Hi there. If you're listening to this, you just walked out of Fantastic Four First Steps.

We also just walked out of Fantastic Four First Steps, and we're here to talk to you about it.

That's right.

This is Friends from Work, a podcast about all things in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

hosted by myself, Kyle Scunewil, and my longtime friend from work, Robbie Earl.

That's right, we just got out of the theater and let me tell you,

Fantastic.

We loved it.

Man, I...

We loved it.

Here's what I think is interesting.

Well, I say that.

I'm going to say that about like nine things tonight.

Here's thing number one. That's interesting. You know, like there have been so many

eras of comic book movies where there was a certain kind of tone that was dominating. And we've

talked about how the MCU has done a good job over the years of balancing some of those at the same

time, you know, like Guardians coming out the same year that Winter Soldier comes out.

But I think it's hard for me to gauge movies like this and like Superman, even though I think

there are a lot of differences there that will be interesting to talk about in a later episode, maybe this month.

But I think they are similar in how, like, happy they are to embrace the comic bookiness of what they're adapting adapting like the source material like and that's it's

not just costumes and visual stuff although it is that i mean you look at like the fantastic four

costumes here you look at the the superman costume in the gun film and they are very much like

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