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Marvel Knights 4 (Collected Editions)
Marvel Knights 4, Volume 4: Impossible Things Happen Every Day
The Inhumans live by their own rites and rituals, their own laws and governances. But when two Inhuman children seek asylum with the Fantastic Four, battle lines are drawn and an inter-species war threatens to erupt. Old alliances are threatened and friends stand now as enemies.
Collecting: Marvel Knights 4 19-24
Collecting: Marvel Knights 4 19-24
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 8, 2006
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
466 books475 followersRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
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March 18, 2017
3.5 stars. Not my favorite volume of this run, but I'm still a sucker for anyhing to do with the FF.
And I'm also a fan of the Classic Inhumans. (The NuInhumans? Not so much.)
And I'm also a fan of the Classic Inhumans. (The NuInhumans? Not so much.)
February 24, 2020
Two sad stories about children.
I feel like the former got the Inhumans wrong. You can't be terrigen'd twice. And we seem to be focused on an entirely different child of Gorgon's these days. Do both exist?
The latter was very cute but I did not love it for reasons I can't explain. Maybe too cute?
Oh, and I forgot it had this awesome update on the original Kirby Black Panther story with a framing device I didn't like that much.
I feel like the former got the Inhumans wrong. You can't be terrigen'd twice. And we seem to be focused on an entirely different child of Gorgon's these days. Do both exist?
The latter was very cute but I did not love it for reasons I can't explain. Maybe too cute?
Oh, and I forgot it had this awesome update on the original Kirby Black Panther story with a framing device I didn't like that much.
April 5, 2019
Its not that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writes bad comics....its that he often seems to be writing slightly different versions of the FF. They're just not quite right or on model. And then the final two issues seem completely self-involved and unnecessarily self indulgent.
August 9, 2022
This book didn't have a big over-arcing plot, but in that sense, it ended up being a more interesting collection of character-focused stories. Sue gets a great spotlight both as a wife to an often absent-minded super genius and a mother in more ways than one. And bringing in the complexity of the Inhuman caste system. The Things gets an unusual story tied to good old Yancy Street and an actual Golem that somehow reflects the history of the place.
Then things end with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek Impossible Man story that brings in a version of the author into the Marvel Universe as he tries to follow the Fantastic Four around in order to be able to write a better FF story. This was a bit on the nose, but it worked out in the end.
I thought this was the last volume in the series, but it seems I'm missing one. Frustrations!
Then things end with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek Impossible Man story that brings in a version of the author into the Marvel Universe as he tries to follow the Fantastic Four around in order to be able to write a better FF story. This was a bit on the nose, but it worked out in the end.
I thought this was the last volume in the series, but it seems I'm missing one. Frustrations!
June 14, 2024
Maybe there is a reason I didn't recognize Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's name... Maybe these issues were the reason? I dunno. That's probably not fair, but of the six issues of Marvel Knights 4 reprinted herein, all of them felt like filler. The themes were obvious and the endings were not predictable or formulaic, but they were unsatisfying. The Mike Allred cover was my favorite part, homage to 1963's X-Men # 1. I liked the Inhuman story, but it ends on a down note. So does the Thing story. The Invisible Woman story tries to be sweet and romantic, but just feels forced. Finally, the Impossible Man story? The comic relief piece? NO. In an Impossible Man story, one expects dynamic art and this was just... not good. Into the trade fodder pile with you, mediocre book!
January 11, 2020
Probably the highlight of the series, in that the self-insertion was flavorful. Otherwise, I keep rolling my eyes.
September 30, 2020
Absolutely wonderful finale to this volume. Old villains, new friends. I enjoyed it very much. There are things talked about even today and he just threw them into the comics 15 years ago. Wow.
October 25, 2015
The last story is cute but silly. But the rest of the book is just rather good. From Susan Storm's night on the town with the girls. To the Inhuman's Runaways coming to the FF for help. Even a Yancy story (which I typically dislike) with Ben and a Golem. Good use of the characters, strong writing, an understanding of the Marvel Universe. Too bad there aren't more books like this one.
June 28, 2013
Top-rate stories. The standalones are the best but the fourth-frame-breaking Impossible Man story is quite fun too (and I often hate Impossible Man stories!).
October 29, 2014
Damn good stuff. Made me feel mature and all grown up.
But the last story was just way too silly. I love stupid humor, but that was not stupid, just silly.
But the last story was just way too silly. I love stupid humor, but that was not stupid, just silly.
November 11, 2016
Had to take this one down a notch because of the Impossible Man. Some good stuff throughout the story arcs, but the IM just seems like something you slap together when you don't have any good ideas.
January 12, 2017
La parte degli Inumani non è male, ma l'Uomo Impossibile non l'ho mai sopportato.
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