REVIEW: Fantastic Four: True Story #1

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Fantastic Four: True Story #1 (of 4)

Written by: Paul Cornell

Art by: Horacio Domingues

Marvel Comics

Monsters and fingerless gloves.

That’s how this book starts. Monsters and fingerless gloves. And bad, bad humor. Sappy horribly done romance as well.

I’m not going to lie. When I was given this book to review, I knew nothing of it. Never heard of the mini, never heard of the writer, never heard of the artist. So I went in with no expectations at all. It still took me about three hours to get through these twenty-two pages. I kept setting it down and finding something better to do. Like watch Raw and Weeds from last night….again….and fold laundry.

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Attention! Reed Richards likes Josie and the Pussycats! The movie!

Anyway, the basic premise is that something evil is ruining books and movies and….yeah, it’s crappy. It makes you hate reading and and watching movies, it makes you incapable of enjoying things you like. Val even cries when Sue tries and fails to read to her! Then again, I’m still trying to figure out why bathrobe cleavage Sue was needed for the “Read daughter a bedtime story” scene. I guess it beat fingerless gloves though.

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Yes, complain Val, complain about the hopes and dreams of every boy who ever wanted a half naked MILF to read to them.

So with all the fiction in the world nauseating people, who do the FF turn to? The Avengers? The X-Men? Black Panther? The Watcher?

Hell no! Wille Lumpkin! He’s their expert on books! With a horrible wit! And they take him into a journey…..into fiction! Where at one point Reed actually reads thought bubbles!

The art itself is more redeeming, and I can’t say that I have any real problems with Horacio Domingues. He has a nice Marvel Age-y style of art that, while I would never want to see on a book with a more serious tone, I can appreciate for what it is. Not my cup of tea by any means, but some people will like it.

The crisis of this book is that everybody hates reading because there’s evil things ruining the books, well, something evil ruined this book and while it’s not enough to make me hate reading……it’s enough to make me beg that I don’t have to read issue two.

3/10….because of the single funny page and the fact that the art wasn’t THAT bad.

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Priceless.

A lifelong reader and self proclaimed continuity guru, Grey is the Editor in Chief of Comics Nexus. Known for his love of Booster Gold, Spider-Girl (the real one), Stephanie Brown, and The Boys. Don't miss The Gold Standard.