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Make Mine Multiversity Episode #144: “Fantastic Four” (2022) #1-6 with Joe Skonce; or, You Can't Clobber Your Way Out of a Time Loop

The first family's first fantastic issues...of 2022.

Welcome Back to Make Mine Multiversity: A Marvel Podcast! Each episode we’ll be looking at Marvel books, old and new! We discuss fun Marvel comics, Marvel news, Marvel history and, now, are putting the "mine" back into Make Mine Multiversity.

Make Mine Multiversity was a twice-monthly podcast that premiered on the first and third Friday of every month. Now we're shooting for monthly every fourth Friday. Ish.

For those who're new, each month I talk with a guest about a Marvel comic that's memorable to them. Sometimes they're personally meaningful, sometimes it's "I read this a few months ago and its still sticking around."

This month I welcome back to the show, after quite a few years, Joe Skonce! A friend and former reviewer for Multiversity Comics, he picked a comic I was so excited to revisit: "Fantastic Four" (2022) #1-6 aka the start of the Ryan North run. We've got science! We've got goofy antics! We've got body horror! We've got Johnny Storm's glorious mustache.

Oh, and point of order. North's big science degree is in Computer Science, not physics, so...close enough I guess?

Creator Credits

Writer: Ryan North
Artist: Iban Coello (#1-4) and Ivan Fiorelli (#5-6)
Colorist: Jesus Aburtov
Letterer: Joe Caramagna

Reading along?

Current stuff is always a bit easier to find than older books. You can find it collected as "Fantastic Four, Vol. 1: Whatever Happened to the Fantastic Four?" or on Marvel Unlimited.

Next time

I'm taking a little break for the summer to recharge my editing batteries and potentially get a couple episodes ahead before coming back. See y'all in the fall!

The Wind-Down

Elias can be found writing here at eliasrwrites.ghost.io. Joe is a partial hermit on the internet but you can find his old reviews over at Multiversity Comics.

Our theme music is “Excelsior” by Carol Romo and our audio editor is me, Elias.

The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, (Stitcher is apparently dead and buried) and other places so please subscribe! You can also listen above or download it here.

Until next time, excelsior!