Fantastic Four: Foes

Fantastic Four: Miniseries

by Robert Kirkman, Cliff Rathburn (Artist)

The foes of the Fantastic Four take center stage! After years of continued defeat at the hands of the FF, why would a person still attempt something he has learned to be impossible? Get inside the heads of all your favorite FF foes as we watch their capers from start to finish from their perspective, their point of view, and at last learn... what were these guys thinking? Collects Fantastic Foes #1-6.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Book

144 pages, Graphic Paperback

First published August 17, 2005

About the author

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.

Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.

In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.

Reviews

[marina · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art was meh. Plot, meh. Everything was just kinda average and predictable. 🪱🪱🪱.3/5 worms.

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can see why Cliff Rathburn has made a career in doing grey shading for The Walking Dead, because he's not a very good penciller. His art looks boring and flat. It's also not helped by this story not being very interesting. It does show the origin of the prison that was constructed in the negative zone ( which featured prominently in the Civil War storyline), and does show other workers in the Baxter Building, which is pretty fun. But the rest is just an excuse to use most of the Fantastic Fours rogues gallery (after all, this is called FOES). And why does Reed suddenly grow a beard? I must of missed the panel that explained the reason, because surely the reason can't be because he's stressed, cause then he'd have had a beard for the past 50 years. Hercules also pops up in the final issue. Why? Who cares. Let's just throw him in the final battle.

[Jamble · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm so lost in these reviews. Maybe it's because I haven't read much FF. I thought it was a really interesting story, a solid twist near the end, the paranoia of a genius who overthinks so much that you no one even thinks he's being manipulated, great dialog all around, great humor blended well with the action, and an overall engaging read. I never though many FF villains besides Doom were interesting, and that brought my interest down a bit, but that's about it.

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a bit of fun this was. Loads and loads of villains wondering around and some plot holes and characters just appearing. But that does not diminish the fact that this was just fun thing to read and cool side plots like those wee normal people working in Baxter Building.
Also, the art side was quite fun also with very expressive faces.^
Not perfect, but damn close.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book by the end of it. In the beginning, I was like, "Why is Reed being so darn controlling?" Until I got to the end and... well, I'll avoid spoilers. This book was full of action, family dynamics, and lots of villain appearances. I've been on an FF kick all year, and I'm really glad I stumbled across this book.

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird story. Tries to cramp every villain in.

But it's really a much smaller story that hinges, as many do, on Mr. Fantastic being a distracted, trusting good. Also, there's a "next time, Gadget" ending. Does it ever pay off?

[Evan Schmalz · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun romp

[Devero · Rating 1 out of 5]

Una miniserie senza senso compiuto, disegnata veramente male e nel complesso inutile.
Una stella è anche già troppo.

[Komuniststar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Puno priče za malo akcije. Više mad machine nego uvjerljiv zaplet.

[Daryl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not sure what the genesis of this book was -- just another Marvel mini-series meant to glut the market, or a tryout for Robert Kirkman as an FF writer? If the latter, I'm glad he never got a stint on the regular FF book. This story is pointless, boring, and stupid. It's obvious that Kirkman -- at least at this point; the book came out seven years ago -- doesn't have a grasp of what makes the FF unique. All of the characters here are poor caricatures of their normal selves. The art, which is pedestrian at best, only suffers more in comparison to the gorgeous covers of the original series by an uncredited Jim Cheung. (The covers are sadly the best part of this whole collection.) About halfway through this series, Reed, who starts out his usual unshaven distracted self, grows a full beard in the space of about five pages, or maybe a couple of hours of storytime (and I'm being generous on that assessment). And near the end of the book, Hercules makes an unexplained and unnecessary guest appearance, in which he never speaks. All in all, this book is a big mess.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historia interesante de los Cuatro Fantásticos. Y bueno, eso. Quizás peca de lo mismo que el Spiderman Marvel Knights de Millar: nos quieren hacer creer que ahora sí se pudrió todo pero se nota que al final todao va a seguir más o menos igual. Cada vez estoy mas convencido de que Kirkman es mejor con todo lo "creator-owned" que con franquicias, aunque la verdad que Marvel Zombis fue bastante entretenido.

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

I normally love the two gents work on their creator-owned series, but this work-for-hire story is not only the worst FF story I ever read it's maybe the worst thing he wrote for Marvel. Thank goodness their work at Image remains solid.

[Arturo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mr. Fantastic's Calculations Predict the FF will die. Many foes appear. Fun read.

[Anie Things · Rating 2 out of 5]

No sé me ha parecido demasiado flojo, el planteamiento está bien, pero han sabido desarrollarlo. Además con los crios Richards arriba y abajo todo el tiempo me sacba de quicio.

[EscaPe iNTo thE PaGEs · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars!