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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1235100" data-attributes="member: 508">There was a run of Fantastic Four several years back where they had been captured by some enemy or another (I can't even remember who, now), and they spent something like six or eight consecutive issues dreaming.&nbsp; No joke, each issue would start out with a close up of one of the Fantastic Four trapped in his/her glass cylinder restraint, and then it would go off into some &quot;What If?&quot; style dream for the rest of the entire issue.&nbsp; None of it was real, none of the action really happened, it was just a full comic's worth of filler, and then next month it happened all over again with a different member of the captured Fantastic Four having a different dream.&nbsp; What made it even worse was the terrible artwork, worthy of something you'd find in a 6-year old's coloring book.As it turned out, the comic was just &quot;treading water,&quot; waiting for the new creative team to take over.&nbsp; I don't remember if this was when Walt Simonson started his fantastic run on the series or not (it's been awhile), but whoever it was, he began his first issue by walking &quot;onstage&quot; in the comic panel, freeing the Fantastic Four from their glass cylinder prisons, all the while apologizing to the readers and saying, &quot;We're just going to pretend none of this happened, okay?&quot;Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 1235100, member: 508"] There was a run of Fantastic Four several years back where they had been captured by some enemy or another (I can't even remember who, now), and they spent something like six or eight consecutive issues [I]dreaming[/I]. No joke, each issue would start out with a close up of one of the Fantastic Four trapped in his/her glass cylinder restraint, and then it would go off into some "What If?" style dream for the rest of the entire issue. None of it was real, none of the action really happened, it was just a full comic's worth of filler, and then next month it happened all over again with a different member of the captured Fantastic Four having a different dream. What made it even worse was the terrible artwork, worthy of something you'd find in a 6-year old's coloring book. As it turned out, the comic was just "treading water," waiting for the new creative team to take over. I don't remember if this was when Walt Simonson started his fantastic run on the series or not (it's been awhile), but whoever it was, he began his first issue by walking "onstage" in the comic panel, freeing the Fantastic Four from their glass cylinder prisons, all the while apologizing to the readers and saying, "We're just going to pretend none of this happened, okay?" Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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