Fantastic Four, Vol. 2: Road Trip
by:
Matt Fraction (author)
The Fantastic Four's road trip through time and space continues! On an alien world, the team encounters a thousand-year-old prophecy...is the Invisible Woman a long-awaited intergalactic messiah? Then, the F4 sightsee in ancient Rome and dine with Caesar on the Ides of March. Did somebody say,...
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The Fantastic Four's road trip through time and space continues! On an alien world, the team encounters a thousand-year-old prophecy...is the Invisible Woman a long-awaited intergalactic messiah? Then, the F4 sightsee in ancient Rome and dine with Caesar on the Ides of March. Did somebody say, "pass the knife"? And it's a visit to both the beginning and the end of time, as Marvel's first family witnesses the big bang and the big crunch! But to their surprise, they're not alone! What happens beyond the end of infinite time and space? Plus: one day a year, The Thing reverts to his human form. This year...Ben Grimm is going to go home again - as Ben Grimm! And when Franklin and Val have a sibling rivalry, all bets are off! COLLECTING: Fantastic Four 4-8, 5AU
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780785166603 (0785166602)
ASIN: 785166602
Publish date: September 10th 2013
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 136
Edition language: English
Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel NOW!
I love Fraction's writing in general. I'm just not crazy about this particular series. At the same time, he was writing FF and I liked that much more. I can't quite pinpoint why I don't like this much, either. I just don't. Like with the last series, I'm gonna finish this up - just one mo...
The last issue in this volume was great, but other than that I was unimpressed. Something about getting into time travel and alternate universes and dimensions just disinterests me. It takes so long to get everything out onto the page that you need to explain what's going on, that I become bored and...
What I like about Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four is that it doesn't just depart very clearly from Hickman's preceeding run, but also pretty heavily from the classic Lee/Kirby stuff. It cranks up the sense of wonder and family adventure so high that it sort of bypasses the Crushing Cosmic Stakes that...