http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.badmouth.net/ff-galactus/ http://www.badmouth.net/ff-galactus/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:15:32 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/ff-galactus/ With this summer's second superhero sequel—Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer—opening in mere days, it seemed like a good time to check out the inspiration for the new film. The Silver Surfer first appeared in Fantastic Four #48, in a riotous story of cosmic proportions that spread over all or part of three issues. The Surfer was the herald of the world-devouring creature Galactus< ?a>, and his arrival on our world was a harbinger of doom. The FF alone stand against the alien invaders and save the planet. This storyline, perhaps the most famous in the FF's 46-year run, is the exact opposite of the first “Fantastic Four” film—it is breathlessly exciting, relentlessly paced and executed on a grand scale that pushed the limits of its medium. The first movie had two significant handicaps: A fair amount of time had to be devoted just to getting the team empowered (a key reason the excellent first “Spider Man” was surpassed by the Doc Ock sequel), and the project had gone through so many writers and directors that a mess was inevitable. The new FF film has none of that behind-the-scenes chaos, and there's certainly nothing to handicap the story—it's drawn from a classic example of the absolute glory of superhero comics. Related posts:

1. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2. Fantastic Four
3. The Fantastic Mr. Fox

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