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When the Fantastic Four were lost to the Multiverse , fans know it was only a matter of time until they repay . But theFUTURE FOUNDATIONthey left behind to finish up their cosmic mission ? Nobody is plump to see them come . And now that we have an exclusive preview of the first issue , it ’s unmortgaged fans should be prepared for almost anything .
While originally introduced as Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four ’s collecting of bright unseasoned minds , the new incarnation of the Future Foundation has a more grotesque roster than ever . Alex Power remains as the squad leader , with his sister ( and fellow Power Pack mate ) Julie back in all her rainbow aura . make in a moody brain clone , one of Wakanda ’s next wiz , and a real Dragon Man just to name a few , and it ’s surd to imagine what stories writer Jeremy Whitley , creative person Will Robson , and colorist Greg Menzie WON’T be recite . But first , the team will need an expert in breaking people out of prison … and who better than theGuardians of the Galaxy ’s own apparitional wise man , Yondu Udonta ?
Screen Rant got the luck to talk to Whitley and Robson about the new Foundation ’s delegacy to discover and resurrect the pieces of Molecule Man , their ally who was scatter across the Multiverse in the same battle that plucked the Richards family out of Marvel ’s Universe . Along with their verbal description of the new serial comes your first spirit at Yondu ’s criminal genius in action , the newfangled roster ofFUTURE FOUNDATIONheroes ( in their mark new , personalised uniforms ) , and Takeshi Miyazawa ’s variant book binding for Issue # 1 add up this August .
After so many class absent from the Marvel Universe , the return of the Fantastic Four was a huge result for fans . Was their homecoming as much of a cause for celebration for yourself , as well ? I have to imagine produce to state a part of the family line ’s novel story with a re - opine Future Foundation is a occupation any Fantastic Four devotee would skip at .
WR : I ’ll allow Jeremy answer that mostly , all I can add is it ’s unquestionably awe-inspiring to knead in that existence , hopefully Jeremy can sneak something affair in for me to harness !
JW : Yeah , it was huge for me . I think I have the experience of a lot of fans around my old age of having maturate up thinking of the Fantastic Four as being less exciting than the X - Men and Spider - Man , but then having been take comics during two of the right runs of FF touch in comics in decade between Hickman and Fraction . I was a Brobdingnagian rooter of their runs and had a special place in my mettle for Fraction and Allred ’s version of the Future Foundation . see so much of what those rill had build ask off the tabular array for a long meter was toughened , but then to be part of the team that produce to lend all of that clobber back is just amazing . While Dan gets to run around with the first family of the Marvel Universe , I adore the chance to get to play with these terrific teenage champion and have so much history to draw out from in the Fantastic Four and everything adjacent to them .
So far Marvel has revealed that the Future Foundation will be on their own ' search and rescue ' missionary post . That vocalize like it will be an easy tale for newer lover to skip into ( with an introduction from you both coming inFantastic Four#12 ) . For readers who may not be as well poetize in the history of the Foundation , what will they need to know / be organise for hop-skip on plank ?
JW : I think there ’s a very abject roadblock to entry . plainly many of the characters we ’re using have decades of history in the comics , but we ’re doing our best to make it accessible to every lecturer . While I ’d encourage citizenry to go back and read Hickman and Fraction ’s run on Future Foundation because they ’re groovy , we ’re gon na tell you everything you need to get up and running - and we ’re going to be up and running tight . This first arc is packed with activity and adventure and all center field around a prison interruption from one of the most grievous prisons in the universe . We want you to jump in and defy on for the ride , disregardless of your history with the characters .
For anyone who takes one looking at at the new squad meet in these pages and covers , the attitude and personality of the book almost speaks for itself , give a clean sense of this kind of dangerous undertaking . Were you both on the same page , between the account and style , from the beginning ?
JW : Oh yeah . I had been working out some of the plot decimal point of the book with Marvel for a while , so I had a little bit of a head start . But as shortly as I found out Will was going to be illustrate it I track him down and asked what he wanted to draw . He get laid behemoth and aliens and grown action , so I ’ve done my best to slant thing toward what excites him in the book . Also , Dragon Man . Will loves draw in Dragon Man , which will be obvious to anybody scan this book .
WR : We have worked together to make this a dead on target collaborationism . Not only between us , but between the whole originative team . I ’ve never been on a book with this much collaborative liveliness before and it ’s making me push my prowess to new levels .
Whenever a story come after the Fantastic Four kinfolk into the larger Multiverse , it tends to guide into some strange recession , really breaking the limit , in footing of the visuals , of what readers are used to . With the Foundation ’s mission direct them into the Multiverse , how did the visual style of the newfangled series take shape ?
JW : I ’ll permit Will speak to this in greater detail , but as for the styling of the graphic symbol and their new costumes , our finish was to seize the melodic theme that these are teenage genius who are really left to their own devices for the first clock time while they ’re gush through the Multiverse . We require to give them each personal touches that felt like they were given memory access to make their own conclusion about fashion and what ’s " nerveless " for a superhero costume . Some the great unwashed kept it minimum , some stylise , but Bentley 23 did the most . He ’s now sire a leather crown , over-embellished sunglass , and pouches everywhere . I hope that unexampled readers will take a look at the costume designs and instantly get a feel for the character .
WR : Stylistically , I ’m a cartoony devotee . I like to keep things bouncy and focus a lot on the acting of the character . For the look of everything , it ’s just what speaks to me and the team !
Special attention obviously needs to be paid to the Foundation ’s " client prof " Yondu Udonta , who has enjoyed newfound celebrity thanks to the Guardians of the Galaxy film . Even though James Gunn and Michael Rooker ’s version of Yondu is n’t on the dot who that character was in the first place , you ca n’t contend with how memorable he ’s bear witness to be . Has this Yondu been made in that new mold , the quondam , or peradventure a combining ?
WR : GOTG is my favourite marvel film , and us apportion with a prison house break mean that there ’s a raft of influence of that film in the Bible . I sleep with Yondu and he ’s a lot of fun to wager with , by all odds leaning more into the Rooker on my destruction .
JW : Mostly our Yondu call for after the newer version , who has also kill up in a few position in the Marvel Universe recently . While I cognize the master copy has his fans , it ’s arduous to deny the dirtbag appeal of the Rooker variant and when you ’re a bunch of ( mostly ) upright child who come up yourself involve to wear into a distance prison house , that Yondu is incisively who you want in your niche , which is exactly how he got there . He ’s the guest prof they need for this line .
The original Future Foundation got its name and its mission from Reed Richards being disgruntled about how science was being used - or ignored - to ameliorate the world . That idea is obviously relevant to the world today , so will the serial publication take on real world return , or is it more about get that ambitious , dreamer spirit than literally solving the world ’s problems ?
JW : As important as I think the first is , since we ’re not on Earth and are attempting to reassemble the pieces of a cosmic entity , I suppose the dreamer spirit is much more in the vanguard . The Future Foundation has been through a hundred different realities and come out of it full of ideas and aspiration . Their goal is to resolve enceinte problems - any problems . The hard to distribute with the well . And give their resources , they can bring in any guest professor from the multiverse to teach them how to do most anything . I think they ’re a more knock-down force than anyone earn and they are about to get tested with some very great problems .
Final question : Since you wo n’t boast , just how unprepared are readers for what your storytelling partner has in store for them ?
JW : Oh they ca n’t mayhap be ready . I ’m doing my best to throw equipment and big ideas at the wall to dispute Will and he keep coming back with even vainglorious and good translation of what I had in judgement . He ’s an incredible talent and anybody who sees these issues is go to have it off that . Also , Dragon Man . He draw that giant flame breathing android with such love , I just ca n’t even separate you guys .
WR : Jeremy is the safe author I ’ve ever worked with . unremarkably in my experience it ’s a “ here ’s the script ” and no literal communication between writer and artist — I detest that ! The great comic Koran writer and artists have always worked together , because comics is a true collaboration . I change some things in my artistry , and Jeremy changed some of my art with his story . He need to make me happy and same on my end . Hopefully we will collaborate for many days to issue forth .
A BRAND - Modern SERIES STRAIGHT FROM THE PAGES OF FANTASTIC FOUR ! When the Richards family is called back to Earth to be the Fantastic Four again , they left behind the Future Foundation - a think tank of the most magnificent untried minds in the universe - with one mission : to find the composition of and rebuild their friend Molecule Man . But that ’s prove hard than imagined as this crew of young geniuses , Atlanteans , Mutants , Moloids and android have melt down into every trouble in the Multiverse . Now , with the leadership of Alex and Julie Power and a little supernumerary firepower from guest professor Yondu Udonta , the team will undergo their most serious commission yet - a PRISON BREAK ! Jeremy Whitley ( UNSTOPPABLE WASP ) and Will Robson ( GREAT LAKES AVENGERS ; Spawn ) take the Future Foundation on a marrow - pound journey across time and space !
next Foundation # 1will be uncommitted from your local comic volume shop on August 7th , 2019 , or direct from Marvel Comics .
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