e381. It’s Clobberin’ Time! Fantastic Four’s Impact on the Summer of Superheroes

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e381. It’s Clobberin’ Time! Fantastic Four’s Impact on the Summer of Superheroes

The VoxPopcast

4 months ago

e381. It’s Clobberin’ Time! Fantastic Four’s Impact on the Summer of Superheroes

For the past couple of years, the general sentiment seems to have been that superhero movies are becoming… well… kinda bad. But, as we spoke a couple weeks ago with the new Superman movie, things have been looking up a bit this summer. But something odd has been happening. For some reason, the general vibe among superhero movie fans has sort of been hanging the future of the genre on the new Fantastic Four movie. This is sort of weird because arguably there’s never been a good Fantastic Four movie before. In fact, some might argue that all of the previous recent attempt have been distinctly bad! And yet, we had high hopes as well. So what did we think? Well, on this episode Mav, Hannah and Wayne are joined by returning guests Ryan Scott Thomas and Mark Schultis to talk about the new movie and the cultural impact of Fantastic Four from the comics through the various movie attempts and even the cartoons. Listen and let us know what you think.

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