Fantastic Four Volume 4
2015 • 144 pages
The internet-wrecking end of the Fantastic Four is here! The team meets the All-New Invaders as the hunt for Reed Richards and the missing Future Foundation kids continues! Meanwhile, the mastermind behind everything unveils his ultimate plan...but how does young Franklin Richards factor in? With the villain's plans revealed, the invasion of Earth begins -using the creatures from the "ranklinverse"as well as corrupted versions of the heroes from Heroes Reborn! Will the Fantastic Four have enough power to fight them on the streets of New York? Meanwhile, Sue, Namor and Jim Hammond travel to the Franklinverse to combat this threat at its source -but find something more terrifying than they expected! And how does all of this add up to...he end? Guest-starring the all-new Captain America, the Hulk, and Sleepwalker! COLLECTING: Fantastic Four 642-645
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It made me stinkin' mad to discover that this is the way Marvel chose to close the book on the FF. To retcon over 50 years of storytelling with the pathetic machinations of one evil genius whose entire motivation is his lust for Sue and resulting hatred of Reed (and, by extension, their whole family and range of associates and friends and and and...) feels almost disrespectful to the universe that so many brilliant writers and artists created before this fizzle.
The story on its own would have been two stars - at most - for me, but for the inclusion in this volume of four beautiful pages of Marvel royalty talking about their favorite FF covers through the years. A great overview of the way cover art has changed through the years, and interesting to hear the perspectives of artists and writers on what makes a cover a stand out.
