Fantastic Four (2022-2025) #7

Fantastic Four (2022) (Single Issues)

by Ryan North, Alex Ross (Cover Art), Iban Coello (Artist)

COLOSSAL ISSUE #700! FANTASTIC FOUR #7 is also FANTASTIC FOUR #700, which means we're ABSOLUTELY going huge. It's an over-sized spectacular as the Fantastic Four reach their new home - not knowing that a mysterious threat has made it there first! As their knowledge of LANGUAGE ITSELF begins to melt from their minds, the Four are in disarray as their existence hangs in the balance... ...and the greatest villain of all time finally seals their DOOM.

Genres: Comics, Marvel

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2023

About the author

Hi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!

I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.

I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good

Reviews

[Katherine (Kat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 Stars - "The Enemy of the Good"

[Raymond Paquette · Rating 5 out of 5]

First Doom destroys the Four’s language and then he tries to undo Reed’s greatest mistake and fails over and over. However unlike a regular person who learns from his mistakes, Doom chooses to do the most diabolical thing imaginable. Prevent himself from even attempting to make the mistake in the first place and proving, once again, that Doom is his own worst enemy. What better way to celebrate 700 issues with a great story and great art.

[Paxton Holley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doom! Yessssssssssss

[zach · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much fun. Ryan North writes the best FF I’ve ever read.

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

North has been building a great story with this series and issue #7 is one of the first big payoffs. Doom tries to undo Reed’s sacrifice and fails time and again. Doom’s explanation to himself — that his future selves have failed him by not using time travel to optimize their pasts — is such a good moment. The contrast between Doom/Reed is effective and clear but subtly developed.

North has been doing some great things at the single-issue level too. Each issue has some effect or conceit that works perfectly and makes the single issue distinct from the overall story. This issue’s trick, with the FF slowly losing more and more of their language until all they can say is ‘doom,’ is so clever.

I wasn’t sure about this book at its launch because the opening story was a bit choppy, but I’m on board now. We’re building to an even bigger payoff, I’d hope, when the FF kids are returned from their temporal sojourn.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un número algo caótico en forma. Empezando por esa llegada a la casa de Tía Petunia con un atisbo de una potencial nueva aventura a lo "Twilight Zone" para esta etapa a cargo de Ryan North. Para pronto estar inmersos en una historia en la que se nos vuelve a recordar el lado más humano y cariñoso de alguien como Victor Von Doom con su conexión emocional con su ahijada, Valeria Richards. En esta parte se nota que se podría haber realizado un mejor tratamiento de esta cruel paradoja espacio temporal para alguien que se opone claramente al fallo y error en todas sus formas y magnitudes. Pero todo queda de una forma bastante escueta y bien reconocible en la tradición de estos pasajes espacio temporales.

Para rematar volvemos a la presencia de Maria Hill con a saber qué nuevo plan de control global al estar perturbada por la escala de los poderes de Sue Storm.

[Shevek · Rating 5 out of 5]

It had been a while since I read a FF comic book, and this was great to come back to the series. I liked a lot the context of the story, with the characters placed in Aunt Petunia's rural house. Everything seems mundane and quiet until some sort of mistery starts affecting the expression capacity of our heroes. After a few pages we found that behind this is, of course, Dr. Doom, who has deployed an original and peculiar plan to defeat their enemies. Every character is very well defined in terms of both writing and visual appearance. It is very good to see Sue being treated as probably the most resourceful and powerful character of the group.

[Michael Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heard a lot of good things about this recent Fantastic Four run by Ryan North which consists of largely stand alone stories you can jump into anytime.

The writing suits the core heroes and arch foe Dr. Doom extremely well. The book lets the character’s handle situations with their quick thinking, really showcasing how they approach solving seemingly impossible situations.

Enjoyed this a lot and look forward to reading more.

[Jason Holtzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been a while since I last read this series, but I'm looking forward to getting back into it, and this issue just reminded why it is so good. This was very well written with fun art, and it has to be mentioned that North is doing a great job managing so many characters and the family dynamic. It's light-hearted, it's fun, it's sincere, and I look forward to reading more.

This issue was a great showcase on the core elements of what make Dr. Doom, Dr. Doom.

[Nicolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

700 issues of Fantastic Four and I have probably only read less than half of it.

For this extra-sized anniversary issue, we get the return of Doctor Doom to its pages, and being the perfectionist egoist he is, takes over the narrative of the issue, seeing himself as the main protagonist. For all intents and purposes, he's the fifth member of the Four.

For this issue, only Doom can bring down Doom!

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doom is so dramatic in the way he steals their ability to speak just to make an entrance and that's why he's one of the greatest villains ever

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4
A decent issue but unceremonious for issue #700. I keep wanting FF to be better than it is. But it seems like a tough book to crack.

[Thaddeus Tuffentsamer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of tired of Doom. Sick of Johnny’s mustache. It’s sad when your favorite comic suffers a staff change who don’t really know the characters.

[Joey Amorim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Between this and Venom #25, it’s becoming overwhelmingly clear that whenever Dr. Doom gets his own spotlight issue, it’s gonna slap. Seriously, Marvel, give this guy his own solo book already!

[John Threebreadt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great climax with a great villain.

[Kien Pham · Rating 4 out of 5]

incredibly hilarious to see all my goats tried to fix the roof

[Max Solis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este equivale al número 700 de los cómics de los Cuatro Fantásticos. Es completamente inusual y maravilloso leer este número histórico.

El argumento es bastante bueno e interesante. La Primera Familia se muda a su nueva casa y, rápidamente, se dan cuenta que están perdiendo su capacidad de hablar, perdiendo letras en el proceso de su lenguaje. Se dan cuenta que la culpa la tiene el poder mágico de Victor Von Doom, el cual los meterá nuevamente en problemas relacionados con lo sucedido en el pasado con la desaparición del Edificio Baxter.

[Rockito · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suddenly Marvel is getting back a bit of quality.