Product Description: One member of the Fantastic Four lies hospitalized, a casualty of the Civil War that has fragmented the superhuman community! Another member of the team is secretly helping the opposition. It had to happen: Amid the tumult and tensions, the Fantastic Four break up! Who will toe the line, who will join the resistance, and who will leave the battlefield altogether? Is this the end for Marvel's First Family? Collects Fantastic Four #538-543.
Not Essential to the Civil War storyline... Not really a bad book if your a big fan of the FF, but other reviewers have listed this book as essential to the civil war storyline. I strongly disagree. The only thing that happens in this collection that isn't mentioned in the core civil war book is the part about the thing leaving the country, which is completely unnecessary and campy compared what it should have been. So if your a FF fan then I guess you could pick it up, but if you looking for more out of civil war than here's not the place.
fantastic four no more? This is a great companion to the Civil War series - probably one of the better ones even though there really isn't a lot of action that takes place. The FF is barely holding itself togther. Johnny is in a coma, the Thing leaves the country, and Mr. F is getting into this registration thing a little too heavy. Mrs. F (and I) can't understand why Mr. F is so gung-ho about getting all the mutants to register. Probably because the FF doesn't use secret identities. They have nothing to lose - so why is Mr. Fantastic being such a D#*@ Head! The team and their marriage is going to suffer unless Reed and Susan can get it together.
everything great about the FF I'm not much of a FF fan. Reed and Sue's powers are a bit dull, as are they. The Thing is a Hulk knockoff (regardless of who came first) with a lame personality, in fact, the only thing really going for the book is Johnny, who is one of my favorite characters. Still, I dip in and out of their books because they are involved in all the major events and sometimes the story can be good, like here. It has Johnny in the hospital, Reed and Sue at odds, it just has everything that makes the FF good. If only they could keep this up throughout the series.
I HEAR VIOLINS THIS BOOK HAD SOME COOL MOMENTS,THE THING ON VACATION WAS THE OBVIOUS HIGHLIGHT,FUNNY STUFF.THE SUSAN/REED/JONNY STORIES ARE OK BUT I DIDNT REALLY EXPECT SUCH DRAMA,EVEN AFTER READING C/W AND KNOWING THE MAIN IDEA BEHIND THIS BOOK.GOOD STORY WITH AN INTERESTING END THAT LEAVES MORE QUESTIONS FOR FF FANS.COUPLE"BONUS STORIES" TO FILL UP SPACE,DIDNT ADD ANYTHING BUT CHEAP LAUGH AND SHIPPING WEIGHT FOR MY BOOKS ROUND WORLD TRIP.THE CIVIL WAR ISNT A "FUN" STORY ,ITS A HARD TIME FOR THE MARVEL UNIVERSE SO THE EMOTIONAL TRIP IS WORTH THE TIME BUT DID AT TIMES MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IT WAS SOMETHING MY WIFE WOULD READ....I DIDNT CRY..GOOD STORY ALL ROUND BUT NOT THE ACTION OF OTHERS
"Fantastic" Civil War Tie-In Johnny Storm in the hospital! Ben Grimm in France! Reed obsessed with his work and neglecting his family! Sue taking the opposition side in Civil War against her husband! It's just another day at the office for the Fantastic Four.
J. Michael Straczynski follows up his first two collections with this final installment. It's much stronger than his opening arc and on par with the second collection, the equally entertaining Fantastic Four: The Life Fantastic TPB. The final story in this Civil War collection is the epilogue written by Dwayne McDuffie, who promises more high octane excitement (with two surprise guest stars temporarily replacing Sue and Reed!). It's probably necessary to read the Civil War TPB to understand everything--but if you're a comic book fan you've already read that, right? No? OK, then start there and then pick up this collection to fill in the gaps on your favorite family. Collects Fantastic Four #538-543.
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