Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Marvel Arts)

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North previously explained the new series will take a step back and see Marvel's First Family star in a number of "smaller" stories. The American Library Association listed it among their 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults, noting "The layouts and storytelling are unmistakably those of Alex Ross, but he has also exchanged his usual realistic palette for a bolder more expressive color scheme.

Fantastic Four: Full Circle Artist Alex Ross Talks First

It reminded me a lot of another realm ruled by an omnipotent despot, namely Marvel Entertainment, which has officially announced that it will try for a fourth time to make a decent Fantastic Four movie. As you say, it's about a vibe and it's a vibe I was hoping come somehow could infect readership as well as maybe one particular reader, which would be Kevin Feige,” Ross adds, punctuating the comment with a laugh.Although the extra attention Ross has paid to his inks stage may sound like a minor tweak in process, the results are a seismic shift in how the artist presents his work. That’s because Ross had a Fantastic Four pitch rejected years ago and we broke that story as part of our coverage of the book Marvelocity in October 2018. I thought there was a way to connect with the Pop Art of the time period if I changed what I did, and presented that style and not my traditional painted style.

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Although he has done interior work, most notably Marvels with Kurt Busiek and Kingdom Come with Mark Waid, Ross in recent years has mostly been doing cover art, particularly with Marvel Comics. The book is crammed with jaw-dropping art pieces, including a double-page splash featuring the Crossroads of Infinity (seen above). The book, a companion to the beautiful, DC-focused Mythology that came out 15 years ago, is jammed with hundreds of Ross’ covers, prints, sketches and pages – even his designs for the opening credits of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 and a series of busts based on his photorealistic style of art.In 2005, a pre-MCU Feige hired Tim Story to direct the profoundly forgettable The Fantastic Four and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, movies most notable now for introducing Feige to his future Captain America. In this style, Ross has made some of the most iconic images of the superhero genre, adorning countless covers and posters. In 2015, following the conclusion of that year's " Secret Wars" storyline, Ross designed the high-tech variation of Spider-Man's costume that the character wore during Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli's run on The Amazing-Spider-Man. Narratively, Full Circle is perfectly attuned to the needs of industrially managed intellectual property: The story takes place in the temporal pocket between Fantastic Four nos.

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in an oversized format similar to the graphic novels Marvel published in the 1980s to better showcase the art. Only two years later, Ross moved to DC Comics, when he illustrated and co-wrote Kingdom Come with Mark Waid. Following a speedy analysis—while the rest of the team clean up the mess—Reed resolves to take the fight to the source of this outrage: the Negative Zone. We would retell a story, expand it and tell new things that happened within that historical context. In Josh Trank’s 2015 Fantastic Four, you can see an ambitious filmmaker’s mind at work for about 55 of its 100 minutes, trying to reimagine the original super-team in the context of a Ken Russell-style body-horror film.The first few splashes are various shades of swirling blues and whites—broiling clouds of rocket smoke against an idealized sky—that retell the cosmic ray origin of Marvel’s first family from the perspective of Sue Storm. In the ensuing early part of that decade, he had stints as the regular cover artist on Marvel titles including Iron Man, [49] Black Panther, Captain America, and Immortal Hulk. Published September 7, 2022 Alex Ross Brings the Fantastic Four Back to Basics in ‘Full Circle’ Graphic Novel Speaking to Marvel. Any Fantastic Four fan is likely to find Full Circle a welcome addition to their library, and those simply looking for stunning comic book artwork will find just as much value in its pages. Since I show up to every single one of these things like an amnesiac, I’m going to tell myself that Matt Shakman does have a grand vision for the Fantastic Four, and that he can stare down the Marvel suits like Reed Richards telling off some guy in epaulets who wants Johnny Storm to do covert operations in Qurac.

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Marvel agreed to a project that would tell much of the history of the Marvel Universe from the perspective of an ordinary person.We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Richards' suit also has a large, black neck lining and some sort of crease running through the logo and around his shoulders. And while I think this is one of the better Fantastic Four books we’ve gotten in years overall, the story itself isn’t exactly the most enthralling or exciting story starring the team if I’m being honest.