Comments on: Fantastic Four 587 “Four No More”

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:20:23 +0000

This is exactly why I stopped reading Marvel titles. Joe Quesada has proven time and again that the happiness of comics fans has zero bearing on how he runs the company. Remember when he swore that Steve Rogers would not come back from the dead? Yeah…publicity stunt after publicity stunt. I agree with Maurice’s post above. You want improved sales? Come up with better story arcs.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:07:27 +0000

Yes comic writers are at it again kill someone off and draw attention to the title. One person involved in the story line said it would make the story better. Give me a break. Who ever they kill the Fantastic whatever will be less than it was before. What are they thinking at Marvel. Who Knows?

By: Maurice Kane, California

Maurice Kane, California — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:19:42 +0000

After the relatively recent “Death of the Invisible Woman” storyline and arcs about the FF traveling to Heaven to have the Thing resurrected and the presumed demise of Mr. Fantastic in the 1970s, and the exploitative trends to kill off (and usually bring back)superheroes, it seems banal, stale and uninspired to the Nth degree. If anything, the FF should proceed in the direction of expanding their cast of explorer-adventurers by having the youngsters age at closer to a normal rate, have others marry and propagate, and recruit. Certainly there have been temporary replacements over the decades (including, Crystal, Medusa, She-Hulk, Luke Cage, Black Panther, Storm) and spin-offs (The Fantastic Force, the Fantastic Five)but the status quo was soon restored. I recall an allusion in one of the alternative future stories about a Fantastic 14. Why not grow rather than contract? Now that might not only be an organic development for a viable, going concern like a superhero team but from a reader’s perspective, novel, revolutionary and significantly much more exciting, with intriguing story possibilities.