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Post by Van Plexico on Sept 30, 2006 12:27:26 GMT -5
So Mike Carey has taken over writing chores on ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, and to start things off we have the "God War" arc.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure who Mike Carey is, but if you had cut the credits out of these two issues and asked me who wrote them, I'd have guessed Scott Lobdell. Because, to me, it reads like nothing so much as those slightly erratic, somewhat hard to follow issues he wrote back a few years ago. An influx of goofy-named characters who behave in incredibly silly ways, big ideas that somehow seem much "smaller" than they should, etc.
I liked Mark Millar's two runs on this book tremendously. But now... I'm hanging by a thread, and I'm still buying it mostly because I have come to like the personalities and interactions of *this* FF, to some degree, better than the "real" one.
But it's getting close.
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Post by dlw66 on Oct 3, 2006 9:18:55 GMT -5
Van, I've not read these issues yet, although I have bought them. Last night I finished the last three issues of Millar's/Land's arc with Doom and the zombies. I must say I liked the zombie story much more than I intended to, and the two issues with Doom in them were great. A much better take on the character than the last time we saw him in Ultimate FF with the hooves . Land's art has been beautiful, and I will miss him greatly. Millar's scripts were good, and the plotting was well-paced and everyone seemed in character (particularly Johnny). I like Ultimate Reed -- he has more of an edge on him. The inclusion of the Storms is a nice innovation, as well. I will reply again after I've read the next two books.
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