tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post1833170269718127917..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Fantastic Four: NoirJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-75109393322271095772014-11-25T05:04:06.177-08:002014-11-25T05:04:06.177-08:00Squirbiz India's largest Local business direct...Squirbiz India's largest <a href="" rel="nofollow">Local business directory</a> Website, business listing, business addresses and free all Information India's free yellow pages offers free ad posting, local business listing.<br />http://squirbiz.com/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-12312773121560405102014-11-19T09:19:17.260-08:002014-11-19T09:19:17.260-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Omar Karinduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07385188359924736477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-38501651735026041382014-11-19T09:18:50.434-08:002014-11-19T09:18:50.434-08:00I like this as a story of the FF in a realistic se...I like this as a story of the FF in a realistic setting without their powers, but I'm not sure how noirish it is. There's no sense of the past haunting the present, and none of the fatalistic elements of the genre. Aside from Sue bing a private eye, in fact, I don't see much noir genre material in it. It's more in the vein of JMS's <i>Powerless</i> miniseries, an adventure in which every character retains his or her basic personality and arc, than like Marvel Noir, which gave us such stuff as sociopathic Professor X, ZEMO as the codename for a chemically brainwashed Howard Stark. and <br /><br />Part of thew equation is that the Marvel Noir stuff was fairly up-front abut being self-contained storytelling, the alternate-reality kind of fabulism where half the point is in blowing up the storytelling engine to show that you can or to swerve the reader's expectations. In a way, your piece is as much a critique of the way Marvel Noir tended to play out as it is a <br /><br />I certainly think there's an argument that the FF needs to be an optimistic space-age fable, and that making it work within the noir genre's conceits almost means working at cross purposes to the source material. In the FF's corner of the universe, an antiheroic character with a history of doomed compatriots like Namor fits the noir context better than the FF, perhaps. And the Silver Surfer might be made to work, too.<br /><br />Say, there's your sequel: Sue encounters lothario film producer Rex Romani, a skin-diving enthusiast with a shady connection to smuggling and a past as an Italian partisan during the war. Reed and Ben are being blacklisted after rumors surface that Doom is back in some little Balkan puppet state selling American secrets to the Soviets, but then Sue's old ally Colonel Fury offers them a mission in Central America, investigating rumors that a bunch of expatriate Nazis are trying to set up their own little version of Villa Baveria. The trouble is, the man Fury's after may have made a deal with Fury's employers int he CIA, and Reed and Ben don't know their little mission is unsanctioned and "off the books."<br /><br />Meanwhile, a mysterious, platinum haired man, seemingly just a surf bum, turns up muttering about "the end of the world" when Romani hosts a party for a Euro-counterculture cult of star-worshippers at his European villa. an expatriate Nazi hatemonger with CIA contacts trying to set up a private land of beautiful people in the republic of San Marco, and an unethical plastic surgeon named Phillip Masters with a blind daughter who provides Romani's films with real "dolls" who never seem to last beyond one or two films. <br /><br />And then we discover that Masters is really war criminal Jacob Reiss, that Romani may have had suspicions about Masters from the start, and the Cult of Galactus and its platinum-haired ex-member are one of the ways Reiss and his mysterious boss recruit their "beautiful people" as they plan to unleash a lethal Teratogen Mist on the rest of the world....Omar Karinduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07385188359924736477noreply@blogger.com