The Beginning of the End

by Dwayne McDuffie, Karl Kesel, Tom Beland

Reed and Sue team up with the New Fantastic Four in a desperate gambit to find the source of the disease wracking the fabric of spacetime itself. Only one being can follow such an ineffable trail but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078512554X
• ISBN13: 9780785125549
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.6" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

An okay FF volume

"The Fantastic Four: The Beginning Of The End" written by Dwayne McDuffie & Karl Kesel illustrated by Paul Pelletier & Tom Grummett (Marvel Books, 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------ As a follow-up to the riotously fun graphic novel, "FF: The New Fantastic Four", this is a bit anticlimactic. This volume includes two story arcs, one from issues #551-553 in which a future-version Doctor Doom time-travels back to try and get present-day Reed to give up a project that Doom says will harm humankind, while the second story (issues # 525-526) dips backwards to reprint an orphaned two-part episode in which another old-time villain, Diablo, who also is dispatched with in a similar manner (both bad guys get sent off to alternate worlds, which they get to rule to their heart's content...) Overall, this volume wasn't super-satisfying, although it was a good read. The Dwayne McDuffie plot was the best, but it ends abruptly. While the older, future-reality edition of the FF were fun to see, they don't do as much with the characters as we'd like -- perhaps there'll be some future-world stories with the elder FF somewhere down the line? That could be fun! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain book reviews)

Doom has come back to fix the future.

[...] This book is about Doom's trip to the past to fix the mistakes of Reed Richards and his inevitable "madness that will destroy the future". With the help of Namor & T'Challa, Doom is hoping to stop Reed or at least convince the rest of the gang that plan #101 will take the world down a path is is totally unacceptable to Doom. All in all good story and it gives some more insight into the personal conflict between Reed and Doom. Good back up story as well including Diablo. A character I haven't read much about drawn by one of my favorite artist's Tom Grummett. This story gives history into Diablo's past.