At best, it’s a perfunctory inclusion of who and what these characters are without really telling you anything about who Reed Richards, Susan Richards, Johnny Storm, or Ben Grimm really are. This origin recap is the only portion that’s fully painted as you would expect from Ross, a highlight reel of the first half of the first issue to feature these characters. But if you’re here just for Alex Ross, he’s included one of his patented 2-page origin summaries for you as part of the book’s dust jacket. It’s still a mystery of who he is or where he came from but all indications point to his origin being the Negative Zone, an at times horrific anti-matter funhouse mirror of our universe (and another Lee/Kirby creation.) After fighting off a swarm of nasties that explode out of the stranger’s mouth in their home, the quartet does what they do best and plunge into the mystery of the Negative Zone, trying to Scooby Doo what they just experienced.Ĭhances are that you know who the Fantastic Four are if you’ve picked up this book. When that mysterious figure makes his way into the Baxter Building, interrupting one of Ben Grimm’s midnight Dagwood sandwiches, the Thing realizes that he knows this figure having encountered him in the aforementioned Fantastic Four #51 when the figure attempted to take Ben Grimm’s powers and place in the team to get at Reed Richards. This is the story of the Fantastic Four and what happens on a dark and rainy night in the Baxter Building. Ross uses that familiarity to throw us into his story. Four intrepid adventurers facing the unknown together, a family forged through the mysteries of the world around them– that’s what we know of these characters. With that opening image, Ross shows us just what kind of story he is going to tell a “classic” Fantastic Four story that builds on the work of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, equal parts homage and exploration of those early Marvel texts.
But this new story begins with a ragged figure standing outside of the classic Baxter Building, Ben Grimm and his family’s home. Alex Ross’ story begins much like Fantastic Four #51 where the Thing was mysteriously pulled toward a stranger’s residence. 6 min read Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross (Abrams ComicArts)įantastic Four: Full Circle opens on a rainy night, focused on a monster or a man standing alone in the rain.
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