Take the Fantastic Four from the recent film, give them an Ultimate universe twist, throw in some Kirby era giant technology and animate in a Japanese style and you've got Fantastic Four - World's Greatest Heroes; released on DVD this week.This first collection (Volume One) holds four 22-minute episodes with quality of story ranging from the excellent De-Mole-iton, where the FF do battle with their old foe The Mole Man, to the not-quite-so-hot World's Tiniest Heroes, where an experiment goes wrong and the FF start to shrink away and need help from Ant-Man to avoid disappearing from reality.
All the episodes so far have been pretty self-contained without much metaplot to link them into a bigger picture, but the writing and stylish animation still makes them stand out from the two Ultimate Avengers titles currently on the shelves.
The scripting of De-Mole-ition in particular shows a deftness of touch and an ability to differentiate between sly comedy and silly slapstick (as witnessed in the peculiar dog scenes in World's Tiniest Heroes). Hopefully this will set the standard for future releases of this series which, as far as I know, only aired in the States.
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