Category Archives: Fantastic Friday

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Issue #313 begins a multi-part story that will see the new FF — Ben, Johnny, Crystal, and the Sharon Ventura Ms. Marvel — visiting some of weirdest, wackiest corners of the Marvel … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In issue #312, the team’s newest member continues to have a tough time with things. This is also part of a crossover that’s not much of crossover that we’re barely crossing over … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In issue #311, two of our heroes have just gone through a shocking transformation and, if you’ll pardon the expression, it won’t be pretty. To recap: Ben and Sharon Ventura (the second … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’ve only just established a new FF team for a few issues, and the creators are already shaking things up again in issue #310, with more big changes for our heroes. We … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In issue #309, the new FF team — Ben, Johnny, Crystal, and the Sharon Ventura Ms. Marvel — continue their struggle against a wacky and rather offensive villain. To recap: The new … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’ve got the new team now — Ben, Johnny, Crystal, and Sharon (Ms. Marvel) — so it’s time for them to go up against a major villain. And what a villain this is. … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Over the last few issues, the series has been gradually passing the torch (heh) from the original team to a brand new team. In issue #307, we get a look at the … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Now that all the Dr. Doom/X-Men/Mephisto stuff is over, we get back to the main plot in issue #306, in which Reed and Sue are out the door, and Ben is leading … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. This week, I’m at annual #20, which is a direct continuation from the cliffhanger at the end of #305. Except, I stopped reading the annuals a while back simply because they’re really … Continue reading →

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. It finally happened — Marvel continuity got the better of me. In my last regular blog post, I wrote about issue #305, only later to check the Marvel wiki, where I learned … Continue reading →