FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONARIES JOHN BYRNE TP VOL 01

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New TPB – Retails 19.95 – Visionaries: John Byrne (232-240; w & a John Byrne). [From Marvel Comics: Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the trailblazers of the very mythology known as the Marvel Universe, had someone so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel’s first family of heroes – the Fantastic Four. John Byrne took these characters, whose powers were the result of each of them being bathed in cosmic rays during a flight into space, and launched them into realms where few creators before this had dared to go… Byrne reminded us all that there was a family at the heart of this team of advneturers. And of course, all families have their problems. But none like the Fantastic Four. Reed Richards’ guilt leads him to unintentionally mutate his teammate, the Thing, even further into the realm of the grotesque. Dr. Doom’s small-minded hatred for Richards’ is taken to new heights here. There’s a search for the humanity of the Living Planet. The Human Torch’s compassion on a condemned man’ s last request is put to the ultimate test. And Sue Richards’ love for her son may just doom the world.] Old Book of the Week 7/13/05: John Byrne gets bashed a lot these days, and he makes it so very easy. Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that he used to be the pinnacle of the industry. He was the first person to do something new with the Fantastic Four after 231 issues of Lee/Kirby and Roy Thomas (and especially Joe Sinnott, who inked most of those 231 issues), and while he certainly respected what had gone on before, his take was quite startling at the time. Not until Waid and Wieringo, decades later, would the FF seem this fresh again.