CAPTAIN AMERICA’s Mike Perkins jumps onboard for a new story filled with supernatural surprises and all-out action! When the FF help out with the excavation of the Mole Man’s underground city, they awaken something that should have been left sleeping! Who is Agatha Harkness? What are Salem’s Seven? New Ultimate characters! A new artist! All this – plus, someone has the hots for the Human Torch!

SPOILERS

Sue is at Nursery Two (from the second annual) investigating a ginormous, hatched egg. She grabs some samples and heads back to the Baxter Building to investigate. Something follows her, making weird comments about growing and Sue being "it". The folks at Nursery Two are watching newsfeeds about a new group of heroes called the Salem Seven.

Cut to Ben and Johnny doing something stupid. They end up burning a huge hole through the Baxter Building. Sue comes back and there's a cute-yet-incredibly-awkward scene between Reed and Sue, their relationship is far from stable. The thing that followed Sue now sizes up Reed for being "it".

We now get introduced to Ultimate Agatha Harkness who is... an incredibly hot SHIELD Psychologist (and NOT a 300 year old wrinkly witch). She's there to preform psychological evaluation on the members of the FF and the Baxter to ensure SHIELD's getting its money's worth from the Baxter.

She begins by interviewing the FF, to varying degrees of success (Reed's threatened not make any more mistakes - they're costly; Ben gets dissed; Susan gets pissed; Johnny gets naked (well, half-naked...)

Sue beings looking into the tissue samples she got from the giant egg. She decides she will grow whatever it is that hatched out of it, when she's interupted. A building blew up and the FF are investigating. That's when the Salem Seven show up.

Overall, this issue really had 3 unrelated plot lines (Salem Seven, Creature, Agatha Harkness) that will no doubt come together by the end. As of right now, it was kind of disjointed.

I'm not crazy about the color-over-pencils art. I think the art will benefit greatly from an inker.

In conclusion - so-so, but I'm intrigued to see how things develop...