The real Mr. Fantastic: gay writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tackles the Fantastic Four as the comic book starts getting mainstream buzz

The Fantastic Four may be the most hetero comic book ever. The married half of the team, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, have two kids.

The quartet's bachelors are confirmed heterosexuals. With no masks or secret identities, the closet analogy is out the window. Fantastic yes, but fabulous no. So what drew gay playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Golden Age) to write the superstraight superheroes?

"I clicked with the family dynamic," Aguirre-Sacasa explains, likening his relationship with his brother to that of Fantastic Four teammates the Thing and the Human Torch. Aguirre-Sacasa writes Marvel Knights 4, considered the "mature audiences" Fantastic Four book. While the characters, who get their own film this summer, don't lend themselves to gay story lines, he promises the gay sensibility will be there.

"The Invisible Woman will go clubbing with her superheroine friends after her husband forgets their anniversary," observes Aguirre-Sacasa, laughing, "and that feels like an episode of Sex and the City."

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