Warning: contains preview images for Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1!
As the host of Fantastic Four. The book will be written by regular Fantastic Four scribe Dan Slott with art by Javier Rodriguez.
Uatu first appeared in 1963’s Fantastic Four #13 and was created by the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is one run on the Fantastic Four, but out of elements Slott has seeded in other books over the past 16 years. Uatu will be front and center for Reckoning War and this March, readers will learn about a dark secret from Uatu, and the rest of the Watcher’s, past.
In a press release on Uatu and the Watchers are “keenly aware” of the “Original War”—a massive conflict predating the universe, and its potential to happen again. Slott went on to tease that Uatu will once again break his vow of non-interference, saying “maybe it’s time for the Watcher to stop watching and start doing.”
The press release did not offer any additional information on the book, leaving fans waiting until March 16 to learn more about this mysterious world even the Watcher has shunned. Why does this world terrify Uatu? How does it relate to Reckoning War? Perhaps this world is the home reality of Reckoning War’s antagonists? And what role do the Fantastic Four play in this? Whatever the case, the idea of a world so terrible that Uatu refuses to watch it should make fans' blood run cold—and greatly raises theReckoning War.
Marvel’s multiverse overflows with “What If” worlds, showing paths not taken and what could have been. Yet in Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1, readers learn there is one world so horrible not even Uatu has been to it.
Source: Marvel Comics
