Every Fantastic Four Run - Reading Order & Starting Points

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8 ай бұрын

Responsible for the dawn of a new age for the publisher, Marvel's First Family has been (self-)proclaimed as the world's greatest comic series, springing forth a multitude of characters including the Silver Surfer, the Black Panther, Galactus, and many others. It has enjoyed runs by some of the greatest creators in the business. It has also gone through periods of bad stories and bad sales that threatened its very existence, in and out of the medium. Listed here are every Fantastic Four run, phase, and series since the team's first appearance.
The essential reading order goes as follows:
Lee/Kirby's run
John Byrne's run
Walt Simonson's run
Pacheco/Marin's run
Mark Waid's run
Stranzinsky's run
Mark Millar's run
Jonathan Hickman's run
Matt Fraction's run
Secret Wars
Chip Zdarsky's Marvel 2-in-One
Dan Slott's run
Top ten ranks as follows:
10 - Marvel 2-in-One
9 - Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
8 - Pacheco/Marin's run
7 - Mark Millar's run
6 - Fantastic Four: Life Story
5 - Fantastic Four: 1234
4 - Mark Waid's run
3 - John Byrne's run
2 - Jonathan Hickman's run
1 - Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's run
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@michaelpacheco9 Ай бұрын

I really love the covers of this newest run

@Darwaxion 8 ай бұрын

Amazing video! I’m waiting forward to a X-Factor video

@doudougirondin9202 4 ай бұрын

Merci beaucoup.

@jessemillan1385 7 ай бұрын

I need to read Stan Lee's and Jack kibry's run on the Fantastic Four, along with Mark Millar's and Bryan Hitch's run, Jonathan Hickman's run, and Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley's run.

@matthewschwartz6607 7 ай бұрын

What did you think of the Scott Lobdell run? I liked it and was sad that it got cut short .

@comicbelief 7 ай бұрын

Oh, I have a deep dislike for Lobdell. I think he peaked in the early 90s and hasn’t had anything new to offer since. But that’s my opinion.

@rhustoxfordinner 8 ай бұрын

Noice

@matthewschwartz6607 7 ай бұрын

1:20- Huh? The Overmind saga is considered a classic ; no?

@comicbelief 7 ай бұрын

Depends on how you look at it. It’s not a bad story, but after a decade of Jack Kirby on the top of his game, what comes after does lack the same punch and feels repetitive, derivative. That’s something that will extend throughout the decade, until John Byrne takes over.

@richardkujo Ай бұрын

what are the best runs that have exploration/adventures High concept sci-fi worldbuilding and not too old or wordy?

@comicbelief Ай бұрын

Lee and Kirby’s run is all about exploring the Marvel Universe, but I suppose it ranks as old and wordy. John Byrne’s 80s run mixes exploration (the negative zone storyline is a great example) with more standard heroics, and it’s very very good. Mark Waid revisits some of these themes, but if you want a modern run of epic sci-fi, the answer is Jonathan Hickman’s run. It’s complex, original, well written… then move on to Hickman’s New Avengers (which includes Reed Richards) and Secret Wars.

@richardkujo Ай бұрын

@@comicbelief There are no others like what you mentioned?

@comicbelief Ай бұрын

Well, the Fantastic Four are more explorers than superheroes, and any good run will touch upon that to some degree - Walt Simonson tackles time travel, as does Mark Millar in a very different way, Pacheco emphasizes cosmic adventures, Ultimate Fantastic Four reboots the team for the Ultimate imprint with great stories by Millar and others, though the book starts to lag after a while. Limited series tend to favor character development over high octane action, by 1234 by Morrison is very good, the more recent Life Story, by Mark Russell covers the team’s history in real time… but epic storytelling usually implies long runs building up to something, so yes, Lee, Byrne, Waid and Hickman are the gold standards.

@comicbelief Ай бұрын

@@richardkujo I would highly recommend Warren Ellis’s Planetary series, which has an evil equivalent of the FF as the main villains. Also check out Alan Moore’s Tom Strong for his take on a family of otherworldly explorers

@richardkujo Ай бұрын

@@comicbelief I tried the Tom Strong series. I don't want to say it's bad. I loved it and the original Fantastic Four, but I see them as ruined, whether intentionally or unintentionally. I mean that the heroes discover new things and solve the problem in one issue. Kind of something I don't like

@DoctorStrangeSorcererSupreme 8 ай бұрын

Walter Simonson's run is my favorite Fantastic Four run ever! My 2nd favorite Fantastic Four run is Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's run! My 3rd favorite Fantastic Four run is Dan Slott's run! ( Don't know what you have against Dan Slott's run but the worst run of the Fantastic Four in the 2000s-2010s is Matt Fraction's run which was crap while Dan Slott did some good things like Thing & Alicia's wedding, fight between Immortal Hulk and Thing, the founding of the Forever Gate, Point of Origin story, Reckoning War!).

@matthewschwartz6607 7 ай бұрын

What did you think about the Walt Simonson run? Slott did that awful retcon with Franklin Richards .

@DoctorStrangeSorcererSupreme 7 ай бұрын

@@matthewschwartz6607 At the Slott's run, Franklin Richards regained his abilities but if you don't like Slott's run then don't worry about it because everybody has their own tastes. Never read Walt Simonson's run of Fantastic Four but I did read his Thor run.