C.E Cebulski has just confirmed the return of Marvel’s Fantastic Four in an ongoing series with the creative team of Dan Slott and Artist Sarah Picelli this August.
The New York Times has just broken the story to confirm the return of Marvel’s first family who has not been together again since Fantastic four ended in April 2015.
To quote The New York Times article on the choice of team:
“We always knew the Fantastic Four would come back,” C. B. Cebulski, the editor in chief of Marvel, said in an interview. “We were waiting for the right time and the right creative team to bring them back.”
Mr. Slott said the Fantastic Four were in the first comics he ever read back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had the team meet the cosmic entity Galactus in 1965. “I started my adventures in the Marvel Universe with a freaked-out Reed Richards, the Watcher, and the Silver Surfer,” Mr. Slott recalled. “I’ve wanted this for so long.”
Ms. Pichelli was excited about working on the series, but coy. “I can’t wait to draw a lot of the characters, but there’s one, in particular, I can’t reveal yet,” she said in an email interview. “You will know why they’re my favorite when you read the book!”
Slott is coming off a 10 year run on Spider-Man and according to the same article envisions at least a 55 issue run on the project which would mean according to the numbering get him to issue #700 by legacy numbering…
There has long been speculation on other sites that Marvel was not interested in the book as the rights sit with Fox but with all the wheeling and dealing around the Fox studio and the possibility that Marvel could actually get the opportunity to acquire those rights well then this announcement points to a whole spectrum of new possibilities…
As always we will be watching…
