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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785123224
ISBN number: 0785123229
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 120
Printing Date: March 14, 2007
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 711184
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Move over, Mr. Fantastic - Marvel's First Family has a brand-new star! Franklin Richards finally hits the big time with this collection of all four critically acclaimed Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius one-shots! Join Franklin and his robot pal H.E.R.B.I.E. as they head into Reed's lab for all kinds of fantastic fun, amazing adventures and more trouble than you can shake an Ultimate Nullifier at! This compilation is bound to bring out the kid in every reader! Collects Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius - Everybody Loves Franklin, Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius - Super Summer Spectacular, Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius - Happy Thanksgiving and Masked Marvel #1-2.
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This comic book was great! It showed Franklin Richards as if he was combined with Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes". The book is full of laughs and will keep you entertained. I recommend this to any Fantastic Four Fan with a sense of humor.
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It's style and its (mis)adventures of Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantasic Four, and his real exasperated robotic protector/baby sitter, H.E.R.B.I.E.
With his parents and two uncles off saving the universe or resting, Franklin has a lot of free time to explore ways of getting out of his chores or other children constraints.
Being a bright kid (he is the son of super-genius), he resorts to his family's vast assets of super-science to bend the rules. H.E.R.B.I.E. usually is an unwilling participant but is compelled by his programming to obey. The 2-3 page stories tend to end with Franklin learning his lesson but unsurprisingly, he doesn't remember the lesson in the subsequent story.
I am a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes and, though this is not in the same level of that masterpiece, it is fun for folks steeped in Marvel lore and a fun way for dads to introduce a kid-safe comic to their sons (and daughters if they're interested).
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When he's not flitting through time or demonstrating vast, world-changing powers, Franklin Richards is a silent backdrop to the Fantastic Four. He's Franklin Richards, son of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, and he's frankly too young to be of much interest to readers.
That changed when someone was inspired to transmogrify the young, blond-haired boy into a Marvel Comics version of the famous pre-teen terror Calvin, of the sadly defunct comic strip Calvin & Hobbes. Playing the role of Hobbes, Calvin's sometimes-stuffed, sometimes-real tiger companion, is H.E.R.B.I.E., Franklin's high-strung robo-nanny.
The potential for humour is great but is largely untapped. Each brief yarn involves Franklin availing himself of some dangerous invention -- apparently the Richards family has never bothered to child-proof their home -- and panicking when something goes drastically wrong. Hijinks ensue.
Franklin is no Calvin, but he could learn a few things from Calvin's often cerebral, always imaginative approach to the world around him. Instead, writers Chris Eliopoulos and Marc Sumerak plot simple action/reaction stories that never delve beyond the most basic level of surface humor. For example, one vignette involves Franklin shrinking down to the size of an insect -- and ending up a booger in his father's nose. It's worth a chuckle, but little more. I think they can do better.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor
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