Exlibrary with usual marks, clean, front board cracked from opening yet book is tight, with dj in mylar. Byrne has a wonderful knack for fun high-concept science-fiction, but cramming so much into so tight a space usually involves a lot of awkward exposition to set-up everything to pay off by the end of the chapter. Todavía hoy, los cómics de Marvel se distinguen por indicar siempre «Stan Lee presenta» en los rótulos de presentación. Byrne was arguably one of the truly iconic powerhouse comic book creators of the eighties and nineties.

This keepsake edition also includes all original letters pages and pinups, critical commentaries, a historical overview and other DVD-style extras. Do I need to qualify that with: all of me was five, but only my neck had properly developed hackles back then?The sensational She-Hulk replaces the Thing, Sue Richards becomes the Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic is tried for crimes against the universe! Sufficed to say that I disagree with Byrne rather strongly on that point, but it reveals a lot about how he wrote the Fantastic Four. Additionally, they weren’t professional superheroes, as the Avengers were – so Byrne drew their uniforms as if they were actual clothes, rather than skintight costumes.

In many ways, The Challengers of the Unknown (Kirby’s prototype partners in peril for National /DC) laid all the groundwork for the wonders to come, but staid, nigh-hidebound editorial strictures there would never have allowed the undiluted energy of the concept to run all-but-unregulated. Anybody who has really thought about that shouldn’t be surprised – he is a lump of orange rock after all – but it’s the kind of clever little idea that subtly illustrates how far any of the team are outside the range of normal when it comes to thing that ordinary folks take for granted. En la época en que se editaron originalmente estas historias la tendencia era de un scifi muy inocente; seres de otros planetas, monstruos y misterios al por mayor y por eso pocas logran envejecer bien: la golden age de Batman ya entrada en su meseta por ejemplo y si bien Avengers mantienen un ritmo similar, las corridas de fantastic four son de mas alta calidad. Plus, the Thing and Alicia find themselves stuck in a time loop and Johnny Storm, AKA Human Torch, is the most hated hero in New York city!It's a cosmic epic co-starring Nova, the Champions of Xandar, and others battling the Sphinx and the Skrulls.

I think it was illogical for everyone to rally to save Galactus' life after he was defeated but business is business, as they say. Byrne here is mainly playing with the same toybox that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby set up in the 1960s: so you've got your Doctor Doom stories, your Puppet Master, your Annihilus, your Inhumans, Galactus, etc. These stories are mostly “done in one” adventures, developing long-term story points while making sure that each chapter of the adventure is solidly entertaining in its own right.And it becomes a half-an-hour earlier,” we’re told, “simply by virtue of the fact that ‘Skip’ desires it so. We will never knowingly harvest your data beyond the cookies needed for smooth running of the site, and wouldn't dream of passing it anywhere. It’s one history-making hit after another - including the first appearances of the Kree, Annihilus and ‘Him’ (A. Episodic stories that also have a bit of an arc (Frankie Raye going from girlfriend to Herald of Galactus for example). Any story which deliberately violates core concepts and themes of original materials is not, by definition “a good story.