Corey Mintz interviews Ryan North for The Globe & Mail

Ryan North talks about his most recent work with Marvel as a writer on the new, critically acclaimed Fantastic Four.


Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps is scheduled for a July, 2025, theatrical release. The big-budget movie will be the fourth in the FF franchise (fifth if you count the straight-to-video 1990s version) based on the comic.

In print, the superhero team has gone through its own changes. For the past two years, Toronto writer Ryan North has been in charge of the Fantastic Four comic book. North, who did his postgraduate work in computational linguistics, has woven an educational science element into the stories that would make any junior-high teacher swoon.

The Globe spoke with North about the unusual approach he’s taken, merging science with contemporary conversations about labour rights and economics, as well as the Fantastic Four’s long-term focus on family.


Read the interview here.

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