Monday, May 21, 2018

Fantastic Four - The End is Fourever

Fantastic Four, Volume 4: The End is FoureverFantastic Four, Volume 4: The End is Fourever by James Robinson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As the invasion from Franklin's world ravages Earth, the last days of the Fantastic Four are upon us!

Here we are, the swan song for the Fantastic Four, at least until it's revival in August 2018. I'm proud to say Marvel picked a great singer in James Robinson. The End is Fourever is a summer blockbuster of a trade paperback. While I had high hopes going in, Robinson and Kirk surpassed them.

The Fantastic Four are in rough circumstances at the beginning. Reed is held captive by the Quiet Man, who is monologing after pulling an Ozymandias and releasing the invaders from the Heroes Reborn universe BEFORE telling Reed his plan. Ben, Johnny, and Sue are battling the faux-Avengers with the help of Namor, Captain America, and the original Human Torch. And the Future Foundation are watching Franklin get tortured.

Just as Reed himself said, the Fantastic Four's strength is that they rise again. Without going into a ton of detail, there were multiple moments in this issue that I caught myself grinning like a jackass. Bentley and his father, the Wizard, share a tender moment. The Wizard, Thundra, and She-Thing lend a helping hand when the world is on the brink. Hell, Robinson bringing in The Sleepwalker and making him an integral part of the resolution made me think it was 1992 again for a brief moment.

By the end, everything was back to normal. The Fantastic Four saved the world. As a whole, James Robinson's run was the best 18 issues of the Fantastic Four I've read in a long, long time. If the Fantastic Four had to go on the shelf for a while, this was a great way for them to go out. Five out of five stars.

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