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Episode 4 - Uatu You Lookin' At

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Episode 4: Uatu You Lookin At

Today we are covering Tales of Suspense #53 backup and Fantastic Four 13 as well as discussing the Original Sin story more casually.

Tales of Suspense 53 backup: The Way It Began

  • Uatu breaks the 4th Wall
  • The Watchers give matches to children
  • They love to leave hoards of money and jewels laying around
  • After debate they give nuclear power to a race clearly not ready for it
  • Watchers take off to go sight-seeing and disaster befalls the children
  • Recognizing their failure, they abdicate responsibility and refuse to help anyone else
  • Uatu is displeased with this outcome

    • Fantastic Four 13: The Red Ghost

    • This story is anachronistic
    • Commie space race
    • Thing puts Reed in a time-out cylinder
    • We meet Ivan Kragoff and his apes
    • Kragoff exposes himself and his apes to cosmic rays to give each of them powers
    • Apes do not like this
    • 616 USSR has artificial gravity
    • Uatu makes the FF and Kragoff fight it out because he doesn’t want shenanigans on the moon
    • FF win, Uatu is salty and says he’s leaving but doesn’t

      • Original Sin

      • The lettering is terrible and small
      • This story is wild
      • Every 3 years Uatu goes blind to everything for 45ish min to upload to the Watchers
      • Uatu gets killed
      • Someone steals his eyes and unleashes their secrets on everyone
      • Thor no-longer worthy of Mjolnir
      • Nic Fury was the Watcher on the Wall but becomes The Unseen
      • Bucky Barns was the Winter Soldier and becomes The Watcher on the Wall
      • The Orb disappears with an eye from Uatu never to be seen again
      • When read for the Thor bits, not great but important. When read on it’s own though it’s quite enjoyable

        • If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:

        • Essential Fantastic Four Vol 1
        • Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 2
        • Fantastic Four Epic Collections Vol 1
        • Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol 1
        • Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4
        • Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities #1
        • You can find Fantastic Four #13 digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
        • Tales of Suspense #53 is only available on Marvel Unlimited in its complete form.
        • Or ask your local library.

          • If you would like to know more about the Uatu and The Watchers:

          • Fantastic Four (1961) 400: Even the Watchers Can Die!
          • Original Sin (2014) 0-8
          • She-Hulk (2004) 7: Space Cases
          • Captain Marvel (1968) 37-38 The Trial of the Watcher

            • Creators of these issues:

            Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Stan Goldberg, Art Simek, Paul Reinman, Larry Lieber, Jason Aaron, Mike Deodato, Frank Martin, VC’s Chris Elliopoulos, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Javier Pulido, Jim Cheung, and Paco Medina

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            Artifacts of InfinityBy Everett Christensen and Jonathan Hutson