"Lowered Expecta-a-tions...."

Alright, so a couple months ago we got that friggin' awesome Fantastic Four 2 trailer, right? Wedding of Reed and Sue, Ben somehow crying (is that a brow I see? No, he still looks like a crowning baby), even Chris Evans' Johnny Storm getting a legitimately in-character (and funny) joke to lighten the seriousness of the situation: the arrival of the Silver Surfer. The effin' Silver Surfer, people, and he looks great in these early shots. This short two minute trailer is better than anything the first movie even THOUGHT of offering...and then I began to notice what this meant. With the arrival of the the Surfer, there's no doubt that Galactus could be far behind, right?

Right?

Wrong, dammit. Well not exactly, but might as well be...

Galactus has had a couple incarnations in the comic books, and each has been original and interesting enough to warrant a chance in the movie. In both, the surfer arrives as a herald of the coming disaster. In the classic Marvel Universe, we have Galactus the planet-eater, a being the size of a galaxy who could crush the earth in his hand like a tennis ball. The Ultimate Universe brought us Galactus the infestation, millions of bug-like entities (modeled in honor of the Classic Galactus' unique helmet) that swarm a planet and eat it from the inside out. And according to early reports, Fantastic Four 2 bring us Galactus the...storm cloud? What?

A storm cloud. With a voice. Probably booming.

What a mess.

As I worry more about the fate of this movie, I'll leave you with a fantasy of what could've been...



-Vincenz