Marvel 1985 #5 cover

I’ve never read a comic book so fast in my life until I got Marvel 1985 #5 today. This month’s issue is seriously a weird one. Given, that it’s Mark Millar it’s golden and amazing but maybe something of unpolished good. Let me just say Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards are a duo that have more power than any of us could imagine.

If you get my drift as to how this issue was, read on for some more fun stuff and a bit more of my understanding of this issue and my “how the hell is this going to end” predictions… this issue lead into a lot of things that… well they blew my mind.

**spoilers and some über fun after the break**

The issue begins directly where the last one left: Toby fell through to 1985 in the Marvel Universe. How fucking cool. He heads out, running from the Trapster, and heads out to find the Avengers at the Avengers Mansion (remember back in the day when…). Upon arrival he is turned away by Jarvis as he explains that “…parallel worlds fall under the jurisdiction of the Fantastic Four…” Millar makes a clever joke about kids becoming future super villains and I giggled.

Toby heads to the Baxter Building to find the FF, but they, too, are unavailable. Being the genius in comics that he is, Toby sees a Daily Bugle and instantly thinks of finding Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man. After Toby half-forces Peter Parker to out himself we jump back to our universe.

Holy shit. A sentinel.

Everything has gone to shit. Villains have destroyed the fuck out of our world. People are just dying all over, but Toby’s dad is on his way to save his 7-month pregnant ex-wife.  We see more and more destruction and more and more villains just wreaking havoc everywhere. We see a glimpse of Toby’s dad’s friend, Clyde Wyncham, in a comatose state in a hospital as everyone around him is getting killed… The narration of who I assume is Toby as an adult explaining the destruction… After getting Toby’s mom out of harm’s way we see one final scene: Galactus. The narration explains that it is only logical that Galactus would show up…. but my question still lies at:

How and why the fuck is all of this happening?

Mark Millar is building a monster house of cards here and he is building it with all of the cards we want to see: sheer destruction of a world by every villain imaginable, a subtly obvious back plot growing faster than fungus in a shoe, and our underdog hero in distress. It’s utterly amazing. With only one issue left, I have no god-damned clue where our favorite Scottish writer is going. There are so many questions:

1. What all does Toby’s dad know?
2. What does Clyde Wyncham have to do with all of this?
3. Has this happened before?
4. Where are the Fantastic Four?
5. How did Galactus get to our world?

And the list could go on and on. But I have some predictions… just going on a limb here, but I’m willing to express my ideas here because I have no fucking clue how Millar is going to finish this all up in 1 damn issue. It’s too big… It’s just too. Damn. BIG.

Predictions:

• Clyde Wyncham has some kind of power that opens a portal to the 616-universe.
• This has happened before and Toby’s dad is the only know who knows how to stop it and it has to do with the Wyncham house, along with Clyde–this will also explain Clyde’s catatonic state.
• Clyde is originally from the Marvel U and his living in our world has brought the 616 villains to our world.
• The ending of this series will directly relate to Millar’s Fantastic Four series somehow…

Galactus. He hungers.

Mind you all I am simply speculating. I hope you all have been reading this series because it is seriously fantastic.

Tommy Lee Edwards art is simply amazing. It’s sketchy yet very detailed. It’s something I don’t think any other artist could capture in it’s whole and I absolutely loved the contrast in style from our world to the 616. Even the way Tony was drawn a bit more crisp than the rest of the 616 universe (this could just be me seeing into the art a bit much, but I thought it was drawn that way).

Millar has a truckload of things to explain and knowing him he will do it in its entirety next month. I’ll me shaking in anticipation for the end of this series and I really hope you all are out there buying this comic or at least plan on getting the trade paperback when it come out.