{"id":3567,"date":"2010-06-03T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T05:11:05","slug":"you-should-be-reading-the-fantastic-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/03\/you-should-be-reading-the-fantastic-four\/","title":{"rendered":"You Should Be Reading the Fantastic Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You should be reading the <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> monthly comic.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprisingly good.\u00a0 Let me rephrase that&#8230; it&#8217;s surprisingly REALLY, REALLY good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/fantasticfour-hickman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/fantasticfour-hickman.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I haven&#8217;t read the <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> on a regular basis in years.\u00a0 I pick up the occasional issue here and there, and I keep up with word on the street about the book.\u00a0 I heard terrible things about the Mark Millar run and mixed reviews on Mark Waid&#8217;s run.\u00a0 In fact, the last time I heard the book was excellent was when Walt Simonson was doing it 20 years ago.\u00a0 So when I started hearing good things about the current run by Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham I was interested.\u00a0 My buddy Chocotaco informed how much he was enjoying the Hickman\/Eaglesham run.\u00a0 Then I heard Hickman discussing his approach to FF on the <a title=\"Jonathon Hickman on Word Balloon\" href=\"http:\/\/wordballoonpodcast.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/01\/1094\/\" target=\"_blank\">Word Balloon podcast<\/a> and the <a title=\"Hickman on the Mighty Marvel Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/news\/comicstories.1622.marvel_podcast_central\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Mighty Marvel Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After all that positive feedback, I decided I simply had to give the series a try.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Just wow!\u00a0 Hickman manages to spin a really wonderful story about family, exploration, and adventure.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Eaglesham is drawing some of the best work of his life.\u00a0 Almost every issue is a one-and-done story, while all the issues combined are clearly building to an over-arching plot.\u00a0 Also, they&#8217;ve brought back the letters page!!!!\u00a0 And to make it even more fun, Franklin and Val Richards are the ones answering the letters!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t take my word for it, check out the book yourself.\u00a0 The first three issues of the Hickman\/Eaglesham run are available to read online for free.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Fantastic Four #570 for free on Marvel.com\" href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/digitalcomics\/titles\/fantastic_four.1997.570\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Click here to read Fantastic Four #570 for free online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fantastic Four #571 on Marvel.com\" href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/digitalcomics\/titles\/fantastic_four.1997.571\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Click here to read Fantastic Four #571 for free online<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Fantastic Four #572 on Marvel.com\" href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/digitalcomics\/titles\/fantastic_four.1997.572\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Click here to read Fantastic Four #572 for free online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text 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