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Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four

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This wonderful graphic novel is a collection of comic book stories, seamlessly knitted together to form a fascinating story. Herein, the story of the Fantastic Four is updated, without substantially changing the characters or their powers. Once again, with superb illustrations, the team finds themselves given fantastic powers, battle the Moleman, Prince Namor the Submariner, and their greatest foe-Dr. Doom.

These comics are superbly drawn, while the story is gripping. I must admit to cringing when I first saw this book, so many people now want to transmogrify the old character out of all recognition. But, this book succeeds in retelling the old tale, faithfully and interestingly. I really enjoyed this book, and think that you will too!

In the mid-90's, Marvel decided to conclude their much maligned Onslaught storyline with the deaths of many of their top tier heroes. The Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Man, and the rest of the Avengers, all bought the big one as their respective titles were canned and re-launched with a new direction (allegedly) as Marvel teamed up with Wildstorm (before they became part of DC) to produce some new takes on old stories. Many fans weren't exactly thrilled with this chain of events, and the Fantastic Four books ended up being the best of the Heroes Reborn lineup. Spotlighted by Jim Lee's artwork, Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four finds Marvel's first family tackling with Dr. Doom, Namor, the Mole Man, and the list of usual suspects in a more modern setting. The storyline isn't anything we haven't seen plenty of times before, but it's not bad considering, and Lee's fantastic (no pun intended) artwork makes this TPB worth checking out alone. If you're a FF fanatic, you'll want to pick this up for completist reasons alone, or if you're a Lee fan, you'll want to check this out too.

This Marvel comics Book shelf reprints the first six issues the Fantastic Four in the Heros Reborn project done several years ago. I was there at the time when I bought those issues and I had some signed by Master illustrator Jim Lee! He does the most powerful illustrations! This project was to take the Marvel Superheros like Fantastic Four, Captin America, Iron Man, and the Avengers into a Pocket Universe outside the regular Marvel Universe we know. Jim Lee was given Fantastic Four and Iron Man. This Marvel project was to re-start and re-build some of the Marvel titles that loosing readership. Heros Reborn was suppose to re-boot these characters and bring them into the 1990s era. It was also suppose to be attribute to the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby era when these Marvel comics were first published. He wrote and drew Six issues of FF and did some plot work for Iron Man. Jim Lee was given a-lot of money do this project. He even took over Captain America and the Avengers when his Marvel Heros Reborn Collaborator, Rob Liefeld was fired for having low sales. He is a master in comic book art its field. I recommend This Marvel book shelf if you like Jim Lee! buy it! It's a great visual! Some of Jim Lee's best artwork ever!

This book has been hyped as the "best of the Heroes Reborn" books, featuring artwork and "plotting" by Jim Lee. If so, I think I will skip the other Heroes Reborn books (all of which failed after an initial surge in sales). The artwork is not Jim Lee's best (sorely missing the inking of X-Men collaborator Art Thibert) and the writing is astonishingly bad.

Marvel followed up on the concept of updating their classic characters with the highly successful (and fanboy approved) Ultimate universe a few years later. If you're looking for a fresh take on the FF, I would recommend checking out Ultimate Fantastic Four, Vol. 1.

This book collects the first arc in 'Fantastic Four' vol. 2. The Fantastic Four (as well The Avengers) had sacrificed their lives to save the world from a new (and vastly underwhelming) villian. Or so the world thought. Little did anyone know that Frankling Richards, the son of Fantastic Four leaders Reed and Sue Richards) had spirited away all heroes into a pocket universe. Their the heroes would relive their earliest adventures without any memory of the lives they once lived.

Which brings us to this book. The best of the 'Heroes Reborn' (the banner title for this event), this retelling stays true to the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby tales of the 1960's. Just updated for the 1990's. Ben now serves in the Persian Gulf War and not World War II. The heroes are trying to reach an interstellar anomly and not beat the Russians into space.

This is the tale of how scientist Reed Richards, his friend and astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed's fiance and financier for the project Sue Storm and her hot-headed brother Johnny. When the government takes over the project, commandeering Reed's spaceship for theirselves, the four band together to reach space ahead of the feds. In a ship without proper shielding they go into space, only to have the anomly explode on them. Crashing to Earth the four are surprised they lived but even more amazed at the new powers they have gained.

The four then battle the Mole Man, meet SHIELD and Nick Fury, and save Manhattan from the wraith of the Namor, the Sub-Mariner.

Great stuff, done like a movie but in the end trivial when one realizes everything in 'Heroes Reborn' doesn't matter. We all know the heroes will learn reality is a sham and return to their world where their original origins will be reinstated. But in spite of that, pick this book up and find out what comics really should be like.

The Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four book is very good! Brandon Choi, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams who are the creative team on WildCats revamped Fantastic Four for Marvel comic's Heroes Reborn project! Jim Lee draws the first six issues and Brett booth and Ron Lim draw the last six issues. Jim Lee's art is breath taking! The way Jim Lee draws Fantastic Four & Avengers is wonderful! He draws Namor very well! The Marvel characters, Wyatt Wingfoot, Mole man, Super Skrull, Dr. Doom, Silver Surfer also play a part in Heroes Reborn. I recommend it if You like Jim lee art and Fantastic Four comics!A++

4 stars for the Jim Lee wonderful drawings, with a lot of color, action, powerful characters: super-heroes and vilains.
There is a high contrast between the present times marvel comics and jim lee's. Action, super powers, vilains, color, humour, dynamic story, are all present in Jim Lee's comics. We don't find this anymore today, but only thriller, "grey universe", violence, and... no action along the pages.
A great story for a great pleasure

The Fantastic Four will NEVER die. They will stand united and fight for justice until all the members die in unison. This relaunch of the Fantastic Four by Jim Lee is visually stunning. Perhaps the best of the Heros Reborn group. However, is it necessary? I think not. I give two stars for the art, ZERO stars for the story or originality. I'd recommend The Essential Fantastic Four for the best FF stories. I'd recommend waiting for the Carlos Pancheo and Jeph Loeb series which would surely be bound together in Trade paperback form in the near future. I'd recommend many individual issues of the FF, but this series is so unnecessary that I was completely regretful of my purchase. If you like Jim Lee's art, buy it. If you like FF as a group, don't. If you like to collect trade paperbacks, get it. If you like to collect great stories in one volume, don't get this. This will disappoint even the most sympathetic comic reader.

This is one of the best Fantastic Four comics I've ever read. It's light-years ahead of anything that Lee and Kirby did. The dialog and the action go hand in hand. Kudos to Jim Lee for his work on this series, it really restarted my interest in Fantastic Four. Buy it today!

This wonderful graphic novel is a collection of comic book stories, seamlessly knitted together to form a fascinating story. Herein, the story of the Fantastic Four is updated, without substantially changing the characters or their powers. Once again, with superb illustrations, the team finds themselves given fantastic powers, battle the Moleman, Prince Namor the Submariner, and their greatest foe-Dr. Doom.

These comics are superbly drawn, while the story is gripping. I must admit to cringing when I first saw this book, so many people now want to transmogrify the old character out of all recognition. But, this book succeeds in retelling the old tale, faithfully and interestingly. I really enjoyed this book, and think that you will too!