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Panel 1
Caption: Meanwhile, at Evil Inc…
Miss Match (walking in foreground)
Lightning Lady (in background): Psst. Come here…
Panel 2
Lightning Lady: You’re gonna hear about this today…
Lightning Lady: It’s better it’s from me.
Panel 3
Miss Match (holding phone): So what? A waitress spilled soup on Cap…
Lightning Lady: Read the comments.
Panel 4
Miss Match (angrily, as the phone in her hands erupts into flames): Meet-cute?! What the fuck is a “meet-cute”?!
Iron Dragon is walking by and sees this happening.
Panel 5
Iron Dragon: A meet-cute is when two characters in a romantic movie meet for the first time in a charming or embarrassing way.
Iron Dragon: Surgat loves rom-coms.
Panel 6
Miss Match (annoyed): I guess you think you’re pretty smart, huh?
Panel 7
Iron Dragon: No.
Panel 8
Iron Dragon (looking at phone, smoldering in Miss Match’s hands):
If I were smart, I wouldn’t have let Lightning Lady borrow my phone this morning.
I’m running a Spice Rack Comics Showcase on Patreon — a creator-by-creator spotlight featuring samples from every artist in the collective.
So far, I’ve highlighted:
• The Cummoner — delightfully unhinged fantasy filth
• Pixie Trix — sexy mischief wrapped in razor-sharp humor
And we’re just getting started.
By the time the dust settles, I will have shared 87 pages of NSFW comics with Patreon backers — all pulled from the massive Spice Rack sampler PDF. It’s a fantastic way to discover new creators, expand your reading list, and support the indie adult-comics community.
If you’re a Patreon backer, keep an eye out — more artists are being featured every few days, and some of these comics absolutely go places.
(And if you’re not a backer yet… this is a pretty great month to give yourself a gift.)
When I saw the cover for
Fantastic Four #570, with the new creative team of Jonathon Hickman and Dale Eaglesham, I was
more than a bit put-out by what I saw — namely a ripply-muscled Reed Richards in short sleeves. Hair on the arms… five-o’clock shadwo… everything that our pliable Plato is not.
Having read the issue, I’m a little bit relieved. And, honestly, given the nature of the recent Dr. Doom arc, I really should have surmised it sooner.
It seems as if there is an extra-dimension League of Reeds that meets to solve crises across reality. It’s really kind of a neat idea. I mean, if you had the choice to work with nobody but carbon-copies of yourself… what could be better than that?
Of course, these copies are less than “carbon.” All of the Reeds in the All-Reed Squad are products of their unique dimensions (
click on the thumbnail to the right for a larger view). Some aren’t even stretchy — exhibiting instead traits of one of the other Four.
Which means, in my opinion, that this Reed — the ‘roid Reed with the biceps and the chest and the body hair and everything — is not
our Reed. He’s some other Reed.
But he’s a Reed that is going to play a crucial role (most likely alongside or against Real Reed) in the story to come.
