REVIEW: Fantastic Four #1

[CBR News]

"Fantastic Four" #1 marks the Marvel NOW! debut of Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley, but can they transform Marvel's oldest series for the modern era?


Full review here.

[DebkoX]

You know that feeling? Where you buy something and as soon as the payments gone through you regret it and wish you got something else? This is what I'm feeling now. I just hope my refund comes quick.

[minusthesnake]

This issue didn't really wow me, but it took me a few issues to get into Hickman's run, so I'm going to stick with it for a bit.

Anyone have any standouts from Marvel Now! to recommend? I've only read Uncanny Avengers (loved), All-New X-Men (liked and piqued my curiosity for its future) and Deadpool (totally underwhelmed).

[Monty_Cristo]

i'm interested in the mystery of Reed's power decay. but i'm also going where the Moloids go.

[LooneyKoala]

I personally loved this issue. One of my favourites from the last few weeks to be honest!

This issue didn't really wow me, but it took me a few issues to get into Hickman's run, so I'm going to stick with it for a bit.

Anyone have any standouts from Marvel Now! to recommend? I've only read Uncanny Avengers (loved), All-New X-Men (liked and piqued my curiosity for its future) and Deadpool (totally underwhelmed).

Thor: God of Thunder #1 and X-Men: Legacy #1 were both good! Obviously I can't say if you'd like them because it's all subjective, but I really enjoyed them. I've never really been interested in Thor before, but the new series has me hooked already! I bought X-Men: Legacy on a whim and it was weird (in a good way), don't regret buying it!

[Timmy]

I liked this issue. It wasn't Hickman, but it felt like a real family. It had some heart

[Expletive Deleted]

I was underwhelmed. I didn't get the sense of Fraction putting his own stamp on things, and Bagley's always competent but rarely exciting.

Maybe it'll pick up when they're off on their new adventure.

[Lightsplasher]

Liked this issue . Fraction had a pretty good idea with the "power decay" thing , i'm following this NOW !

[Chris McFeely]

One of my favourites from the NOW stuff so far, though I am extremely biased towards the ol' FF. Fraction had some very big shoes to fill following a run like Hickman's that's destined to be remembered as one of the top four or five on the book, but he's started confidently, and I particularly enjoyed - like Hickman before him - that he's using the bits and pieces left over from the previous creator's run to create a sense of continuity going forward, instead of a totally clean break between writers. That's not something we see an awful lot of these days.

[Apers]

Didn't really do anything for me, which is disappointing, as I love me some Fantastic Four. Kind of annoyed me that this is pretty much bi-monthly as it continues in FF.

[Chris McFeely]

I imagine the only direct overlap will be between these first two issues. We already knew that the team in "FF" were being formed as a response to what the F4 were going off to do in their own book, so some initial crossover is necessary to establish the premise, but I presume they'll go off in their own directions after that.

[Ravin' Ray]

Didn't really do anything for me, which is disappointing, as I love me some Fantastic Four. Kind of annoyed me that this is pretty much bi-monthly as it continues in FF.

Not all the time; Fantastic Four #1 will necessarily continue in FF #1, but then the stories will diverge and who knows when Fraction will converge them down the road.

[oldforce]

Pretty great. I don't really care that Fraction isn't diverging too much from what Hickman built. And the art was way better than I expected.

[Den]

I've been a mostly DC guy for awhile. I won't bore you with the whys. I'd heard great things about Hickman's FF run, and had liked some of Fraction's work in the past. I like the Fantastic Four in general and the comic is one of Marvel's cheaper offerings. I thought I'd jump on and see what issue #1 was like.

I think 3 out 5 stars is right. It's good, solid, but nothing really makes you go "wow". I get the feeling this may read better in trade because this was definitely a building blocks comic. I kind of want to shake Reed for not talking to his wife more honestly, but that's about the only emotion this really invoked in me. I may give #2 a try if I'm in the local comic store when it comes out, but I'm not going to put in my pull list just yet either.

[DaronK]

I thought this was a pretty decent issue, it didn't wow me, but it also didn't turn me off, which is easy to do with the FF.

With that said, this review bugs me, and it exemplifies what I think is wrong with the majority of comic reviews now a days. Based on the what the review said (and there really wasn't anything positive), I would have guessed they would have given this book 2 stars (3 at the very most). Yet It was given 3 1/2. Out of 5 that's a pretty decent score, but that really isn't justified by what the review actually says. Personally I agree with the score, but not based on how they came to it....

Sorry for the rant.