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Jeff Dyer
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There are a few wishes I have in comics...Bill Watterson returning to Calvin and Hobbes...an undiscovered Curt Swan Superman story or a newly found Jack Kirby comic. Right up there would be JB doing more FF stories!! I agree, if Marvel doesn't want them, give them to someone who knows how to write and draw them!!
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Roy Johnson
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As with so many things - I'll believe it when I see it.
Funny that the FF are still features on Marvel's website.
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John Byrne
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This thread brings up a conversation I had with friends, many a moon ago. Someone asked, if I had "a million dollars" and could just BUY the FF from Marvel, would I do it? I realized immediately that this was a much more complex question than it might seem at first glance. After all, if we think about it for a moment, we quickly realize that the Fantastic Four are not just Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny. THIS is the Fantastic Four: 
Sure, a few of those characters could be pruned, but without Doctor Doom, Galactus, the Watcher, Annihilus, the Skrulls, the Frightful Four, the Inhumans, the Mole Man, Wyatt Wingfoot, etc, etc. . . Well, it just would be the same, would it?
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Koroush Ghazi
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That's a very good point,but I get the feeling that if you really wanted to JB, you could come up with an entirely new series of friends and foes for the FF to intermingle with and take us on new adventures. Perhaps enough to make us forget the old ones. Ok, maybe not Galactus or Doctor Doom...
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Andrew Bitner
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Well, JB, if your million *only* bought you the FF... I bet there are many, many readers who would thrill to the all-new, exciting villains and supporting cast you'd create for them. I have some trouble believing Marvel truly intends to shutter the Fantastic Four. It would be like DC planning to discontinue Action or Detective.
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Andrew Bitner
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And Tim makes some interesting points. Would this give Marvel some leverage over Fox as the new movie gets rolling? CANCELING the comic on which it's based would get strong (and negative) PR for the Fox movie. Hm.
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Steven Legge
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Instead of cancelling the book, why not create a long running story arc about a (non-Namor-produced) FF movie being made and them hating it?
What was Reed thinking when he signed that hollywood contract? Oh yeah, they were broke again.
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Mark Haslett
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I have a hard time imagining FOX gives a hoot what Marvel does with its comics. If every single reader decided not to go, wouldn't that mean (at most) 100,000 fewer tickets? Something like $12mil at the box office?
Not to mention that comic "fans" cannot seem to help themselves when it comes to movies and go even when they know the movie will crap all over their favorite book (DOFP?)
So it's hard for me to believe Marvel is really doing this to hassle Fox. We'll see.
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Jason Larouse
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I cant believe we live in a world where Marvel is phasing out the freaking fantastic four.
This is surreal
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Stephen Churay
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So it's hard for me to believe Marvel is really doing this to hassle Fox.
We'll see.
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Never doubt the the ridiculous actions of someone who has too much,
money, power and ego.There was a time when Marvel was in serious
trouble and Ike Perlmutter probably saved the House of Ideas from
closing shop and having there characters sold off to the highest
bidder, like an auction. So, some people, with that kind of power, stay
in that position too long.
Edited by Stephen Churay on 01 June 2014 at 8:36pm
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Stephen Churay
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Instead of cancelling the book, why not create a long running story arc
about a (non-Namor-produced) FF movie being made and them
hating it?
What was Reed thinking when he signed that hollywood contract? Oh
yeah, they were broke again.
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What!? A creative solution to taking a jab at another company?
Personally, I think it's a much more fun idea than shafting the fans.
But, you're asking folks at Marvel to have a creative idea.
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Eric Jansen
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I'm not sure what people are talking about with the Omnibus. It's not coming out until November, there's no preview for it on Amazon, and it looks like Marvel is running a contest with the readers choosing which stories go in it.
The big Anniversary poster by Mike Deodato has the FF prominently displayed.
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