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nomadicwriterIf you're not reading the Fantastic Four, now is one of the best times in decades to get into it. Since Dark Reign, the series has been in the hands of writer Jonathan Hickman, and he's slowly been unfolding a very well-planned story arc that gets more epic with each passing issue.
Reed's actions in Civil War and the seeming lack of consequences have been an elephant in the room in Marvel fandom for a long time. Hickman's finally come back to pick up that thread, but he's doing it in a smart and interesting way. Instead of just rehashing past events, one of the major underlying themes of his F4 run is digging into Reed's psychology, exploring how he ended up on this path and what kind of bad places it might be leading him. There's a lot of very clever character work going on behind the complex plots and big ideas.
The first act of Hickman's storyline has just drawn to a close, and we're now starting to see how the threads all pull together. There's a war coming, and a devastating future that needs to be avoided at all costs. Reed's own hubris may just be to blame for what's to come. And there's a message from the future warning that if they want to escape disaster, all hope lies in Doom...
Meta, some scanned panels, and a whole lot of enthusiastic rambling lie beyond the cut.
( Spoilers for Dark Reign: Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four #570-588, and FF #1 )
So seriously, even if you've never been able to get interested in the Fantastic Four before, now is great time to take a second look. This is definitely the best writing this comic's had in years.
Reed's actions in Civil War and the seeming lack of consequences have been an elephant in the room in Marvel fandom for a long time. Hickman's finally come back to pick up that thread, but he's doing it in a smart and interesting way. Instead of just rehashing past events, one of the major underlying themes of his F4 run is digging into Reed's psychology, exploring how he ended up on this path and what kind of bad places it might be leading him. There's a lot of very clever character work going on behind the complex plots and big ideas.
The first act of Hickman's storyline has just drawn to a close, and we're now starting to see how the threads all pull together. There's a war coming, and a devastating future that needs to be avoided at all costs. Reed's own hubris may just be to blame for what's to come. And there's a message from the future warning that if they want to escape disaster, all hope lies in Doom...
Meta, some scanned panels, and a whole lot of enthusiastic rambling lie beyond the cut.
( Spoilers for Dark Reign: Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four #570-588, and FF #1 )
So seriously, even if you've never been able to get interested in the Fantastic Four before, now is great time to take a second look. This is definitely the best writing this comic's had in years.
