And then there's the upcoming MCU movie, whose highly anticipated casting has yet to be unveiled. Marvel is about to launch a new comic series about the team, for which Ross has already created some amazing covers. There's been a lot of buzz about the Fantastic Four lately. Ross said it was easy to find Ben's voice - but with fellow team member Sue Storm, a.k.a Invisible Woman, he purposefully wanted to characterize her differently than she was in the original comics. the Thing, getting up for a midnight snack. It's the kind of thing where like, if somebody says this line, well, there's no way Johnny Storm isn't going to reply to that like this.'ĮW can exclusively premiere the first few pages of Fantastic Four: Full Circle, which begin with the team's lovable bruiser Ben Grimm, a.k.a. Then various lines of dialogue would pop up in the telling. 'I worked the story out by drawing it first with little thumbnail sketches and mostly figuring out what panel shapes were, what was happening in them, how the story was paced, all those things. 'The nice thing about the writing style is that it wasn't really a labor,' Ross tells EW over the phone.

Fantastic Four: Full Circle, out this month, is the first comic he's written as well as drawn. It's also the first in a new Marvel Arts line, a collaboration between Marvel Comics and Abrams Comic Arts. But even after years of producing classic books like Kingdom Come and Marvels, Ross is still pushing his art to new levels.

For decades now, Ross' photo-like paintings of superheroes have defined the zenith of 'realism' for cape comics. Few comic artists are as instantly recognizable as Alex Ross.

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