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FANTASTIC FOUR #573


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  1. Avatar photo Tiocore says:
    November 23, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Amazing cover. Amazing.

  2. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    What a comic!!!

  3. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Super excited for Hickman to keep delivering the good on Marvel’s first family.

  4. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    I never thought I would be more excited for Fantastic Four and Invincible Iron Man than for Amazing Spider-man, but that is the case this week!  Hope Hickman continues to knock it out of the park!

  5. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Excited for this.

  6. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    @cubman987  same here sir. still excited for spidey but FF and IM are just on a winning streak now

  7. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    Oh boy oh boy oh boy!

  8. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I haven’t seen any ultra-weird anatomy/poses from his work, and I think he might hit deadlines pretty frequently, so I think I might like Neil Edward’s work more then the artist he’s so very obviously inspired by.

    Super excited to see what’s next for Hickman’s FF.

  9. edward says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Yep, good book. very good book

  10. Avatar photo Spoons says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    I realized I am not reading any marvel books and this is going to be the first one I add on a trial basis.   Hoping it will be fun.

  11. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Hickman’s doing his best work on FF and I find it weird, cause normally writers do their best work on creator own, but Hickman, for now, is owning this book. Edwards preview pages are fucking tight!

    http://marvel.com/images/608418./from/content.story.10380

  12. Avatar photo kmob181 says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Can anyone tell me where the Hickman run started? (Issue number)

    I haven’t been into the FF since Trial of Galactus but the ifanboy reactions are really encouraging.

  13. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    @kmob – 570 I believe.

  14. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    @kmob- yeah its 570 and he did a cool 5 issue mini before called Dark Reign Fantastic Four that ties with is FF run. The trade is out.

  15. Avatar photo cutty says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Reading Hickman’s Image work I never thought I’d see the day that he’d be writing a mainstream superhero book.  He’s got the talent and ideas for an epic run; I will never drop this as long as he’s onboard

  16. Avatar photo kmob181 says:
    November 23, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    @Otto and @rocking – thanks.  I will check with my LCS and if its too complicated wait for the trade.

  17. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    November 23, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    I think I can seriously get an orgasm out of this week’s books.

  18. Avatar photo CaseyJustice says:
    November 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Was I the only one a little let down by last issue? Not that I won’t get this one, mind you. Just not as pumped as I was two months ago…

  19. Avatar photo cutty says:
    November 23, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    @caseyjustice – I loved it.  It seemed so epic, but in the grand scheme, was just a device to show Reed how important his family is to him.

    All in all, just an interesting idea

  20. edward says:
    November 23, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    a lot of buzz on this book

  21. Avatar photo Urthona says:
    November 23, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    It will be interesting to see what this is like since the focus won’t be Reed.

  22. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    November 24, 2009 at 3:08 am

    Hickman is Marvel’s best new writer in years.  A list.  Above many of the b listers that get talked about alot here.

  23. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    November 24, 2009 at 4:50 am

    I thought there’s someone new working on the art? That worried me. 

    Eaglesham will be doing the interiors, yes?

  24. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:57 am

    Where did Hickman’s run start?

  25. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    November 24, 2009 at 9:13 am

    @JJ ^they listed it up in earlier posts

  26. Rustyautoparts says:
    November 24, 2009 at 9:41 am

    @Nathan: No, the solicit is wrong. Neil Edwards is doing the itneriors this issue. He will be trading back and forth with Eaglesham so that the book stays on a regular schedule. The preview art indicates that Edwards is a damn fine artist as well.

  27. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 24, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Is this series linked up into Dark Reign or is it striving to be stand alone?

  28. Avatar photo shenanigans says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    I hate nu earth but love hickman so this issue should be interesting

  29. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Hickman is amazing. I hate to compare writers, but if he keeps up what he is doing (which I think he will), he’ll be up there with Alan Moore. 

  30. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    November 24, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Hickman could make Nu Earth interesting given what hes already done.

    And I may not be a fan of Nu Earth either but I hate when runs are ignored so its nice to see that even tho the Millar run didn’t really work out that they aren’t ignoring it.

  31. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    November 24, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    I never expected I’d be buying this on the regular.  I tried hunting down Waid’s FF run on Ebay.  I found somebody selling the second half of it, but some dingle outbid me by 50 cents when I fell asleep!  I have such a hard time finding the trades too!!  WTF

  32. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    @JJ – I didn’t read Dark Reign, but from what I hear went down and the verbiage in the comic itself, they’re linked, or the first arc was anyway. I still understood what was happening just fine.

  33. Avatar photo SummerSleep says:
    November 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    @robbydzwonar I think you should just get the Hardcovers. I have, they are so worth it.

  34. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    November 25, 2009 at 5:37 am

    @Rustyautoparts : thanks, buddy. Yep i read on the back of last issue that someone’s taking over. I’ll check out the previews now. Thanks.

  35. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    November 25, 2009 at 5:42 am

    JUST ADD EAGLESHAM AND HITCH = NEIL EDWARDS?

  36. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 25, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    I might look up the first arc…

  37. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    November 25, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    @nathan – I thought that too.  I don;t know how long Edwards is going to be on this book but he seriously needs to find a new way to do Val.  She just looked creepy most of the time.

    Are there rules against using the word: Fantastic to describe this book?  If not, than this issue was fantastic.  I liked that it was one and done as well.  Keeps things moving with bang bang pace I want in my FF.

  38. Avatar photo DenverDave says:
    November 25, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Almost picke this up, but I was missing that there’s no Eaglesmith, now having second thoughts… should I buy it?

  39. Avatar photo coltrane68 says:
    November 25, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    @DenverDave – you can skip this one. Missing Eaglesham isn’t a huge problem, but there is no compelling reason to read this issue, unless you like one-shot stories. It looks like the next multi-issue arc won’t start until #574.

  40. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    November 25, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    oh. so this is a stand alone?

  41. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 25, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Cool mythos shit, I love it and the action’s awesome. Edward’s a tight fill in artist. Perfect one shot.

  42. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    November 26, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Hickman’s style is fast, furious and fantastic.  One, done and on to the next.  Very Silver-agey, don’t you think?

  43. Avatar photo SunnyvaleTrash says:
    November 26, 2009 at 11:56 am

    I enjoyed this little tale, and Edwards fellow is a good artist – I’ll welcome him back on any fill-in issues.

  44. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 26, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    In my humble opinion(I’ve only read Straczynski, McDuffie, Millard, a couple of Waid storyarc and the first 20 issues of the Lee/Kirby Omnibus) Hickman understand the FF better than anyone else I’ve read.

  45. Avatar photo wayne2001bc says:
    November 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Cool little adventure, sci-fi story.  Banner Jr is one mean SOB.  I’m hooked onto FF as long as Hickman is writing it.  Looks like I’m gonna seek out the Dark Reign FF trade.  I can’t wait to see the whole FF team in action together.

  46. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    November 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    It’s ironic that this Hulk is a killer not the MU one. So ironic and so wrong (on Marvel’s part not Hickman’s).

  47. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    November 27, 2009 at 4:45 am

    Isn’t that violence against women! Wow. She crushed her!

  48. Avatar photo RickyStardust says:
    November 28, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    I felt this issue was a real let-down after the last few.  Plus it seems from all the comments that I’m the only one ho was just plain confused.  I thought I’d accidentally missed an issue.  It probably doesn’t help that I’d never heard of Nu-Earth before but did anyone else feel like we just got thrown in mid-story?

  49. Avatar photo PymSlap (@alaska_nebraska) says:
    November 28, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    @RickyStardust – Yeah, i found it confounding, despite having read the "World’s Greatest" story where Millar introduced Nu-Earth. Learn to tell a story, Franklin, Sue’s not going to have any idea how shitty Nu-Earth’s become!

    Nah, it’s not you it’s me. I think skipping the rest of the Millar-Hitch run hurt my enjoyment of this, because I wasn’t always sure how the bad guys powers worked.

    In praise of this issue, I think the laboratories and landscapes drawn by Neil Edwards looked amazing. I like what he does, even if I prefer Johnny Storm to flame-up like he did in the Silver Age, resembling more of a human-matchstick.

  50. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 28, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    @RickyStardust- No. Maybe you need to re-read it?

  51. Avatar photo RickyStardust says:
    November 28, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    @rockingeek – okay, it’s probably partly my lack of knowledge as re-reading it I guess that portal Johnny et al are in front of is how you get in to Nu-World?  I thought they’d been at Nu-World for a while and had just stumbled into this battle rather than arriving at that moment.  I think it was partly the cover as I thought that’s what where they were going would look like and I was expecting some Giffen and DeMatteis JLI style comedy.  Still, it was pretty much just a filler issue.  Hopefully it’ll be back up to standard next time.

  52. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 28, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    What do you mean; back up to standard?

    And the cover, I think, represent what the characters were imagining would happen on Nu-World.

  53. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 28, 2009 at 8:10 pm
    This was pretty dull for me. It’s not bad. Certainly sharply written, but it just didn’t feel like anything more than "Whoops, Dale needs an issue off so let me whip this up." I love done-in-ones, but something about this felt off. Whether it be the pacing or art’s "movement", I felt like we were rushing through this story. The art was perfectly fine most of the time, but there were some pretty blah panels from time to time, and Val had a rather amateurishly rendered face in some of her scenes. (In one panel her facial features are 2x as large as they should be. CREEP-Y.) Again, certainly enjoyable, but not really of the same quality as the last arc or the Dark Reign mini. 3/5 for me. 
    @rockinggeek The cover clearly has aliens on it. (There are Shi’Ar behind Ben) There are no aliens on Nu-Earth so far as I know. I have to admit, I was let down not having some random Alien Cafeteria meet up like depicted. However…. this Alan Davis cover is awesome.
  54. Avatar photo rockingeek says:
    November 28, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Wow you write big.

  55. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 28, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    Whoops!? Don’t know what happened there. Didn’t mean for that.

  56. Avatar photo zattaric says:
    November 29, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    I just started reading FF with 570, so I was a little confused with this issue.  I thought I had missed an issue, but then realized that Hickman is building off of what Millar did.  The recap at the beginning helped a bit.  I’m not complaining, I actually like having a new "universe" to get a handle on. 

  57. Avatar photo Notahiro says:
    November 29, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    I gotta say the amazing thing about this issue is how much Hickman crammed into a single issue.  In the age of 6-part events and deconstructed story telling Hickman puts an events worth of an alternate reality war into 32 pages.

     If Bendis or Millar was telling this story Ben and Johnny wouldn’t have even shown up on Nu-Earth until the end of the comic.  Hickman establishes feel, plot and character in one tight bunch.  This actually feels more like Stan and Jack than the first three issues. 

  58. Avatar photo kwisdumb says:
    November 30, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    I agree that this was pretty dull. Not bad at all, but I didn’t really understand it, and I didn’t ever feel like there was much of a risk involved for any of the characters. I dunno, just a minor misstep of this run, I suppose. 3/5.

  59. Avatar photo Toadmeister says:
    December 5, 2009 at 8:04 am

    I really enjoyed this issue, paced well and drawn well in a concise 32-page story.  It also reminded me o an old Stan/Kirby book.

     I enterpeted this story as an eggagerated bed-time story by Franlkin.

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