Nope, not a typo.  That’s what Marvel renamed the Fantastic Four reboot.  FF.  It stands for Future Foundation.  Now I should state that I was never a Fantastic Four fan.  Never really got into the title and I’ve largely ignored the story lines unless they affected the rest of the Marvel universe in some way.  I have to say bringing in Spider-man to replace the recently deceased Human Torch was cool (even though it seems they’re  putting Spidey in damn near every team book), the reason he joined makes sense and his new costume is ok (he’s got line 15 now).  But here’s the thing, with a reboot and a new #1 you want to make the series open for new readers and not bog it down with alot of details they won’t understand. 

This is where FF#1 fails miserably.

There are about 6-7 extra characters that I have no idea who they are.  I mean they have a 10 yr old clone of Dr Doom living with them, no explanation for it. A disembodied flying head of a moleman, no explanation.   There are 3 blonde kids and I have to guess which is which half the time and one is like 9 years older than the other, sloppy. Way to many supporting characters with no real point and with most of them being kids it makes FF feel like a daycare.   The issues in Amazing Spider-man that deal with the FF DO help out quite a bit but Marvel kinda dropped the ball with this first issue (although not as much as they did with Spider-girl #1, which is now canceled)  I’ll try a couple more issues but I just can’t recommend FF#1 to any new readers.

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