Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Printing)

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Anybody who has really thought about that shouldn’t be surprised – he is a lump of orange rock after all – but it’s the kind of clever little idea that subtly illustrates how far any of the team are outside the range of normal when it comes to thing that ordinary folks take for granted.

Still, it does help explain how Sue becomes pregnant with their second child, which is part of this Omnibus. Surprising to me, was the constant sexual suggestions and urges of Susan Storm who feels she needs to constantly "remind Reed of his husbandly duties. It takes a special kind of moron to decide that the only way he’s ever going to figure out whether he likes the Fantastic Four (or not) is to read 1,000+ pages of it.Byrne reroots the characters in the everyday, where that connection had been lost, and portrays them all well, and with affection. Byrne skilfully uses the opportunity to demonstrate just how “freaky” Marvel’s First Family must seem to any normal human, as if making the case that they’re just as “weird”as the merry mutants. While Byrne joined the book after Claremont had established his new model for Marvel’s merry mutants, it was arguably with Byrne that the title really came into its own – the pair collaborated on the iconic Dark Phoenix Saga, which remains one of the most beloved Marvel story arcs ever told.

Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had a creator so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's First Family. We have inadvertently committed an almost unforgivable crime against the people of this community,” Reed suggest.The contrast with Byrne's later work is instructive, highlighting the new energy that he brought to the title when given the reins himself. Doom, the Mole Man and Galactus - and Crystal's first outing as a member of the FF - and you know what? The Mole Man, Skrulls, Miracle Man, Sub-Mariner, Doctor Doom, Kurrgo, Puppet Master, Impossible Man, The Hulk, Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, and Mad Thinker comprise ‘A Gallery of the Fantastic Four’s Most Famous Foes! John Byrne was largely responsible for making the Fantastic Four a must read title during the 1980's. But in any case it's a mix of fun action, humor, complex plots that kind of sneak up, humanizing a comic book family, and some really dynamic character designs and action lines and stuff.

The art is at a period when Byrne was on his game and putting a lot of effort into his work (it went downhill on his Superman run). This is a fine, as new, hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a fine, as new DJ, black spine.They are all survivors of a private space-shot that went horribly wrong when Cosmic Rays penetrated their ship’s inadequate shielding and mutated them all. However, in the right hands, continuity can add a certain amount of depth and complexity to a work – creating the sense that the tapestry is expanding and growing, that the themes and characters have been developing all along. You have the character, the banter, the humor, and all of the other elements that made this a truly revolutionary comic. For all that, were one tempted to compare this with Byrne's early epochal collaboration with Chris Claremont on Uncanny X-Men, there's a fairly obvious difference: the level of creativity on display here doesn't come close to UXM. A victim of amnesia, the relic recovered his memory thanks to some rather brusque treatment by the delinquent Human Torch.

Even after his run ended, I kept reading because he made the FF feel like a family, and I genuinely cared about all of them.

I’ve found this X-Men connection fascinating, because I’ve always thought that Fantastic Four and the X-Men served as interesting counterpoints to one another, as the two faces of two very different versions of Marvel. In Kirby's final issues, Doctor Doom lurks in the shadows, the FF save Apollo 11 from an alien threat, and the Sub-Mariner and Magneto team up to attack our heroes! At the age of eleven I got into the fantastic four as I watched the first hanna Barbara episodes on channel 4. This omnibus doesn’t have all of Byrne’s FF that you might want – indeed it ends with a cliffhanger; but The Trial of Galactus should give you all that’s left of note beyond that.