Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Printing)

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Despite their pristine public image, their flashy headquarters in the centre of Manhattan and the wonderful technology on offer, Byrne makes a point that they don’t live an easy life. Even his Fantastic Four run, collected here, has come under fire from modern day critical revisionists, keen to tear it down. Episodic stories that also have a bit of an arc (Frankie Raye going from girlfriend to Herald of Galactus for example). Plus: The FF aid the Inhumans, bid farewell to the Baxter Building, don new costumes and celebrate their 20th anniversary in style as Byrne reminds us all there's a family at the heart of this team of adventurers!

When Byrne refers to Galactus as a “brother” of Death, I fail to see how defeating Galactus is any different from an attempt to cure cancer. It's one history-making hit after another - the first appearances of the Kree, Annihilus and "Him" (a.Doom, Red Ghost, Mole Man, Miracle Man, Molecule Man, Skrulls (including Superskrull), Rama-Tut and Puppet Master! It’s easy for the two to become tangled in the public mind – and many would argue that it’s actually proper that they do. For me, with the exception of Claremont's X-Men run, a good place to start for most Marvel and DC, is the 1980's.

I’ve found this X-Men connection fascinating, because I’ve always thought that Fantastic Four and the X-Men served as interesting counterpoints to one another, as the two faces of two very different versions of Marvel. The contrast with Byrne's later work is instructive, highlighting the new energy that he brought to the title when given the reins himself. This summation of the admittedly mediocre plot cannot do justice to the engrossing wonder of that breakthrough issue – we really have no awareness today of how different in tone, how shocking it all was.My favorite storyline in the book was very different from the others, as it had Doctor Doom regaining the leadership of Latveria from Zorba, who had turned into a mad dictator since Fantastic Four helped him to become the new leader of Latveria in Fantastic Four issue 200. is a Cold War thriller pitting the quartet against a Soviet scientist in the race to reach the Moon: and notable both for its moody Steve Ditko inking (replacing Ayers for one glorious month) and the introduction of cosmic voyeurs The Watchers. Surprising to me, was the constant sexual suggestions and urges of Susan Storm who feels she needs to constantly "remind Reed of his husbandly duties.

Read more about the seller notes “VG+/VG+ 2nd edition 1st printing 2013 Marvel hardback omnibus, unclipped DJ, high quality edition. John Byrne takes the complexity seen in his famed run as penciller on the X-Men and adapts it to the old fashioned sense of humor and imagination of the Fantastic Four, and the stories are very satisfying and complex (for the mainstream comics form), and also a joy to look at in vibrant color.

I like the idea that Reed is so scientific to classify Galactus as beyond mere good or evil, but I have a bit of difficulty in how he seems able to use that to get away from the rather real harm that Galactus does. Marvel have dedicated themselves to collecting a pretty comprehensive bibliography of John Byrne’s work on The Fantastic Four, collecting all sorts of odds and ends, instead of just the issues he wrote and illustrated.

Explaining how Reed chose the building’s security mechanism, she states, “He’d considered something keyed to our fingerprints, but the Thing has no fingerprints. It takes a special kind of moron to decide that the only way he’s ever going to figure out whether he likes the Fantastic Four (or not) is to read 1,000+ pages of it. I don’t mine the Fantastic Four not getting dredged through their history of morally questionable decisions.For, as the big brain of the Fantastic Four will find out, solving everything carries with it a great cost, and one that is perhaps too much to pay. One interesting sidebar from this time period, at one point John Byrne was penciling both the Fantastic Four and the X-Men every month, then left the Fantastic Four to do Captain America for a few issues because two team books a month was too much. embarking upon a chilling war of intellects between driven super-scientists but with plenty of room for all-out action. Then he thought about honey (which he did a lot) and what to do next, and decided to just follow the links below - thinking was hard work for a bear! Richards’ body became elastic, Sue gained the power to turn invisible, Johnny Storm could turn into living flame and tragic Ben turned into a shambling, rocky freak.