Fantastic Foursome...

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2014)

It's hard to believe that it's been a decade since I saw this one... The trailer that showed the long-retired Mr. Incredible trying to fit into his old costume was what hooked me; I'd written a story for the American Zoetrope website about a decade before that dealt with the exact same thing- only without the humor. Being a lifelong comic book fan (whenever money permitted), I recognized The Fantastic Four the moment I saw them (although, to be fair, Mr. Fantastic was actually preceded in comics by Jack Cole's Plastic Man and The Human Torch before he became Human was an android capable of setting himself alight). The opening scenes establish that THE INCREDIBLES Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl were just two among MANY Supers who roamed the land before a lawsuit brought them all down (a lawsuit, we learn, that was the result of fanboy "Incrediboy" interfering in Mr. Incredible's attempt to stop the dastardly Bomb Voyage from blowing up a building)- and all of this en route to Mr. Incredible's wedding to Elastigirl... The disenfranchised Supers shoe-horn themselves into "normal" society, but each and every one of them is chomping at the bit to get back into costume. Meanwhile, the evil Syndrome is making plans to destroy Mr. Incredible. Will he succeed? Next issue: The Shocking Answer!!!