Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 7: God War

by Mike Carey and Pasqual Ferry

Seed Nineteen - a bizarre name for the most bizarre characters ever to enter the lives of the Fantastic Four: Threshold, Fountain, Magnificent Brute, Dreamcatcher. These incredible entities hold the key to a cosmic conflict that has raged for untold millennia and now involves our quarrelsome quartet. You've never seen anything like it! We promise. And it debuts our new creative team: Mike Carey on script and Pasqual Ferry on pencils! Collects Ultimate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785121749
• ISBN13: 9780785121749
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Marvel
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Decent reading - the FF go on a space adventure

I'd give this a 3.5 if I could -- I tilted towards the high end to balance out some of the overly negative reviews from other readers. I agree this isn't the greatest story arc for the Ultimate FF, but it was okay. This volume collects issues #33-38 of the series, which comprised a stylish if somewhat muddled space opera featuring remodeled versions of Marvel's cosmic big baddie, Thanos and Ronan The Accuser (formerly a Kree super-cop, here the equally uninvolving son of Thanos). The FF team up with a boring, techno-fethishy outerspace supergroup called Seed 19, and find themselves in the middle of a transdimensional civil war, in a cluttered storyline that was painfully reminiscent of Chris Claremont's endless space operas in the 1980s "X-Men." Still, it was an engaging read, fun enough if a bit thick in the cosmic, sci-fi jargon. The series is still involving for the way that the fledgling teenaged FF is still finding its feet (although here they are so capable and self-assured that the book comes perilously close to being just the same as the regular FF title.) Still digging the Thing's Ultimate persona - hopefully they'll "teen" him up a bit more, so that he's not just an "Earth Two" version of the adult Ben Grimm we already know and love. In short, this volume was okay - I still find it a diverting, entertaining title, but I agree it does seem to be tilting towards the same-old, same-old and losing the originality and verve of the Ultimate universe. (ReadThatAgain book reviews)