Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Fantastic Four #554 - Marvel


This book is aptly titled, because it truly is . . a Fantastic book. And now it's made even more so by the new infusion of creative talent. Mark Millar is the new author. We all know that his writing is impeccable, and brilliant. Then we have Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary handling the artistic chores. I'll tell you what, this book looks like a labor of love for all of them. Right now this book is probably in the best place it's been . . . for quite a while. That's saying a lot, considering how strong the last run was. Mark comes out of the gate running, too. He's already infusing the story-line with some fantastic ideas. We start out with the family returning from the wild-west. Reed thought it would be fun to visit the past for a family vacation. They were actually shooting for the grand-opening of Disney World in 1955, but when a temporal storm came out of nowhere . . their plans got changed. Sue is also putting together a little "all-women's" team on the side. She says it's for charity, but you just know they're going to end up seeing some action, somewhere. And Reed's old college flame returns, Alyssa Moy. Although she says it's now Alyssa Castle, because she married the billionaire Ted Castle a few months ago. And there's few more surprises in this issue. Quite a bit actually for being the beginning of what I hope will be a long run of creative ingenuity. I even bought the $20 variant cover for this issue, just because I think it's going to be that good. So if you hurry, you might be able to get out there and jump on board for cover price. But don't wait to long, because it's going to sell-out fast.

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