ope * Crystal * Loughridge § #4ANTOME MAX # Fantomex, the infamous international master thief, has had a flirtatious cat and mouse relationship with Special Agent Rhona Flemyng, evading her numerous attempts to bring him to justice with charm. Agent Flemyng’s bosses weren't pleased by the perpetual failed attempts so they turned the Fantomex case over to a three-man outfit known as Grover Lane. Grover Lane revealed their nefarious intentions by taking Agent Flemyng hostage in order to provoke Fantomex into stealing something very valuable...a key that activated a highly-powered laser created to vaporize a comet heading for Earth in the year 2025 that will destroy life as we know it. The group planned on holding the world hostage with this laser Agent Stirling, Grover Lane’s leader, snapped. He revealed the group’s advanced abilities came from the consumption of an alien life form that drove them mad. He has killed his right-hand man, Mr. Gaunt, and now plans on using the laser to wipe entire countries off the face of the Earth! Written by Art by Colors by Andrew Hope ShawnCrystal Lee houst tive Letters by Cover art by VC's Tae Sabino Francesco Francavilla Sardan D. White Editor in Chief Chief Creative Officer Publisher Executive Producer Axel Alonso Joe Quesada Dan Buckley Alan Fine (©2014 Marve Characters, Inc.All rights reserved. All characters featured inthis issue and the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. No similarity between any ofthe names, characters, persons, and/or institutions inthis magazine wth ‘those of any living or dead person or institution Is intended, and any suck similarity which may exit Is purely coincidental. MWW.MARVEL COMWHAT THE FUCK WE YOU DONE, STIRLING?" Was aay ia/E, ‘YouR STUPIDITY NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE MME, ALEXANDRATHIS WAS A SUICIDE MISSION FROM ‘THE START. DO YOU THINK THE OWNERS OF Thils FACILITY--SEVEN OF THE MOST POWERFUL NATIONS ON THE PLANET-- "ARE GOING TO STAND YOURE, INSANE. THEY'VE PROBABLY ALREADY FIGURED OUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THEY'LL NUKE THs PLACE FOR THB? (as Ww Hours BE DEAD WITHIN A a FY, BUT A HUNDRED SAY) miLtion wit Fait ‘BEFORE ME. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD ANYTHING I'VE ‘SAID, FLEMYNG? THE EARTH IS MARKED FOR COSMIC BESTRUCTION'IN 2028. THE ONLY THING ‘THAT CAN PREVENT TIS ‘THis DEVICE, CREATED. BY A MAN WHO CAN NO LONGER BE FOUND. He's. 16H. THEY give Bestnoy nie FARLITY #08 THE SAKE OF Isat STAREDID you SERIOUSLY THINK T NEVER ANTICIPATED ANVOF THIS, YOu STUPID COW? TM THE SMARTEST CHARACTER IN THE ‘BOOK. YOU ALWAYS: HAD A SIG HEART, ALEXANDRA. I'S, ‘Tie THE WORLD GETS TO SEE‘MR. GAUNT. ALWAYS SAID TF WOULD BE THE DEATH OF 9OU. aus WAS HOPI STR THe TAS MAHA "AYERS ROCK HAVE To DOTO BaD, LITTLE ONE. 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YOU LOVE YOUR HisTRIONIcs. 2VE LISTENED TO YOU SINCE T ARRIVED, ‘AND.T MUST ‘SAY... ‘AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU HAD A SIMPLE CASE OF DUNNING-KRUGER, ‘BUT NO. AS INCOMPETENT AS YOU. "ARE, 17 COULD ONLY BE ANOSOGNOSIA. IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, STIRLING. _-T'VE NEVER HEARD A MORE SELP-OBSESEED, Nagcissistic CRETININALL My LIFE. you MaKe ME SOUND LIKE AN ANIME SCHOOLGIRL ‘ASSUMING YOUR LITTLE “ORIGIN STORY” IS TRUE, I'S CLEAR THAT ‘YOUR MIND WAS WARPED BY EATING THE FLESH ‘OF YOUR CAPTOR. BUT IT's. NO EXCUSE FOR WHAT ) "TODAY... < RUINING THAT NICE ‘SHIRT.ex. No, FANTOM! YOULL NEVER KNOW, WHO YOUREALLY(AND THEN... ENED TO BOARD. BUTT Fal Hen 70 Ge? STUFFED. HETER ALL SHE'S DONE: THAT'S ENOUGH, EVA. SHOW SOME MANNERS--IT'S A BIT KING BILLY OUT HERE."YOU DON'T TURN... AWAY FROM Me. TLL RIP YOU BOTH THE INSIDEWHAT Is IM DOING WRONG, EVA? THER THAN BEING A INTERNATIONAL SUPER CRIMINAL SHE'S BEEN TRING a PUT AUIS FOR ire, SOU MEAN EVA, PLEASE CONTACT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND TELL THEM THAT THEIR AGENT SRE RP are ; i SPACE DEATHRAY 16 NOW DOW tau es rn ‘SAFELY UNDER LOCK WHEN FLEMISNG RESURFALED, BAD oni Topee Hed Vie pray. adi ie Gell Bons EPR | lien She Sao pees Hea thee Po ‘sor ir SHE'LL BE JUST OO As T TUET OO AG SAFE INHERE ‘AN EXTRACTION TEAM. SHE WAS TiN.VN peTisal re ta ad OF AWESOMENESS, A MONTH LATER. UKE 4OU SAID. T CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ACTUMLi CUT OFF His. HAND. TEAM, T REALL HATED THAT Gus. BLT THEN KINDA URED Hit TOO. IS THAT WEIRD WELLLLL.T KINDA FIGURED YOU REALIZED THAT 1 COULD SHUT Gee ALL THE FIR TO THIS LITTLE. “Tivel CLAUSTROPHOBIC ROOMS THE NEXT. TM We MEET. up, YOULL GET EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING 'T0 YOU. Cae YZ ‘BALANCED. RETRIBUTION, EVA. His HUMBLING Witt. INEVITABLY RENDER HIM TOOTHLESS IN THE Next SEASON. ANYWAY. YOURE WONDERING, Wy T FINALLY ALLOWED YOU ACCESS TO THIS ROOM, NO DOUBT. STREWTH! V've NEVER MET SUCH AN IMPATIENT, ANNOYING ‘CREATURE IN ALL ‘my LIFE. TLL ADDRESS THE FANTOMEX ISSUE Fis, AS ACTING DIRECTOR ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO ‘SAY ON THis MATTER, "AND I HOPE YOURE USTENING.‘ALL THIS TIME As. ‘YOU'RE WELL AWARE TIVE BEEN WORKING ON "THis FOR SOME TIME EVER SINCE T REALIZED ‘THE EXTENT OF YOUR TECHNOCOGNITIVE "ABILITIES. ‘WOU ARE? CAN ‘SEE T NOW? Imposrivers "Dulles OF CURIOSITS, AN INTERFACE T