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[FF] The Heroes formerly known as the Fantastic Four
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Please let Thing wail on Doom. Just a little. I mean Doom once used his body to threaten Reed with breaking Johnny in half. Pleeeeease let him just land one good hit.
Hahahaha Reed you beautiful bastard
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I am really happy to see Hickman isn't afraid to bust out his big guns early in the series. It shows that he must have a lot planned after this.
I also hope Kitson permanently takes over for Epting. I like Epting's work and it certainly fit the dark storyline of '3' and Johnny's death but with the bright shiny future of the, well, Future Foundation comes across really muddled with his noir and crime influenced look.
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I never heard anything about Kitson getting sick for Iron Man 2.0 until after the book was released with 3 artists on issue #1, or that Moore would be switching off with another artist (this has nothing to do with the quality of their work but what was originally stated). The only thing I heard about Venom leading up to this was Moore got some original pages stolen, and even he was the one who posted about it.
What's annoying me more than anything is that all these changes are not reflected in the solicitations.
To be honest, I think I'll quit picking up FF with #3, and just trade wait if anything.
While I didn't see anything official with Venom, Remender has worked with Moore before and probably knows he will never be a monthly artist. I would be shocked if Fowler wasn't planned early on, especially since Fowler himself is a slow artist.
As for solicits, they are written by interns and what have you, errors happen.
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But this is going beyond FF now, I'll leave it at that. It's Doom's fault.
If Moore was able to put out a monthly book on time, he'd still be on TWD. He's never been a monthly artist, which isn't a knock on him at all - there are plenty of artists who can't get 12 issues out in a year.
and tell me the story about the alien kids
They're refugees from one of the four cities. And they aren't necessarily 'alien', they're the same race as the Mole Man's minions.
They were too intelligent or something and the rest of the city was going to kill them, so the FF took em in.
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Seems like he really knows how to balance a monthly book, which is important. He's got enough immediate action that each issue on its own is not too boring or obviously just set-up. But he also does enough pre-planning that it keeps you interested in the long-term story as well.
That's something that I feel some other authors have lost, like Fraction, who seems like every book he writes now is only written for the long-term and many of his single issues suffer because of it.
Are there any other Jonathan Hickman books worth checking out?
Your best choice is probably to pick up the new relaunch of Ultimates and Ultimate Comics Hawkeye in August. Hickman writes both.
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I loved the scene with Harvey and Cyclops-Armour Reed in #3 about how more and more of his 'people' are evolving like the three in the FF had.
And on a side note, in what fresh hell would Doom change the colour of his attire to suit Richards?
I know it's meant to show he's part of the Future Foundation. But seriously, he's Doom.
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She is going to come to a bad end. Mark my words.
It's a really good story too, it's not really dark and the characters and the rest of the Marvel Universe is really good. It almost feels like Davis is picking up on little bits of the last thing he wrote, which was his X-Men run before Morrison took over. I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of current Cosmic Marvel, it's got a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe going on.
Bentley is awesome. (in the other page in the preview)
His physical and mental age seems to change every issue, sometimes even within issues.
[EDIT] Wait, no. Nevermind. That's Franklin. Alex is with Susan. Regardless, I still say that Alex' age is inconsistent.
Sometimes a woman needs a man who cares
Anyone want to place bets as to how long until Reed/Sue's marriage is undone? Bets can range from a simple divorce to a OMD event.
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I was simply making a joke about how Susan is an older woman spending time away from her oft distracted husband with a blond 19 year old. I think we've all seen movies like that.
I could see her and Peter hooking up.
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In being fair, I would like to point out that Susan and Peter did go on a date once in the 60s. Susan wanted to make Reed jealous since he was ignoring her for his projects again, and Peter agreed because he figured it would piss Johnny off. Both were right, and nothing more ever came of it.
Eh, whenever Reed distances himself from Susan she goes and plays under the sea with Namor. Reed notices and seduces her again. She gets to have her cake... and eat it.
It was really dark, and it was about as close as I can recall to Reed and Susan splitting up. Things got pretty tense there for a bit.
well done
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