Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four, Vol. 11: Doomed if You Don't

Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #41-44

by Paul Tobin, David Hahn (Illustrator)

All adventure, all action, for all ages Join Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing for a wild ride of all-new, unforgettable exploits Featuring Devil Dinosaur, Collector, and Doctor Doom Collects Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #41-44.

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2009

About the author

Paul Tobin is the Eisner-award winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Bandette, Colder, and many other comic books and graphic series.

Bandette, drawn by Colleen Coover, was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Digital Series in 2013, 2016, and 2017; and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature in 2016. His original graphic novel I Was the Cat was nominated for an Eisner in 2015.

The Genius Factor: How to Capture an Invisible Cat , first in his five-book series of middle-grade books, came out in 2016 from Bloomsbury Kids. It was followed in 2017 by How To Outsmart A billion Robot Bees , and How To Tame A Human Tornado in March 2018.

Reviews

[Lindsey · Rating 2 out of 5]

This graphic novel is about the adventures of the popular Fantastic Four. Although I understand the reasoning behind using some graphic novels in the classroom, this would not be my top pick. If I were to have this book in my classroom it would be a classroom of upper elementary grade students. The story line is a basic super hero story line, but there is much to follow which makes it a little more complex.

In cases like this I think that finding the link between text to text, text to self and text to world would be rather difficult. I would use this book to encourage non readers to be reading books at all. I would include it in my personal classroom library for that reason. Perhaps once they start to get to know the characters and want to follow more of their stories, they could switch from the graphic novel to a chapter book about the same characters. This could be the text to text relation. I understand that in some cases graphic novels can be up with the times or with pop culture, but in this case I have a hard time relating text to world. The mutants of the fantastic four use technologies like computers to communicate with others around the globe.

[F · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are similar to those I read in my childhood in the 1960s. The nostalgic way of telling stories appeals to me even now. A little PC garbage gets in the way but not like most of the stories of today.