{"id":1349,"date":"2005-03-11T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/11\/miss_thing\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:16:45","slug":"miss_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/11\/miss_thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best line of dialogue from the new issue of Ultimate Fantastic Four<\/i>? This sad lament from Ben Grimm, who\u2019s realizing that they\u2019ve come all the way to the N-Zone (the Ultimate version of the much cooler-named Negative Zone) only to meet yet \u201canother freak who gets his \u2014 its<\/i> \u2014 kicks from controlling people\u201d:<\/p>\n

The universe is this fantastic place, full ideas and, you know, cool stuff. And everyone else seems to think it\u2019s somewhere to set up their frickin\u2019 butt-hat franchise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Ultimate series always make me nervous, even though I\u2019ve really liked a few of them. I\u2019ve been so happy with Ultimate Fantastic Four,<\/i> which really nails the esstential personalities of the characters, and really gets into the sense of wonder they feel as they explore their own powers and the universe around them. Yes, it\u2019s a gimmick to reboot the Marvel Universe and fill it with younger, edgier, remixed versions of its characters, but in this case Warren Ellis is really rocking it.<\/p>\n

I think he\u2019s the best writer to handle this particular series: he writes solid, funny, nuanced characters, but he also writes incredible stories of science fiction, which is what the Fantastic Four really thrive on. I haven\u2019t minded the slow pace of the series, because I\u2019m totally loving the sci-fi ideas he showing us and developing along the way. Frankly, I\u2019d be happy to have the action go slower if we could get more rumination about the things they\u2019re seeing along the way.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m glad to see Ben get so many good quips in, and to have them mixed in with the incredible decency that I\u2019ve loved about the Thing. He\u2019s probably my all-time favorite comic character, and this book is really letting him shine so far.<\/p>\n

My only quibble is with the Invisible Gi…er…Woman, and it\u2019s one that I have with just about every reboot of the FF done during the last 15 years or so. Now, she\u2019s another one of my favorite characters, but because she really grew into herself over the years. For this, I think we have to thank John Byrne<\/a> (who these days should be kept a minimum distance of a million miles from any characters we love). It was Byrne who really developed her from the plucky, girly Sue Richards into the powerful emotional rock of the team. That journey really made her, and it\u2019s a shame to see her start out as absurdly accomplished as Reed \u2014 not because she shouldn\u2019t be, but because she was a richer character when she grew into them after all her Fantastic experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best line of dialogue from the new issue of Ultimate Fantastic Four? This sad lament from Ben Grimm, who\u2019s realizing that they\u2019ve come all the way to the N-Zone (the Ultimate version of the much cooler-named Negative Zone) only to meet yet \u201canother freak who gets his \u2014 its \u2014 kicks from controlling people\u201d: … Continue reading “Miss Thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76910,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/76910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}