World's Greatest Comic: The Fantastic Four Appreciation 2023

[McFarlane's Green Hulk]

Buckled down and bought the Thing series from the 80s because I wanted something new FF related to read while waiting for the day I can afford the last 5 FF issues I need.

I've got to say...I mostly disliked it entirely. The Rocky Grimm phase was ok. The rest was barely readable to me. Especially the wrestling phase at the end.

Curious if anyone else saw it differently.

Mine's tainted with nostalgia colored glasses, I loved it as a kid.
"Rocky Grimm" was interesting but a little lackluster.
Post Secret Wars was better, I liked seeing Ben as a wrestler. It was just starting to get good when it was canceled.

[CitizenXXX]

Del please

[Digifiend]

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[CitizenXXX]

All the images work for me, all the covers are visible. I don’t know what I did wrong, let the moderators delete the post if they see fit.

[Digifiend]

All I see is

Fantastic Four 15, 16, 17

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[GhostCryptid13]

Does anyone know if Franklin has his powers back? Or does he just have black hair now?

[CaptCleghorn]

Does anyone know if Franklin has his powers back? Or does he just have black hair now?

It hasn't been confirmed one way or the other but a secret that Franklin has was mentioned in the last issue. The return of his powers is a definite possibility. Of course we know it will happen at some point. The big question is when.

[Digifiend]

Event coming, according to Brevoort's newsletter.

I was crashed out by the end of the evening, but wound up sleeping poorly, so i was a bit more ragged the second day—which was when I had to go over a big FANTASTIC FOUR-centered thing that you’ll hear about later on in time as well as outline my general composition of the X-Titles for the start of my custodianship of that line.

[Darkshadow]

Event coming, according to Brevoort's newsletter.

Sounds like a drunk tweet. Hope I'm wrong.

[Crimz]

Event coming, according to Brevoort's newsletter.

Not necessarily an event, but I hope it's something fun like another book.

[Frontier]

Not necessarily an event, but I hope it's something fun like another book.

Convenient excuse to write the kids out again ?

[GhostCryptid13]

It hasn't been confirmed one way or the other but a secret that Franklin has was mentioned in the last issue. The return of his powers is a definite possibility. Of course we know it will happen at some point. The big question is when.

Issue 12? Anyway, I hope he has some level of powers, even if it’s just psionics. He really needs something, Val has her hyper intelligence and without anything, Franklin just doesn’t work as well as a character.

[CaptCleghorn]

Issue 12? Anyway, I hope he has some level of powers, even if it’s just psionics. He really needs something, Val has her hyper intelligence and without anything, Franklin just doesn’t work as well as a character.

Along with Johnny gaining some maturity and Reed gaining some humanity, we have Franklin getting/losing powers as tropes most every FF writer deals with. I like the run Franklin had after losing his powers and becoming a typical PITA teenager. He was recreating the multiverse from scratch. He was literally God. Then he lost his powers and he became a relatively intelligent boy in a family where almost everyone else either had power or a super-genius intellect. That's a justifiable sulk.

We all know Franklin's getting powers back. His status as a near-omnipotent being is a firm part of Marvel's history. The question here is how to best utilize a powered Franklin without his snapping fingers or wiggling his nose fixing any problem instantly. Limited powers so as to keep the stories interesting while adding to Franklin's development is a very good way. Heck, bring back Tattletale.

[Digifiend]

The Tattletale name just isn't as age-proof as the rest of Power Pack's names (Zero-G, Lightspeed, Mass Master and Energiser). It sounds childish. He has a grown up codename already anyway - Powerhouse (which is a legacy mantle - Alex Power once used it himself when he had all four Power Pack powers). Though Valeria has a better one, Brainstorm, a reference to both her intellect and her mother's maiden name!

[CaptCleghorn]

The Tattletale name just isn't as age-proof as the rest of Power Pack's names (Zero-G, Lightspeed, Mass Master and Energiser). It sounds childish. He has a grown up codename already anyway - Powerhouse (which is a legacy mantle - Alex Power once used it himself when he had all four Power Pack powers). Though Valeria has a better one, Brainstorm, a reference to both her intellect and her mother's maiden name!

The name is obviously a no go. However, the precog powers are something that could very well in addition to possibly tying back into the Powers family.