The First Family of Marvel: The Fantastic Four Appreciation 2019

[Snoop Dogg]

[CaptCleghorn]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what ages the FF are supposed to be? I'm especially curious about the age disparity between Sue and Reed.

Take a look here and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...stic-Four-ages

[Crimz]

I like the designs of most of them. Hopefully the story is good and they have interesting enough personalities that they don't go straight to limbo at the end of this.

[Digifiend]

John = Almost 30 (A few years spent in the Negative Zone)
Sue and Reed = Same age, met in college, I'd say late 30's (Extra years spent exploring the multiverse)
Ben = I'd say mid-30's

It was BEN and Reed that met in college. Sue's several years younger than those two. Basically you have Sue and Ben's ages the wrong way around.

[Snoop Dogg]

It was BEN and Reed that met in college. Sue's several years younger than those two. Basically you have Sue and Ben's ages the wrong way around.

Fraction made Reed, Sue, and Ben the same age.

[Crimz]

Fraction made Reed, Sue, and Ben the same age.

I think they still kept an age gap, just not a big one.

[Snoop Dogg]

she was an undergrad while he was using his nerd power to get doctorates, so pretty much the same age

[CaptCleghorn]

The latest mention in Future Foundation about Reed's PhDs while a boy makes his and Ben (and Vic) in college kind of awkward to work out.

Reed and Sue started out as Reed looking older than Sue (who had a few years on Johnny).How they met was left for a while but Byrne's scene with Reed and an underage Sue seemed creepy, even if there was no romantic ties funtil Sue was of age.

So how do we set up Sue, Ben, and Reed to keep what was necessary to their relationship and update it for 21st century sensibilities?

I'd still have Reed, Ben, and Vic meeting that first year at State. A VIP dorm for athletes and celeb/star students isn't a stretch. I'd say that the floor as age defined and not dependent on the education level or program. All three are 18ish at that time. Reed rooms with Sue and Johnny's aunt later on, possibly with Ben. I'd put this before the Storm's parents (well, Mom anyway) are killed. A few years later, he can meet Sue, now over 18.

[BAS]

Interview with Dan Slott on the upcoming arc:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fantas...ng-for-decades

Pretty much confirms what I originally thought --- Slott had a personal checklist of stories he had always wanted to tell and he used the first dozen issues to cross off his list.

Unfortunately -- that seemed to take some of the steam out of their return, as it looks like he kept the characterizations for the 4, Doom and Galactus at the Waid era. Doing that, he basically ignored all the developments since then.

[Frontier]

These look like characters from Lion Forge's plethora of heroes (I say this barely knowing anything about Lion Forge comics).

[mugiwara]

I like the designs of most of them. Hopefully the story is good and they have interesting enough personalities that they don't go straight to limbo at the end of this.

I don't know, we only see shadows, except for the fake Jim Hammond and some stone hand.
But I kinda hope they become recurrent bad guys. The Unparallelled need a rival villain team.

[Snoop Dogg]

These look like characters from Lion Forge's plethora of heroes (I say this barely knowing anything about Lion Forge comics).

I feel the same way.

https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1171614002239197184

[Digifiend]

Future Foundation is cancelled. I wonder if they'll now come back to the Fantastic Four title?

[mugiwara]

I thought it was a mini?

[DragonsChi]

These look like characters from Lion Forge's plethora of heroes (I say this barely knowing anything about Lion Forge comics).

Yeah...I thought the same thing.