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I was pumped for this, thinking that zdarksy would pick this up following his incredible spiderman life story, but they went with this socialist fucktard instead
• The fateful finale of the fabulous foursome's lives across six decades!
• With the Doombots in place, Dr. Doom begins his conquest of Earth. When the world has no answer for Doom's might, the aging heroes join forces with the next generation, but will it
be enough to stop him?
RATED T
Fantastic Four: Life Story; #6 gives us a fitting ending to a series that has presented a Fantastic Four team that, while true to the original, has not always been the harmonious tight unite we know and love. Reed and Sue separated, Johnny Storm dead and now Doctor Doom rears his ugly metal head. A grand finale and an ending that is satisfying rather than over-sentimental. Read Full Review
There's no way to effectively address global cataclysm within this genre's bounds and so Life Story simply does not. What it accomplishes far more effectively is a consideration of the flawed and often unheroic characters first introduced in Fantastic Four #1. That was the gift Marvel's first family brought to readers " imperfect heroes. And here in Life Story #6, those imperfect heroes are allowed to find one conclusion. Read Full Review
Fantastic Four: Life Story #6 brings to the First Family what only someone who came from outside the comics world, like Mark Russel, can. Comics were not originally a world he chose to run in, and I think that gives him a certain degree of freedom to do whatever he wants. He likely doesn't have a deep and personal respect for the characters he's writing, and that allows him to do so much interesting stuff with them. I find not respecting a fictional character enough is often as detrimental to storytelling in comics as respecting them too much, and Mark Russel often strikes the right balance. Accompanied by a small army of great artists and editors, and I think this book has turned out very well in the end. I look forward to giving it another read one day, it deserves that. Read Full Review
I liked that this nuanced story ends with some nuance. This was a very different type of Life Story than Spider-Man was, but that doesn't make it less valid. It's just a different take, and in my opinion, it works very well. I think this might be a good evergreen story for people who can't get into the FF for some reason or another. It grounds the characters while still showing why they're fantastic.
Russell really turned things around, I love stories where the heroes are allowed to age
In the broad strokes, it's a thoroughly safe story without any particularly surprising plot twists.
I'll be damned if it isn't executed with meticulous skill in the details, though. The pace is good, the dialogue's solid, and the art is shockingly, consistently great for a collaboration.
And Reed's story ties it all together on an uplifting, heartwarming note.
Wasn't as exciting as the galactus stuff but, it was a good end to the series. It had a lot emotion, which is what this series was so good with.
The ending is bad, not horrible, I've read much worse from Russell, just bad. 5 out of 6 issues were really bad, #5 was the only good one. This could have been a much better book if it was written by someone other than Mark Russell who thinks being overly grim and pessimistic is cool and smart. Also, I didn't like that line that "In reality, there's no such thing as a hero", agree to disagree very much there.
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