Marvels Snapshots: Fantastic Four #1

[laughing_tree]

I asked Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer to write about the Human Torch’s ten-year high-school reunion as seen through the eyes of his ex-girlfriend Dorrie Evans, because they’ve done such warm, human, affecting work on material from Superman: The Animated Series to the awesome Beasts of Burden to Evan’s pop-culture-obsessed Eltingville Club stories, and I knew they’d embrace the crazy minutiae of comics history but bring that sense of heart and emotion to it. -- Kurt Busiek

Comments

[icon_uk]

And this is why you get Kurt Busiek to curate these things, because he finds people who will "get" the characters!

This has an Astro City vibe to it and I mean that as the highest compliment.

[onsokumaru]

This looks great! Are the other issues as good as that?
Since the "you never do anything for the little man" rant always annoyed me, I really loved the woman who says "because they weren't there for you personnaly doesn't mean they weren't there for all of us".

[rzerox21xx]

There was only 1 other one released and its a snapshot of Namor one shot, its great, it deals with Namor dealing with post WW2 PTSD while fighting a Nazi villain, it was shows a flashback that Namor was also there in the liberation of of of the Nazi camps. it was really emotional and adds a new layer of depth to his character.

[scorntx]

That's a lot of continuity in there.

Normally, I'd make a "scrud, they remembered [x]", but it's Busiek.
Of course he remembered...

(Gosh, a "Red Zone" reference...)

[silverhammerman]

This is really very good, but I'm a little confused: I thought, given the title, that these one-shots were meant to tie into the continuity of Busiek and Ross' Marvels series, but this doesn't seem to be a period piece.

[beyondthefringe]

Going by news reports and other material in this issue, this specifically takes place after the Red Zone storyline in Avengers, around the same time as Bendis' Daredevil run, the death of Jumbo Carnation, and the introduction of El Guapo in X-Statix, all in 2003. So you can map this issue to that period of Marvel history, if it helps.

Also, for additional trivia, there's a passing mention of the B-Sides, an extremely obscure team who had a several issue limited series and who have been mentioned like, -once- in the past 17 years. (They were designed by Evan Dorkin, which is why he remembers them...)

[zachbeacon]

Wasn't the Asbestos Man long dead by then?