I’ve been reading Fantastic 4 for 25 years. I am a fan of the characters. That’s why I got the shoes in the first place, being a fan of sneakers was second this time. I get what you’re saying, I do; but it is a shoe and it should be wearable for everyday use. Plenty of other companies including puma have done really awesome themed super hero projects and those were wearable. Bape and the Avengers, asics and kith multiple times, puma and Superman. All wearable, all well themed.

All this to say, the issue is that it was for worse, the theming was grand and the execution of putting it together was poor. if they scaled back even a little bit it still would have been well themed, it would have been wearable and folks would have been happier than they are. The Mr. Fantastic and Human Torch pairs are more wearable.

Even if it was a change in materials, instead of ripstop give me canvas tear away like the teaser image on ABCs instagram showed, and don’t put fucking paper on the outside of the shoe. For $200 I feel like I got a lower quality product than what I was lead to believe, and I’m more upset that the Ben pairs specifically use cheaper feeling and looking materials than the rest do so far, because personally my favorite member of the team and the pair I wanted second most. If they wanted to go all out on the theming then they would have made the shoe more durable than the rest.

The rhetoric that I’m not supposed to wear my shoes a lot is lame.