A New Alex Ross Fantastic Four Comic Is Coming From Marvel and Abrams

In the buildup to the Fantastic Four’s sixtieth anniversary this 12 months, the basic workforce’s truly been alive, nicely, and prominently featured all through a few of Marvel’s notable comics. Though Marvel may have closed the 12 months out by merely doubling down on boosting the workforce’s profiles inside its core comics universe, the writer’s upping the ante with an sudden partnership.

Though Alex Ross isn’t any stranger to comics and creating breathtaking work of superheroes in his decades-long profession working within the trade, he’s but to put in writing and illustrate a guide of his personal, one thing lots of his followers have wished to see. In 2022, that’s set to alter with Fantastic Four: Full Circle, a large-format graphic novel produced by MarvelArts, a brand new partnership between Marvel and Abrams ComicsArts.

In a press launch about Full Circle, Abrams described the comedian because the Fantastic Four story Ross has “been wanting to tell for years, and visually it is one of the greatest artistic experiments [he’s] attempted,” which is saying one thing given his physique of labor.

Fantastic Four: Full Circle makes use of a basic comedian from the workforce’s Stan Lee/Jack Kirby period as a leaping off level for a narrative that pulls Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm into the Negative Zone on a mission to avoid wasting the universe. Though the final gist of Full Circle sounds very on-brand for the Fantastic Four, what’s fascinating concerning the comedian is what it portends for Marvel’s way forward for collaborating with different publishers. Only time will inform whether or not Fantastic Four: Full Circle is a success, nevertheless it feels very very like it’s solely going to be the primary of many extra books like this from the House of Ideas and buddies.

Fantastic Four: Full Circle hits shops on August 2, 2022.

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