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    Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

    Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

    Marvel
    Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is an action science fiction animated TV series based on Marvel Comics's Fantastic Four comic book series that follows the lives of Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing. While inspired by the vastly popular series, this series tells its own version of the adventures of these cosmically altered superheroes. Reed Richards, the smartest man on Earth with the ability to stretch his body like an elastic, spends his time creating wild inventions and leading the team against the evil machinations of the likes of Doctor Doom, Ronan the Accuser and the alien shape-shifting Skrulls. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, has the ability to create force fields and to turn invisible. Her strong-willed and clever personality keeps the group together especially when Reed clashes with the hotheadedness of her fire-wielding brother, Johnny. There is also Ben Grimm, a man a bit more of a giant teddy bear who happens to have rock hard skin and tremendous strength than a monster, despite most people's reactions. Comic book aficionados and novices alike will enjoy the twists and turns of the superhero life as this quartet continues to save the universe.moreless
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    Astonishing X-Men

    Astonishing X-Men

    Marvel
    Astonishing X-Men is a motion comic series developed from Marvel Comics's Astonishing X-Men story arc, "Gifted", written by Joss Whedon and drawn by John Cassaday, which follows the reintroduction of the home team of the X-Men, comprised now of Cyclops, the White Queen, Beast, Wolverine, and Shadowcat. Shadowcat doesn't meet eye-to-eye with the White Queen, especially since their bad blood stems from the time the telepathic diamond Queen tried to kill Shadowcat and her friends. They work begrudgingly work together when the announcement of the creation of a "mutant cure" hits the news. The cure, developed by an alien overlord, Ord, with the experimentation on a resurrected and drugged metallic formed Colossus, holds the threat to decimate the mutant population. Colossus, otherwise known as Piotr Rasputin, had died in a sacrifice to release an airborne cure of a mutant-focused virus. The still at-odds X-Men set out to free Colossus and to find out just why Ord would travel all that way from his home planet, the Breakworld, to destroy mutants. Astonishing X-Men was adapted by Marvel Comics new graphic way of storytelling, holding onto the panel-by-panel style but with moving graphics, sounds, and explosive dynamics. Whedon and Cassaday's run on Astonishing X-Men was awarded an Eisner award for its definitely astounding treatment of one of the best X-Men runs in a decade.moreless