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Flung into the distant past by the villain Hyperstorm, Reed Richards is forced to admit that even Mr. Fantastic can’t create a time machine out of rocks and sticks. But just as despair sets in, an unexpected visit offers the promise of rescue…

Less Than Fantastic is a Fantastic Four fan comic and love letter to the turbulent Tom DeFalco/Paul Ryan era of the 1990s.

Read it online at ComicFury

Download the PDF from Ko-fi

(Also, holy cow, it's still sinking in that I actually finished this thing.)

Back in May, I got an idea for a short 3-page Fantastic Four fan comic about the time that Reed Richards was trapped in the very distant past. Just a brief angst vignette because Reed was most assuredly not having a good time.

You can read it here: https://lessthanfantastic.thecomicseries.com/comics/1

While working on said comic (and very much enjoying the challenge), I got the idea for a continuation of this story thanks to a bit of dialogue in Fantastic Four (vol 1) #407 and ended up with a script for a 23 page comic (like, with actual plot and everything!). That turned out to have a natural cliffhanger point in the middle, so I separated it into two parts (Less Than Fantastic parts 2 and 3, with the 3-pager being part 1).

Today I finished penciling the 11 pages of part 2, and should start the inking and completion on Monday.

I'm really psyched and really excited about this whole thing. It's the first time I've felt really inspired to push myself artistically in literal years. It's fucking awesome.