Ultimate Fantastic Four #21

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Written by Mark Millar, Art by Greg Land

Trigger Warning for some Gore

7 pages of 23

Comments

[halloweenjack]

WRT the cover: sometimes, Land's pornfaces are inadvertently hilarious.

[bruinsfan]

I'm almost certain the Reed on the right is based on Tyler Posey, so less pornface and more dudbro-acting-goofy face.

[skemono]

I prefer to think it is pornduckface. Land found a way.

[long_silence]

Considering that Ultimate Fantastic Four #21 came out in 2005, Tyler Posey would have been 13 at the time

[bruinsfan]

I initially missed that this was the first Marvel Zombies story, and thought they were revisiting them yet again.

Still looks like Posey to me though, even if it couldn't possibly have been based on him.

[siliconshaman]

Oh shit, the zombies are back...

[michaelhealy]

This was the first Marvel Zombies story so not really back...

[siliconshaman]

Ok, I stand corrected... never actually followed that series as I'm not a big zombies fan. [too much like my work life.]

[crinos]

Ah yes, the story that started the w hole "Zombie super hero" thing.

[cyberghostface]

I found out recently Disney apparently isn't crazy about Marvel Zombies and made it so Marvel could only sell toys of villains as zombies as opposed to the heroes.

[mrstatham]

I don't blame them. The stories might have some merits, but otherwise it's just a cheap gimmick, especially the way Marvel started milking classic covers, only zombified.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Aren't Zombie Reed, etc sort of villains by default already, though?

[silverhammerman]

I really can't wrap my head around the idea that there was ever a time when Marvel was trying to redefine itself tonally and artistically and decided that Greg Land was the man for the job. I mean, those interiors do look like he gave more a shit than his recent stuff, but that cover is a timeless kind of hideous.

I do actually like this fakeout, it's a fun turn on the pretty hack-y premise of an Ultimate/616 crossover.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

So, do they ever explain how Zomb-Reed pulled off the con? I'm guessing holograms or something to make him look normal. What about Franklin, though? Was he real somehow, fake, or zombied?

[bruinsfan]

I'd guess if you can make a hologram of yourself, it's just as easy to make it of a non-infected version of you and add your now-dead kid for reasurance. (I don't specifically recall if Franklin's death was mentioned, but he'd have to have died early to prevent him from undoing the zombie apocalypse before it got any traction.)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oh yeah, I figured it would be the same way... I just wasn't sure what the deal was with Franklin here at all.