FANTASTIC FOUR #578

Review by: jonnyflash

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WRITER: Jonathan Hickman
PENCILS: Dale Eaglesham
COVER BY: Alan Davis

Size: pages
Price: 2.99

Am I stupid?  I mean I have a college degree and all, and I like to think that I’m smart.  Hell, I read some really thick books!  Some of them with no pictures, not even on the cover. 

So what the hell is wrong with me that I can’t figure out what the hell is going on in this comic?  I loved the first story arc with “What is the cost of solving Everything?” but this book has been a mix of ho-hum and WTF. 

The main plot I got ok, but it kept cutting to stuff with some people who had something to do with Namor, then back to the inHorses from the last issue.  Including a horse with boobs.  Then everything just ended.  What just happened?

The art is still great, and the scene of the Anhilius babies emerging will probably give me nightmares for weeks.  Hell, even that horse with boobs was kind of sexy.  But the plot is just too esoteric for me.  I don’t buy into it meaning anything on a grand scale.  It’s just crap being flung against the wall, and it’s not sticking anymore.  The first arc got me buying FF for the first time, pretty much ever.  Now I’m done.

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 4 - Very Good
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    April 30, 2010 at 7:34 am

    Hmmm, interesting…

  2. flapjaxx says:
    April 30, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Hm. I didn’t see what everyone was raving about with the first arc, even (it was okay, I thought, but not anything too special). Then again, if that was many people’s first concentrated exposure to FF ever, then I can see why they’d like it.

    If anyone else is giving up on this, all I can helpfully suggest is not to give up on the FF completely. Just try anything–anything–from the John Byrne run. All that stuff is, er, Fantastic: big ideas, great art, great characterization, a sense of family, etc.

  3. Avatar photo flakbait says:
    April 30, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    The Waid/Weiringo run was amazing as well, some of my favorite comics ever.

    I’m not reading at the moment (was planning to pick up the trades) but I think you do need to take Hickman’s writing style into account. Everything may not be apparent now, but sort itself out in the next couple issues.

  4. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    April 30, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    I pulled a Tom Katers on this and skipped. I’m not missing it. So I guess I’m done with it.

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