly spectacular sagas of all time awaits you next issue! To learn how truly magnificent a magizine can be, you must not dare to miss it! 'NUFF SAID!"

two panels, the FF converging on the place lockjaw disappeared and the next the FF conversing in closeup.

Panel 1 Reed:" THAT must be how the dog, LOCKJAW, seemed to appear, and disappear at will! His antenna creates some sort of mental DIMENSION DISPLACER FORCE!"
Johnny "Call it whatever you want--! We've LOST them! I'll never see crystal again..!"
Reed again "Don't COUNT on that, Johnny! We're going to see this THRU! There's too much at stake for us to forget about the whole thing!"
Ben: "If you can figger any of this out, stretcho yer as smart as ya THINK you are! To ME, it's like the kinda DREAM ya have after eatin' pickles 'n gooseberries!"
Sue, helpfully: "They VANISHED -- Right before our eyes!"

Panel 2 Johnny: "But WHERE?? Where can they have GONE??"
Reed: "I'll find that OUT, lad... I SWEAR it! I realize now that they are a slightly DIFFERENT type of life which evolved without mankind knowing it-- and they've combined all their inhuman powers for their mutual safety!"
Sue: "Then Medusa WASN'T some sort of freak -- but rather part of a strange unsuspected RACE!" gee thannnnks sue
Johnny Again: "Nobody can tell ME that Crystal isn't as human as ANY of us!"
Ben: "Then where does that nutty SEEKER fit in??"
Reed Again: "That's some-thing ELSE I intend to find out!"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Day 31, end of January & end of the easy numbering for my FF screenshot postings. This one's just an introspective ballroom blitz of the characters I had not mentioned yet as I end out October2024 of screenshots and show off the absolute bedlam that could occur or be introduced in these books.

Ben noticing Gorgon's feet clomping through the Baxter Building as he scales the building to find Crystal. Two Panels, one interior and the other exterior. Gorgon is always framed from below.

Panel 1 Text Ben: A Couple o'crazy lookin' FEET... Walkin' up the side of the buildin'... pokin' right through the WALLS!! This GOTTA be a Gag!"

Panel 2 Text Caption: "But, it is no gag!"
Ben: STRETCHO! C'mere! This ya gotta see!"

A ballroom blitz of combat with the avengers, xmen, and FF all fighting a cavalcade of their foes.

Caption: "But, by the time the smoke clears, almost every super-powered combatant in the area has heard the explosion,and the two opposing forces converge upon the spot, in the greateast battle royal ever recorded within human memory--!"

Thor "Avengers Assemble!"
Johnny "Flame On!"
Ben "It's clobberin' time!"
Reed, thinking "They must be stopped out here! They mustn't get to the baxter building where sue and alicia are!"

The Watcher palming Reed & speaking to him. Reed: "The WATCHER! But-- I thought you were forbidden to interfere with other races...!"

Watcher: "It is so written! And yet-- if you will dare venture into the unknown with me-- you may find the key to victory"

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

FF day 30. Wow you'd think after a month consistency would develop. Guess not! This one's just another love letter to Jack Kirby. Whether it's building beautiful new mosaic collages unknown to comics at the time, or building a modern panel that I still think about, There's a reason to call him King.

An unreal stark collage of images layered and scanned atop one another to show space and both a natural and artificial satellite.

Caption: "With those words still ringing in their ears, the oddly-assorted occupants of the unique moon ship are hurled back by the force of the blast-off, and then, after a silent, breathtaking journey... two days later..."

Voice from the artificial satellite: "We have reached our destination, Richards! Now you shall see how empty your threat was... how POWERLESS you really are!"

A serious of panels whom I won't quote due to laziness, but to capture The Thing with the Frightful Four Medusa uses her hair to turn off the light that Ben was sleeping by, when it clicks his eyes open instantly in fear. It ROCKS. So modern looking in it's shading and also timeless.

TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

FF posting day 29, through my screenshots of a readthru. They wrote some crazy shit back in the day. Outta pocket sexism, antiquated racism, lowkey homophobia, or unreal chemical warfare. It's good that this is left in the past -obviously- but it's important in context of character legacy & history.

Reed, doing what he always does, shooting someone he loves with a laser beam. This time Sue & Ben as vile looking green gas pours over them.
Reed: "This isn't a serum, Ben! It's an OXO-SPRAY! It supplies the skin with a layer of self-perpetuating oxygen, enabling one to breathe underwater for hours at a time!"
Ben: "That's what YOU say! It smells like a blamed does of D.D.T. to ME!"

First, DDT is odorless, second, it's SO bad for people, long term effects are disasterous, and short term weren't a cakewalk either. The flippancy is galling.

Reed, looking like frankenstein's monster. Bad hairline, mouth agape, and eyes spaced poorly and one pupil adrift.

Reed says: "Not a fool, Sue... Merely a FEMALE! You COULDN'T have reacted differently!! But we haven't time to talk... not with DOCTOR DOOM on the loose!"

What a fucking incel loser he is

Idk who says this but I'd guess Johnny. "Aww, your brother wears knickers, you meatball!"

This does feel like mocking GNC people, which I throw into the batch of homophobia.

Reed fighting skrulls and yoinking away a big machine and swatting at a skrull with the device.

Reed: "I hate to be an indian-giver, boys-- but I'm taking this BACK now! If YOU want one, you'll have to buy your OWN little erector set and see how handy you are!!"

Reed, Wyatt Wingfoot is your brother in law's friend, be better.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Day 28 of FF thru screenshots. What are these a crossover issue? In 65 years the FF has made a lot of friends & allies. What's so notable is that early on they play as a bit of an astroturfing ground for other characters Marvel wants to highlight. Here's a '?' which of these don't become FF members?

Two panels that look like Bruce Banner is left to drown after the Hulks second(?) fight against the thing/the FF. Off screen Reed says "He has the strongest lungs on earth! He can stay submerged for HOURS! We'd never find him!"

Caption in panel 1 "And so the battle ends, as the fantastic four and the avengers turn away from the river's edge!"

Second panel caption as Banner surfaces "Thus no one observes the head which appears on the surface a few minutes later! The head of the tormented non-human DR. BANNER, who floats silently away into the darkness.

Doc Strange Pondering his orb in the Sanctum Santorum. It's got mystical shit including some seemingly Asian inspired pieces.

Doc "A summons from the Human Torch! such a person would not call upon me unless the need was great! For many months I have observed the accomplishments of the Famous Fantastic Four! They fight of mankind in their way, as I do in mine! If I can help them, I must not fail!

Medusa serving an unreal amount of cunt on a fainting couch in her purple Frightful Four get up in the foreground. In the background the rest of the Frightful Four are bickering as Medusa's hair grabs Sandman with her tendril'd hair.

Dusa "Don't do it, Sandman! When will you males learn to use your BRAINS instead of your muscles?!"

Sandman "MEDUSA! Put me down! Do you HEAR? Put me down, or I'll wrap that creepy hair of your in a knot you'll NEVER untangle!"

PPP "What's WITH Medusa any-way? Lately she's been acting like SHE'S the one giving orders around here!"

The Wingless Wizard "STOP IT, both of you! The FRIGHTFUL FOUR must not fight amongst ourselves!"

Hulk hitting Giant man with almost a German Suplex. Hulk says "Your WRONG, Giant-Man! As Long as I have my strength, I CAN defeat everybody! I can smash anything that lives!" Hulk speaks well early on but spells incorrectly haha.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Day 27 of FF thru screenshots and I want an easy one. Look at all these great weird guy faces. There's some meat to this week but as a calm before the storm I just want to highlight how good, (in an entertaining and artistic way) the fuckass faces look in quick panels sometimes. I adore it.

Dragon Man hunched over and looking lowkey like that turkey from Moana.

Hulk with a face of an eight year old trying to rizz his mom's friend.

FAT BABY WATCHER ALMOST PATTING REED ON THE HEAD

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Day 26 of FF through screenshots & my journey therein. I readthru to prepare for First Steps. Did I like it? Kinda! Really uneven, but the cast is great & when it hits it HITS. I think if I'm nitpicking rather than critical, Reed's stiff. Even in the 60's this is the stuff he turns into, I missed it

Manta Ray stretched reed richards underwater carrying the rest of the FF + Namorita.

Sue "We made it past them, Reed! I never thought you could DO it!"

Reed "Can't keep it up much LONGER, Sue! The weight is almost unbear-able! We've got to think of something else!

Ben "Okay, okay! We'll all go on a DIET!"

3 panel comic of reed coiled like a spring which ben uses to fly.

Panel 1, Reed ready, Ben descending toward him. Reed: "We can't let them escape, till we have Sue! Let's GO, Ben!"
Ben: "I hear ya talkin'! Brace yourself pal!"

Panel two reed's spring tenses up with a loud CRUMMP! sound effect as Ben gets to the very bottom.

Panel 3 you see just the foot of Ben as the spring aspect has fully released launching him with a satisfying TWANNNG! sfx. Ben: "GERONIMO!" Reed: "Don't miss Ben! DON'T MISS!"

Reed looking like a Dark Souls 1 slime falling from the ceiling of the Depths as Sue and Johnny look on. Torch: "Something Desceding thru a crack in the ceiling! It looks like--!" Sue: "It IS! It MUST be! We've FOUND him!"

TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Day 25 of FF through the ages and my read of all the FF books. I want to highlight some of Sue's fits and looks. She's barely a character in some of the books atp & is often just a DiD. That said, she's so god damned cute filled with gender goals and occasionally really powerful.

Bob hair sue in the absolute cutest apron white with pink trim & a frilled shoulder accent OVER her FF costume because she KNOWS shit can go bad and she may be the 'perfect' housewife cooking and cleaning, but she's also ready to snap a mother fucker in half if need be.

I was also reading all of Gwenpool at this point and the second run gets a FF book. Gwen and Spidey are wrapped up within stretched out Reed whose waiting for them to get picked up by Shield. Reed looks bored as the kids bicker inside him and Sue sits with him debatably patiently. Gwen "Stop! you're making it sound bad!" Spiderman "It IS bad! That's the kind of thing bad people do!"

Reed, the smartest man on the planet says "Is this how it feels to be pr--" Sue interrupts, seemingly annoyed and flatly says "No."

She's so good when she's a character you guys.

The alt text describes them as eventually good, but Stan and Jack also did make them fun and loving sometimes too. Sue being a fun character and more importantly a person.

Reed with messed hair is stretching out to grab Sue playfully when she's invisible, while Johnny watches on amused.

Reed " I may not be able to SEE you, but I'll STILL teach you not to go around mussing my hair, young lady!"

Sue "Would you rather I muss some OTHER man's hair?"

Also idk what it is, but sans background the art in this panel looks incredibly modern. I just love it.

Sue sitting and saying "Break Out!" but she is thicc as fuck, it's kinda crazy. Girl is the most pair shape person in the world. I'm looking respectfully (which is maybe debatable.)

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Day 24, FF posting, Onto October of 2024 in my read through. Jack's always been on one, but he always LOVED drawing Thing and as time went on he really started to NAIL it. We're maybe 2 years into the success if that and he's so clearly detailed. The only thing missing is the baby blues.

Paste pot pete using his hot sticky gun to drown Thing. It's not cum, you can't say he's drowning in a head of cum. The Comic Code Authority would be so mad you guys.

Sexy midtransition Thing is real and he will hurt you.

Alicia and Ben together as Thing tries on a Beatles wig and looks at himself in the mirror. Ben says "are you KIDDIN'?? I always WANTED to try one! Wish you could SEE me, baby! I'm a livin' doll!!

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Day 23 of FF posting screenshots, & it is the end of my first month of reading FF Sept'23 so I'm hilighting my favorite letters to the editor. I fucking love these pages & want to say, WOMEN GET COMICS. Everytime without fail a woman or girl writes in, they're right. No other group has that hitrate.

Writer: DEAR EDITOR: Big Deal! So you finally hit a winner with the Fantastic Four! Now, what are you going to do for an encore??
Shriley Howard
Chicago IL

Editor's reply "That's easy Shril! We can always come up with new titles like The Fantastic Five, The Fantastic Six, etc. - As long as we don't run out of numbers!" 4

Dear Editor: I think your mag is stupendous and all that jazz, but being a girl and reading the FANTASTIC FOUR every-body thinks I'm odd! How can I convince my friends that FF isn't meant only for boys-or is it? One other thing- how did the FF meet? Or did I miss a copy?
Cynthia Moore
Cape Cod, Mass.

Editor "Cynthia honey, WE like to think that it's the people who DON'T read FF that are odd! As for how they met, we'll keep summarizing their origin from time to time to let you new readers catch up."

DEAR EDITOR: You've got a heckuva nerve making a doll like Susan Storm invisible!
Unsigned Dallas TX

Editor "Listen, Unsigned, with wolves like YOU around, she's a lot better off that way!" 4

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Day 22 of FF posting screenshots. This one's for a classic. Ben Grimm, the Thing and all the weird inventive poses Jack was able to put him into. It's a delight pretty much every time, weird, goofy and always with weight.

Ben as Thing absolutely whiffing on a punch with Speedlines and him saying "Just like a DAME! Always puttin' the kibosh on things just when the FUN is startin'!"

Ben zonked the fuck in the forground as in the background Johnny spidey poses, and Reed carries Sue out of a vent. Reed: "QUICK! Put Sue through the wall and then follow.. FAST!"

Ben and Hulk making the end screen of Rocky III

Reed in the background doing a thinking pose while in the foreground Sue stumbles forward terrified, Johnny zooms away and Ben, looking the most haggard any pile of rocks has ever looked trods along

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Day 21 of post FF screenshots thru my reading journey. This is the first Doombot. It's fucking terrifying! Look at it. It's like those semi-real CPR training dummies. For a character I think is bad, surrounding Doom is a lot of interesting ideas. Like this creep (S/O Gwenpool's friend Doombot)

Two men, one smoking the other off screen examining a Doombot by pulling off his jacket and taking off his sunglasses to show circuitry & a real weird face. Offscreen: "LOOK! He.. He's only a ROBOT!" Smoker: But someone must have been CONTROL-LING him! But WHO?? HOW??"

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Day 20, FF readthru via screenshots. Jack Kirby, either through necessity or indifference had a penchant for off model designs in brief shots and background dudes. They're never over simple, like modern books (which I'm not knocking) they're always manically detailed in a way that's so charming.

A screaming cabby, his mouth awkwardly agape, the eyes staring into your soul, and donning a yellow cap. He screams.

A picture of an arrow pointing at a token of Reed Richards who has a widows peak, in a powder blue suit, and with the wrong color hair. It's fascinating.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Day 19, Huzzah & etc. FF screenshots thru my read. Comics used to have stones. You'd just have a book where a KKK garbed Hitler was the villain for a book and dress down nazis for 20 pages. Now it's all gotta be subtle. Fuck fascists the old men in the 60's got this one thing consistently right.

Issue 21's cover of the Fantastic Four. Hatemonger in a purple KKK outfit with a big H on his forehead fires a hate gun at the FF so they fight each other and Nick Fury is there all shirt ripped chest heaving.

Sue tries on wigs! Even when you fight fascists you are allowed to serve cunt. Caption: While in the privacy of her own quarters, the third member of america's most colorful quartet is proving that a girl is a girl, even when she's a full-fledged partner of the fantastic four...

Sue text bubble: I could spend HOURS trying on these gorgeous fashion wigs! I always WONDERED how I'd look with black hair! If they ever want to film a sequel to CLEOPATRA and if LIZ TAYLOR is too busy... hmmmm...."

To be honest more men should write about me like this, I'm girly and have wigs and want to show up Liz Taylor in a worse version of her movie.

The FF walk the streets, Ben in his trench, before stumbling upon this hitler-ass klan rally. Caption: And so dressed in street clothes, and looking as incospicuous as any group CAN when they're with the lumbering THING, the FF being to stroll along manhattan's east side...

Ben: "Boy if I ever got my hands on that hate-monger's scrawny hide, I'd REALLY give 'im something to yell about!" Reed: "I know how you feel ben -- but his type usually doesn't get very far in a free nation like ours" [author of the alt text's note: Reed you dumb white fuck]

Next page Ben: "oh NO?? What do you think THAT is, chum-- a PTA meeting?!?"

dumb prick fascist 1 "Long live the HATE-MONGER! HE'LL clean up this country for us"
dumb prick fascist 2 "Down with all foreigners! Down with everybody who disagrees with US! Hail to the hate-monger!

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Day 18 of FF thru screenshots and it's time to talk about Rama Tut. There was a thing maybe millenials and above had where kids were interested in one of four things. Space, Cowboys, the Ocean, or Egypt. Rama Tut, as Doom, Kang, or Reed's kid is an example of that from the 60s & I think that's neat.

A 4 panel diatribe on egypt. With hiroglyphics and alicia to boot. TBH it's good stan wrote so much, she couldn't' read the heiroglyphics kind of him to mansplain.

That said it's all clearly Jacks Chariots of the Gods BS that he was always on so I'll save you from it.

Rama Tut with his big stupid hat and his big stupid facial hair being a smug prick to the FF RT: "Now that you know who I am, there is no need to intro-duce YOUR-SELVES... For I am quite familiar with the FANTASTIC FOUR!" FF off screen: "You KNOW us?!" RT: "Ahh! I THOUGHT that remark would startle you!"

He's so fuckin white you guys it's unreal

Ben whoops some Rama Tut goons, it's kinda uninteresting in the dialogue so I won't word for word it, but there's a lot of limbs and poses and I find that impressive.

Johnny makes fun of Sue for mentioning their anachronistic outfits, ben says hold my beer and then womps 'em.

A dude watching that Clint Eastwood movie that's a chekov's gun in BTTF3 on a yellow submarine looking future tv thinking to himself "Why was I born into an age when the only excitement a man can find is watching 3-d stereovisions from a thousand years ago?!!"

That man? Rama Tut. Tut is short for einstein.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Day 17, almost grown! FF, screenshots, you get it. Just want to say the continued and constant antagonism of Johnny and Ben kills me. It's so great and the friction really seems like it matters, it's more toothless in a modern sense, but it was a great framework to start a real lasting friendship.

Johnny, in full torch mode says "Well, I'll be hanged...!!" and Ben, without missing a beat says "Probably, Son... Probably!"

Johnny's flying off to save the day as Reed consoles a 'weakened' Sue and Ben watches in the foreground. Reed "Easy Honey -- you're safe now! The plan worked perfectly! Okay TORCH, time for the final phase! Seal him up, little friend!" Johnny says "With PLEASURE boss man!" and Ben finishes with "I STILL wish I coulda clobbered him just ONCE!"

TBH I think this is about the villain of the week. That said, it supports my bully narrative so I'm letting it ride.

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TetrisGal @tetrisgal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Day 16, hey wait, don't look at the date shh I didn't already miss a day. Day 16 of FF screenshots cataloguing my readthru of every book. This day is dedicated to the first Suecentric character. Namor, and by extension, all the atlantians! Vulcan's a weirdo, but I love that we get the romance drama.

Namor pointing at the FF and gloating. Caption "And Then..." Namor "If you wonder how you got her the giant clam which trapped you gives off chloroform vapors which put it's victim to sleep! But Now You are awake-- and you are my PRISONERS!" Reed, looking dog tired: "Don't bet on it, namor! Only Time will tell whether YOU'VE captured US, or whether we've finally succeeded in tracking YOU down!" not your best reed, but also not cope either.

Sue in a crazy yellow space fit describing her travel plans on a globe. She says "No, silly!" We're going to waikiki beach in hawaii! We should BE there in about a half-hour!" off screen Reed says "That's Right! I've been wanting to give our experimental passenger ICBM a work-out for weeks-- and this seems like a good time to do it!"

The FF really rival Taylor Swift's CO2 emissions.

The absolutely stunning Namorita with big hair blue skin and a helluva attitude.

Namor screaming in Ben's ear underwater as ben confused thinks "be-- but-- it is!!"