Mark Waid and Neal Adams team for new Fantastic Four project

[MRP]

Announced today, coming out in August

https://www.newsarama.com/50232-mark...ur-series.html

The Fantastic Four will square off with a mysterious new cosmic menace in writer Mark Waid and artist Neal Adams' Fantastic Four: Antithesis, a just announced series of unspecified length.

The story, which focuses on a villain with ties to Galactus, is Adams' first full-length Fantastic Four story.

“Working with Neal Adams has been a dream of mine since I was a kid. To share the page with a man of his talent is an honor,” Waid said in the series announcement. “The story begins with the Fantastic Four struggling to prevent an extinction event on Earth and just goes more cosmic from there. We all know of Galactus, but until now, no one has met his Antithesis.”

“I have always had the sense of missing the chance to draw the Fantastic Four. It was a quiet sense, since I’ve had every opportunity to do my favorites. More, I felt Kirby and Buscema had done it all, hadn’t they…?” Adams added. “When Marvel’s Tom Brevoort asked if I’d like to do the Fantastic Four, I knew I had to ask for Galactus and the Silver Surfer as well. I am humbled and thankful to Tom for the opportunity.”

Fantastic Four: Antithesis #1 arrives in August.

-M

[Earth 2 Chris]

Well, we kept saying we wish Adams would work with a good writer. Not much better than Waid. I'm interested in at least flipping through this for a potential purchase.

Chris

[PNGwynne]

I'm excited, but more for Waid than Adams.

[Mr.Marion]

I don't believe Adams ever did a FF comic even after Kirby, Romita was chosen to fill in intermediately. Of course he did draw them in his Avengers run.

[Blue Meanie]

Adams can't take 2 years to come up with the art. Also, he needs someone inking his art. Maybe an Ordway or someone of experience with older more veteran artists. It can't be those AWFUL Batman Odyssey books he did for DC...which took a couple of years to finish. He has had the reputation for being LATE on almost everything he has done since Ms. Mystic. Either have it done and ready to be printed, or don't even go there with Adams as a penciler. There are plenty of people that can "ape" his style better than he can that can keep a schedule and be ON TIME with the work. That being said...I would flip through the book if the above criteria are met.

[MRP]

Adams can't take 2 years to come up with the art. Also, he needs someone inking his art. Maybe an Ordway or someone of experience with older more veteran artists. It can't be those AWFUL Batman Odyssey books he did for DC...which took a couple of years to finish. He has had the reputation for being LATE on almost everything he has done since Ms. Mystic. Either have it done and ready to be printed, or don't even go there with Adams as a penciler. There are plenty of people that can "ape" his style better than he can that can keep a schedule and be ON TIME with the work. That being said...I would flip through the book if the above criteria are met.

Adams is in a position where he can set conditions for working on a project and his main condition these days is that if he is doing the art, he is doing all the art, pencils, inks and colors. If that condition is not met, he won't take the project, so no one will be inking Adams anytime soon.

-M


PS here-and I am going to correct myself here as it looks like Adams agreed to just do pencils on this... Inks by Mark Farmer. Colors by Laura Martin

and here's a look at the cover for the first issue...



-M