Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1 (Fantastic Four Omnibus)

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Omnibus usually includes bonus materials such as the creation of the work, alternative covers, sketches, comic scripts, and more. I cannot say enough good things about "Uncles", the mostly silent issue that finishes the main title. One of the greatest comics period, the way it all bends so seamlessly and all the plots come together so well, existing concepts are used in such a brilliant manner and then each character gets their own spotlight and moment that makes you love them even more and the inter-play between them and finally the big thing to come, its just perfect plus it has a murderer's row of artist, each one soo perfect and makes this book so visually striking to look at, just wow! Reed Richards will prove to be his strongest character throughout this first series and moving on to the main one. Grieving, the surviving members of the Fantastic Four dissolve the team — but from its ashes will rise the Future Foundation!

Steve Epting and Barry Kitson deliver suitably grand art, and even a really poor showing from the usually reliable Juan Bobillo doesn’t drag things down. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. From the emotional loss of it, the multiple ways of dealing with grief, and Spidey's touching words to Franklin really strike a cord with me, even bringing me to tears the first time I read it. The Kirby years essentially invented the "modern" superhero comic book story, which continues to be the baseline by which most other superhero comic books are measured. There is so much smart and creative writing going on here that I can't wait for the second omnibus to arrive.Near Fine/Near Fine 1st impression 1st ed 2014 Marvel hardback omnibus, unclipped DJ, high quality edition. For someone so good at rattling off science jargon to make Reed and the family seem smart, he still finds time for little moments of levity and heart, that I tend to overlook after my first read through, but loved catching this time. Grievng, the surviving members of the Fantastic Four dissolve the team - but from its ashes rises the Future Foundation! I will say that it's lacking a level of intrigue or excitement that his Avengers run was dripping with, but hey, it's a different flavor of story.

The primary issue I have with the material in this book was likely beyond Hickman's control: it collects not a sequential set of issues of The Fantastic Four series but rather a bunch of Fantastic Four stories culled from a handful of different series and miniseries. this sets off a fairly complex storyline with lots of things going on in the background with maneuvering by Doom, Moleman, The Wizard, and several groups including the Inhumans and the Atlanteans. If I reread the book, I might see how it was foreshadowed throughout, but on the first go, it sure felt like it came out of nowhere and didn't hit as hard as it could have. These also happen to be a handful of my favorite artists, especially Epting, Dragotta, and Tocchini and they all obviously know how special this run is and their layouts are fantastic.One thing I would note is that I felt that a fair amount of background info on the Marvel Universe is needed to understand who everyone is/where are and why they're important etc. This began to change in the '90s and 2000s, at which point the average reader could easily get lost trying to keep up with the hundreds of interconnections and shared plots among the dozens of series published by Marvel Comics.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Everything is done very professionally with this company and always lets you know every step of the process. Art by Mark Bagley, Barry Kitson, Dale Eaglesham, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Adi Granov, Neil Edwards, Andrew Currie, Paulk Neary, Scott Hanna, Steve Epting, Rick Magyer, Mike Perkins, Nick Dragotta, Mark Brooks, Butch Guice, and Sean Chen. Its not the entire book but just random pages, really effing annoying, i have better toilet paper, some pages are so thin you can look through and on some the lettering is all smudged, again i have never seen this bad quality on a Marvel omnibus.