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Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman #4
Fantastic Four, Vol. 4
Galactus is ready to feast, and only Reed Richards can save the inhabitants of Nu-World. Sue Richards is mediator between the long-lost tribe of Old Atlantis and Prince Namor, who is itching to mete out ages-old vengeance. Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm are the last line of defense against the coming of a new Annihilation Wave through the BaxterBuilding's Negative Zone portal. And in the end, one of these heroes will die. Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #583-588.
184 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2011
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Jonathan Hickman
1,224 books2,040 followersJonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia
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September 20, 2012
The Thing becomes human for a week. The Silver Surfer discovers the corpse of the future version of Galactus and comes looking for answers. Valeria makes a deal with Doom. Susan Richards gets caught in a conflict between Namor and the other Atlanteans. The Anti-Priest hatches a scheme that will see one of the Fantastic Four dead...
Over the course of the past three volumes, I've mentioned that while I like Jonathan Hickman's ideas, everything seems like set up. Not so with this one. The foreplay is over and the penetration has begun!
All the seeds Hickman has sown thus far come to fruition. Annihilus, Galactus, the Council of Reeds, Nu-World, the Future Foundation, all of it. It feels like a summer blockbuster. Everything that can go wrong does, and while it all works out eventually, nothing is the same.
I had my doubts about Hickman's run all the way up until this point but he has completely redeemed himself.
Over the course of the past three volumes, I've mentioned that while I like Jonathan Hickman's ideas, everything seems like set up. Not so with this one. The foreplay is over and the penetration has begun!
All the seeds Hickman has sown thus far come to fruition. Annihilus, Galactus, the Council of Reeds, Nu-World, the Future Foundation, all of it. It feels like a summer blockbuster. Everything that can go wrong does, and while it all works out eventually, nothing is the same.
I had my doubts about Hickman's run all the way up until this point but he has completely redeemed himself.
March 26, 2022
This is a very good collection with a variety of overlapping storylines that Hickman keeps very well balanced. The art is also good, and I found it interesting that he chose to portray more realistically mature versions of the characters. My favorite piece was Valeria visiting Dr. Doom in Latveria and striking a bargain (toughest kid in allla Marveldom there), but Ben getting to be human for a week was also fun (cards with the capes and a Giants game and then a visit to Yancey Street!), and Susan refereeing an X-Men/Atlantean summit was good, too... (When does Namor cross the line from being admirer to creepy stalker?) In the meantime, there's this mess where the Silver Surfer finds the body of Galactus, and the weakest piece of the book is that someone ends up dead. They've just overdone it so often that it doesn't have much impact anymore. The final issue is told largely without words, which is sort of a shame since it's by a different artist and lacks visual continuity with all of the set-up stories. There's a brief coda with Franklin having a discussion on a rooftop with Spider-Man that's excellently presented and quite touching. Flame on, true believers.... it's clobberin' time!
October 11, 2016
Wow! Wow! Hickman wrote the fuck out of this. This is probably his best work ever. I am loving this run! And I am so pissed these omnibuses are unavailable.
Yeah, this is Reed Richard's To Do List:
Invasion from the Negative Zone
Invasion from Universal Inhumans
Celestial Invasion via Bridge
Franklin Power Set
Galactus: Destruction of Earth
Reformation of The Council
So much happens in these six issues. The writing is absolutely incredible. It's fun, highly adventurous, action-packed, beautifully illustrated, but this volume takes a dark and violent turn as everything escalates with Galactus, the Celestial Invasion, and the death. And I know that comic death is fleeting, but damn. Talk about a heartbreaker and page turner.
February 16, 2015
Holy crap, does the shit ever hit the fan in this book. You know all those plotlines that Hickman has been setting up in the previous three (four if you count his Dark Reign volume) books? Well they pretty much all just exploded here, all at once. This is about at action-packed and tense as it gets.
What leads to the well-publicised death of Johnny Storm seems almost incidental - not inevitable, monumental or fitting, but just another series if events that 99.9% of the time leave the FF heroes unscathed. I'm not sure how I feel about that, having just read the death of (Ultimate) Spider-man this week too - where that was almost Shakespearean, this feels a little too sudden and unsatisfying. Which is another way to go, and more believable - but a bit hard to swallow for anyone who's known Johnny Storm for most of their lives.
The coda issue, showing the aftermath, is extremely well done - wordless, weighty, and emotionally powerful. If the death was thin, the fallout was reasonably hefty and both well-written and (especially) well-illustrated. These are masters at their game, pulling off an issue this good.
I'm pleased overall with the handling of all this so far, and I'm thrilled that Hickman's shaken up what has become a sacred formula for this book. I sure hope this lasts longer than Death of Captain America or a dozen other cheap & hasty resurrections of late.
Second reading in 2015: boy are the first few issues a boring chore. It isn't until issue 587 that there's anything to keep me awake.
What leads to the well-publicised death of Johnny Storm seems almost incidental - not inevitable, monumental or fitting, but just another series if events that 99.9% of the time leave the FF heroes unscathed. I'm not sure how I feel about that, having just read the death of (Ultimate) Spider-man this week too - where that was almost Shakespearean, this feels a little too sudden and unsatisfying. Which is another way to go, and more believable - but a bit hard to swallow for anyone who's known Johnny Storm for most of their lives.
The coda issue, showing the aftermath, is extremely well done - wordless, weighty, and emotionally powerful. If the death was thin, the fallout was reasonably hefty and both well-written and (especially) well-illustrated. These are masters at their game, pulling off an issue this good.
I'm pleased overall with the handling of all this so far, and I'm thrilled that Hickman's shaken up what has become a sacred formula for this book. I sure hope this lasts longer than Death of Captain America or a dozen other cheap & hasty resurrections of late.
Second reading in 2015: boy are the first few issues a boring chore. It isn't until issue 587 that there's anything to keep me awake.
February 16, 2018
Took me a while to get through this one. Honestly, the volume felt a bit too bloated and unfocused with so many crazy cosmic crises on so many fronts, so that when the inevitable big casualty happened it fell a bit flat. On the other hand, the next issue after that, almost entirely silent and dedicated to all the Marvel universe and the remaining members of the F4 family going through grieving, was outstanding and very emotional. And the best part of the entire collection was the final mini-story about Spidey trying to cheer up poor Franklin. That was seriously one of the best things I've ever read from Hickman.
October 2, 2016
An excellent volume in a top notch series.
June 7, 2021
Talk about epic and an emotional one, this is it.
It starts with Susan going to old atlantis with Namor treaty and all that, Reed has to deal with Nu-world and the Galactus invasion there meanwhile Ben turns human and there is a wonderful issue with Johnny and Ben hanging out on his human day but then the Annihilus invasion begins and they have to fight but when there is no choice, someone has to stay behind and its one of the best moments when Johnny fights them and the eulogy scene is just wow. One of the best silent panels/issues and it just makes you cry every page and the ending with Peter and Franklin just wow.
This issue did make me cry a bit with so many plots going on but just shows the epicness of his writing but at the same time shows how good he is with emotional moments and the art hits at another level for sure.
It starts with Susan going to old atlantis with Namor treaty and all that, Reed has to deal with Nu-world and the Galactus invasion there meanwhile Ben turns human and there is a wonderful issue with Johnny and Ben hanging out on his human day but then the Annihilus invasion begins and they have to fight but when there is no choice, someone has to stay behind and its one of the best moments when Johnny fights them and the eulogy scene is just wow. One of the best silent panels/issues and it just makes you cry every page and the ending with Peter and Franklin just wow.
This issue did make me cry a bit with so many plots going on but just shows the epicness of his writing but at the same time shows how good he is with emotional moments and the art hits at another level for sure.
October 12, 2018
"So this is it? A Billion to one. You think I'm afraid of that? YOU THINK I'M AFRAID OF THAT!? FLAME ON!!!"
Goddamn goosebumps throughout the later half of this volume.
So this is basically three storylines going on at once. We have Reed dealing with the dead Galactus from a different time period and going with the modern day one to find out what happened. Then we have Sue dealing with the underwater empire, while also dealing with Namor's crazy horny ass. Last but not least we have a breach at the Baxter building and these creatures are getting in and now it's up to Johnny, Ben, and the fantastic four foundation kids to stop them!
Good: Sue's story is actually really good and the end results aren't only interesting but super fun. Ben becoming human for a week is wonderful and gives the dude much needed relief time. Johnny has a few great moments, one mentioning he wants kids more than anything, and of course plenty of funny moments. However, I won't spoil what happens here, but goddamn there's a moment I quoted above that sent chills down my spine. So epic. Oh and the last issue is a silent one all the way to the very end and it's truly amazing how well it's done. Both sad and heartfelt, one of the best issues in the series or any series.
Bad: Some of Reed's stuff wasn't as interesting as the rest.
Overall this is fantastic. For a series where I mostly thought was good but not great I was getting a bit worried this would never click for me. Luckily it did, and I was blown away. A very very very easy 5 out of 5.
Goddamn goosebumps throughout the later half of this volume.
So this is basically three storylines going on at once. We have Reed dealing with the dead Galactus from a different time period and going with the modern day one to find out what happened. Then we have Sue dealing with the underwater empire, while also dealing with Namor's crazy horny ass. Last but not least we have a breach at the Baxter building and these creatures are getting in and now it's up to Johnny, Ben, and the fantastic four foundation kids to stop them!
Good: Sue's story is actually really good and the end results aren't only interesting but super fun. Ben becoming human for a week is wonderful and gives the dude much needed relief time. Johnny has a few great moments, one mentioning he wants kids more than anything, and of course plenty of funny moments. However, I won't spoil what happens here, but goddamn there's a moment I quoted above that sent chills down my spine. So epic. Oh and the last issue is a silent one all the way to the very end and it's truly amazing how well it's done. Both sad and heartfelt, one of the best issues in the series or any series.
Bad: Some of Reed's stuff wasn't as interesting as the rest.
Overall this is fantastic. For a series where I mostly thought was good but not great I was getting a bit worried this would never click for me. Luckily it did, and I was blown away. A very very very easy 5 out of 5.
October 12, 2018
"So this is it? A Billion to one. You think I'm afraid of that? YOU THINK I'M AFRAID OF THAT!? FLAME ON!!!"
Goddamn goosebumps throughout the later half of this volume.
So this is basically three storylines going on at once. We have Reed dealing with the dead Galactus from a different time period and going with the modern day one to find out what happened. Then we have Sue dealing with the underwater empire, while also dealing with Namor's crazy horny ass. Last but not least we have a breach at the Baxter building and these creatures are getting in and now it's up to Johnny, Ben, and the fantastic four foundation kids to stop them!
Good: Sue's story is actually really good and the end results aren't only interesting but super fun. Ben becoming human for a week is wonderful and gives the dude much needed relief time. Johnny has a few great moments, one mentioning he wants kids more than anything, and of course plenty of funny moments. However, I won't spoil what happens here, but goddamn there's a moment I quoted above that sent chills down my spine. So epic. Oh and the last issue is a silent one all the way to the very end and it's truly amazing how well it's done. Both sad and heartfelt, one of the best issues in the series or any series.
Bad: Some of Reed's stuff wasn't as interesting as the rest.
Overall this is fantastic. For a series where I mostly thought was good but not great I was getting a bit worried this would never click for me. Luckily it did, and I was blown away. A very very very easy 5 out of 5.
Goddamn goosebumps throughout the later half of this volume.
So this is basically three storylines going on at once. We have Reed dealing with the dead Galactus from a different time period and going with the modern day one to find out what happened. Then we have Sue dealing with the underwater empire, while also dealing with Namor's crazy horny ass. Last but not least we have a breach at the Baxter building and these creatures are getting in and now it's up to Johnny, Ben, and the fantastic four foundation kids to stop them!
Good: Sue's story is actually really good and the end results aren't only interesting but super fun. Ben becoming human for a week is wonderful and gives the dude much needed relief time. Johnny has a few great moments, one mentioning he wants kids more than anything, and of course plenty of funny moments. However, I won't spoil what happens here, but goddamn there's a moment I quoted above that sent chills down my spine. So epic. Oh and the last issue is a silent one all the way to the very end and it's truly amazing how well it's done. Both sad and heartfelt, one of the best issues in the series or any series.
Bad: Some of Reed's stuff wasn't as interesting as the rest.
Overall this is fantastic. For a series where I mostly thought was good but not great I was getting a bit worried this would never click for me. Luckily it did, and I was blown away. A very very very easy 5 out of 5.
February 7, 2020
:(
(Not that Johnny Storm was my favorite character or anything; I just hate to see good characters, especially superheroes, get killed off.)
(Not that Johnny Storm was my favorite character or anything; I just hate to see good characters, especially superheroes, get killed off.)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 27, 2014
So that's what this was all building up to. And it was a success. It made the climactic event, the one the title and the synopsis refers to, that much more impactful. And there's more than just that one thing. For one, there's Susan just being incredibly cool, in a way that I never really expected the June Cleaver of the Marvel Universe to be. But it does come back eventually to That One Thing. Which, to his credit, Hickman handles with grace as well as a proper sense of importance. The issue following is wordless. Here, it doesn't feel gimmicky, and it saves Hickman from struggling to write dialog that isn't too corny or too cliche. But when dialog does come, in the conversation between Franklin and Spider-Man, it's really, really good. This just might be the single most thoughtfully used guest turn by Spider-Man. Really good stuff. I'm not quite sure yet if Hickman's made me care about the FF in a general sense, when he's not around, but I definitely care about his FF.
April 22, 2014
Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four was one of the best comics I've read and it's my ideal modern incarnation of Marvel first family. This hardcover collects one of his best arcs and when I found a copy at a bargain price during Summer Komikon 2014, I didn't hesistate and bought myself copy.
This was the arc that turned the Four into three but started on the road to become much bigger and become a true Future Foundation. Admittedly, Valeria Richards sends a chill up my spine on how she manipulated events to ensure the future she was privy comes to pass. She really does take after her godfater, Dr. Doom.
This was the arc that turned the Four into three but started on the road to become much bigger and become a true Future Foundation. Admittedly, Valeria Richards sends a chill up my spine on how she manipulated events to ensure the future she was privy comes to pass. She really does take after her godfater, Dr. Doom.
May 23, 2024
This is it! This is the volume where Valeria tattles on her father to Doom! Those pages from the first chapter of this volume have been showing up on my feeds a lot the last few weeks. I was glad to finally find where that bit came from. It was truly a classic bit.
The rest of the story is rather well done, much better than some of the stuff Hickman has written. While often convoluted it is not totally confusing. It is some rather nice solid Fantastic Four by someone who seemed to know the first family of Marvel Comics. The story is all properly dramatic with a sad ending that was emotionally well handled.
Good stuff.
The rest of the story is rather well done, much better than some of the stuff Hickman has written. While often convoluted it is not totally confusing. It is some rather nice solid Fantastic Four by someone who seemed to know the first family of Marvel Comics. The story is all properly dramatic with a sad ending that was emotionally well handled.
Good stuff.
December 3, 2011
I'm not a big fan of the Fantastic Four and I've never read them religiously. But for someone who didn't cry at the death of Captain America or Aunt May or Batman or any of the huge comic book character deaths of recent years, the death of Johnny Storm and the writing of the aftermath, the portrayal of Ben Grimm's grief especially, brought me to tears. Jonathan Hickman is a fantastic writer for some other titles I follow, but this may be his masterpiece, at least emotionally, because for the majority of the issue following the death, there is zero lines of dialogue, and still Hickman's meaning and words are hugely present (helped of course by some amazing artwork). I'm actually interested to read where the FF go from here in the new title. Whether you're a Fantastic Four fan or not, I think anyone who enjoys comic books, and anyone who enjoys a great story, will enjoy this one.
July 31, 2019
[review for volumes 1-4]
I've not been a huge Hickman fan. I think my first conscious exposure to his writing was Infinity, which seemed unnecessarily confusing. Around the same time, I was struggling with East of West and Manhattan Projects and I realized the connection between the three. His ideas are very high concept, reminiscent of Grant Morrison (who also consistently confuses me), but he isn't able to execute them as successfully as Morrison, who usually manages to balance character development more effectively while totally baffling us plebes with his high concepts.
However, this doesn't happen here. Hickman's run on FF is some of the best writing for the series I've read (I'm through volume 4 so far, and still reading). Reed is a perfect outlet for Hickman's high concepts and because Richards's personality is well-established, it keeps those ideas in balance with the character development.
[Spoilers] Johnny Storm's "death" in volume 4 is moving and emotional, and Hickman builds to it perfectly. I'm looking forward to reading more!
June 14, 2025
All the build up has led to this. And the artwork in this arc is much better.
Make sure you follow along with the correct reading g order of this series; it’s tricky.
Make sure you follow along with the correct reading g order of this series; it’s tricky.
December 8, 2025
ugh i’m sick, JUSTICE FOR JOHNNY
April 15, 2015
Wow. I am so incredibly impressed with Hickman's work. After gradually moving all of his chess pieces in the 3 preceding volumes, Hickman goes completely on the attack here, juggling seemingly dozens of storylines all without dropping a single ball. And he does it without sacrificing any of the big ideas he's been so good at generating in the earlier issues of his Fantastic Four run.
I flew through this book. I couldn't wait to pick it up again when I wasn't reading it. The wonderful marriage between Silver Age ideas and modern era execution shines very brightly in this book, and Hickman even manages to add a lot of emotional weight to the precedings.
The other thing is, this feels like he's just getting warmed up. There's still enough left unanswered to fill several more volumes (which I am very much looking forward to reading), and the implications of this book should reach pretty far. It's just so rewarding to see a writer actually pay off all of his setup instead of waffling and relying on unfocused mystery to drive the narrative.
LONG LIVE HICKMAN
I flew through this book. I couldn't wait to pick it up again when I wasn't reading it. The wonderful marriage between Silver Age ideas and modern era execution shines very brightly in this book, and Hickman even manages to add a lot of emotional weight to the precedings.
The other thing is, this feels like he's just getting warmed up. There's still enough left unanswered to fill several more volumes (which I am very much looking forward to reading), and the implications of this book should reach pretty far. It's just so rewarding to see a writer actually pay off all of his setup instead of waffling and relying on unfocused mystery to drive the narrative.
LONG LIVE HICKMAN
August 21, 2022
Yeah, Hickman has become one of my favourite comic writers.
August 27, 2012
The Fantastic Four has been a book that most writers struggle with. Marvel's first family seemed to be a riddle for most writers through the 80's and 90's and rarely did anyone seem to get the book just right. Englehart made radical and completely silly changes, like bringing on Crystal of the Immortals and Ms. Marvel to replace a retired Sue and Reed. Before that we even saw She-Hulk join the team (although I really loved Byrne's work on the book). I just don't understand what was so hard for everyone to understand. Everything you need to know is written in the first 100 or so issues. Use Galactus, the Silver Surfer, Annihilus, Mole Man, Dr Doom, the Ultimate Nullifiier, etc, and keep up with the current tone of the other books in continuity. Instead, we got a lot of family-drama/time-travel that was completely convoluted, but quite a bit of fun at the time, for me. I fell off the Fantastic Four after Heroes Reborn, that marketiing ploy by Marvel to get people to buy the books with all the Image talent coming back into the fold. I just don't think that anyone understood that the classics work. You don't have to change the roster, you don't need to kill Sue Richards a time or two, there's no real reason for Franklin to come back as "Psi-Lord". Spider-man was fighting the same 10 villains for 50 years or so, and unless you come up with a classic like Venom, just don't bother with anything new.
Fast forward about 10 years or so and I pick the book back up because Mark Millar is writing an arc and I'll be damned if the man isn't just too much fun. As with pretty much everything he does, it went completely over the top. But it got the book back on track. With Millar's run over, who better than Jonathan Hickman to take the reins.
But Hickman disappointed me. It didn't seem like he could ever resolve an arc and he didn't segue one story into the next. Everything felt abrupt. It was like it was tripping over itself to get somewhere... but where?
Volume Four is the culmination of Hickman's workk and I can say that in some respects it feels very satisfying. In others it is a complete let-down. All the work Hickman put in may have felt much more rewarding if he had comcluded some arcs, left a few open ends, and pulled loose threads toogether in this volume instead of making iit a barrage of the end of every story he wrote over the course of the book. At least Hickman gave us what we wanted- Surfer, Galactus, Annihilus, Mole Man. Hell, even Namor shows up. It's great. He has enough new ideas so that he isn't just recycling old stories, and enough of the characters we know and love to anchor us firmly to the book. The last part of this volume is touching, and Hickman doesn't need a bit of dialogue to make the loss powerful. We can also chalk that up to Dragotta's artwork. There is a moment at the end of the book with Spider-Man and Franklin, and it reminds me that the books shouldn't be all big, cosmic stories. A big part of the reason we read these books, any books, is that we need to relate to them. We need them to be human. At least for a minute.
His years of building up to this may not have paid off the dividends we would have all liked, and the 2 or so years leading up was a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, but Hickman really makes me feel liike he's laying a new framework for future writers on the book. Let's all just hope Matt Fraction doesn't tear it all down this November.
Fast forward about 10 years or so and I pick the book back up because Mark Millar is writing an arc and I'll be damned if the man isn't just too much fun. As with pretty much everything he does, it went completely over the top. But it got the book back on track. With Millar's run over, who better than Jonathan Hickman to take the reins.
But Hickman disappointed me. It didn't seem like he could ever resolve an arc and he didn't segue one story into the next. Everything felt abrupt. It was like it was tripping over itself to get somewhere... but where?
Volume Four is the culmination of Hickman's workk and I can say that in some respects it feels very satisfying. In others it is a complete let-down. All the work Hickman put in may have felt much more rewarding if he had comcluded some arcs, left a few open ends, and pulled loose threads toogether in this volume instead of making iit a barrage of the end of every story he wrote over the course of the book. At least Hickman gave us what we wanted- Surfer, Galactus, Annihilus, Mole Man. Hell, even Namor shows up. It's great. He has enough new ideas so that he isn't just recycling old stories, and enough of the characters we know and love to anchor us firmly to the book. The last part of this volume is touching, and Hickman doesn't need a bit of dialogue to make the loss powerful. We can also chalk that up to Dragotta's artwork. There is a moment at the end of the book with Spider-Man and Franklin, and it reminds me that the books shouldn't be all big, cosmic stories. A big part of the reason we read these books, any books, is that we need to relate to them. We need them to be human. At least for a minute.
His years of building up to this may not have paid off the dividends we would have all liked, and the 2 or so years leading up was a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, but Hickman really makes me feel liike he's laying a new framework for future writers on the book. Let's all just hope Matt Fraction doesn't tear it all down this November.
December 30, 2021
The 'last stand' is one of the greatest moments to come out of a Fantastic Four comic. Yeah, including the original defining Lee/Kirby run. This arc puts every single member of the Fantastic Four on the verge of death with the promise that, in the end, one of them will die. Who will it be? Every plot thread in the series has been leading to this and you can't know for sure, but it's big. And it's crushing. It's huge and universe-spanning but also more intimate and emotional than what you expect from such a big sci-fi series.
February 28, 2021
The conversation between Franklin and Spider-Man is one of the most touching conversations I have ever read. Also loved everything having to do with Ben Grimm here and his week off of being The Thing. This was phenomenal and I adored it. I adore this run.
June 29, 2013
Plots tied together well in this collection, and this sets up FF nicely. Many nice vignettes sprinkled through this book. You may get lost plotwise if you aren't familiar with the leadup though.
December 16, 2024
This volume feels like the culmination of the stories from the previous three books. Multiple storylines that started earlier have their climax here. This book jumps around between all the different stories. While it was nice to get some payoff finally, I'm left wondering if it would have been better to follow one story for each volume, instead of jumbling them all up and making readers wade through four books until things made sense. I could see it making more sense for an omnibus.
November 13, 2025
Gerade auf der Zugfahrt gelesen. Das Cover stimmt mit meiner gelesenen Ausgabe ein, habe hier aber die 2025er Edition die hier nicht per ISBN zu finden ist.
Naja, kommt vielleicht noch. Aber die enthaltenen Geschichten haben mega viel Spaß gemacht und noch sitze ich im Zug, aber bin schneller in der Nähe der Endstation
Naja, kommt vielleicht noch. Aber die enthaltenen Geschichten haben mega viel Spaß gemacht und noch sitze ich im Zug, aber bin schneller in der Nähe der Endstation
May 26, 2017
When I read Fantastic Four comics, I always feel like I've tried to join a conversation in another language halfway through a drinks party. This title is the most confusing to me out of pretty much all series (and publishers) that I've read. However, my comic guy suggested I give the Hickman run a serious go, in order, especially since I did enjoy the Secret Wars event in 2015. Confusing or not, this is an interesting storyline and I'm hoping that the pieces start to pull together soon.
February 16, 2019
Two words "Flame on!!"
October 18, 2019
Wasn't as lost with this volume, which made me enjoy the story more. Very emotionally moving towards the end. Definitely a 3.5 star read.
July 16, 2013
OK now THIS is a Volume I can get behind. Some great stories and action here. Galactus and the Silver Surfer, Namor and Sue's oddly weird relationship in the underwater world and Sue's new role there, Reed having to answer to Galactus about his actions and return to fix what short term solutions he posed in Vol. 1 to some issues. This Volume also has some of the most honestly emotional moments in any comic I've read in a while. Involving Ben and Johnny, a miracle for Ben, and how Johnny helps him to take full advantage is one of the sweetest moments of friendship and bonds you see in comics these days, a writer unafraid to be sentimental in the best way possible. Issue #588, which closes Volume 4, I hope it won some awards, because it is possibly one of the Top 5 best single issues I've ever read of any book. Suffice it to say, it involves the death of one of the team, and the shocking aftermath. The art is so good here, there's no dialogue for most of the entire book. It expresses so much, including a funeral, featuring many heroes, and one of the family and his complete breakdown over events and the other 2 heroes who have to help him through it. Then to top it off, there's an extremely touching few pages between Spider-Man and one of the children, which actually made me cry, and even tear up now just reviewing it. It was just so wow on so many levels. ESSENTIAL. If you like comics you have to read this Volume just for that issue, or even just that issue itself. So good. Wow.
February 27, 2012
Jonathan Hickman's run as Fantastic Four writer has been highlighted by his return to what makes this a fun title. Big adventure, family, fun, and science. Well, all right the science might not be very accurate, but the adventure remains big. The reason the review rating isn't higher is because there is little doubt, despite the end, of what Johnny Storm's ultimate fate would be (and has since been revealed in the monthly installments). What keeps this a good title are the secondary characters. This is one of the few times in and medium where the children don't annoy me. Valeria and Franklin are good, interesting characters in their own right, and Hickman continues the trend of making Susan Storm Richards possibly the groups strongest character both morally and in power.
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