At the end of Fantastic Four 587, Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) sacrificed himself to save his teammate and family. 588 was the followup and funeral. Not generally a fan of "death" stories, as they generally are revised and thus are somewhat of a cheat.
FF#1 though, is a nice re-visioning of the Fantastic Four, with Spider-man taking the place of the Human Torch. At least the first issue seems to capture some of the feeling of the original - The Thing more brooding over the Torch's death is similar to The Thing that was formed during the original space mission. Marvel has done a lot of damage to the Spider-man character over the last few years, it is nice to see him away from his home books, where we can ignore the "deal with the devil" and the "sorry, fans, that you bought the deal with the devil - boy are you dumb" followup and see the character a little more like the "real" one.
No comments:
Post a Comment