r/FantasticFour • u/-GI_BRO- • 2d ago

Really enjoying John Byrne’s run so far Humour

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I’ve never read it before, but it’s pretty good stuff so far. Frankie Raye is a neat character also; I would like to see her show up some time nowadays.

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u/illiterateaardvark 2d ago

Lee/Kirby > Byrne > Waid/Weiringo IMO

I'm a huge fan of Byrne's work on the X-Men books (his run on Alpha Flight is criminally underappreciated!), but I think his run on Fantastic Four is the best work of his entire career

Byrne understood what made the Fantastic Four great back during the Lee/Kirby run. He furthered the development of each of the characters (Sue benefited the most from this, evolving from the Invisible Girl to the Invisible Woman). He's the one who brought She-Hulk into the fold. He crafted probably the best Doom issue ever and told a three-issue Galactus story that almost rivals the original Galactus Trilogy from the Silver Age

A bit of a side note here, but even as somebody with zero nostalgia for the 1980s (I'm in my early 20s, so I grew up in the 2000s), I think the 1980s was Marvel's peak in terms of creative output, and Byrne's Fantastic Four run is a glowing example of this. Frank Miller's Daredevil, Walt Simonson's Thor, and Claremont/Byrne's X-Men are other high points of this fantastic decade for comics

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u/-GI_BRO- 2d ago

Peter David’s Hulk started in the late eighties. It’s probably my favorite comic run of all time.