Issue(s): Fantastic Four #195
Cover Date: Jun 78
Title: " Beware the ravaging Retrievers!"
Credits:
Marv Wolfman - Writer
Keith Pollard - Layouts
Pablo Marcos - Finishes

Review/plot:
With Susan Richards getting invited to star in a Hollywood movie, i thought we were in for a repeat of Fantastic Four #9, but that's not quite the case here.

Instead it's only a coincidence that Sue winds up at Namor's studio, but he did show up here to see her because his Atlantean subjects have apparently freaked out and started worshiping him like a god.

In fact, they've sent a bunch of robots to bring him home.

Sue and Namor fight the robots for a while, but then Namor decides to do his duty and go home to his people.

Sue manages to get through all the fighting with only one "What would Reed do?" so i guess that's something.

And Sue tells the Impossible Man to buzz off; the highlight of the issue.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The Sub-Mariner got his kingdom back in Super-Villain Team-Up #13.
  
• Namor bought his Hollywood movie studio in Fantastic Four #9.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

So the Retrievers were purple, green, and bluish, but not Golden?

Good action ahd while Susan does kinda play second fiddle to Namor at least she gets a few neat moments. Better than even a few years ago I think.

And forget about the Silver Surfer! Dr. Doom should try taking the Impossible Man's powers! Though Impossible Man doesn't bother me as much, I'd take him over Assistant Editor's Month any day.

Really odd scene in this issue where Namor comments about Sue and his past together. He says there were "many painful years" when he loved Sue before Reed claimed her.

But in the comics there were only two years between Fantastic Four #4 and #27-35 where Sue chose Reed and they got engaged!?

And the first of those two years cannot be called painful - Namor had a real chance of winning her heart.

So might there perhaps have been a secret, earlier connection between the two?

Sue performs well here in all situations as a strong and independent woman. Without her to rescue him Namor was, and would have remained, ignominiously defeated and whupped down on, by his own Atlantean Retrievers. A considerable improvement in Sue's ongoing character development during this time period.