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Marvel Comics
Ultimate Fantastic Four Volume 1
By LJ Douresseau

February 8, 2005 - 14:31

Writer(s): Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar
Penciller(s): Adam Kubert
Inker(s): Danny Miki and John Dell
Cover Artist(s): Bryan Hitch
ISBN: 0-7851-1393-2
144 pp., color, $12.99



ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, VOL. 1: THE FANTASTIC

Reprinting Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-6, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, VOL. 1: THE FANTASTIC is a fun, action-movie comic book. It smells of Jerry Bruckheimer and Richard Donner, or imagine the film National Treasure with cutting edge, hi-tech, hard sci-fi dialogue and TV writing melodrama. It doesn’t reinvigorate the Fantastic Four so much as it re-imagines the same concept vis a vis mining the whole damn thing all over again. It’s cute, but entertaining writing on the part of Bendis and Millar.

Adam Kubert’s pencils are pretty tight, some of his best recent work and free of the cartoony abstraction he and his brother seemed to favor the last few years. A lot of the credit, however, must go to inker Danny Miki because once John Dell takes over, there is noticeable slippage in the quality of Kubert’s drawings. B


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