Fantastic Four #19
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| Writer | Ryan North |
| Artist | Carlos E. Gomez |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
She came in trouble, all five feet, six inches of it. Even her name was a warning that things were about to get bad for me, real quick: "Storm." Miss Susie Storm, standing there in a blue gown custom-made to take years off the life of anyone who saw her, big as life in my crummy office. The doll needed a private eye to find her boyfriend. Seems he'd pulled a disappearing act: one "Professor Richards," a hard-luck egghead who'd somehow scored way out of his league. I didn't want to take her case, but my bank account said otherwise, and besides: There was something about her. A sense of danger maybe, but also, a vulnerability. Call me a sap, more
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8.5
AIPT - David Brooke
Apr 10, 2024If it's not obvious yet, this family gets into the craziest adventures. Fantastic Four #19 shows how the science fiction of it all can blend with fun tropes in a noir adventure worth checking out. This series continues to be the most clever and imaginative superhero comic on the stands. Read Full Review
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8.5
Comic Watch - Theron Couch
Apr 10, 2024Fantastic Four #19 never feels committed to a thematic choice, whether playing the genre straight or attempting a parody. A large part of this failing is Alicias narration which has no real depth, be it humor, emotion, or commentary. But while the story does falter, the issue is uplifted by the visual choices. But ultimately, Fantastic Fours first real misstep remains a higher quality experience than the best issue of many other superhero series. Read Full Review
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8.0
ComicBook.com - Chase Magnett
Apr 10, 2024Fantastic Four #19 absolutely delivers on the promise of Alex Ross's noir cover art. Read Full Review
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6.0
Weird Science Marvel Comics - mrgabehernandez
Apr 11, 2024Fantastic Four #19 ignores the events of issue #18 in favor of a cooldown Elseworlds-ish issue that puts Alicia Masters at the heart of a detective noir mystery. In and of itself, the issue is fine as a novel time waster, and the art is solid, but North continues to keep this ongoing series rudderless. Read Full Review
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Fantastic. Great coloring, art, and noir dialogue. And then the "twist" that revealed it wasnt a novelty one -off but actually part of continuity made it perfect.
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Ryan North approaches the Fantastic Four with the same sensibility Paul Dini approached Batman: The Animated Series. He gets what makes Marvel's First Family fun, and he zeroes in on that month after month.
This issue, coupled with Carlos Gomez's delicate line work, is a clever elseworlds film noir take on the Four that reminds me why I love comics. -
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Holy shit I love this art.
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9.0
Poor Paste Pot Pete
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9.0
Another clever issue from North.
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9.0
It is a fun crime noir with a twist at the end to make it all fit into the current run. I had run, I liked the reinterpretations. Lovely art for the story. Really got the feel. The FF all look great as noir characters. This run has no real strong overarching story but all these one offs are not bad at all.
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9.0
Great issue! The Film noir angle was done almost perfectly by North and Kudos to Gomez on the amazing art that made this shine especially with Aburtov's perfect coloring. Ryan North continues his one and done take lately and it works since it slowly moves the backstory along. This could have been stretched but why overstay your welcome.
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9.0
The cover made me worry that this would be one of those "Sue used to be a spy, because that's cooler than what Sue is now" stories.
What it IS, is so much better. The creators translate the entire Fantastic Four into a new genre, and it happens to be one that I love. One that I'm so familiar with, I can pick a ton of nits. But they do their job so well that I'm not gonna.
I will say that the translation takes so much creative effort that there's not a lot left over for the "real world" framing story that makes it all happen--that part is pretty unoriginal. But it is logical, and it provides a perfect excuse for this fantastic flight of fancy.
Plus, it's another Alicia PoV issue, and I've loved every one of those i more -
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Wasn't super impressed with how quickly and easily everything was resolved at the end, but at least the twist made sense I had a lot of fun with the overall concept as a big fan of noir films.
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Best Marvel book of the week. Ryan North is doing a fantastic job with this run.
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Art: 3.5/5
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This was a slog to get through had to force myself to finish this ish. I know the noir 1950s setting was because the Trapster used a cosmic cube to create this false reality but God I can't stand when comics go back in time in this fashion. I hate it when they go to the old West, or this. Bores me, if I want to read stuff like that I'll find a cosmic that focuses on that but I don't like it when it infects a cosmic like FF.
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Forgettable.
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