The Galactus Trilogy

So first and foremost, I didn’t know that this story would be a Fantastic Four comic. I’ve never really followed them on comics so I’m not very familiar with them or their enemies. I will say that I find some elements of how they talk and engage a bit annoying. But, keep in mind that I am new to comics overall. So I’m reading something that was written a long time ago through the lens of a 2020 movie noob fan.

This story was quite a bit different than I expected. I think that I have set expectations based on the films I’ve seen not realizing that they are fairly different from the comics which inspired them. I mean, even the Infinity Saga didn’t have Warlock as a main character and he is key in the comic version of it. Thor instead of Hulk was the main focus on “Planet Hulk,” and on and on it goes.

I came across this trilogy as it was also recommended by our friends over at Variant comics. It’s a pretty good story, although it is also one of those older comics like the story I mentioned about Peter Parker and The Night Gwen Stacy died. The story is still entertaining and it’s pretty good but the art and the way it reads is significantly more dated than some of the modern day comics.

In this original comic version, The Human Torch along with The Watcher play a huge role in saving the earth. I do remember that in one of the old Fantastic Four movies it was the Silver Surfer who was shown as most important player in saving the world.

One of the most interesting things I found about this trilogy was that Galactus is not a bad being in the traditional sense of the word. He eats energy the way we eat food for energy. It doesn’t “make us evil” to eat per se, we are just eating to survive.

Well, Galactus sees planets and the energy they contain the same way. To him, he is not doing anything wrong, he is just eating. He is definitely an interesting character and I’d be curious to see how Marvel handles it if they ever make another FF4 film. In one Galactus was like a cloud of dust or something. What the hell was that about?

As mentioned above, it is understood that the movies do take plenty of liberties and are not always faithful to the comic stories. Also, I think that there were issues with who owned what for a while. We recently saw some issues with that on the Spider-Man front.

I will admit that I felt slightly disappointed with this story as I had a different expectation of how the battle would go and how Galactus would be presented to us. I still found it entertaining and I do recommend reading it if you are a comic book fan.