Posted: 20 October 2008 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | 3
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I noticed when reading the Essentials of the FF how some subplots, like Johnny/Crystal or Matt Murdock/Karen Paige or Steve Rogers/Sharon Carter got extremely repetitive, in succession in the books. The monthly gap solved that problem, mostly.
The main thing about Johnny/Crystal was her involvement always kept the ultra-cool Inhumans as part of the FF's adventuring.
I still think the FF could involve the Inhumans more...I mean to the point where you'd get Triton/Human Torch team-ups or Karnak, Ben and Gorgon...I loved the stories where one or more of the FF went off on their own adventures in the title, teamed with outside elements like Wyatt Wingfoot.
Purely from the subplot standpoint, I liked Johnny and Crystal. They seemed like good kids in love, and Johnny never worked better as a character than with Crys. Steve Englehart brought her back in his run in the 1980s, but the relationship was tainted by the "adultification" of the two characters, who are both bitter divorcees at that point. Johnny and Crys needed to be teenagers forever.
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