Fantastic Four: Life Story

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The Ageless: The Thing still looks the same age even as his teammates and the other heroes and villains get older. Much like another Fantastic Four story that shows their progression through history, Franklin marries a Wakandan woman and wears a headband to regulate his powers. This difference is what powers he possesses. So their complimentary powers exponentially increase the number of situations where somebody is going to come through. The first issue is set in the 1960s, and explains how the team got their powers during The Space Race. Desperate to send Americans to space ASAP, before falling too much behind the Soviets that already did so, Reed launches his experimental ship before the higher ops dismantle it. But he did not work on the cosmic radiation, and they were all mutated by it. And while America wonders if there is alien life out there in the universe, Reed knows, and fears, that there is a being of incredible power out there somewhere: Galactus.

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Berserk Button: Namor accidentally hits for Susan this when he suggests abandoning Franklin to the nuclear missiles.Decon-Recon Switch: Much like Spider-Man: Life Story before it, this story explores dealing with more "realistic" outcomes to the events the Fantastic Four experience while still ultimately showing them as heroes in the end of day. In the first issue it becomes apparent that they really aren't a "family unit" as they are known by most readers, but putting on the appearance of one for the sake of the public presentation. Age Lift: The Silver Surfer's age is several thousand years old, and by 2002 he reveals to the Four that he is dying of old age. Furthermore, this is the true reason Galactus is coming to Earth: not to feed on it, but to seek a new herald.

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Reed Richards, Benjamin Grimm, Susan Storm, and Jonathan Storm became the first Americans in space, displacing Alan B. Shepard from that honor. Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong, however, retain their milestones as the first man in space and the first man on the Moon. The Meddling Kids Are Useless: All the old heroes come out of retirement to aid the young ones against the Doombots. And yet, victory comes from the Mad Thinker, who helps Reed to retrieve the turnoff codes. Adaptational Villainy: Even for someone who eats worlds, Galactus seems a lot worse in this comic. "I see you. The terror in your soul. And I am coming for it! I am coming for you all." It is then reveal in Issue #5 that Galactus doesn't specifically feed on planets but their entire living inhabitants, as they innately possessed parts of the Power Cosmic. As You Know: Reed being Reed, there's just no way he wouldn't know about the feat of Yuri Gagarin. JFK showing him a newspaper with it is more for the benefit of the reader, to establish the context.The moment of truth comes for Earth as Galactus arrives. The Fantastic Four are willing to stop him at any price, but what if that price includes the destruction of other inhabited worlds? Using the same approach as Spider-Man: Life Story the series will tell the entire history of the Fantastic Four set against the decades through which the stories were published. That means everything starts in the Fantastic Four saga in the 1960s.

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Reed finds himself on the receiving end of this at the end of issue #2, after Sue divorces him and starts up a relationship with Namor.Working on a story about Marvel’s First Family is not only an honor in itself, but what makes it even more so, is being part of the team that gets to tell such a moving and heartfelt story about these iconic characters, their struggles and triumphs in a new way that draws on what has come before,” Izaakse said. “If I do my job right, this story will be one that Fantastic Four fans will remember for a long, long time.” Dr. Doom was one of the Fantastic Four's earliest villains making his first appearance in issue 5, here he doesn't show up until over a decade after the FF's debut. Although the cosmic rays give the FF their powers, it does not become a source of superpowers just waiting for anyone: here, it is the interaction between the cosmic rays and Reed's experimental fuel. What I’ve always loved about the Fantastic Four is how it reduces the cosmic struggle of human survival to the scale of a family squabble while treating personal relationships as a matter of truly galactic importance,” Russell said. “Weaving their story and their world into our story and what’s happened in our world over the last sixty years was an important reminder to me of how smart it is to approach life like that.” Industrialized Evil: Doctor Doom proposed to the Silver Surfer his way of saving Earth from Galactus: he would rule the planet on Galactus's behalf, and under Doom's rule, he would establish an aggressive breeding program, allowing Galactus to consume five hundred million people every year, thereby satisfying Galactus's hunger far more than if he had consumed Earth on arrival. The Surfer describes Doom’s horrific plan “refreshing” because no other race he had encountered ever thought of this before, other than futilely begging Galactus to spare their worlds. Fortunately the Surfer doesn’t accept Doom as Galactus’s new herald to carry this out.

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Historical Domain Character: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and the Beatles appear in the first issue of the series. Ronald Regan dominates issue three.Adapted Out: Due to the nature of the story with the characters aging in real time, Valeria Richards is never born. Valeria was not born and introduced into the comics until the late 90s. By this point, both Reed and Sue would be pushing their 60s, so while it would be possible for Valeria to be born, it would be improbable. Adaptational Early Appearance: By the time Galactus was introduced, the Fantastic Four had met several aliens and alien species: the Skrulls, Planet X, the Ovoids, the Impossible Man, the Watcher, the Enfant Terrible, etc. And that without counting the many aliens seen in other comics of Marvel, and the countless "monster from outer space!" published before the FF. Here, however, the first alien lifeform ever seen is Galactus, allowing to discuss the Fermi Paradox in a way that would make sense in context. My God, What Have I Done?: While serving in the Korean War, Ben Grimm was horrified and guilt-ridden to learn that his bombing runs had destroyed villages and rendered Korean children orphans. He then got himself court-martialed by assaulting a commanding officer and taking the military's food rations to give them to the orphans. Russell: I want people to feel like they've read a book, not just about characters they love, but a generational story about a family and how they helped each other survive. In the tradition of SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY, and in celebration of the FF’s 60th Anniversary, comes this series setting the lives of the fabulous foursome in real time across the years!