FF #3 mini review
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doomfans*blows dust off comm* Anybody still here? Okay, after long months of nothing much to report, Doom finally gets a very brief appearance in this month's FF, though it's more of a setup for future developments than anything. So, some equally brief comments on the issue.
Previously in FF: the Fantastic Four appointed a substitute team to look after the Future Foundation kids while they went off on a voyage that was supposed to take only four minutes from the FF's POV. They didn't come back, and FF #2 ended with the arrival of an aged version of Johnny Storm, claiming that the rest of the FF were dead.
We pick up with his story, seen here in the preview pages. Future Johnny claims that his family were killed by a hybrid villain created by Doom merging forms with Kang and Annihilus. I... have serious problems with this premise if it's played straight, the biggest and most obvious being that there ain't no way in hell that Doom would ever consent to merge his personality into anybody else's. But it's quite likely future Johnny isn't what he seems, so I guess we can only reserve judgement for now.
For the moment, though, all the tests they can run confirm him as being the real Johnny, and the FF have to decide what to do about his warning. Scott Lang, who already has vengeance on his mind after Cassie's death, declares that they're going to end Doom.
And that's the setup. (As already spoilered in pretty much every bit of pre-publicity for this series, but hey.)
So... I have to say, mixed feelings all round. I'm actually enjoying Fraction's writing for FF much more than his Fantastic Four (although both are moving painfully slowly compared to Hickman's plotting). But my big issue with his F4 is that he seems to be very much in love with the original 60s comics and largely ignoring recent character development in favour of the classic versions of the characters, which doesn't exactly bode well for a nuanced take on Doom. Especially with that wacky supervillain melding plot, which is very much in the spirit of silver age cracktasticness.
I'm also kinda ambivalent on the Allred art; sometimes it doesn't quite work for me, other times I really love it. In the plus column, I do adore this style of clean bold colouring, and that's a pretty sweet Doom face in the scan above. Not a bad version of Castle Doom, either, so I look forward to seeing the action move to Latveria.
In summary... I'm nervous. If future Johnny is manipulating the team into attacking Doom for reasons of his own, this could be going somewhere relatively interesting. If the take on Doom turns out to be silver age moustache-twirling villainy, it could be pretty awful. Guess we're just going to have to wait and see.
Previously in FF: the Fantastic Four appointed a substitute team to look after the Future Foundation kids while they went off on a voyage that was supposed to take only four minutes from the FF's POV. They didn't come back, and FF #2 ended with the arrival of an aged version of Johnny Storm, claiming that the rest of the FF were dead.
We pick up with his story, seen here in the preview pages. Future Johnny claims that his family were killed by a hybrid villain created by Doom merging forms with Kang and Annihilus. I... have serious problems with this premise if it's played straight, the biggest and most obvious being that there ain't no way in hell that Doom would ever consent to merge his personality into anybody else's. But it's quite likely future Johnny isn't what he seems, so I guess we can only reserve judgement for now.
For the moment, though, all the tests they can run confirm him as being the real Johnny, and the FF have to decide what to do about his warning. Scott Lang, who already has vengeance on his mind after Cassie's death, declares that they're going to end Doom.
And that's the setup. (As already spoilered in pretty much every bit of pre-publicity for this series, but hey.)
So... I have to say, mixed feelings all round. I'm actually enjoying Fraction's writing for FF much more than his Fantastic Four (although both are moving painfully slowly compared to Hickman's plotting). But my big issue with his F4 is that he seems to be very much in love with the original 60s comics and largely ignoring recent character development in favour of the classic versions of the characters, which doesn't exactly bode well for a nuanced take on Doom. Especially with that wacky supervillain melding plot, which is very much in the spirit of silver age cracktasticness.
I'm also kinda ambivalent on the Allred art; sometimes it doesn't quite work for me, other times I really love it. In the plus column, I do adore this style of clean bold colouring, and that's a pretty sweet Doom face in the scan above. Not a bad version of Castle Doom, either, so I look forward to seeing the action move to Latveria.
In summary... I'm nervous. If future Johnny is manipulating the team into attacking Doom for reasons of his own, this could be going somewhere relatively interesting. If the take on Doom turns out to be silver age moustache-twirling villainy, it could be pretty awful. Guess we're just going to have to wait and see.
