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Marvel resurrects the New Fantastic Four with X-23, Red Hulk, Venom, and She-Ghost Rider
Remember the New Fantastic Four, a short-lived 1990 incarnation of the team featuring Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, and Ghost Rider? Next February, Marvel Comics will pay homage to that wacky roster with a story arc in Venom starring Red Hulk, Venom, X-23, and Ghost Rider.
In a conference call today, io9 learned firsthand of this yet-to-be-named story, which will hit stands February 2012. Writers Rick Remender, Jeff Parker and Rob Williams were on hand with illustrator Tony Moore and Marvel editor Jeanine Schaefer to discuss "The Venom Event," a tribute to Walt Simonson and Art Adams' original team-up.
This "2.0 version" of the New Fantastic Four is made up entirely of legacy heroes: there's the Flash Thompson incarnation of Venom, Thunderbolt "Red Hulk" Ross, Wolverine's clone X-23, and Alejandra, the new female Ghost Rider. And as Schaefer noted, these four characters are wrestling with an antiheroic stigma:
Remember the New Fantastic Four, a short-lived 1990 incarnation of the team featuring Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, and Ghost Rider? Next February, Marvel Comics will pay homage to that wacky roster with a story arc in Venom starring Red Hulk, Venom, X-23, and Ghost Rider.
In a conference call today, io9 learned firsthand of this yet-to-be-named story, which will hit stands February 2012. Writers Rick Remender, Jeff Parker and Rob Williams were on hand with illustrator Tony Moore and Marvel editor Jeanine Schaefer to discuss "The Venom Event," a tribute to Walt Simonson and Art Adams' original team-up.
This "2.0 version" of the New Fantastic Four is made up entirely of legacy heroes: there's the Flash Thompson incarnation of Venom, Thunderbolt "Red Hulk" Ross, Wolverine's clone X-23, and Alejandra, the new female Ghost Rider. And as Schaefer noted, these four characters are wrestling with an antiheroic stigma: