scans_daily: Fantastic Four #600 teaser image

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@ 2011-10-17 04:49 pm UTC

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char: galactus, creator: jonathan hickman, creator: leinil francis yu, group: fantastic four

Fantastic Four #600 teaser image

ComicBookResources continues to deliver the goods in terms of previews this day, as the teaser image for Fantastic Four #600 is released.

Someone que the "Those Spoke Zarustra" music.

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mrstatham
2011-10-18 04:57 am UTC (link)

Yes, but Marvel clearly suffers from ADD and just has to have something big happening very shortly after the last event, because you know, god forbid the books were allowed to breathe and to develop that cohesive shared universe without the threat of the latest dumb fucker trying and failing to destroy or take over the world.

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	no subject jlroberson 2011-10-18 05:22 am UTC (link)
	I sometimes think DC and Marvel should just put out monthly Galactus and Darkseid comics and save us all the trouble. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-18 05:27 am UTC (link)
	I'd quite like a 'your planet is fucked' crossover. Twelve issues of all the bad guys you'd ever want to see just trashing stuff. And no happy cheesy piece of crap ending with the heroes magically triumphing, just Galactus and Darkseid versus Godzilla and Cthulu at the end of the world. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject jlroberson 2011-10-18 05:32 am UTC (link)
	That was FINAL CRISIS. Didn't work out so well. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-18 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Don't worry, we'll get someone who won't lose his focus writing it this time round. We'll put Warren Ellis on it and it'll be snippy and sarcastic and the best end of the world EVER. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-10-18 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, but do we need/want another rather obvious author-insert cynical, world weary yet vaguely heroic, character? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject mrstatham 2011-10-18 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	If it's the quality of the Authority, Stormwatch, Planetary, Desolation Jones, Transmet, the 'Ellisbolts' or FreakAngels, yes. I'd rather have a cynical Jenny Sparks type as our way into and lead through a story than changing the focus so often the book has no focus. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject rainspirit 2011-10-18 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't they try doing that with the Golden Age? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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mrstatham
2011-10-19 08:23 am UTC (link)

You mean the Heroic Age? And yeah, they did. But there's 'trying it' and giving it time to see whether or not it's a viable concept. Marvel didn't do the latter, because we were already seeing lots of hints for Fear Itself shortly after the Heroic Age stuff kicked off, with those godawful 'Do you fear..?' things they put out.

The fact of the matter is that they're too afraid to try and do really, really big stories in the regular books now, and those that are telling really, really big stories, like Hickman in either his FF or Secret Warriors work, don't receive nearly the amount of attention they should because they aren't the top dogs at Marvel. Every 'big' story these days is made into an event book with a billion and one tie-ins, whereas ten years back, Fear Itself or Secret Invasion, maybe even Civil War or House of M and World War Hulk? They would've been crossovers. Same problem, I know - a book gets a few months taken up by an event some might not be interested in, but at the very least, you wouldn't get this weird artificial inflation of sales because a book ties in to a huge event.

As it is.. Every Marvel book basically looks like it's treading water until the next big event.

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