X4 aka X-Men/Fantastic Four #1-5 (2005)

This was another attempt to bring popular Magna creators into the Marvel fold.  Like those before it, it produced an inessential, mediocre “event” comic.  The Fantastic Four show up at X-Mansion to ask for help but instead Wolverine punches Thing, Thing hits back, and there’s a big, stupid brawl.  So dumb.

The teams then go into space because a U.S. Space Station is in trouble and the crew need a rescue.  Apparently, in a world where Tony Stark gives the U.S. government technology and robots have emotions, America can’t even rescue its own astronauts.

Anyway, turns out the whole thing is a Brood attack.  

Disinfect the infected, fight the Brood, yodda yodda, and then they play baseball.

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