Infinity Wars: Infinity Warp # 1 2018 The Terrific Two pg 2 by Ozgur Yildirim & Scott Hanna

Infinity Wars: Infinity Warp # 1 November 14, 2018
"The Terrific Two" pg 2
Pencils: Ozgur Yildirim
Inks Scott Hanna (Signed lower right)
Writer: Jim Zub

When you gaze into the warp…you get more stories of mad Two-In-One heroes! Read about the Star Siblings of the Warped Universe – MISTER INVISIBLE and HOT ROCKS, the TERRIFIC TWO! Then, see how the covert programs of the Green Room created the gamma-powered GREEN WIDOW! And join MOON SQUIRREL AND TIPPYSAUR as they save the planet from the most dangerous threat it’s ever faced!

With a classic What If style nod, the framing sequence for this anthology is an introduction from the Watcher who, in this warped universe, is the merged forms of both Uatu and Charles Xavier, going by the name Observer X. (Just in case you didn’t get the hint that half of this being is the former leader of the X-Men, Observer X’s language is liberally sprinkled with X-pressive X-cerpts that X-ceed your X-pectations.) Aside from really driving home this character’s origins, the tone of this anthology is firmly set here: This is a book that’s here to have fun.

'The Terrific Two' is the subject of the final story, where the entirety of the Fantastic Four has been folded in half, forming two new characters with all of the superpowers of the entire team. There’s Mister Invisible, aka Reed Storm, with the powers of both Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, and Hot Rocks, with the powers of Thing and the Human Torch. Hot Rocks may be the best character to come out of the entire Infinity Warps, if for no other reason than the perfect choice of name. Plus, he’s basically Thing, but he can turn on fire? What more needs to be said?

Jim Zub’s story takes its cues from some of the earliest FF tales, by pitting the Terrific Two against a warped Mole Man (the Master Mole and his Sentinoid Slaves!) after the Baxter Building disappears into the bowels of the Earth. It already feels like something you’d have read from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and Zub’s script is full of the enthusiasm of the era. The art team of Todd Nauck, Ozgur Yildirim and Scott Hanna do a solid job of recreating the bombastic adventures of the FF without pushing into any particularly new ground, while the three color artists -- Ruth Redmond, Matt Yackey and Chris O’Halloran -- bring the scenes to life, especially Hot Rocks who practically burns up the pages he’s on.