FF #1-11 Annotations

[All Hope Lies in Doom]

FF #1 - "The Club" [3/23/11]

• The Future Foundation!
• Reed watches a video Johnny pre-recorded before his death where he tells them to make the world a better place... and give his spot to Spider-Man!
• Peter joins the team and everyone has sexy cool white outfits.
• Rogue AIM scientists besiege the PAVLOV facility where they free the Wizard from his cell.
• The FF arrive just in time to witness Bentley's escape, where he tells Reed he's coming for his son/clone very soon...
• The FF have dinner made by Nathanial, and they talk about possible ways to deal with the Inhumans on the moon, maybe terra-forming?
• Valeria and Nathanial reveal that they've gotten Doom to join the Future Foundation! This is probably a result of the deal Val made with Doom back in #583.
• Has she restored his intelligence?

FF #2 - "Doom Nation"

• Doom is reborn!
• Ben spars with Doom but Sue breaks it up.
• Ben, Sue, and Dragon Man go to a bar so he cools off.
• The FF brainstorm how to get Doom's intelligence back while diagnosing him. They discover that nothing is inherently missing form his brain besides the connection between two areas that allows him to access information and magick.
• They go to Latveria to use Kristoff as a backup for Doom's brain. When Kristoff Vernard was adopted, his inheritance would be a portion of Doom's memories and intellect in the event that Doom was killed. They will now use the backup within Kristoff's mind to heal the damage to Doom's brain, copying over the aspects that need fixing.
• Just before they activate the machine, Reed contemplates erasing Doom's mind, but doesn't follow through.
• Doom is cured, and resolves to repay his bargain with Valeria they made back in FF #583: he will help her defeat Reed...

FF #3 - "Whatever Happened To All Those Reeds?"

• Invitations are sent out by envoys of the FF to various members of their rogues gallery:
• Ben and the moloid kids visit High Evolutionary...
• Dragon Man and Alex Power visit El Diablo...
• Spider-Man, Franklin, Artie, and Leech visit the Mad Thinker and his android...
• Sue and Bentley visit his dad, The Wizard, and his two AIM lackeys...
• Just as Valeria is about to reveal why she and Doom have convened everyone to brainstorm ways to defeat Reed, the freaking Watcher shows up!
• Val gives everybody the recap of #583 but with some added dialogue:
• Alpha-Reed says Celestials can combine????
• The group strategizes on how they can continue their crusades to solve everything, determining that the four cities each have elements they need to construct a device known as Sol's Anvil (which they've used before to kill a freaking Beyonder!). A geothermal vent (new Atlantis/Peak), Ascension Engine (Forever City), dormant dynamo on the moon (Inhuman City-Ship), and these all are on an axis that matches a frequency with the Negative Zone. 
• They dip and tell Val that her dad still has a place among them...
• Iron-Man-Reed meets with some envoys of the Old Kings, revealing to the Mala and Chordai that the Uhari are planning on taking advantage and asserting control over the other tribes once they conquer the world. He agrees to help the two tribes beat the Uhari if they give him something...
• Armor-Reed meets with the Mole Man who is pissed that more Moloids are joining the Forever People. But what will he bargain with Armor-Reed to make them stop?
• Prof X Reed goes to the Universal Inhumans on the Moon and agrees to help them in exchange for an area of the moon to operate, but their telepaths reveal he's lying and planning something that will threaten the Inhumans. They kill him and resolve to match the Reed's plans.
• Alpha-Reed meets with Annihilus and claims he wants to go back to his universe by opening a portal to the Negative Zone. Annihilus agrees to help him in exchange for him keeping it open so they can invade...
• In the present day, the anvil hub (the trigger for Sol's Anvil) is nearing completion. It doesn't matter that Prof X Reed died since they can trigger the dynamo remotely. Now they will sacrifice this world for the greater good. Now they will orchestrate a war...

FF #4 - "The Beating of Drums..."

• The Council of Doom brainstorms weaknesses of the Reeds. Reed explains that these alter-versions of him don't have families and are heartless.
• He also reveals that every time they encounter a Doom, they lobotomize him (a callback to the Hole we saw back in #571)
• Ben leaves the Baxter Building to do some soul searching. He's not happy about working with the villains.
• The Spiral device Sue got back in #576 comes back: a distress signal from the Uhari of Old Atlantis, the other two tribes have turned on them.
• Sue takes Peter and Alex with her to the North Pole.
• Valeria already knows what the reeds are building and tells everyone how they will use the Four Cities to construct Sol's Anvil.
• Sue and the boys interrupt the siege of the Peak, but not before reinforcements arrive, composed of the Mole Man's creatures accompanied by Armor-Reed!
• He orders Mole Man to bring the city of Old Atlantis down!

FF #5 - "...The Sound of War" [6/29/11]

• Reed finds a way to activate the Spiral to get a glimpse of what's going on at the North Pole, but finds a crater exposing the geothermal vent where the peak is supposed to be.
• 15 minutes earlier: Sue finds out that isn't her Reed and gets blasted. Peter catches her while Alex shows off his gravity powers by getting creative. A mala soldier fractures his arm, and the Peak's shielding is destroyed.
• Mole Men's soldiers activate their machine, amplifying the vent and destroying the city of old Atlantis.
• Sue, Peter, and Alex retreat to confront Reed about what just happened.
• Ben visits Alicia Masters, and she helps him get through the lingering trauma of not being able to save Johnny.
• Sue confronts Reed, and he admits he's messed up, he admits he's done something terrible...
• In the Forever City, the Reeds and Mole Man convene with the evolved moloids, agreeing to help fix the Ascension Engine to allow them to reproduce in exchange for not accepting refugee moloids who try to join the city.
• Just then, the city of Attilan appears above in the sky: Black Bolt and the Inhuman royal family has returned from their pilgrimage to Hala!

[War of Four Cities]

FF #6 - "Two Kings" [7/13/11]

• Inhuman/Kree lore-dump!
• War of Kings recap: Black Bolt fights Vulcan, beats him, but a bomb tears a hole in space called the fault, and Black Bolt gets sucked in.
• Weeks later, Medusa deals with space politics as a result of the Inhumans taking over the Kree empire.
• Maximus schemes, he has plan...
• Some Kree dude pressures Ronan, claiming Ronan has some kind of seed...
• Lockjaw has some kind of vision:
• Hundreds of thousands of years ago, on the Kree home world of Hala, scientists present the success of the metagenesis plan to the Supreme Intelligence; they've seeded over 100 worlds with Inhuman genetic manipulation.
• As the Supreme Intelligence assimilates the data, he searches for unanimous agreement within the thousand minds he is made up of. He comes upon dissent; a priest foresees a rebel arise out of the metagenesis, who will spell doom for the supreme intelligence.
• The symbol of divergent path looks like the thing sticking out of lockjaw and Black bolt's head!
• Supreme Intelligence orders the Accuser to kill the two scientists, but not before one of them destroys the data crystal uploading info to the Supreme Intelligence. He is only able to absorb 94%, but sees it as enough.
• The Accuser destroys hundreds of worlds seeded with the metagenesis, but five survive as a result of the incomplete data. Those five are the worlds of the brides, and Earth.
• Black Bolt awakens within the void of the Fault...

FF #7 - "The Supremor Seed"

• Black Bolt is attacked by a space squid in the Fault (which kind of looks like the Supreme Intelligence to me...)
• He kills it with his voice, somehow opening a wormhole that puts him back into normal space. Lockjaw is there, who teleports him back to Hala.
• Just as the Kree are about to maybe start a coup, Black Bolt returns to restore order. The Kree emissary explains that the Inhuman royal family's plan of providing relief to the outer worlds after the war with the Shi'ar goes completely against their warrior way: rebuild the core worlds and let the outer rim fend for themselves, only the strongest will survive and earn their place in the empire.
• Black Bolt leaves the decision in the hands of Ronan the Accuser, who will stand regent as the Inhumans depart back to earth to reconvene with the lunar city-ship for the Summoning.
• The emissary is pissed, so Black Bolt vaporizes him. He says he is awake...
• Crystal stays behind with her boo Ronan.
• 300,000 years ago, wittle Supweme Intewigence is having some nightmares of Black Bolt, so he summons the current Accuser to follow his contingency plan. In the event that Supreme Intelligence dies, the Accuser will hold this Supremor Seed in his hammer to rebirth the SI.
• We get a repeat of the scene where the Universal Inhumans mind-bang Prof-X Reed and kill him, but then see that Black Bolt and the royal family return with Attilan.
• He gets acquainted with his new brides, but everyone knows what comes next... WAR!
• And a great segway into Attilan appearing over the Forever City in #5!

FF #8 - "Ascension"

• Attilan descends above the Forever City as they command their armies to invade. It's all-out war between the Universal Inhumans and the evolved men.
• Sue confronts Nathanial after having spoken to Reed. She questions his imperative of "what needs to be done".
• He explains that she should be content based on the revelations Reed has given her. He has seen the future where they lose, and the fact that the Reeds will crack the planet in half will be the least of their worries in the face of what comes next. This is the future Valeria tells Sue back in #582, the cataclysmic end of days that forced Future Frank and Val to come back and make the changes.
• Nathanial and Reed suit up, Spider-Man gathers the villains to depart, and they all got FF costumes!
• Sue and everybody else stay behind.
• The FF arrives amidst the war between the Inhumans and the Forever City. Doom casts a spell to protect them from the Ascension Engine. Everybody agrees to only kill two of the Reeds, keeping one alive for info haha.
• High Evolutionary tells Reed he can disable the Ascension Engine due to the Reed's meddling.
• The Inhumans are immune to the engine as a result of their controlled evolution and selective breeding.
• Sue and Reed have put Val in time out within her room, but Bentley breaks her out.
• Wizard gets taken down.
• Reed sees that one of the Reeds happens to be the Armor-Reed. This changes things...
• Could it be because of his connection to the Mad Celestials? Could they track him to this universe?
• Just before he reveals his concerns to his dad, Reed and the others are transported to Attilan to convene with Black Bolt.
• Doom takes down Iron-Man Reed and questions him about the nature of their machine, but before the alter-Reed responds, Doom is set ablaze by Diablo!
• Are Mad Thinker and Diablo traitors??? This confirms the statistic Reed mentions to Peter earlier of how likely one of the villains while go turncoat.

FF #9 - "Burn it Down"

• Doom is unfazed by Diablo's flames and fries the crap out of him!
• The gang meets with Black Bolt and the Inhumans. Nathanial tells Medusa that he's been to Attilan 1000 years in the future, and it's much bigger.
• Black Bolt has Reed step aside while they deal with the Reeds, as their plans are dangerous for the Inhuman agenda.
• Back at the Baxter Buidling, Bentley and Val have some snacks in the room with the Bridge. We even see the severed Celestial hand from #572!
• The Inhumans annihilate the Forever City.
• High Evolutionary arrives at the Ascension Engine.
• As more Inhumans descend, the Reeds prepare to shut down the engine and retreat (all that truly matters is the engine remaining intact)
• But it's too late, as Maximus uses a giant mech to blow all the evolved men to hell. Not entirely sure if he destroys the engine or not.
• The Inhumans take out Armor Reed and Iron-Man Reed, sending the two and the traitors Diablo and Thinker up to their gulag "Alpha Hell".
• Alpha-Reed lures Doom into a trap, engaging a collar like the ones used on the Dooms in The Hole (#571). Doom is now his slave, and if he does not do his bidding, the collar will lobotomize Doom. They embark for Latveria.
• Black Bolt tells the remaining FF to leave, but since their ships were destroyed, they must depart through Eldrac! Remember Eldrac from #577, the door that takes you to where you need to be.
• Peter wonders if the door can take you back in time, to erase your sins from ever being committed. Reed says there's only one way to find out...

FF #10 - "What I Need"

• Eldrac sends the three to separate locations where they need to be:
• Reed arrives at home in the Baxter Building to give Sue the recap. Sue wonders if Reed's attempt to delay the dark days ahead is futile, and they should instead prepare to embrace the inevitable. They agree to no more villains in the house, and to try to get Ben to come back. Sue asks about Victor...
• Nathanial arrives in Latveria just as Alpha-Reed and an imprisoned Doom touch down. Alpha-Reed reveals that his version of Nathanial was The Beast we encountered way back in #582, which is hilarious because a young Doom actually ended up killing him. Nathanial says he's not here to help Doom, but to help Alpha-Reed.
• Peter arrives in Avengers Mansion to convince Ben to come back home to the FF.
• Ronan activates the Kree fleet as he is given control of the empire. Although it goes against the Inhuman Royal Family, Crystal stands beside her beloved. They arrive below the aerial Attilan over the Forever City undetected.
• Peter and Ben return aboard a Quinjet, bringing along Iron Man, Cap, and Hawkeye as help.
• Apparently the FF kids are out on a super-secret class project.

FF #11 - "Intelligence" [10/26/11]

• Franklin and Leech watch the FF kids work on the super-secret class project.
• Reed walks in to confront Val, and we learn that the machine they're building will transport three floors of the Baxter Building away in case of an emergency. However, Val implies there is another reason for building this device...
• The Kree invade the Alpha-Hell gulag of Attlian, taking the two Reeds for themselves.
• At the Other Side of Zero, the Negative Priest breeds Negative Zone hordes and prepares them for human hosts. He talks to Annihilus, explaining that their plan to unleash the Annihilation Wave upon this reality is almost complete: they've built obelisks which will amplify and extend the bridge portal to the Negative Zone, with the catalyst door being the portal within the Baxter Building.
• Reed and Cap prepare a multitude of heroes to besiege the city of Attilan.
• Before the reignited Ascension Engine, Ronan reveals he's gathered the two Reeds as a new host for the Supremor Seed within his hammer! It attaches itself to them as he kicks the two into the engine, rebirthing...
• The Supreme Intelligence! This version of the Supremor has multiversal knowledge, and appears to be more powerful...
• Just as the heroes board quinjets towards Attilan, they witness the Kree fleet descend over New York!
• Supremor saw his death in the future and burned hundreds of worlds to prevent it, and now he will do the same to Earth!