“This is the Fantastic Four story I have been wanting to tell for years, and visually it is one of the greatest artistic experiments I have attempted,” says Alex Ross. FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE was acquired and will be edited by Ross’s longtime editor Charles Kochman, editorial director of Abrams ComicArts, alongside Marvel VP of Publishing, executive editor Tom Brevoort.

The book’s large format breaks from the standard graphic novel size to showcase Ross’s art, mirroring the format of the Marvel Graphic Novel, a line of books from the 1980s, and includes a full-color foldout poster featuring an all-new fully painted origin of the Fantastic Four. $24.99 Hardcover), the first graphic novel written and illustrated by renowned comic artist Alex Ross in his thirty-plus-year career. New York, New York – December 13, 2021 – Abrams ComicArts announces and reveals the cover of the August 2, 2022, publication of FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE (Abrams ComicArts AugU.S. “In Fantastic Four: Full Circle, Alex revisits a classic Stan Lee–Jack Kirby comic from the 1960s and introduces the storyline for a new generation of readers.”įor more on this news, read the official press release below. “Alex and I have been working together for close to 30 years, when I was an editor at DC Comics and hired him to paint his very first book cover back in 1993, before Marvels was published,” says editor Charles Kochman. The Fantastic Four have no choice but to journey into the Negative Zone, an alien universe composed entirely of anti-matter, risking not just their own lives but the fate of the cosmos!

But for what purpose? And who is behind this untimely invasion? These carrion creatures composed of Negative Energy come to Earth using a human host as a delivery system. When an intruder suddenly appears inside the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four-Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), the Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards), the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), and the Thing (Ben Grimm)-find themselves surrounded by a swarm of invading parasites. It’s a rainy night in Manhattan, and not a creature is stirring except for. So what’s Fantastic Four: Full Circle about? Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!

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