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Ok, it’s not “fine art”, as you might call it. In fact, it ranks # 193,324 in Amazons book collection. But..it’s fun. It’s just good old fashioned comic book storytelling with a twist. The plotline is fairly straight forward – Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four is messing around with interplanetary dimension gates (I mean, really, doesn’t everyone?)
During one of his experiments, he accidentally lets a parasite of some kind into our solar system, which infects everyone it touches, giving the infected person a slow-witted brain focused on one thing – food. It really doesn’t matter the source, it’s just…food. Naturally, on a planet filled with humans, they start turning on each other.
Did I mention this was also a planet populated with super beings? Yes, all our favorites have been infected. Wolverine. Spiderman. The Hulk. Iron Man. Black Panther. Giant Man, and of course the villans, Venom, Juggernaut, Red Skull, … and so many others it boggles the mind. During the course of the story, the super beings have completely eaten every living creature they could find on the planet (although there are two small outposts, but I’ll let you learn about those for yourself.)
Robert Kirkman is given primary authorship credits, and Sean Phillips as the illustrator. Kirkmen knows many of the characters well, as he has been on the “Ultimate X-Men” team for years, and Seans’ drawings are classic Marvel comic styling.
A word to the wise, though, as these stories (volume 3 comes out in hardback this spring)are simply fluff. There is no real depth, no underlying political agenda, no thought provoking topics that you’ll simply HAVE to mention to someone the next day. These are just plain good fun for anyone who likes anything even remotely related to George Romero.
The amusing part comes for anyone who has seen the movie “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”, as the group of ‘heroes’ encounters first the surfer, and then the giant being Galactus. The entire concept of devouring the devourer of worlds is frightfully amusing.
The collected series of the first five novels sells for $23.95 on Amazon, and I’d give it a PG-13 for some of the violence and gory “eating anything that moves” depictions. ISBN#078512277X
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Majestic - A Graphic Review - 2009-07 - Murder Mysteries
