2007-08-14 more action than the movie

I came upon this book when buying a book from the x-men series off amazon. I bought it because i haven't read much about the fantastic four and wasn't all that impressed by the films.But this book has changed my mind, it has action a good story line with great enemies and even scarier at times heroes. This book deosn't just reflect what a mother will do to protect her son but just how human the four super heroes are.The story starts out when richard reed is invited to give his advise on a science project experienting inter-dimensional travel. When things go wrong and two of earth's and the fantastic 4's enemie's get through the dimensional portal and the chaos starts from there. the mix of magic super-heroe abilities is an interesting context and grims comments on magic even funnier. Within this storyline you've got sub-plots with grim trying to date successfully and hell easy it can go wrong for a superheroe. Also Sue's job offer from the president makes you realise how much a family is effected by being the centre of media attention, very similar to our own celebrity culture. This book is great to read because it has the type of action and sci-fi you expect from marvel creations and also a lot of underlying meanings and homour that Peter David really did well.