Fantastic Four: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection, Vol. 1

Fantastic Four: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection

by Scott Lobdell, Chris Claremont, Ralph Macchio

The Fantastic Four make their heroic return to the Marvel Universe - courtesy of comic book heavyweights Scott Lobdell, Chris Claremont, Alan Davis and Salvador Larroca! And old enemies lie in wait, including the Mole Man, the Red Ghost, the Trapster, Ronan the Accuser, the Frightful Four, Terminus and Crucible! But what does the bizarre Technet want with Franklin Richards? And where does the Captain Britain Corps stand on the matter of Reed and Sue's son? Plus, the Human Torch and Spider-Man, together again! The Scottish savior Caledonia debuts! Iron Man strikes! Franklin gets a puppy! The Thing deals with multiversal madness! And Adam Warlock's opposite number, the one known as Her, returns! It's an exciting and action-packed era for the FF, collected for the first time! COLLECTING: FANTASTIC FOUR (1998) 1-15, 1/2, ANNUAL '98; IRON MAN (1998) 14

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes

504 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2019

About the author

Scott Lobdell (born 1960) is an American comic book writer.

He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.

Reviews

[Derek Newman-Stille · Rating 1 out of 5]

I keep wanting Fantastic Four to be interesting because I have a lot of nostalgia for them.... but every time I pick up an FF title, I am bored to tears. It is so fixated on creating heteronormativity that it ends up not actually doing anything interesting

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is some of the best Fantastic Four material ever published. I rank it right up there with Lee and Kirby's run, John Byrne's run and Jonathan Hickman's run. This is a must-have for all fans of the FF and it deserves an Omnibus collection.

[Edward Davies · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read these for 20 years, but they still hold up. I love that they're not a quick read and actually have some substance to them.

[Krzysztof Grabowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Umarł król, niech żyje król. Wielu bohaterów w starciu z Onslaught'iem zostało uznanych za zmarłych. Byli to Avengers oraz tytułowa Fantastyczna Czwórka. Teraz jednak wracają i zaczyna się nowa era w pierwszej rodzince Marvela. I czego tu nie ma?

Zaczyna się od Mole Mana, który jeszcze się w tym prawie 500-stronicowym tomie znajdzie. Czytam sobie o losach tych bohaterów od niedawna i nie mogę wyjść z podziwu jak cringe'owych przeciwników oni mają. Trapster, Czerwony Duch czy the Frightful Four. Czegoś takiego się normalnie nie spotyka, to trzeba przyznać, ale w tym konkretnym przypadku nie jest to niestety plus. Przeciwnie. Niektóre zeszyty wydawały mi się zbędną zapchaj-dziurą, albo były zwyczajnie nużące.

Dla odmiany sprawdzeni przeciwnicy, tacy jak Ronan Oskarżyciel, Terminus czy zagadkowy Crucible sprawdzają się całkiem nieźle. To co gra pierwsze skrzypce to zdecydowanie relacja rodzinna, jaką raczy nas tu kilku autorów. Ben ma standardowe utarczki z Johnny'm i jest to element humorystyczny, jaki jest wręcz oczekiwany, choć nękanie bohatera o takiej przeszłości dziś już wydało mi się trochę nie na miejscu, nawet jeżeli zostaje w rodzinie.

Wracają oczywiście okazjonalne występy, bo tam Spider-man poskacze z Ludzką Pochodnią, a pod koniec na pomoc ruszy sam Iron Man, który ma nawet tutaj swój zeszyt z serii. Dzieje się naprawdę dużo, akcja gna na złamanie karku, ale braku tu czegoś co uplasowało by ten tytuł odrobinę wyżej.

To całkiem fajny zbiór, obrazujący jak zmieniła się od końca lat 90. najbardziej znana rodzina Marvel i w zasadzie w tym celu poleciłbym kontakt z serią. Dla reszty będzie to tylko nowalijka.

[Marlan Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

These Lobdell issues came as a surprise when I read them the first time. I was least looking forward to this series out of all the “Heroes Reborn/Returned/Refried” or whatever, but it turned into a nice, decently solid read. Perhaps Scott Lobdell finally found a series he can write well enough to deserve to do more. Or maybe the solid art of Alan Davis and Mark Farmer make up for it. Or maybe my expectations for the comic and the characters were so low (who'd done a decent FF run since Byrne?). The FF is usually deadly dull, unless there's some interesting science stuff (even Kirby-science), but that can strain credibility if it's not done just right (even if it works well in comics), and even the family angle can be lame (and the kind of thing we might want to escape from in comics). Or maybe it is, in fact, just a good read. The first issue is also a self-contained, double-sized (or so) story which isn’t so pretentious as to assume it needs to start a super-sized story arc from the jump.

[Jdetrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first three issues of this reboot are five star material....Scott Lobdell blew me away with his work on this title (and Alan Davis is always amazing) and it has always bothered me that this team only did three issues. I would have loved to see them get a longer run on this comic. Once they leave Chris Claremont moves in, and while this isn't nearly as bad as his later work on the X-Men, it still does have the same stylistic excesses that make his work in this time period difficult to read. Plus, he drags over as many of his supporting X-Men characters as he can, and they seem awkward and off putting in the FF.

[Raymond Paquette · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the return but the more I read the more I remembered a lot of the extra threads and characters in the comics went nowhere. If they want to ever wrap up Caledonia and the fate of Puppy I will be waiting. Hopefully it comes in a later issue.

[Robert Imperial · Rating 5 out of 5]

art style was super cool!!

[Mark Caton · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decently enjoyable read. The ending is mostly setup and not enough conclusion. And as always reading translated sci-fi in danish is kinda cringe