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Marvel Knights 4 (Collected Editions)
Marvel Knights 4 Vol. 3: Divine Time
Collects Marvel Knights 4 #13-18.
In New York, it's springtime - and business as usual for the FF, as they celebrate Franklin's team making it to the Little League playoffs. But around the globe, the very fabric of time is unraveling. Minutes are vanishing from days, and objects from the past are materializing in the present. When these chronal anomalies start multiplying like a virus, Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny decide to slip into the timestream to investigate. For seasoned adventurers like the FF, it should be a walk in the park, right? Guess again. Plus: It's good news all around - and not just for the FF, who have reclaimed their status as New York's premier super-hero team, but for their friend and ally, Alicia Masters. After a lifetime of darkness, the blind sculptress's eyesight has been restored by her father, Philip Masters - the seemingly reformed villain Puppet Master - but at what cost? Either all is as it seems...or darker forces are at work.
In New York, it's springtime - and business as usual for the FF, as they celebrate Franklin's team making it to the Little League playoffs. But around the globe, the very fabric of time is unraveling. Minutes are vanishing from days, and objects from the past are materializing in the present. When these chronal anomalies start multiplying like a virus, Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny decide to slip into the timestream to investigate. For seasoned adventurers like the FF, it should be a walk in the park, right? Guess again. Plus: It's good news all around - and not just for the FF, who have reclaimed their status as New York's premier super-hero team, but for their friend and ally, Alicia Masters. After a lifetime of darkness, the blind sculptress's eyesight has been restored by her father, Philip Masters - the seemingly reformed villain Puppet Master - but at what cost? Either all is as it seems...or darker forces are at work.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 10, 2005
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
466 books475 followersRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
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May 6, 2023
A decent storyline. I think the serious tones are nice, and I like the family dynamic, but also none of the villains are doing ANYTHING for me. I actually liked volume 1's simple nature, barely villains, just everyday life stuff. It worked better.
July 26, 2023
Bunișor, un 3.5 meritat. Arta lui Jim Muniz nu e rea, poveștile, pentru că sunt 2 la număr, decente.
Primul story e dedicat Aliciei, prinsă de către Puppet Master pentru a fi vindecată cu forța, a doua poveste, ceva mai lungă și alambicată, îi pune pe cei 4 fantastici la drum prin timp și spațiu până în Egiptul Antic pentru că Ramades, fiul lui Kang, a decis să cucerească prezentul și a reușit acest lucru furând 8 minute din continuitatea temporală.
Nu sunt povești palpitante, dar ceva mai serioase decât cele din numerele precedente.
Primul story e dedicat Aliciei, prinsă de către Puppet Master pentru a fi vindecată cu forța, a doua poveste, ceva mai lungă și alambicată, îi pune pe cei 4 fantastici la drum prin timp și spațiu până în Egiptul Antic pentru că Ramades, fiul lui Kang, a decis să cucerească prezentul și a reușit acest lucru furând 8 minute din continuitatea temporală.
Nu sunt povești palpitante, dar ceva mai serioase decât cele din numerele precedente.
January 3, 2020
Not very exciting. I honestly can't even remember what I read. It wasn't particularly bad, aside from the art being lackluster.
August 9, 2022
This book felt a bit better than the last one as it felt smart to bring the focus back on the Pupper Master given Alicia's continued involvement in the story. But there's something about the pacing that might be an effort to give a bit of a noir spin to things or something else. So at times, it's a little slow, or at least it doesn't feel like it's making aggressively fulfilling narrative progress.
One more volume left in this run! Let's see how this plays out.
One more volume left in this run! Let's see how this plays out.
June 12, 2023
*I’ve been reading a lot more than I’ve been reviewing… so knee-jerk reaction time!*
I’m really enjoying this chapter in the FF’s life—it’s more down-to-earth, but still fantastic in its own way. Because of course a story that starts with a Little League baseball game turns into a stuck-in-time adventure. And I’m a sucker for time travel. And father/son relationships—both of which are brimming from this book.
I’m really enjoying this chapter in the FF’s life—it’s more down-to-earth, but still fantastic in its own way. Because of course a story that starts with a Little League baseball game turns into a stuck-in-time adventure. And I’m a sucker for time travel. And father/son relationships—both of which are brimming from this book.
March 25, 2019
There are a few interesting ideas here, but the pacing is a little off and I'm not sure that Sacasa really understands the characters. At times he seems to have them nailed, but then, in the same issue, they can seem a little off.
April 8, 2022
I skipped the Eyes without a Face arc and only read Divine Time on a friend's recommendation. Divine Time is a pretty standard FF story, which I tend to like, but for whatever reason this one really felt like it was just going through the motions.
December 31, 2019
This story seemed to get out of control quickly and never really came back to a place where I thought the villain's scheme was both plausible and interesting.
September 29, 2020
What is family? Time may heal some wounds, but it may also re-open them at its will. We are no more in power than a leaf on the wind.
October 5, 2020
13-14, Eyes Without A Face, ☆☆☆
15-18, Divine Time, ☆☆☆
15-18, Divine Time, ☆☆☆
November 11, 2016
Love the FF, but a gripe: They need to figure out what they are doing with Franklin. I thought his surprising hit at the start of this story arc was what got everything going, but NOPE - just a kid hitting a baseball. A kid who much later has Galactus as his herald ... so yeah, I'd like some direction with that character. And what's the deal with Val? One too many kids, so ship her off to the moon to be babysat by the Inhumans? Seriously?
Anyhow, happy to be reading these on Marvel Unlimited :)
Anyhow, happy to be reading these on Marvel Unlimited :)
November 16, 2012
This volume should have been called "Daddy Issues" as both stories included here deal with problems characters have with their fathers. Having said that,these stories are both good but they lack the good sense of humor I prefer in my Fantastic Four tales. Family relationships and the resulting angst are the main focus here. The more serious tone is aided by excellent art and good pacing, but darn it folks, lighten up a bit.
October 25, 2015
Another good Fantastic Four and Marvel Knights book. Again the FF acting as individuals and as a team with pretty good writing and good enough art. And Franklin. And Valeria. And Reed's dad? Reed's dad was a new one to me. Time travel but it actually didn't suck, which is a bit of a surprise. About the right length too, not too long and not too short. Too bad when they rewrite this again and again the author's don't typically get it this right.
January 12, 2017
La saga che introduce nella Marvel il figlio di Rama-Tut è finalmente una buona storia del quartetto, anche se c'è un pelo di supponenza di troppo nei personaggi. Anche i disegni finalmente migliorano un poco.
June 28, 2013
A couple of good stories. The puppet master story really shows him in an intense & scary light. The time travel story is just good big-screen fun.
October 28, 2014
Not too keen with these time-hopping things. But not bad.
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