The next is a four issue story entitled Prime Elements. I hesitate to call this a story arc because the only thing these four issues have in common are the titles. These issues are all purely set-up for things to come. The first issue is about the mole man asking the Fantastic Four for help. It turns out the high evolutionary inadvertently created a machine that evolves the mole people to a super intelligent state which has been causing them to abandon the mole man's army. So the mole man is losing his army of slaves and they are gaining intelligence; so what's the problem? Well it turns out that these new intelligent mole people are so ashamed to look at their children that they abandon them in the sewers and have stopped reproducing altogether. Needless to say the Fantastic Four swoop in just in time to save the remaining children right before the mole people raise the city to the surface for an unknown purpose.
Prime elements issue two takes place entirely in Antarctica. Reed and Sue have been funding a research facility that, in 1973, discovered the largest suspended body of water beneath 13,000 feet of ice. Anyway none of that's important. What is important is that now they discovered some kind of enormous structure within the body of water. The evil science organization A.I.M. also came upon this information so it's a race to the bottom of the sea. Once they descend into the water they cannot communicate and they come upon some strange sea life that is not friendly. This whole issue felt like the horror movie The Thing and this was a great, intense scene. Eventually, a small spongy creature gets attached to all four of the main character's heads and they can then communicate telepathically. They get overwhelmed by these shark people who lead them to a throne room. There are three thrones and the green, fish, humanoid, thing that is seated on the middle throne introduces himself as Ul-Uhar and welcomes them to the kingdom of Atlantis. Of course, they are all a bit surprised considering they actually know the king of Atlantis, Namor but they don't bring him up just yet. Ul-Uhar asks for the one who represents man. A representative of our species. Reed tries to explain that that is not the way humanity works but before he can Susan speaks up and says that she will represent man and be the emissary for all humanity.
Issue three brings us back into the cosmic area of the Fantastic Four. Reed picks up a photo from a surveillance satellite of some sort of alien craft landing on the blue area of the moon. Of course I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the blue area of the moon is the favorite hiding spot of our favorite freaks, the inhumans. The Fantastic Four head up to the moon where they promptly meet an old man just chilling on the moon. He invites them inside for the meeting. On the way, the man tells them the story of the inhuman's origin. They were early humans experimented on by the alien race the kree. They received amazing powers when they were exposed to terrigen mists (alien thingies). The twist is that there were other species of inhumans throughout the universe that gained different powers from different things and now they have found each other for the first time in history for one goal; to exterminate the kree. Black Bolt seems to be the only male inhuman because there are now four different species of women throwing themselves at him. there's the hairy lizard lady, the chick from avatar, the horse chick and the red lantern but their names aren't important. What is important is that to wipe out the kree they're going to need a base of operations and they have their eyes set on Earth. So we're fucked.
The final issue of the arc begins with Johnny at a bar picking up a chick. I would just like to take a moment to say that this not your average bar. There is a man with a forehead tattoo preaching about death on stage which makes sense later in the story but raises the question, WHY THE FUCK IS JOHNNY AT THIS BAR!? But I digress; Johnny manages to pick up a girl and bring her back to the Baxter Building. She then promptly turns into a bug and opens the portal to the negative zone. Johnny chased her in but was only able to seal off the portal. Cut to Susan with the kings of Atlantis. Andromeda Attumasen has brought them a message from Namor telling them that they are not the kings of Atlatnis and if they want a meeting they have to come out of hiding. And on the moon the strongest army of inhumans attack the negative zone and the war of four cities begins.
Well that just about wraps up Prime Elements. I did leave some things out of these summaries but nothing too important like future Franklin telling Val about the war of four cities or Reed scolding Johnny for letting that bug chick into the Baxter Building. I don't think I left out anything too important and if anything comes up again that I just forgot about I will explain it. Okay well that's it for part two see you next time!
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