Brace yourselves kids, for *the* best Fantastic Four story not by Lee & Kirby, courtesy of Barry Windsor-Smith.
Storytime With Uncle Benjy!
Justin Flores
Nicholas Lee
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Ryder Foster
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Nathan Allen
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Nicholas Nelson
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Levi Anderson
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Henry White
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Jeremiah Bailey
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Luis Evans
Old-school sound effects! The letterer must've had fun with this story.
Owen Ross
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Hunter Bailey
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Jonathan Moore
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Chase Price
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Angel Brooks
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Lucas Russell
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Owen Green
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Angel Hill
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Aiden Morales
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Jason Allen
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Elijah Roberts
Thanks for the storytime. Cute little story.
Aiden Scott
A little slapstick in your super-heroes never hurts. Th-th-th-that's all folks!
Wyatt Lopez
More than welcome! I like putting this oddball stuff out for more people to see.
Angel Hernandez
This is an excellent comic.
Luis Torres
heh
Samuel Garcia
Thanks, OP.
Lincoln Wilson
Love the Cerberus and Ms. Piggy references.
Sebastian Myers
Shit. I want more like this.
Michael Clark
Nice.
good one OP
Mason Barnes
Barry Windsor-Smith was originally going to do another Thing story like 15-20 years ago, but it was abandoned for some reason.
Chase Sullivan
bumping for others
Hunter Bennett
Marvel Fanfare was such an underrated series.
Caleb Bennett
Alarm Clocks courtesy of Smilin' Jack House of Tick-Tocks
Hunter Johnson
I feel like Herbie gets a bum rap.
Adam Miller
One can easily believe the Baxter Building has Grimm Sized duct work.
Lord knows what Reed pumps through the buildings on a semi-weekly basis.
Ian Long
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Ryder Stewart
Nice.
Bentley Rogers
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Landon Turner
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David James
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Henry Butler
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Austin Ortiz
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Aiden Price
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Colton Roberts
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Mason Reed
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Andrew Nguyen
BWS is a big Kirby fan, he did some fine inking on that Captain America story when Kirby came back.
Landon Kelly
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Luke Morris
>Storytime With Uncle Benjy
Jeremiah Collins
I was unaware of this story, and I thank you for illuminating me!
Adrian Powell
With Ben, Johnny and the Future Foundation kids running around? Probably a mild sedative.
Joshua Richardson
Alas, I can see why people like the fantastic 4. Thanks for bringing this up.
Gabriel Brooks
Bump
Michael Foster
I love how Ben looks so distinguished.
Jayden Jones
It really was. Great self contained stories often about the personal lives of the characters.
Robert Garcia
> Reed fucking with Sue
this should have been the canon characterization
Owen Harris
>Alas, I can see why people like the fantastic 4.
As you can probably guess, Barry Windsor-Smith is generally known for serious, dour comics (even the ones he didn't write). This is a welcome variation on things.
Jose Peterson
Seriously.
Jeremiah Johnson
Johnny is so tsundere.
Michael Harris
Too bad it got canned
Jonathan Allen
Wasn't it all just filler issues?
Not that that's a bad thing.
Evan Thomas
It's a common misconception that Marvel Fanfare was nothing but stories that were produced outside of the regular schedule for normal ongoings so that they'd have extra material incase an artist was taking too long and they could run one of the extra stories that had sitting on a shelf to make sure the book came out on time (a common practice in the industry back in the day).
This is only partially true. They DID occasionally run those types of stories in Marvel Fanfare, but much, if not most, of the material was original material produced specifically for the book. Some of the exceptions to this are really obvious (Steve Gerber's Shanna story was apparently a planned miniseries that got axed and then essentially dumped in Fanfare instead), but most of the time it's basically impossible to tell the difference.
Michael Powell
I think I know this issue... wasn't it written by the Doctor McNinja guy and turned into a Taco Bell giveaway because of petty douchebaggery from some Marvel exec?
Jace Garcia
Ben and Reed look good with staches, I dunno what Sue's on about.
Johnny looks like a tool.
Mason Walker
Reed with a Calvin's dad sense of humor is amazing.
Chase Campbell
The character interactions of the Fantastic Four are such a huge part of their appeal.