WHEN LAST WE SAW CAPTAIN FANTAS-TIC HE HAD JUST RECEIVED THE KEY TO THE CITY FOR SAVING PEOPLE FROM A BURNING BUILDING WITH HIS NEWLY FOUND POWERS, BUT HE STILL DIDN’T FEEL COMPLETELY CONFIDANT IN HIS ABILITIES OR IN HIS PEROSNAL LIFE...

...AFTER ALL, HE WAS JUST A LOWLY JANITOR IN REALITY....

BUT HE WANTED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND BE CONFIDANT, LIKE HIS HERO CAPTAIN HAMMER. THEN MAYBE HE COULD HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO ASK OUT THE GIRL HE LIKED.

HOWEVER, WHEN A VILLAIN WALKED IN AND ROBBED THE COFFEE SHOP HE WORKED AT, AS WELL AS ABDUCT THE GIRL HE LIKED, ALL HE COULD DO WAS STAND THERE SHOCKED.

AND WHEN SOMEONE’S AFRAID THEY DO THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND...

...WHICH, IN CAPTAIN FANTASTIC’S CASE, WAS HIDING...

...HE WAS ASHAMED

NOT ONLY DID HE ACT LIKE A COWARD AND LET ANOTH-ER PERSON HARASS HIM AT WORK, BUT HE ALSO LET HIM GET AWAY TAKING THE GIRL HE LIKED HOSTAGE...WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING CAPTAIN HAMMER WOULD DO...

MUCH LIKE CAPTAIN HAMMER SAVED PENNY FROM A CAR AND OTHER SUCH DANGERS, HE WOULD SAVE HER...EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T END UP TO-GETER,AT LEAST HE WOULD OVERCOME HIS FEARS AND BECOME A BETTER HERO AND A BETTER PERSON...

THIS MUCH HE SWORE TO HIM-SELF...

SO HE RAN BLINDLY THROUGH THE NIGHT TO TRY AND FIND HER, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NO IDEA WHERE SHE WAS TAKEN TO...

WHEN SUDDENLY...

HE COLLAPSED AGAINST A WALL SUFFERING FROM A MAS-SIVE MIGRAINE ATTACK THAT WAS SO SEVERE HE WENT UN-CONSIOUS. HOWEVER IN HIS MIND’S EYE THERE WERE UN-USUAL SHAPES TAKING FORM...

HE SAW VISIONS OF A TIED UP HOSTAGE AND THE OUTLINES OF A BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND AND KNEW WHERE HE HAD TO GO.

HE FLEW ABOVE THE CITY TO GET A BIRDS EYE VIEW AND FOUND AN ABANDONED WARE-HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF TOWN THAT MATCHED HIS VISION...

IN THE DARKNESS, CAPTAIN FAN-TASTIC SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE A HOSTAGE TIED TO A CHAIR CALLING OUT FOR HELP...

WHERE IS SHE?!

HOWEVER, WHEN HE GOT CLOSER HE REALIZED IT WAS ACTUALLLY THE PER-PITRATER WITH A RECORDING OF THE VICTEM SCREAMING...HE HAD BEEN TRICKED!

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE SHE IS, YOU WILL BOTH BE DEAD SHORTLY!

WHY ARE YOU DO-ING THIS?!

DON’T WORRY ABOUT WHERE SHE IS...YOU’RE BOTH GOING TO DIE SOON ANY-WAY...

FLASHBACK

THE VILLAIN, SKRULL X, RETOLD HIS STORY TO CAPTAIN FANTASTIC OF HOW HE USED TO CREATE MUSIC AND ALWAYS TRIED TO GET SIGNED BY VARIOUS RECORD LABELS...

UNFORTUNEATELY, ALL HE EVER RECEIVED WAS REJECTION AND RIDICULE FROM THE LABELS AND PEOPLE ONLINE...

...THIS LED TO SCKRULL X RESORTING TO I-DOSING AS A FROM OF ESCAP-ISM...WHICH ULTIMEATELY DROVE HIM INSANE AND MORE HOSTILE TO THE PEOPLE AND SOCIETY AROUND HIM.

WITH THIS FINAL DECLARATION, SKRULL X WHIPPED OUT HIS SONIC BLASTER AND SHOT CAPTAIN FANTASTIC WITH THE SAME SOUND WAVES THAT DROVE HIM INSANE.

PRESENT

WHY AM I DOING THIS? BECAUSE IF THE WORLD CAN NOT ACCEPT ME THAN I CAN NOT ACCEPT IT! IT MUST ALL BURN!

AHHHHHHH-

HHHHHHH!!

TO BE CONTINUED...