Androidika-Lad, Defender of both Space and Time, is a new robot and a certified comics geek. For his first post, he’s offered us some analysis of this image:
Marvel has been on a roll lately in giving us lots of teases for what’s to come in 2010. This one is no different, as I am excited for what this could be.
Let’s look what seems to be the three main items of this tease. First thing I noticed is the drawing of Galactus in the style of da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man.” Next up the two Infinity Gems caught my eye. Here we have the Orange and Blue gems which are the Time and Mind gems. The last time we saw these gems could be argued. One, you could say it was in the “New Avengers: Illuminati” mini series from a couple of years ago. The gems were divided up among the group so that no one person would have them all.
Charles Xavier was given the Mind gem and Namor had been given the Time gem. However, the gems have shown up more recently in the “Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers” mini series where at the end Lockjaw gave all the gems to Reed Richards. Although I’m not sure if that story is in continuity.
Last is a metallic skull in the upper left. Could this be an adamantium skull? How do these three things fit together? What will the world need to be saved from? If Galactus and the Infinity gems are involved its gotta be big!
Draw your own conclusions, but I believe this to be another teaser for “Fantastic Four” written by Jonathan Hickman. This is really exciting because his run on the title so far has been stellar! And if it isn’t FF related I do believe it to be Hickman related from an earlier twitter post by him, where I think he may be playing dumb:
Jhickman: I have no idea what this is – but April is a good month for awesome
I guess we’ll just have to wait until April to see what the world will need saving from and how awesome whatever this is will be!