FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE by Alex Ross looks incredible
This book, due out in August, retells an old Stan Lee and Jack Kirby story for a new generation.
Read MoreRereads: Fantastic Four by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
Keigen Rea re-reads the Waid/Wieringo Fantastic Four, a classic run still feels so new, and it says so, right up front. It essentially tells you, hey, they’re gonna meet god and go to hell and do so much more.
Read MoreCLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK: Fantastic Four #52
By d. emerson eddy — This past Friday was the 103rd anniversary of Jack Kirby's birth. It should go without saying that he's one of the titans of the comics industry, responsible for creating or co-creating so many of our cherished comics characters and frameworks for the Big Two publishers like The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, The Avengers, Captain America, The Demon, The Fourth World, Kamandi, OMAC, and The Hulk. Even Kirby's less commercially successful efforts, like say The Sandman or The Eternals, show a seemingly limitless breadth and scope of imagination. He left a legacy that is practically unmatched and neither the Marvel nor the DC universes would be the same without him.
Read MoreOne Hot Panel(s): X-Men + Fantastic Four #1
By Zack Quaintance — Intellectually, I keep trying to tone down my excitement whenever one of these new X-Men comics builds (even a little bit) on the ideas that were in this summer’s x-cellent (goddamnit) House of X/Powers of X mini series. It feels unseemly. I’m trying to be analytical here, not gush over the stuff I used to like as a kid coming back now that I’m an adult with (too much?) time on my hands to write about it.
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