Fear Itself: FF #1 starts off with the Future Foundation's (previously known as the Fantastic Four) the Thing, mutated into even more of an abomination by one of the magical hammers the Serpent had delivered hurtling through the atmosphere for their Worthy wielders on Earth, now known as Angir: Breaker of Souls, laying waste upon the city. The only good thing here is that with the Thing going berserk, a name change for the team would no longer be necessary. Reed and Susan stepped in to confront their teammate, attempting to persuade him out of this madness, while the Thing had to contend with talking tube worms latched to the man's body, as part of the Angir package. Knocking Mr. Fantastic out cold, the Thing proceeded to further destruction, only to be stopped by Dragon Man, whose jaws were about to be torn apart by the former when Alicia, Ben Grimm's love interest as it would seem, tried to reach out for whatever was left of the Thing she knew, though to no avail, as she was all the same knocked out by such a blow she almost died had the Invisible Woman not come to her aid.
The whole point of this issue was perhaps to throw a bit of light as to why the Thing, normally perceived as the gentle, clumsy, lumbering pile of rocks, could so easily succumb to the hammer's power. Oh, and also how much of a total jack-ass he is actually capable of becoming. Blaming himself over the loss of Johnny Storm, known to the public as the Human Torch, who died stopping Annihilus of the Negative Zone from invading the world through the Baxter Building's portal, it would seem the Thing was in no more perfect a position to let the hammer of Angir take hold of him.
The whole point of this issue was perhaps to throw a bit of light as to why the Thing, normally perceived as the gentle, clumsy, lumbering pile of rocks, could so easily succumb to the hammer's power. Oh, and also how much of a total jack-ass he is actually capable of becoming. Blaming himself over the loss of Johnny Storm, known to the public as the Human Torch, who died stopping Annihilus of the Negative Zone from invading the world through the Baxter Building's portal, it would seem the Thing was in no more perfect a position to let the hammer of Angir take hold of him.