It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Fantastic Four With Garry Abbott

Fantastic Four (2005) - Garry Abbott joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Victor Von Doom's bid to attain total and utter mastery over the cutlery drawer in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Fantastic Four, released in 2005, and joining Tim for a chat about Victor Von Doom’s bid to attain total and utter mastery over the cutlery drawer is musician Garry Abbott. What will they find to say about Ben Grimm’s career options as a simultaneous Skeletor and Kryten impersonator, Jessica Alba’s uninvention of the t-shirt bra and the importance of ‘reasons’ in superhero origin stories, and what does any of this have to do with Richard Herring being more powerful than the entire Fantastic Four – or should that be Fantaftic Four – combined? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Garry on Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer here, X-Men here and Spider-Man 3 here. There’s more from the original Fantastic Four movie series with Mic Wright on the 2015 reboot Fant4stic here, while Gabby Hutchinson Crouch took a look at Johnny Storm’s return in Deadpool And Wolverine here. You can also find Gabby on The Fantastic Four: First Steps here while Garreth Hirons with another look at their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut here.