Sunday Marvel Sunday "Fantastic Four #10"

Fantastic Four #10

Wait, what?  That cover to the left says #4.  So why did I link it with #10?  Because apparently the same variant cover was used for both issues.  Yeah. 

Anyway:

Yancy Street.

Yancy Street.

Yancy Street.

Yancy Street.

Yancy Street.

Yancy Street.

Get the picture yet?  This is quite possibly the most obnoxious single issue of a comic book I have ever read.  Lots of Tom King Batman readers thought "I'll break his damn back" was too repetitive.  But at least King had a reason.  Dan Slott references Yancy Street so many times in this issue, I know it was deliberate.  Maybe not deliberately awful.  But it might as well have been.

The idea, for this "War of the Realms" tie-in, is that, in typical Marvel fashion, characters are really proud to be New Yorkers, and in this instance, to be residents of a particular neighborhood, a famous one in Fantastic Four lore, but...

You don't need to repeat "Yancy Street" so often to make this point.  It.  Becomes.  Irredeemably.  Obnoxious.

It's the exact opposite of what Slott really needed to do to make his point.  In fact, he ruined his point, with this approach.  He wanted his characters to be proud to be New Yorkers, to defend their own neighborhood, to prove to a bunch of bullies that if they really wanted to make something of themselves, they would embrace the community.

So Slott uses a sledgehammer to wham every single letter of "Yancy Street" into the reader's head.  Every single reader.  Individually.

By the end of the issue, I desperately wanted some urban development done.  Make it a parking lot.  Anything but whatever Slott thought he was accomplishing.

Yancy Street. Yesh.