Robots and Pop Culture
I know this is a book marketed for young readers, but since I´m a Carlo Pagulayan aficcionado, I couldn´t help it but try reading this out, and I gotta admit it was no disapointment at all, quite the oposite, this is a solid example of how making comics fun and interesting, for all ages, by using the good elements that turns the characters well improved (how the writer uses the characteristics and singularities of which one, like the puns of Ben Grimm and the super smart explanations of Reed) and the story simple and neat. Beginning the issue with the FF fighting a giant robot is a lot of cliche, but the story grows in such a good pace, with interesting and clever dialogues, everything simple, that it´s amusing seeing the results. This seemed to me like the old comic books, when you see a beginning and end of the story in the same issue, something almost impossible nowadays. There´s a message - some would think cheesy - about parenthood and family in the end, that´s more apropriate for children, but that doesn´t stain or remove the magic of this issue (Sure it´s not an infalible script, like I think it was way too easy the way the 4 kids entered the Baxter Building without any of Reed´s surveilance or tech stuff detected them, but in general it was a good one). The art is spectacular, since Pagulayan is an awesome storyteller (the pages of battle of the robot and the skrulls are amazing). This was very a fun, clever and straight to the point comic book and I recommend it to all Fantastic Four fans!
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