Fantastic Four #5 Review: There Is a Fantastic Amount of Awesome In This Book

Once again writer James Robinson and artist Leonard Kirk deliver a spectacular issue of The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine. This time though, they brought along a veritable smorgasbord of guest artists. Jerry Ordway, Jim Starlin, Chris Samnee, Mike Allred, and more? It can’t be Christmas because it isn’t December and yet Marvel and the creative team have given fans of the Fantastic Four a wonderful gift in the form of this issue. Heck, I’m not even mad about the increased prize ($4.99), as it comes with added pages and some excellent artwork.I have to say that Robinson keeps providing reason after reason for readers to think that he knows, appreciates, and is intent on honoring the FF’s long and mostly illustrious history. In this issue, he uses the opportunity of the FF’s day in court to revisit important moments in the team’s past through his writing and through the contributions of the various guest artists. His attention to detail and seeming familiarity with the team is admirable and this issue qualifies as the best kind of continuity porn, rewarding longtime readers while not alienating newer ones.I’m getting ahead of myself though. First a brief summation of the issue followed by the usually breakdown. So… SPOILERS!!!