Fantastic Four: The Beginning of the End [Paperback]

Dwayne McDuffie (Author), Paul Pelletier (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 4 and up

Reed and Sue team up with the New FF in a desperate gambit to find the source of the disease wracking the fabric of spacetime itself. Only one being can follow such an ineffable trail but a resentful Silver Surfer is in no mood to help King T'Challa. Plus Dr. Strange, The Watcher, and the awesome destiny of Gravity! Collects Fantastic Four #525-526, 551-553, Fantastic Four: Isla de la Muerte!.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (May 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078512554X
• ISBN-13: 978-0785125549
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.2 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dwayne McDuffie is the co-creator of the Emmy Award winning television series STATIC SHOCK and of Milestone Media, the most successful black-owned comic book company in history. In television, he was a Writer/Producer for Warner Brothers' JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED and is currently the co-producer/story editor of Cartoon Network's BEN 10: ULTIMATE ALIEN. A leading proponent of multiculturalism in media, Dwayne has created dozens of characters for comics, television and videogames, notably, Marvel Comics DAMAGE CONTROL and DEATHLOK II, and Milestone Comics ICON and HARDWARE. Dwayne is a multiple Emmy and Eisner Award nominee, and is the winner of the 2003 Humanitas Prize.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An okay FF volume, April 8, 2009

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This review is from: Fantastic Four: The Beginning of the End (Paperback)

"The Fantastic Four: The Beginning Of The End"
written by Dwayne McDuffie & Karl Kesel
illustrated by Paul Pelletier & Tom Grummett
(Marvel Books, 2008)
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As a follow-up to the riotously fun graphic novel, "FF: The New Fantastic Four", this is a bit anticlimactic. This volume includes two story arcs, one from issues #551-553 in which a future-version Doctor Doom time-travels back to try and get present-day Reed to give up a project that Doom says will harm humankind, while the second story (issues # 525-526) dips backwards to reprint an orphaned two-part episode in which another old-time villain, Diablo, who also is dispatched with in a similar manner (both bad guys get sent off to alternate worlds, which they get to rule to their heart's content...)

Overall, this volume wasn't super-satisfying, although it was a good read. The Dwayne McDuffie plot was the best, but it ends abruptly. While the older, future-reality edition of the FF were fun to see, they don't do as much with the characters as we'd like -- perhaps there'll be some future-world stories with the elder FF somewhere down the line? That could be fun! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doom has come back to fix the future., June 3, 2008

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Daniel Spakosky "Mynyon" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fantastic Four: The Beginning of the End (Paperback)

[...] This book is about Doom's trip to the past to fix the mistakes of Reed Richards and his inevitable "madness that will destroy the future".
With the help of Namor & T'Challa, Doom is hoping to stop Reed or at least convince the rest of the gang that plan #101 will take the world down a path is is totally unacceptable to Doom.
All in all good story and it gives some more insight into the personal conflict between Reed and Doom.
Good back up story as well including Diablo. A character I haven't read much about drawn by one of my favorite artist's Tom Grummett. This story gives history into Diablo's past.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hardly any thought went into this bland FF tale!, July 17, 2009

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S. Penrose (Small Town, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fantastic Four: The Beginning of the End (Paperback)

Sad to say, this Fantastic Four tale has almost nothing to offer readers. McDuffie gives us a story that has been told a million times before. Future unintersting versions of the cast and Doom plague the team and it seems like the same old same old. The art by Paul Pelletier was very run of the mill and doesn't hold your eye. The second part of the trade was so misplaced both chronologically and thematically I almost wonder if there was even an editor involved. Really disappointing.