[Review] Fantastic Four #588

"Speechless"

While I haven't been following Johnathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four completely, the few issues of his I did read were simply amazing. With no doubt his place is writing the First Family. 
 
The Good  
I am unsure if this is a spoiler or not, but this is mostly a silent issue. I think I mentioned this once or twice before, but silent issues are always a hit/miss topic for me. 
Silent issues are, for the most part about expressing emotion without the need of words. Usually, this is something that is used as a plot device to evoke a sad reaction from readers. Hickman did an amazing job in evoking that reaction with the silent last page of the last issue and comes full circle by recreating that reaction once more using different characters this time. I am very glad to have closure to the story that brought death to one of my favorite characters. Not only getting the aftermath reactions from the immediate characters affected by this but also by the rest of the Marvel U.
I hope by now, everybody knows that the death in Three was Johnny Storm's. Otherwise you just probably just got the biggest spoiler ever! This issue was great but my favorite parts were not even the issue itself, they were the second feature and Hickman's closing statement to this long-run series.

The second feature focused on Franklin and Spider-Man. The art by Mark Brooks is amazing complimenting this heartfelt story that is so good I am going to let you go and read it.

The Bad  
Like I mentioned above, silent issues are always a hit/miss topic for me. While this issue did a good job using this "plot device" to match the tone of the story there were tidbits that I wish would have had dialogue to understand the progression of the story better. Personally, I though it was a shame that Steve Epting was not the artist in this issue. Nick Dragotta's art is great but I still missed Epting's touch.

The Verdict - 4.5 out of 5 
Every single fan of the Fantastic Four needs to read "Three"! This is a great ending that not only bodes well as an ending of the series but also of the ending of the team. I said before that one of my favorite parts of the issue was Hickman's closing statement. Read it. I promise it will make you want to read FF #1 more than you do now. 
Originally posted on Comic Vine.com

"...where exactly do we go from here? Pretty Simple, really, the same place we've been headed the entire time:Tomorrow. -JH"

Ant-Man Movie to be a "High-Tech Spy Heist Film"

Scott Pilgrim vs.The World Director Edgar Wright has been talking about an Ant-Man movie for some time now. He mentioned a while ago that he wrote a script before working on Scott Pilgrim and "it’s kind on back burner slightly" while he worked on Scott Pilgrim. Even Stan Lee, creator of the character, tweeted back in February that he really was not disappointed after meeting with Wright.

In recent news it was announced that he will be returning to the production of the Ant-Man film once Scott Pilgrim was over and yet all us comic book fans wonder if the movie will ever get made, and if it does which Ant-Man do we want to see on the big screen. While some want Eric O' Grady and others prefer Scott Lang,
I personally have to admit that I prefer Hank Pym but why only have one when you can have them all? I mean think about it, perfect trilogy! 

Vanity Fair recently interviewed Wright about his immediate success on the premiere of his new movie. During the Interview with Vanity Fair the topic of Ant-Man came up:

I feel like I should ask you about the Ant Man movie.

Sure, why not?

You’ve been working on the comic book adaptation for a while. Is it ever actually going to happen?

I hope so, yeah. I’ve written a script, and once Scott Pilgrim is done I’m going to work on a second draft. It’s something I’ve been passionate about for awhile.

Yeah, but ... Ant Man? Seriously? Isn’t he like Aqua Man with lower self-esteem?

Not at all! I had a copy of the Tales to Astonish comic from the early 60s, which has his origin story. And I’ve been a fan ever since. I think it’s a really interesting high-concept idea.

Let me make sure I have this right. This guy shrinks to the size of an ant, and he has an army of ants at his disposal?

That’s right.

Is that really the most effective way to fight crime?

Ah, well ... you’ll just have to wait and see.

You’re an amazing director, Edgar, but I don’t know how this is going to work. I mean… Ant Man? The guy who becomes an ant? Isn’t that like trying to stop a mob boss with a box full of kittens?

I know there’s a big stigma attached to it, mostly because every movie about shrinking has been about people in peril. I think it’d be great to do a shrinking film about a bad-ass secret agent.

Okay, I see what you mean. I was thinking along the lines of Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

Even something like The Incredible Shrinking Man, which is a fantastic film, is about a guy in trouble. But this is going to be nothing like that. It’s essentially a high-tech spy heist film with somebody with a very particular power.

The awesome power ... of an ant!

Trust me, it’ll be much cooler than you think.

I got two things out of this. One, Ant-Man will be a secret agent and two, there's a huge probability this will be about Hank Pym rather than other Ant-Men. He mentioned he has a copy of Tales to Astonish from back in the 60s, which is a story oriented on Pym, being him who is the first Ant-Man in history, but why would he be a secret agent? (I could be wrong though!)
If this will end up tying to the Avengers movie universe there's a chance that Hank Pym will be working as an Agent of SHIELD similar as what he and Janet Van Dyne did when they joined the Ultimates.
Is this good news? Or do want to see Pym in the lab rather than in "a high-tech spy heist film"? 

Source: Vanity Fair  Publish Post

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