Fantastic Four #2

[arbre_rieur]

The family says good-byes and makes final preparations as they get ready for their tour across space-time...





Johnny forgot to get someone to stand in for him while he's gone, so he needs to find one last minute.

Comments

[glprime]

Dammit, this is just too adorable. Marvel, you're actually making me smile. Quick, kill someone off so I know you're still edgy and dark.

But seriously, I can't tell if Medusa's happy or a little bit uncomfortable none of the kids are bowing (more in character the first, but the second makes me laugh).

[auggie18]

So, Marvel is only putting out books that fill me with either total rage or complete joy?

Huh.

[arbre_rieur]

Hi, you must be new to fandom. :)

[auggie18]

Actually, I'm pretty sure my years in the fandom have eroded my middle ground. I used to have in-between emotions, I swear...

[violetclm.livejournal.com]

In the Fallen Angels series, Moon Boy seemed able to live in the modern world and communicate in English just fine. What changed?

[randyripoff]

Actually, he couldn't communicate other than with Devil Dinosaur. The other Angels couldn't understand him. Chance sort of could read their body language, but that was it.

[randyripoff]

Besides, it's Marvel. Continuity be damned!

[stolisomancer]

Or, since it's explicitly time travel, we're looking at a young Moon Boy from before he learned English.

[spacebetween]

Or alternate Earth version.

[razsolo]

I never thought alternate world version, how obvious! Good thinking! :)

[icon_uk]

Simple answer, as given in Fallen Angels, is that Moon Boy isn't from the past, he's from a parallel Earth's present (Which would explain why he and Devil Dinosaur could co-exist at the same time)

[razsolo]

I kind of like this....there are a few missteps (Medusa expecting the royal treatment, Ben CONSTANTLY YELLING, the FF going to so much effort to cover what is ostensibly 4 minutes when we've never seen them do that before)....but the cuteness overrides it for me. It's nice to have a comic where kids aren't being slaughtered every other page. :)

[jaybee3]

The words are nice and entertaining, I think Fraction's got it so far, but the art. Oy. Bagley is not one of those artists who seem to excel at kids (which is needed in FF). Valeria not only does not look much younger than Franklin (remember she said she was 3-4 just a few issues ago with Bentley) but she's basically drawn as Sue with a smaller body.

[kevinroc]

The guy at my local comic shop thinks Allred should have been on Fantastic Four and Bagley should have been on FF.

[mrstatham]

I think I prefer it the way it is. Bagley doesn't do well in terms of variation, but if we're going to have him on a Fantastic Four book, I'd rather it be this one. The line-up of characters in FF feels distinctly more Allred than the actual FF themselves.

[captainbellman]

Plus Bagley has always had a talent for drawing giant machines and technical doo-dads in the background. I got reminded of scenes from Ultimate Spider-Man with that array in the above "Is That A Monkey?" panel.

[glprime]

All of the above, plus the return of Most Common Superpower. I mean, look to the right of the panel showing DM and the kids. There's buxom and then there's straight-up primetime stripper class. (Not that I should complain, but realistic proportions can be sexy too)

[skemono]

Reed kidnapped Moon Boy?

[jcbaggee]

He explains that someone (probably Johnny) wasn't paying attention and Moon Boy was accidentally displaced in the modern day.

[gamerguy]

Where's Alex Power? DId they kill him off in the previous series, or did he decide to go off on his own, or what?

[long_silence]

He's still part of the FF, just not in that panel with the other kids.

[skjam]

Dragon Man is at least kneeling a bit in that picture. (I forget, has it ever fought Medusa?

[drmcninja]

That one frame of Darla's band (hello familiar logo!) really reminds me of the 90s for some reason.

[starwolf_oakley]

Has the animosity between Ben Grimm and Yancy Street ever been explained fully? IIRC, there was something about a Yancy Street Code that said everyone from there had to stay there until death and anyone who left was a traitor. I don't get it either.