Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for May 03, 2023
Transcript:
scrappy lad: Dr. professor! grel mon is on an alien rampage! Man: I have just the thing! His powers are nitrogen-based, so if we just mix these with that, and then... we just, uh....um.... scrappy lad: Maybe you can invent something to make bones heal faster: Man: Gefft....oufft.....
As I mentioned early in the arc, this is why Reed Richards kept the Thing around, to stall the villain until Mr. Fantastic could get the batteries into the doohickey of the issue. (Except in continued stories. Then it might take two or three issues before Reed could remember which was the +terminal and which the negative… I think polarity was reversed in the Negative Zone.)