Fantastic Four: Life Story

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Much like another Fantastic Four story that shows their progression through history, Franklin marries a Wakandan woman and wears a headband to regulate his powers. This difference is what powers he possesses. My God, What Have I Done?: While serving in the Korean War, Ben Grimm was horrified and guilt-ridden to learn that his bombing runs had destroyed villages and rendered Korean children orphans. He then got himself court-martialed by assaulting a commanding officer and taking the military's food rations to give them to the orphans. Invisibility might seem like the short straw in terms of their powers, but there are situations where it's immensely more valuable than the other powers. Plus, it allows you to get in your opponent's head in a way the other powers don't. Sue could be in the room, using her invisibility, or she could be somewhere else, doing something entirely different. Using the same approach as Spider-Man: Life Story the series will tell the entire history of the Fantastic Four set against the decades through which the stories were published. That means everything starts in the Fantastic Four saga in the 1960s.

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Adaptational Wimp: Doctor Doom never displays any of his arcane abilities, relying on solely on his Powered Armor. Dr. Doom was one of the Fantastic Four's earliest villains making his first appearance in issue 5, here he doesn't show up until over a decade after the FF's debut. Written by acclaimed writer Mark Russell ( Second Coming, Wonder Twins) and drawn by Sean Izaakse ( Fantastic Four, Avengers No Road Home) , FANTASTIC FOUR: LIFE STORY will be written in the same approach as Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley’s hit series, SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY. FANTASTIC FOUR: LIFE STORY will tell the entire history of the Fantastic Four from beginning to end, set against the key events of the decades through which their stories were published.Adapted Out: Due to the nature of the story with the characters aging in real time, Valeria Richards is never born. Valeria was not born and introduced into the comics until the late 90s. By this point, both Reed and Sue would be pushing their 60s, so while it would be possible for Valeria to be born, it would be improbable. Nrama: You have a very diverse oeuvre, so where does Fantastic Four: Life Story sit with you in what you're wanting to do with tone, perspective, and characterization?

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Opaque Lenses: Ricardo Jones, the guy that was in charge of the NASA space program and that Reed replaced, wears these. If you make a habit of doing projects that take you further away from what you know you can do, it keeps you fresh. Innovation just being another word for trying something you aren't quite ready for. Second Place Is for Losers: The Soviets sent the first man to space, Yuri Gagarin. In response, JFK asks Reed to boost the space program. Alicia Masters appears during the 1990s, after Ben had another girlfriend (Sally) and several computer dates that ended badly.So being able to show them age in real-time, let their relationships meaningfully evolve over six issues, gives their story an extra dimension, I think. As You Know: Reed being Reed, there's just no way he wouldn't know about the feat of Yuri Gagarin. JFK showing him a newspaper with it is more for the benefit of the reader, to establish the context. What I’ve always loved about the Fantastic Four is how it reduces the cosmic struggle of human survival to the scale of a family squabble while treating personal relationships as a matter of truly galactic importance,” Russell said. “Weaving their story and their world into our story and what’s happened in our world over the last sixty years was an important reminder to me of how smart it is to approach life like that.”