"The Last Fantastic Four Story"

[Fantasyartist]

I've just finished reading "The Last Fantastic Four Story"- I found it highly unrealistic( the whole business of hero/heroes trying to "hang up their guns" has been tried since the now classic "Spider Man No More" story of 1967)). Firstly does Reed seriously think that the FF's multitude of enemies will allow it to fade gracefully away- least of all a certain armored Latverian monarch?
Secondly where will they be able to hide( be a bit difficult for Ben Grimm to blend in effortlessly in suburbia).
Thirdly what will Johnny for one do( Reed at least has his scientific career whereas Sue can hack it as a housewife/schoolteacher/actress)-he has no vocational qualifications save maybe car mechanic!

Terry

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I've just finished reading "The Last Fantastic Four Story"- I found it highly unrealistic( the whole business of hero/heroes trying to "hang up their guns" has been tried since the now classic "Spider Man No More" story of 1967)). Firstly does Reed seriously think that the FF's multitude of enemies will allow it to fade gracefully away- least of all a certain armored Latverian monarch?
Secondly where will they be able to hide( be a bit difficult for Ben Grimm to blend in effortlessly in suburbia).
Thirdly what will Johnny for one do( Reed at least has his scientific career whereas Sue can hack it as a housewife/schoolteacher/actress)-he has no vocational qualifications save maybe car mechanic!

Terry

He races as well.

 

[Iron Maiden]

It looked to me like they were heading off for the moon or somewhere in outer space. In Alan Davis' FF: The End, they weren't living on Earth either so maybe you could say Stan's story prefaces that one. I notice that Stan only included Franklin in the story and there was nothing said about Val. Romita didn't draw her in either.

 

[Harlekin]

It was obviously the ending of Lee's Fantastic Four. For one, it has Thor and Captain America around. No Valeria. A fatter Watcher. There are various hints through the story that everything after the Kirby/Lee run is pretty much treated as out of continuity for this story.

I thought it to be a little bland. For a story focussing on the Fantastic Four, they really didn't do anything.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

It wasn't that great. A tad boring and hugely unrealistic with sub-par dialog.

I expected more.

 

[Paqman67]

Hello all! I did read the story and liked it, BUT I agree wholeheartedly with what other posters have said: Stan is stuck in the 60's, so hopefully that;swhat he intended to write it as. However, after seeing the crapfest called "Harpies", actually I wouldn't call it "seen" as just watched for 10 minutes and then went to vomit promptly after that, it doesn't surprise me of Stan's less than stellar story telling. For those fortunate enough not to know what I'm talking about, please DONOT attempt to watch that through U-Tube, your brain will likely become traumatized!!!!t: . First movie that I've watched whose actresses where to stupid to go into Porn and decided to make a craptasy... er, I mean a fantasy film...

 

[DoomRulz]

Is FF Vol. 1 actually being cancelled at this point?

 

[deathshead2]

I wanted to buy it, but no way am I paying 4.99

 

[Malus]

Is FF Vol. 1 actually being cancelled at this point?

This was essentially a one-shot "What If" kinda thing.

Though What The #*!# might be a more appropriate description.

I despised it, and I've been a fan since 1971.

Alan Davis' "The End" was faaaaaaar superior in my opinion, both in story and art. Why they don't just let Alan Davis write and draw the regular FF book I'll never understand.

And no, I wouldn't care if it ran late or came out only 8 times a year.
(I realize Davis isn't the fastest artist in the biz.)

To me. it would be worth any delays just to have a decent, recognizable, in character Fantastic Four comic again.

 

[Bishop2]

I liked it. It's obviously very much a '60s-style FF story, with all the cheesy dialogue that implies, but it's a solid one. I just wish it was longer - a lot of the ideas in Stan's outline in the back of the book were good, but weren't realized because of space constraints. I would've liked to have even more of that global sense of "This is completely beyond us from everybody." It's even implied that there could've been a longer discussion towards the start of the book of how the FF feels like they're just putting out fires at this point. CAN they retire? No, I'm sure they'll be forced to fight people who will come after them... but the implication of the story is that they've reached the end of Superheroics As A Job. No more costumes. Makes sense.

I also appreciated seeing an FF story where no one felt a need for the team to bicker and break up and be "estranged," which is so played out by now I could cry.

 

[Valechan]

I really enjoyed it. It really felt like a Fantastic Four story. I love Lee's dialogues, even if they're not the standard nowadays. It was a very good stand alone issue.

 

[The Geek Vault]

Anyone else read the new issue of Fantastic Four, Best issue of a comic I've read in a long time!

 

[Kelly]

Anyone else read the new issue of Fantastic Four, Best issue of a comic I've read in a long time!

No....but I guess I'm going to have to now.....lol