Jonathan Hickman to take over writing duties on Fantastic Four!

Yes...I know. This is OLD news. It was announced at NYCC last weekend. But in case you hadn't noticed the lack of posts around these parts, I haven't been keeping up with my comics news like I should be. I mean, hopefully in the future I will be able to do nothing but read comics and write about them and write my own. Sigh. Maybe someday.

Anyways- I'm not a Fantastic Four fan. I like Reed Richards and his place in the Marvel Universe, but I've just never really been hip to the whole FF clan. Even when Mark Millar started writing it I didn't really care enough to buy it. But Jonathan Hickman writing this is enough for me to add it to my pull list TOUTE SUITE.

I only skimmed the article over at CBR, so as far as I can tell Hickman will be taking over "in a few months" with Dale Eaglesham on board handling pencils.

I recently professed my love for Hickman and even then I really didn't go into much detail about why I think he's so great. Call it lazy blogging if you will, but I really think you just have to go out and buy some of his past work to see what's so refreshing about it. You more mainstream people already got a preview of what he's capable of if you picked up Secret Warriors last week. One issue into it and he and Bendis are already shaking things up.

Great news Jonathan and congrats. I just hope writing these more mainstream titles still affords you the time to keep putting out your own original ideas. God knows comics needs more of what you are putting out there right now.

- TFM

Transhuman TPB Hits Stores Today

Hey all- just a quick note on this. I don't think I've posted about Jonathan Hickman before, as I've only started reading him fairly recently. I've been following A Red Mass For Mars and just finally read The Nightly News last month. Anyways, this could be old news to everyone out there for all I know, but I feel like Jonathan is one of the more refreshing writers to land on the scene in the last few years and he's now on my list of must buy authors whenever I see he has something new.

Since I'm still playing catch up, I'm happy to see that the collected edition of Transhuman is in stores today via Image Comics. I'll try to write more about his stuff at a later date and maybe go into more detail about why I enjoy his work so much, but it's almost quitting time around these parts and I need to shove off to my shop and pick up my weekly bounty.

Next time you are perusing the graphic novel section of your LCS looking for something new and interesting, try to remember Jonathan Hickman. Pick up The Nightly News or Transhuman and flip through the pages to see what he's been doing. Hopefully you'll appreciate his stuff as much as I do.

Happy Wednesday.

- TFM