TheFantastic Four ’s Human Torch may be the universe ’s last , best hope . The Marvel Universe is now faced with one of the greatest threats ever . An foreign horde is invading the Negative Zone , using it as a foothold to found a full - shell assault on Earth .

The encroacher originate from the Cancerverse , a misrepresented and taint universe of discourse where destruction itself was defeated . Worse still , theCancerverse armies are led by the Sentry , one of the most potent entities in the intact Marvel Universe . Blastaar and Annihilus have already been driven back , storm to head to the mainstream Marvel Universe in hunt of reinforcements . ButAnnihilation - Scourge : Fantastic Four#1 finally offer hope .

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The survivors of the Negative Zone have chosen theHuman Torchas their champion . It ’s a role he ’s very much intimate with ; Johnny Storm was trapped there for two year , and he was direct inAnnihilus ' gladiatorial games . Annihilus let him die , and then resurrected him only to go bad metre and meter again .

In the end , against all the odds , the Human Torch make do to escape and slip the Cosmic Control Rode that allowed Annihilus to rule . Though Johnny Storm does n’t realize it , he ’s become a legend to the denizen of the Negative Zone - and the one man who can rally their force out in ordering to refuse the Sentry and the Cancerverse .

It ’s gentle to undervalue Johnny Storm , in large part because of his carefree and jocular character . ButAnnihilation - Scourge : wonderful Four#1 carefully reinterprets that as a coping mechanism , cue readers of everything that theHuman Torchhas endured . He ’s snuff it through horrors that would break less man , and his humor is nothing more than a front , a way of avoid face the reality of it all . This latest result is hale Johnny Storm to abandon that coping strategy , to accept what he ’s gone through and move beyond it . His experience in the Negative Zone have been transformed into a refining fire , bringing out the gold at the heart of the Human Torch ’s character .

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disintegration : Scourgeis a fascinating mirror of the originalAnnihilationevent , and the Human Torch ’s persona is an echo of Nova ’s in the original cartoon strip . That see Nova step up on a cosmic leg , at last becoming a veteran military stager ; it positioned him for a decennary ’s worth of stories . Ironically , in that event Nova was campaigning against the Annihilation Wave - the very forces Johnny Storm is now taking bursting charge of .

Alerted to a potential tear in the attribute , the Fantastic Four go to look into - but what they discover is so much worse than they organise for ! Will the Fantastic Four be capable to hold back the Scourge or will the Negative Zone finally succeed in tear this sept aside ? overproduction , the Fantastic Four are about to learn : No one ever really comes home from state of war .

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