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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 19:22:31 GMT -5
What's your favorite Fantastic Four run?
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2017 19:29:53 GMT -5
Fantastic Four (first series) #36 to #94. There's a few little stumbles. But it's mostly just five years of the best comics ever.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2017 19:40:16 GMT -5
Wow, so many. 25-51, 102-150, 166-218, 304-318, 357-412. Ah heck, the entire series was great.
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Post by james on May 11, 2017 19:44:34 GMT -5
Probably cliche to say but Byrne's run.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 19:46:08 GMT -5
I will preface the reveal of my favourite run by saying that I have read a small, small amount of FF.
That being said, I really dug Jonathan Hickman's run on the series. One of the last Marvel books I read on a monthly basis.
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Post by berkley on May 11, 2017 20:14:33 GMT -5
Kirby era 100+ issues is the only essential run IMO.
You could really just stop there, but I also enjoyed the first few issues after Kirby left.
Where it really goes downhill for me is when they messed up Crystal's character by matching her up in the most arbitrary imaginable way with Quicksilver. Made no sense at all in terms of the character as seen in the Kirby/Lee issues.
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Post by kirby101 on May 11, 2017 20:55:53 GMT -5
Kirby era 100+ issues is the only essential run IMO. You could really just stop there, but I also enjoyed the first few issues after Kirby left. Where it really goes downhill for me is when they messed up Crystal's character by matching her up in the most arbitrary imaginable way with Quicksilver. Made no sense at all in terms of the character as seen in the Kirby/Lee issues. I agree, Kirby and Lee, and then Sinnot, followed by a very good Big John B run. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 21:16:14 GMT -5
Lee & Kirby.
John Byrne.
Waid & Wieringo.
Walt Simonson.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 11, 2017 21:18:07 GMT -5
Kirby, then the Roy Thomas run, with Perez doing some of the art.
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Post by kirby101 on May 11, 2017 21:29:12 GMT -5
Loved Waid and Wieringo too.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 21:46:23 GMT -5
My favorite runs - #1 to #103, #209 to #219, #233 to #293, #164 to #183, #329 to #355. In Order #1 to #5.
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Post by berkley on May 11, 2017 22:52:18 GMT -5
Kirby, then the Roy Thomas run, with Perez doing some of the art. Yeah, the Perez artwork was great. I've been looking at it a bit lately on-line and it's better than I remembered. I thought at the time that Joe Sinnott wasn't the most compatible inker for him and I still think that's true to a degree, but looking at their work again after all these years, I like it more than now I did back in the day. So even though I kind of implied that the series was no good after the Crystal thing that isn't really true: it killed that one character for me but there were more than a few good stories and individual issues after that, many of which I'm sure I haven't even seen. |
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Post by berkley on May 11, 2017 22:55:07 GMT -5
Kirby era 100+ issues is the only essential run IMO. You could really just stop there, but I also enjoyed the first few issues after Kirby left. Where it really goes downhill for me is when they messed up Crystal's character by matching her up in the most arbitrary imaginable way with Quicksilver. Made no sense at all in terms of the character as seen in the Kirby/Lee issues. I agree, Kirby and Lee, and then Sinnot, followed by a very good Big John B run. Plus a couple issues by John Romita, I think, weren't there? Or maybe that's what you meant to type instead of Sinnott. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 11, 2017 22:59:04 GMT -5
While I have the utmost respect and love for Stan & Jack's original run, it's not my fav.
That would fall to the Byrne run, his best work ever IMO.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 11, 2017 23:13:01 GMT -5
While I have the utmost respect and love for Stan & Jack's original run, it's not my fav. That would fall to the Byrne run, his best work ever IMO. I agree. Though I'm not at all a fan Byrne as an artist. But he's a good writer for FF. |
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