Grant M's idea of the incestuous Fantastic Four wasn't meant to be explicit anyway was it? I thought I read somewhere that he was referring to the incestuous undertones of the families relationship as a backdrop for their interactions. He wasnt actually going to show any hardcore Storm on Storm action.
I think the incestuous underpinnings are definitely present in the story, the references to them being "trapped in this mausoleum" of the Baxter Building.
One of the things I liked about the issue was the way the relationships between the characters are spot on as I remember them, but somehow, probably due to the artwork, it takes on a slightly claustrophobic and unpleasantly creepy tone. Like the bit where Johnny Storm is winding up The Thing, I remember that they used to interact like that from when I used to read it as a kid, but in the context of Grant's story it comes across as totally uneccessary and cruel, whereas it's always been portrayed as harmless banter.
There's all these highly suspect disfunctioal elements to the FF that've always been present in the comic, and I like the way Grant is working with that. |
