If he nails it as well as he did the first time, we're in for a (second) treat.

But what happens next FOR US is a return to Captain Marvel, to see what our favourite Kree infiltrator is up to.

Fantastic Four 66 & 67 may not fit terribly well into the Adam Warlock story (I guess we’ll see) but you couldn’t ask for a more dramatic and enigmatic introduction. If I’d been reading this in 1961, I would have been super-keen to see what happened next.

And though they escape, the FF don’t find out what emerges from the cocoon. All they can do is get out of there.

And in 67, the terror of the scientists ratchets up the tension to the breaking point. The waves of power rolling out from the mysterious cocoon! Alicia, on her own! I raced through this issue. It must have been a heck of a thing to read going in cold, without any sense of how it ends.

Issue 66 does a great job of building mystery and tension. Mysterious scientists all officially dead! A creation even they haven’t seen! Alicia, struggling to comprehend what’s happening around her! The FF, trying desperately to find her!

I do wonder what Jack and Stan had in mind here. Almost nothing of what Adam becomes is present and skimming ahead, different writers look to have done very different things. But that’s a small complaint given what we got.

Reed's dickishness aside, this was a fun read. It even tempts me to go further off-mission and read FF from issue 1.

But wait! One of the reasons for this #jimstarlin readthrough is for the story of Adam Warlock. The next two issues of the FF are his, erm, debut, after a fashion. So, we press on.

Ronan is a stickler for procedure. If he's going to fight the FF, they'd better be dressed in their uniforms. Even if he has to zap them into their uniforms with his hammer.

OK wait, the Fantastic Four gave the NYPD a blast cannon? How does Reed make these decisions?

And boom, Ronan's done.

Ronan the PUBLIC Accuser, is it? I glossed over that in Captain Marvel. I wonder how fast they'll drop the "Public".

The Kree Universal Weapon: When all you have is a hammer...

Sue, you're allowed to like "girly" things like dresses and shopping and enjoying time as a married couple. Especially since you regularly save the world. It's not foolish.

Even when Reed is trying to be nice to her, he's a dick.

And now the "Hey, what happened to our Sentry that we Kree completely forgot about?" follow-up. This is the debut of the Kree Supreme Intelligence. Good to see that crazy thing in there right from the start.

Notably, the FF kind of doesn't win here. The battle sets the base/island to explode and the FF runs for it. The Sentry only loses because it doesn't leave its post.

"Destroy the entire area in which the threat exists" is, I suppose, a strategy.

Dear God, I'd forgotten what a dick Reed Richards is to Sue. Why did you marry this man, Sue?

If Reed is going to speak to you that way, let him take as many newspapers as he likes on the holiday so he doesn't talk to you.

OMG, he's even a dick to her mid-battle. Punch him, Sentry.

This is … 5 years into the original Fantastic Four run? And the Kree are only just being introduced? I find this weird, because the Skrulls were introduced in issue 2 and I'm used to thinking of these two alien races as a pair.

I see the Inhumans are around.

Going on a holiday and stumbling across a giant hostile robot guarding a secret alien base is very on-brand for the Fantastic Four.

Season 1 of this show is the example I use when trying to explain a mythos. Perfect implementation of it.