Researching for a comics blog tends to take you all over the place in terms of getting the details right, but, given the general time frame of posts appearing in the PPC, it's a rare day when I'll find myself flipping through stories that are dated in the years following 2010, well after the point that I'd stopped collecting comics or even browsing new stories on the racks. Yet I recall a mental note I made following a previous post that attempted to piece together the reboots and refits of Fantastic Four that took place during the years between the mid-1990s through 2014, before the book began an indefinite hiatus--with one of those refits taking the form of the Future Foundation, established following the death of the Human Torch. It was at that point that I stumbled across an issue featuring an informal wake at which the remaining team members, along with Spider-Man, shared reminiscences of Johnny Storm--a story that I could only give a cursory glance to at the time, but which I intended to revisit, given the closure it was meant to provide (as well as the pivotal groundwork it laid for a certain wall-crawler).
Yet now well after the fact, you may find like myself that it's also held up well as a story of affirmation for the FF, even if taking place in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man. A story aptly titled:
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