The Fantastic Four: First Steps is just weeks away from hitting theaters, and with an immense amount of pressure on the film not just to deliver a credible take on the FF, who are already zero-and-three at the box office, but to refocus and redefine the flagging MCU, the stakes almost couldn't be higher. But if there are any comic superheroes up to the task, the Fantastic Four are it - after all, the original FF comic completely redefined the American comic industry when it launched back in 1961.
That's an old refrain, so much so that Fantastic Four's historical reputation essentially rests on those laurels. But what does that actually mean? How did Fantastic Four redefine comics? And what impact has the legacy of the "World's Greatest Comic Magazine" (Fantastic Four's traditional tagline) had on the MCU? And maybe most importantly, what could it mean for what's to come?
