The idea apparently is Reed tricked some powerful villain into letting him bring the "full" Fantastic Four to challenge her. She assumed he meant Ben and Johnny, but no. Relevant to my interests, who's that I see in the upper right corner, above Spidey and to the right of T'Challa and Iceman? With the blonde hair and the ankle wings?
(Nita was a member of a team Johnny pulled together during I think the Jeph Loeb/Carlos Pacheco run. The two of them, She-Hulk, and Scott Lang. Johnny and Nita were dating at the time.)
As far as I know, this is the first time Nita's actually appeared in a Marvel comic since the end of Abnett and Lanning's Thanos Imperative. She survived that, because we see her back on Earth at Project PEGASUS with Nova's kid brother and Quasar when Cosmo came to recruit Quasar for the Annihilators. That was late 2009/early 2010. It didn't seem to get any wider acknowledgement, though.
(And this was right after Marvel had finally given up trying to make the Agents of Atlas a thing, so we've still never gotten any sort of mother/daughter reunion there. Which would have been a nice moment.)
Granted, that Nita was from some point in the past due to weird circumstances involving a massive tear in the fabric of the universe, but come on. That time travel shit works for the X-Men all the time. Cable's dead! Oh wait, no, here's Cable, possibly the same one, but maybe not. Time Travel!
I think Christopher Yost's New Warriors book had an Atlantean on the team looking for Namorita, but I don't think it ever paid off. I'll probably try to grab that series at some point, I like Marcus To's art.
I don't know if she'll get to do anything of significance in this FF story, but hey, at least someone remembered she's around to be used as a character. Either that or Dan Slott decided Secret Wars erased Civil War from continuity, which would be fine with me.
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