A New Look at ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Is All About Family

As ticket sales begin today, Marvel has dropped another new look at Fantastic Four: First Steps in action–and although there’s plenty glimpses of the First Family in action as they brace for the coming of Galactus, this new footage does properly welcome up to the next member of the team. While Reed and Sue’s incoming addition to the Richards’ has been teased in prior trailers, this new footage gives us our first actual look at little baby Franklin–who comic book fans know will grow up into one of the most powerful young heroes in the Marvel multiverse. Once a mutant (ah, comic books), Franklin Richards develops psionic powers at a young age, and is eventually one of the most potent reality manipulators along the already rare breed of those to use that powerset in Marvel’s comics. Eventually, alongside his younger sister Valeria, Franklin becomes a member of the FF team in his own rights–but at least as far as First Steps goes, we’re probably not going to see him tussling with the Sil ... Read full article.