Spider-Girl Presents Fantastic Five, Vol. 1: In Search of Doom

Fantastic Five #1

by Tom DeFalco, Paul Ryan (Illustrator)

Meet the FF of the future and uncover their ominous past The Torch, the Thing and the rest fight new versions of old foes in their effort to rebuild Marveldom's First Family Guest-starring Spider-Girl and A-Next's Stinger Collects Fantastic Five #1-5.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

115 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2006

About the author

Tom DeFalco is an American comics writer and editor, well-known for his association with Marvel Comics and Spider-Man.

Reviews

[Will Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing special but it read quickly.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Always fun to visit the MC2 universe! While I personally prefer Spider-Girl, it was interesting to learn about the fate of the original FF.

[Adam Graham · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book, like the Spider-girl books was sent in Marvel's MC2 Universe. It's fifteen years in the future and so things have happened to characters and teams. Thus the Fantastic Four has seen some roster changes. Gone: Sue Richards. In: Ms. Fantastic (Lyja) and Psylord (Franklin Richards) with a Reed Richards powered robot called, "Big Brain."

I've gone back and forth between a 2-star rating and a 3-star rating for the book because there are some great features. Spider-girl does show up in Issue #3 in a great appearance. There are some touching and imaginative scenes regarding the fate of Reed and Sue Richards.

However, the book too often zags when it should zig. To be fair, you may get more out of this if you've read the FF for years where Lyja, Franklin Reed and Sharon Ventura (who is portrayed as the Thing's Ex-Wife) have been read. However, as this is targeted to younger readers, that's not much help.

This book collects the complete five issue first set of Fantastic Five.

The first two issues when we should be getting a feel for the team are spent in pointless fights against second rate villains that show us a little of their powers but fail to capture the imagination. Issue 3, hopes were raised, the plot was going somewhere with an exciting climax in Issue 4. However, in Issue 4, instead of a tense action sequence, we get a mostly flashback story that ends up with our heroes not being needed.

Issue 5 wraps up okay, but it's not enough to save the book and we learn that FF may have to stand for "Fantastic Fifteen" with everyone who wants to join including Dr. Doom's not so evil successor. Interesting stuff, but not well-presented at all. Don't know whether this was cancelled suddenly or always supposed to be limited series. Either way,it should have been better planned.

[Nerdish Mum · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of very good stories. I'm not going to lie, I'd never heard of this Fantastic Five and I think this was a good introduction for me to them. I do feel a little cheated though as it's titled "Spider-Girl presents..." I presumed she would actually be in it more than 3 or so pages and as more than just a filler part of a story

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

A big disappointment. Not as good as other Earth 2 stuff, only saving grace is a lovely scene with Mr and Mrs Fantastic.

[Dwayne Keller · Rating 2 out of 5]

This version of the Fantastic Four (or Five or Six....) just doesn't do anything for me. The stories were ok but that was it.

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it well enough, though I can see why it didn't catch on. (B)

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't think this alone was tremendous. But it did a really good job tablesetting. I'd like to see a lot more of what happens (minus the infinite stream of tyros.)