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Reckoning War is an American comic book event written by Dan Slott with art by Marco Checchetto, published from Februrary to June 2022 by Marvel Comics. This story deals with the Fantastic Four dealing with an alien invasion from a mysterious race called The Proscilians, which also features She-Hulk and Iron Man.

Plot Summary

Prelude

She-Hulk is taken by the Time Variance Authority due to her actions in the future, and the Time Variance Authority take her to the future where her actions will cause a war between Earth and mysterious beings which will cause The Watchers to break their non-intervention oath. During the trial, She-hulk is allowed to continue existing thanks to the Time Variance Authority seeing how much of an effect She-hulk has on different people.

After the events of Empyre, Nick Fury is observing the Fantastic Four and Avengers celebrating when Uatu appears out of Nick Fury, and tells him that there is a reckoning. Uatu opens his mind to Nick Fury, where its revealed Uatu's siblings bonded Nick Fury with Uatu, where Nick Fury was silently watching the universe. Uatu explains that there is a Reckoning War coming, and everyone needs to prepare. After helping the TVA deal with Kang the Conqueror, Reed Richards overhears the TVA talk about Reckoning War.

Main Plot

The Proscilians are revealed to be the enemy who supply the Coati during Empyre and were one of the first alien races who was gifted technology from The Watchers. However, the Proscilians got greedy and sought to use the Watcher's technology to take over planets, which caused an all out war in the cosmos. The Watchers manage to defeat the Proscilians but only by destroying 90 percent of the universe. In the present day, the Proscilians are supplying a group of aliens called the Badoon to invade Earth. Uatu sends out a call for the other Watchers, however the Recknoning instruct the Badoon to blow up Uatu's headquarters on the Moon. Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Men, Champions, and Fantastic Four help save civilians from the moon rubble falling to Earth while dealing with the Badoon invasion. She-Hulk sees the TVA observing the chaos before disappearing, and Silver Surfer finds Eternity (the living embodiment of the Marvel Universe) on their deathbed and goes off to find a mysterious artifact to save Eternity. The Fantastic Four meet up with Nick Fury, and Reed Richards accesses Uatu's mind to understand what is going on. Meanwhile, Wrath plans to invade Earth and take down the Watchers.

Wrath kills multiple Watchers while Reed Richards broadcasts a message to all the heroes on Earth to help them fight this invasion and contact Silver Surfer. Doctor Doom goes to Camp Hammond to get a powerful weapon. Reed Richards tells everyone to go help out the Watcher fight off the Proscilians, and tells The Thing that him accessing Uatu's mind will cause him to die in 3 days. It is revealed in the past that Uatu tried to convince other Watchers to take down the Proscilians from rising again, however he was imprisoned by his father. During the battle, The thing is gravely injured and She-Hulk realizes why this is her fault. Silver Surfer and Thor meet up and fuse Destroyer and Galactus together. Reed Richards heals The Thing, and tells him that Reed's kids (Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards), Thing's wife and kids self-destructed to help stall the Proscilians. She-Hulk reveals that she was a judge siding with a group of aliens called the Recluses to hide from The Watchers which caused the Reckoning War. She-Hulk finds Wrath but is quickly defeated, while The Thing nearly beats Reed to death, until Reed reveals that he never caused their kids to self-destruct, and only did a decoy to make sure The Thing was not distracted as Reed notices that The Thing is often unfocused when fighting the enemy. Doctor doom uses the artifact to release a mysterious being to take down the Proscilians.

Reading Order

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #39 (Prelude)

• Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #40

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #41

• Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1 (Tie-in)

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #42

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #43

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #44

• Fantastic Four (2018 series) #45 (Epilogue)

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