The Fantastic Four That Almost Was

The Fantastic Four That Almost Was

Prior to the release of Blade in 1998, the mid-to-late ’90s was the not-so-mighty Marvel era. Despite generating hundreds of iconic comic book heroes and villains for decades, the company had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as the speculator boom in comics - peaking in 1993 with nearly a billion dollars in sales - was waning. There had not been a major theatrical movie ripped from the pages of the Marvel Universe since George Lucas' infamous How…

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The post Fantastic Flops: Fantastic Four (2015) is a chemistry-averse attempt at a dark Elseworlds take on Marvel’s First Family appeared first on Graphic Policy. Even though the Fantastic Four comics kickstarted the creation of the Marvel Universe, their film adaptations have been critically maligned. In the “Fantastic Flops” series, I’m going back and re-evaluating the four previous Fantastic Four films and seeing if they’re a “Flop”, “Bop”, o…