Fantastic Four

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Cover art from Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #32 (March 2008), art by Leonard Kirk

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Beginning the second half of 265 Days with Ben Grimm with perhaps the finest single image of our hero, ever: Splash page from Fantastic Four #51 (October 2008), written by Stan Lee, pencilled by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott, colored by Stan Goldberg, lettered by Artie Simek

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Panel from Fantastic Four: True Story #2 (October 2008), written by Paul Cornell, pencils and inks by Horacio Domingues, colors by Nestor Pereyra, letters by David Lanphear

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Panel from Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine #8 (September 2001), written, pencilled, and inked by a buncha guys...here, just look for yourself. Yes, folks, you thought it couldn't happen: Ben Grimm made awesomer than he already is. How can it be done? A: Give him Captain Amer...

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) Panel from Ultimate Fantastic Four #27 (April 2006), script by Mark Millar, pencils by Greg Land, inks by Matt Ryan, colors by Justin Ponsor, letters by Randy Gentile No, folks, your baby blues do not deceive you, nor have shape-shifting aliens turned this feature into 365 Days with a Skr...

Also, Doom's eventual fate this issue is weakened by the periphery knowledge we all have regarding his and Latveria's long-term involvement in the Marvel ... and more »

Later they would contribute – individually or as a team – to the creation of other publications and characters, including the magazine Sick and the iconic superheros The Hulk, The Fantastic Four and X-Men. They would also work for Marvel's chief rival, ...

Planet Skaar Prologue #1 Marvel Comics Pak & Panosian This issue has the Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, Hercules, Amadeus Cho, the Warbound, Banner, regular Hulk and even Wolverine. It has almost every major Hulk supporting character that we saw in the Planet Hulk saga.

 - Warren Ellis, Simone Bianchi, Warren Ellis We see that originally, the Fantastic Four were part of the story. They changed things up, deciding it would be best to let this group shine on their own sooner, which was a good decision. But almost all of the dialogue stayed exactly the same, ...

Marvel: The Lost Generation is recommended for all fans of superhero action on a grand scale. Find it at comics shops, and online retailers and auctions. And for goodness’ sake, if you enjoy it, email or write Marvel and ask them to issue a trade paperback collection. This work deserves it.

Slott’s characterization of the Fantastic Four is also great. The trepidation comes from the fact that this is a story that was constructed to explain why nobody else remembers Peter Parker is Spider-Man. It’s obvious that certain people used to know, ...

By Brian Cronin I wouldn’t normally do this, as I featured a Fantastic Four moment yesterday, but then I noticed that today’s date was 4/4, and come on, how could I pass that up?!?! So today we look at a neat moment from Walt Simonson’s Fantastic Four run.

 CA by Kevin Fuller April 1, 2009 - As great as Millar and Hitch's run on the flagship Fantastic Four title has been, it hasn't exactly been all that relevant in terms of the overall Marvel landscape of late. A lot of that has to do with Marvel wanting to ...

Make sure you hop on board this hot new limited series beginning with Fantastic Force #1! FANTASTIC FORCE #1 (of 5) (FEB092535) Written by JOE AHEARNE Pencils by STEVE KURTH Cover by BRYAN HITCH Rated T+…$3.99 FOC – 4/2/09, On-Sale – 4/22/09

By noreply@blogger.com (Bully) The Thing prefers his usual physical approach. Remember, kids: Ben will, Ben will, rock you!: All panels from Fantastic Four #12 (March 1963), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, letters by Artie Simek, colors probably by Stan Goldberg

By Brian Cronin He came to the Fantastic Four with an offer - destroy Galactus or he’ll destroy Manhattan. The Fantastic Four obviously are not down on murdering Galactus, but must play along, and in Fantastic Four #243, they confront Galactus. Reed tries to reason with him but then Terrax shows up.

By rss@youtube.com (narcalepticMAN) How to draw Dr.Doom part 2 with insight and ameture remarks Author: narcalepticMAN Keywords: how to draw Fantastic Four Dr.Doom Doom Dr. Marvel Added: January 18, 2009

 CA - Marvel made the very shrewd decision to keep Fantastic Four completely insulated from the rest of the Marvel Universe. While Jeph Loeb is working on his ...

No, this is not some massive crossover, engineered to overdose readers on teeth-clenching conflict and ever-descending darkness, while simultaneously draining their wallets. Just the opposite. The continuing story of Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius is the light-hearted, all-ag...

By Greg Hatcher As for Marvel and DC…? Well, I finally cut the last three Marvel books I was getting monthly from my pull list, simply for economic reasons. I read a lot more Marvel last year than I did in 2007, but it was all in discount trade paperback; I’m about a year and a half behind on everything.

By Brian Cronin 97. Superman vs. Batman (New Frontier) 96. Thanos vs. Warlock, Captain Marvel, Avengers, Thing and Spider-Man 25. Fantastic Four vs. Galactus (First Fight) 20. Avengers vs. Korvac 13. Hulk vs. Thing (Fantastic Four #24-25) 9. Avengers vs. Masters of Evil (Avengers Under Siege)

By Chris Marshall Share on Facebook Collected Comics Library Podcast #199 28,645Kb; 30m 17s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ Regular readers of the blog of listeners of the podcast, know that I’m a big fanboy of The Batman, yes “The” Batman. meaning the older and slightly more campy Batman of the G...

By noreply@blogger.com (Pat) Fortunately the Surfer has doubled back to see what the FF were after and overhearing of the peril that threatens Earth, he decides to return to the larger world. But Reed, Johnny and Ben stay behind, deciding they must have it out with the Psycho-Man.

By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) We cut to the Baxter Building where Reed, Sue, the Thing and She-Hulk are regrouping. Reed fills them in on the fact that Ms. Deneuve is actually Sue from the future and that she is part of the group that kidnapped Johnny. Reed continues that they do not know where Sue’s secret headquarters is located. So, Reed finished constructing a microscopic tracer that he had been designing. We cut back to the Defenders’ headquarters where Johnny is screaming out in pain. Johnny yells for Sue to turn the Galactus engine off. Sue answers that Galactus will be drained and die first, then Dr. Doom and then Johnny last. Sue says that Johnny’s odds of dying are fifty-to-one. Hulk interrupts and said that the machine has eaten through more energy than expected and that...   [read the full post]

By Sexdrugsand Fandom: Avengers/Fantastic Four Pairing: Reed Richards/Tony Stark Summary: Reed and Tony are trapped, and Tony is in need of some Tony Stark-style comfort. Features include complicated equations and some science fetishism. Rating: NC-17 ...

By Chris Marshall Fantastic Four Omnibus HC Marvel Visionaries Jack Kirby Vol 1 HC Marvel Visionaries John Romita Sr HC Marvel Visionaries Stan Lee HC Fantastic Four World’s Greatest Fantastic Four Visionaries John Byrne Vol 0 Superman Camelot Falls Vol 2 Superman Chronicles Vol 6

By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) Captain America #42 Fantastic Four #560 Nova #16 Project Superpowers #6 Superman #680 The Winner: Fantastic Four #560 Also, Fantastic Four is very new reader friendly and quite accessible. I would think that Millar’s Fantastic Four would have mass appeal to the comic book reading populace. Hulk #6 New Avengers #45 Wolverine: Origins #28 Wolverine: Origins #28 was another disappointing read. Way continues to deliver a sub par read on this title. Wolverine: Origins is a fine example of why Marvel should have never given Logan his memories back. So congrats to Fantastic Four #560 for winning The Che Award of the week and “congrats” to Ultimates 3 #5 for winning the Sequential Methadone Award for the week.   [read the full post]

By Chris Marshall Podcast #187 35,232Kb; 37m 19s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ I’ve got a jammed packed show for you this week on the show. As I promised, the feature is Jack Kirby’s Silver Star (Image Comics), but I also throw in a bonus review of his O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps (DC Comics). I did so beca...

By noreply@blogger.com (Rokk Krinn) We zip to Reed Richards back in his lab at the Baxter Building. Hank Pym contacts Reed to find out if Reed is still working on finding Doctor Doom’s location. Reed replies that he is back to examining the ecological data from Alyssa while he lets his subconscious deal with the Doom situation. (Look at Reed flexing that big brain of his.) Best of all, Millar delivers a Fantastic Four story that does not require the reader to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Fantastic Four. I would imagine that Fantastic Four would appeal to a large cross section of comic book readers. Even comic book readers who have never liked the Fantastic Four.   [read the full post]

By Brad Curran I’ve worked out this whole Freudian shit. The incest thing in The Fantastic Four. What you’ve got is a family. There’s Reed and Sue, the Mom and Dad. Johnny’s the big brother and Ben’s the little crazy baby. But in that situation you’ve got Johnny and Sue — brother and sister! So there’s an incest t...

By Brian Cronin Here’s #5! Click here for the master list! Enjoy! Fantastic Four #5 This is the big bad voodoo daddy, the first appearance of Doctor Doom, one of the seventeen best super-villains of all-time!! I don’t think there’s really much more to say about this issue, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Le...

By Brian Cronin 3. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four – 1030 points (37 first place votes) Fantastic Four #1-102, Fantastic Four Annual #1-6 Galactus… Sue, Sue, Sue. Stan Lee and John Byrne brought ideas and plots to comic books that simply had never been seen before and, ...

This week, as per your requests, the guys dive into Western Comics! Why does Blake love them? Why doesn't Chase? We touch upon great western heroes from Jonah Hex to Bat Lash to The Lone Ranger to Zorro to less orthodox western yarns like Preacher, The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty, The Kents an...

Continuing our ongoing series about legends of the comic book artform, this week Chase and Blake talk about the universe-changing, highly entertaining and always controversial John Byrne. From his world-shaping work on X-Men, Fantastic Four and Superman to his upcoming work on Star T...

By Mel Odom The game evidently had to put more villains and more side treks into the play to boost the game time up. Even though I was expecting game play to be quite repetitive, it became even more repetitive than I would have believed. However, it proved into retaining to my nine year old. He had a blast lis...

By Matt Paprocki Rise of the Silver Surfer wants to mimic Marvel Ultimate Alliance, ironic since the Fantastic Four were a part of that comic book tie-in. If you want to "flame on," play that title instead. This is nowhere close in any category. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is rated T (Teen) by the E...

By Iloz Zoc I was grievously disappointed with Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I wasn't grievously disappointed with the first Fantastic Four film, just very disappointed. But this second film definitely cut me to the quick. Deeply. I expected so much more.

The lighthearted nature of the film along with some decent effects with the surfer and a mercifully 91 minute running time, makes Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, the best comic book film of the summer so far. But this summer... that's not saying much. This is a terrible movie, and unli...

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By Chris Beaumont Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. (2007, 89 minutes, PG, action, trailer) The second time around for this team of heroes will hopefully be a step up from the first. While the first was not nearly as bad as the early word would have had you believe, it was still a disappointment conside...

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With Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer about to hit your movie theaters, Blake and Chase bring you the first of a special two part episode! This week, the guys talk about their favorite stories starring Marvel Comics' first family, the Fantastic Four -- the all-time classics, the...

By Chris Marshall Podcast #124 - The one hundred twenty fourth podcast! Jury duty update; DC Comics for December; The Harvey and The Quill Awards; New Releases of the Week; Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer Trades just in time for the new movie; Running time: 36m 45s Collected Comics Library, hosted by Chri...

By Erik Davis For those that missed the trailer last night (as well as a highly-entertaining dance show), I've snatched it up and included it after the jump. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer arrives on June 15. Enjoy. Continue reading New 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' TrailerPerma...

By Chris Marshall This is Trade Secrets number eleven. This is a conversation with Jeff Parker, Walk-In from Virgin Comics and X-Men First Class, Spider-Man/Fantastic Four and Agents of Atlas from Marvel; The collected edition, which is loaded with extras, is due out in stores this week; Running time: 46...

The question my comic book nerd friends and I ask whenever a new superhero movie or TV show is made is, "How will they screw this one up?" Suddenly Dr. Doom is with the Fantastic Four during their accident. Spider-Man doesn't build web shooters, he grows them. Etc. Etc. Ad infinitum.

By Rokk Krinn Sue says that someone is trying to kill Black Panther and Storm so they should stay at the Baxter Building where it is nice and secure. Reed announces that he and Sue are taking some time off and that Black Panther and Storm will be taking their places on the Fantastic Four. This is evidenced by the fact that Thing and Human Torch are now wearing black Fantastic Four outfits to match Black Panther and Storm. (Oooookay.) The Thing says that Gravity’s body was stolen by some cosmic entity. The Thing has the coordinates to where the cosmic entity took the body. The Fantastic Four then blast off to that location.   [read the full post]

A back issue review of The Mod Squad #3, and I talk about Plastic Farm #8 & 9.  Also, JJ stops by to talk about Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #2, Liberty Meadows book 4 trade, and Ultimate Fantastic Four vol.5 trade.  Then, do I watch Heroes?  Finally, podcast recommendations and a song.  (...

The craze of comic books gone Big Screen continues as fans prepare for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie this Friday, as well as Spiderman 3 and Fantastic Four part II this summer.

Tune in for this very special hour of FbR as Mark Waid joins the in-studio crew and live listener callers.  Mark Waid is the writer of Legion of Super Heroes and is working on the upcomming 52 and Brave and the Bold.  He has penned many successful comic series such as The Flash, Captain America,...