Yes, now YOU can complete a run of this eight-part blockbuster saga for a mere fifty cents an issue at your local comic shop! What a bargain! THRILL to the epic excitement as the Fantastic Four spend the entire story unconscious while Aron the Rogue Watcher gloats! CHILL with your heroes as they spend the entire story in suspended animation! GRILL the editors with your various missives, demanding to know why you were treated to months of useless dream sequences! They will tell you a good story doesn't come cheap, but cheaply comes the not so good story.

Aron the Rogue Watcher has beaten the Fantastic Four! But, wait, he's a Watcher, and so true to his nature, he watches. If that sounds like a boring excuse for a story, true believer, it certainly sounds better than it reads! A few panels here and there of an evil Fantastic Four that Aron clones from the originals does nothing to make up for what is essentially a waste of several issues. While in suspended animation, each of the Fantastic Four have a dream. In Reed's dream, he's hopelessly impressed by a home computer system he purchased from the local Compustore, which turns out to be Ultron in disguise! (Where the rest of us have embarrassing dreams about being naked, Reed has embarrassing dreams about being stupid.) As for Sue, she has a dream about trying to wipe the floor with Crystal.

It has been said that Steve Englehart wanted to do a lot of things that the editorial staff rejected, so he wrote them in as dream sequence issues and changed his name in the credits to John Harkness, which in Englehart terms translates into "I'm really angry about having to write this and in protest I'm going to change my name," but for our purposes in this instance, it simply allows newcomers to the book to associate this piece of drek with someone else. ("Harkness? Never heard of him. Sure can't write. No wonder he didn't stay on this book long.")

Well, you get the picture of the Sue vs. Crystal catfight because that's a lot more interesting than the goofy artist's rendering of Englehart when the Fantastic Four fly to him in his last issue to ask him to undo the damage to their reputations. That was probably damn effective. I hear Hussein is going to stop by the White House and ask the United States to drop more bombs on his head soon.

Granted, this is sneaky. Since this issue is a dream, an imaginary story, a complete out of continuity delusion, none of the characters therein can be held responsible for their actions, thus they can safely evade Feeble Four classification. This is how the writer can make himself completely open for abuse.

Honorary Feeble Runner Up is Aron the Rogue Watcher. If this guy is so interested in adventure, let him find a collection of John Woo films and leave the rest of us alone.