Fantastic Four Marvel NOW

[The Bat]

In interested in some of the Marvel Now comics, especially Fantastic Four & Captain America. Unlike DC New 52...Marvel is describing it as a "soft re-boot". More of just a good jumping on point for those who haven't been following the comic for awhile and trying to keep up with years of continuity. Sounds good to me.
I know not all of you are fans of Mark Bagley...but I like him a lot. I think he draws the best Peter Parker of today's artists(NOT his Ultimate version though).
So, I'm pretty happy that he's taking over Fantastic Four and can't wait for issue #1!

http://marvel.com/news/story/19200/marvel_now_qa_fantastic_four

[The Toyroom]

The story arc for Fantastic Four actually sounded interesting to me so I might jump on board...

[Earth 2 Chris]

Kuodos to Bagley for drawing the Human Torch correctly. I hate when artists just draw Johnny with no shadows, and they color him orange. That doesn't say "fire" to me.

Chris

[kingdom warrior]

Kuodos to Bagley for drawing the Human Torch correctly. I hate when artists just draw Johnny with no shadows, and they color him orange. That doesn't say "fire" to me.

Chris

That's exactly what I was saying, many artist were relying on the colorist....and Johnny never looked like what he is a human torch.......

[The Bat]

Kuodos to Bagley for drawing the Human Torch correctly. I hate when artists just draw Johnny with no shadows, and they color him orange. That doesn't say "fire" to me.

Chris

I also agree with this! I hate it when they draw him on fire with hair...it just looks wrong. I'm glad for the fresh start with FF, I think it was needed right now. I had cancelled the book for awhile...but I'll be picking it up again.

[Brazoo]

Cool - I keep hearing that Matt Fraction is a great writer - but I never knew where I should start with his stuff - so I'll probably check this out!

[thunderbolt]

Oooh, this might get me back to the FF. I thought Bagley was supposed to be the next big thing at DC? He jump back to Marvel? Looks like they found him the perfect inker in Mark Farmer, too.

[The Toyroom]

^ Bagley was only at DC for a year...They had him working on that weekly "Trinity" series with Kurt Busiek and did nothing else with him...

[thunderbolt]

Cause DC doesn't want clean classic type artists anymore. They want Jim Lee and Image clones. This whole Marvel Now thing is everything DC's wasn't: fun with big names on all the big books.

[MIB41]

I think Marvel's idea sounds much stronger than what DC is doing. The idea of reintroducing instead of re-branding is the way to go. Nice cover art too.

[The Toyroom]

Keep the core concept, just dust it off and give it a fresh look...that's what Marvel has always done (with a few exceptions). DC on the other hand loves to reboot and retcon so much there is no way for anyone to keep up anymore.

[madmarva]

Yeah, just think how well DC's reboot early on. Marvel's will likely do twice as well and since they're not kicking out continuity with the reboot, it's not as offensive if offensive at all to longtime fans. Sometimes it's better to be second in a marketplace if you can learn what worked and what didn't and then apply it.
As one who generally prefers DC's characters, I hate admitting that Marvel just does a better job with its comics, but it's true. More consistency, not as many missteps and just overall a better product for your money.

[thunderbolt]

Marvel's redo or whatever will probably bring some disenfranchised DC fans over to them, too. The only thing I don't care about so far is the XMen/Avengers mash up.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Man, Marvel is schooling DC all over the place these days. Movies and comics. This "refresh" sounds MUCH more appealing than the DCnU.

Chris

[samurainoir]

As much as I have enjoyed Fraction's previous runs on Iron Man, Iron Fist, Thor and X-Men, the fantastic four has bee one of my favourite titles over the past few years under Hickman. It's going to be a tough act to follow, particularly since some stellar talent even prior to Hickman got to add their mad ideas to the mix... Like the Millar and Hitch run (the storyline which Hickman finally wrapped up this past issue). A little sad as well that FF is no longer going to be the title spotlighting the kids, but I guess it's better to see that end with Hickman rather than run it into the ground with his departure.

It sounds like at least Franklin and Val will be in Fantastic Four, but I'd love to see Bentley, Alex Power, Artie, Leech etc stick around as well.