Well folks, as promised, we have part 2 of this week's comic reviews for your pleasure and we hope you like the titles we've chosen. As always, if there are any series' at all that you would like to see reviewed as they release - all you have to do is ask!
Fantastic Four #603
Story:
Jonathan Hickman
Art:
Barry Kitson
(Review
by Akshay Dhar)
I've never been the biggest fan of Fantastic Four comics beyond the
early years under Kirby and Lee, a few good ones here and there but
rarely have I consistently enjoyed what is otherwise one of the most
landmark, unique and iconic team books in comics. Until Hickman. From
now on when it comes to the FF there is the era B.H. (before Hickman)
and A.H. as far as I'm concerned and if you've been following his
work from his takeover through the launch of the ongoing FF (a.k.a
Future Foundation) and the recent relaunch of Fantastic Four, then
you know exactly what I mean.
Not a story-heavy issue, this is just part of the final moments of
what Hickman has been building for quite a while now with the
multi-Reed storyline, the time and space travelling Richards'
children all growed-up and all the other little bits that have been
weaving around – not to mention the death and VERY recent return
(with style I might add!) of Johnny Storm, a.k.a, the Human Torch. We
get some funky science, deadly cosmic weapons, Galactus kicking arse
and laying the smack-down, Negative Zone armies now ruled by Johnny,
lost kids and twists still forming as others unravel and this is a
relatively simple issue for what has been a great time with a book
(now two books if you include this and FF both). Barry Kitson does a
fantastic job on the art and the massive scale action scenes play out
really well while never getting in the way of the story, a nice
balance.
