The Flash/Fantastic Four #1
Chad Burdette
Recap
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It's DC / MARVEL: The Flash / Fantastic Four!
The Fantastic Four are coming back to the Baxter Building after a mission on Saturn, when they are surprised to find Gorilla Grodd scaling the building, with The Flash (Barry Allen) hot on his (non-existent) tail! Grodd is after Reed Richards' mental amplifier tech, and using The Flash as his unwitting (mind-controlled) ally, tries to break into FF headquarters to steal whatever he can get his grubby little paws on, taking both teams on an adventure through time and space!
Review
The Flash/Fantastic Four #1 finds Jeremy Adams returning to The Flash and mixing it with an encounter with Marvel’s First Family…The Fantastic Four. The story takes place mainly at the Bacter Building, although the journey through time is sprinkled with the members of the Flash family.
The conflict is a simple one, Grodd wants to aquire Reed’s invention, the mental amplifier, to make himself the ruler of the world. Flash is brought into conflict with FF through Grodd taking over his mind and learning about Reed’s inventions which Barry has read about. The story looks like its going to be the trope of the heroes fighting each other, but Adams zags, as the FF are able to dislodge him from Grodd’s mind control only to have Reed be the ultimate target.
The resolution to the story of Reed sending Flash and the rest of the Fantastic Four into the future is a bit rushed and overly complicated, but does not take away from the overall story being told. Adams has some funny moments like the FF playing Gothamoply and the ending with Reed and Barry playing speed chess on multiple boards at once. The story works well with the vertical scrolling storytelling and uses the format to the max.
Final Thoughts
The Flash/Fantastic Four #1 is a strong showing and interesting pairing of characters from their respective universes and is told without the extra baggage of explaining why they seem to know of each other's existence.
The Flash/Fantastic Four #1
- Writing - 9/109/10
- Storyline - 8/108/10
- Art - 9/109/10
- Color - 9/109/10
- Cover Art - 10/1010/10
