Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1 exists in its own time and place, an interlude out of the busy lives of the characters. It's a tidy story with great pacing and it is thoroughly enjoyable. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1 is a delightful escape for your average superhero story delivering on a body horror adventure David Cronenberg fans will love. The powers this team exhibits are actually quite disturbing if you stop and think about real people having them and the creative team captures the horror by turning those powers up to 11. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four: Road Trip#1 puts Marvel's First Family through a disturbing experience, mixing the classic family road trip with a splash of body horror. Sci-fi/horror fans will definitely want to read this book, while I advise the faint of heart to proceed with caution. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1 is a comicbook you should pick up. Christopher Cantwell does a great job maintaining an atmosphere of uncertainty. While the storyline kept me hooked from page to page, the visuals of the characters going through the ordeal gave me chills as I was reading. Filipe Andrades specific art style captures a sense of urgency and despair. Moreover, Chris OHalloran and VC's Joe Caramagna both did fantastic work with coloring and lettering, respectively. If youre into reads like Invincible and The Walking Dead, just imagine those two worlds colliding in this stellar issue. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four Road Trip is the kind of one-shot that allows readers to take a break from all of the bustle of the main stories. It's a chance for artists to get creative while remaining loosely connected to other comics and staying true to Marvel's First Family. Read Full Review

There's a lot to enjoy about this Road Trip, though it would've been even better if some of its concepts, especially regarding Reed and the family dynamic, had been pushed a bit further. Read Full Review

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Cantwell needs to stick with Iron Man, it's not great, but it's at least a little better than this. This issue from cover to cover was not fun. If you're a fan of old school horror comics or current indie horror, you may enjoy the art, but you're not going to enjoy the story. Because it just doesn't make any sense. Read Full Review

Loved it as a fan of movies like The Fly (1986) and Fantastic Four.

I really like the body horror here, but even the family dynamics are spot on. Really enjoyable one-shot!

I would murder Reed Richards and no court in the world would convict me.

Fun one shot

Reed can't resist sliding a meteor soil sample retrieval mission into a family vacation. The soil's contaminated, leading the FF into a Cronenberg horror of melty bodies that they fix at the last minute. Good characterization/interaction and terrific body horror art. The plot is rushed by the short length and some characters get shortchanged (Alas poor Johnny, you're barely in this). But the core concept is terrific: Family claims to want to spend time together; family doesn't spend time together; family is forced together in a literal, grotesque, and ironic way by science-horror.

So Val's part of the horror is regressing in age. That doesn't explain why she starts out (and ends up) looking about 5 years too young. I KNOW somebody must have told Filipe Andrade, so I want to hear how and why he successfully argued for a prepubescent Val. (I love the art otherwise.)
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Solid story and a really cool idea, but I get the feeling Cantwell isn't too fond of Reed Richards. That was a little off-putting.

Fantastic Four: Road Trip

Publisher: Marvel @marvel
Writer: Christopher Cantwell @ifyoucantwell
Artist: Filipe Andrade @filipe_andrade_artist
Colors: Chris O’Halloran @chris_oh_colours
Letters: Joe Caramagna @joecaramagna
Cover: Michael Del Mundo @deadlymike

The Fantastic Four are piling the family up in the car and taking an old fashioned road trip to the Grand Canyon! But it wouldn’t be Reed without a quick detour to inspect material residue remaining inside an old meteor crater. The next morning, the Richards’ family begin experiencing a series of strange phenomena. Reed discovers the materials excavated from the crater are poisoning them, as the family begins deteriorating into monsters of their former selves. Through literal family bonding, the combined power of Franklin and Val are able to reverse the process and save their family. A sudden missile strike alerts the family to the one responsible for their current circumstances, the Mad Thinker, who is easily beaten by the angry family.

A Fantastic Four horror comic. A change of pace from the regular scientific aspect normally presented in the series with the art perfectly matching the desired tone of the writing. What I don’t appreciate is the suggested retcon of Val. Suggesting that her superior intelligence is related to a power set of some type is disappointing. It takes away the greatest aspect of her character, that she’s a literal child genius. I truly hope the writers don’t take her in that negative direction.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️ (2/5)
Reviewed by: @meanadam of The Comic Book Club of Instagram
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