Marvel’s new Fantastic Four #1 will take a page from Guy Fieri

polygon.com:

When the new Fantastic Four #1 debuts in November, Marvel’s First Family will move in a direction inspired by… Guy Fieri?

“I pitched it as something like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” said Ryan North, the incoming Fantastic Four writer. “There’s this guy showing up, a big personality, and he’s making something better when he’s leaving.”

“The main thing I had in my head was this image of the Fantastic Four rolling into town where nobody knew them, and there was a weird problem with the town,” said North. “They would fix it and they would roll on to the next town.” It’s a straightforward, down-to-earth concept, and a big shift for a franchise that has spent most of its recent history operating on a more cosmic scale.

North, an Eisner Award winner for his inventive work on comics like Adventure Time and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, is no stranger to big ideas. His book, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, highlights how passionate he is about science, technology, anthropology, and more, making him an inspired choice to take comics’ preeminent explorers into the future.

“Something I’ve kept in mind is that I never want the book to feel like it is revisiting the greatest hits,” said North. “We’ve had those stories before; we want to do something new that feels fresh and feels like we haven’t seen it before. And so one of the ways I’ve been trying to get into that is by having them be very grounded. They’ve lost their money. They’ve lost their fame. They’ve lost a lot of their tech. They’ve lost their popularity.”

With this new status quo, North embraces the opportunity to bring in new readers with a new issue 1. “I wanted a book that could be accessible to someone going in completely