Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny launched a new era in superhero comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby heralding the Marvel Age.
This week writer James Robinson and artist Leonard Kirk are the new creative team on Fantastic Four. Marvel’s First Family relaunches with a brand new number one issue.
Is the new beginning the road to the end?
In this teaser for the new series:
“So what happens when the Fantastic Four go their separate ways?”As the iconic Reed, Susan, Johnny and Ben are embarking on a new adventure “that will see the Fantastic Four meet their untimely end!”
“New readers and long-time Fantastic Four fans are in for an emotional and action-packed roller coaster ride that will tear the team apart at the seams,” Senior Editor Mark Paniccia says on Marvel.com. “Broken hearts, betrayal, conspiracies and even murder will test this family of super heroes beyond anything they’ve ever experienced.”
Robinson (All-New Invaders, JSA, Earth 2) told Marvel.com he’s orchestrating the Fall of the Fantastic Four:
“I think it was Grant Morrison that said a gentleman writer comes on a book, duly messes everything up for the characters, but then puts it back together again at the end the way he left it. So absolutely I intend to put the team through hell and obviously they survive because it’s super heroes but the way they do it—and this is something unique to the Fantastic Four—is that they triumph through their familial bonds. They love each other. That’s the family they are, as opposed to being just a team like other heroes. That’s definitely an aspect that I’m going to be playing up, what all four of them mean to each other. The ever-growing group around them too; obviously you have Franklin and Valeria, but then you also have the Future Foundation and Dragon Man, and then beyond that even you have Matt Fraction and Mike Allred’s FF: Scott Lang, Darla Deering, Medusa and She-Hulk. I’m not sure about Medusa but apart from her you’ll see all of these characters and they will be a part of the story I have planned.”
Robinson will focus on the core “four” but as you can see above the extended family (Future Foundation kids and “replacements” ) will be part of this run.
Fantastic Four #1 will have a 75th Anniversary variant by the one and only Alex Ross and more acclaimed artists like this one from Jerome Opena (Uncanny X-Force, Avengers.)
Fantastic Four #1 arrives Wednesday.
By Editor