The Fantastic Four get their license to drive in No. 11
Can the Fantastic Four survive teenage angst?
Previously in the Fantastic Four, the Richards clan had gone up against Doom and his attempt to drain Galactus of his cosmic energy and helped their new home of Yancy Street battle off the Frost Giants during the War of the Realms but now they must face one of their greatest challenges to date.
The kids getting their license.
For some reason, this issue felt very, very kiddy. But Dan Slott was able to weave the youthfulness of a story about kids getting their license into a story about the microverse coming to destroy our own.
It also tells a story of a frustrated Franklin Richards who is feeling less and less useful around the headquarters of the FF, by not having a massive intelligence like his sister Valeria, or having powers like the rest of the family, with his fading every time that he uses them never to return.
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The issue is though. If this was a story about any other family than the Fantastic Four, Franklin would be yelling at his parents, skipping dinner and hanging out at the mall with all the bad kids. Maybe even getting a piercing or some kind of jailhouse tattoo. Slott has done a great job of telling a story about family but the Franklin aspect of it has almost gotten to be a little too much. Being the stand out of the story in a negative way. It’s almost like Franklin’s attitude is the big bad all of the time and anything else that the family is facing is only secondary.
In a world where everything is so gritty and dark, the Fantastic Four is the lighthearted star in the distance but could really stand to be a little be darker at times, maybe even a little more serious.
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Next month should prove to be the slobber knocker that everyone has been clamoring for.