Alicia Masters is a noir private eye helping femme fatale Sue Storm in Fantastic Four #19
Apr. 4, 2024Fantastic Four #19 goes full film noir, and we’ve got an early look at interior pages
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The current volume of Fantastic Four hasn’t been shy about throwing in some fun diversions from its main plot (which usually wind up tying back into the bigger story by the end), and the upcoming Fantastic Four #19 follows in this tradition with a noir-ish yarn involving Alicia Masters as a private eye.
In the issue by writer Ryan North, artist Carlos Gomez, color artist Jesus Aburtov, and letterer Joe Caramagna, Susan Storm Richards is a femme fatale in need of a PI, who comes to detective Alicia Masters for help.
For those who aren’t as familiar with the FF extended family, Alicia Masters is the wife of Benjamin Grimm, who is one of the most talented sculptors in the Marvel Universe, relying solely on her sense of touch, as a blind woman.
We’ve got an early look at interior pages from Fantastic Four #19 right here, showing off the first meeting between “Miss Susie Storm” and Alicia Masters, PI:
“The doll needed a private eye to find her boyfriend. Seems he’d pulled a disappearing act: one ‘Professor Richards,’ a hard-luck egghead who’d somehow scored way out of his league. I didn’t want to take her case, but my bank account said otherwise, and besides: There was something about her. A sense of danger maybe, but also, a vulnerability. Call me a sap, but the world’s a rough place - and me, I didn’t want to make it any rougher on her. ‘Course, it wasn’t long before I wished I’d had the good sense to keep my distance…”
Fantastic Four is in the news right now thanks to reports ofJulia Garner being cast as an alt version of Silver Surferin the MCU Fantastic Four reboot movie, along with theapparent confirmation of Galactusas the movie’s big (literally) villain.
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