Fantastic Four, Vol. 6: Our World Under Doom

Fantastic Four (2022)

by Ryan North, Fabian Nicieza, Steven Cummings (Illustrator)

Doctor Doom has conquered the world, and that spells nothing but trouble for the Fantastic Four!

The impossible has happened! Doctor Doom has taken over the world! And the Fantastic Four are not going to let that stand. As Reed locks himself in his lab, trying to solve the Problem of Doom, Ben treats Sue to a trip to NYC with their mutual friend She-Hulk to help get her mind off things. But when Ben, Sue and Jen find themselves on the wrong side of mob justice, they face a choice — and it’s one they will not be able to take back! And when the Thing suffers a terrible (and very public) defeat at Doom’s hands, he’s left lost, adrift and more vulnerable than he has been in years. Just as Ben begins to recover, the FF learn they’re losing their powers — at the one time they need them the most desperately! If they can’t reverse the effect, their powers may be lost forever — and Doom will be unstoppable! All that plus Namor, the Sub-Mariner!

COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (2022) 29-33, Giant-Size Fantastic Four (2024) 1

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction, Fantasy

136 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2025

About the author

Hi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!

I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.

I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good

Reviews

[♥Milica♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

The vampire crossover was kinda confusing in the last one, but this crossover was not, so it gets bonus points for that. But, even as a general crossover lover, I wish there wasn't one here, because it took up a lot of page time and the ending suffered as a result. I'm still gonna read the new run though!!

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

There have been a lot of shitty Fantastic Four runs since Jack Kirby left the book. Ryan North's is one of the least shitty.

[Frédéric · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series ends a little strangely, but that's clearly the fault of Marvel's editorial team and not North's.

Everything revolves around the consequences of One World Under Doom 2—which I haven't read, but the recap is clear enough—and takes the FF out of the game until... the new series, which doesn't really justify itself. The run ends in the middle of a major event, only to be rebooted immediately afterwards. I don't know what they're smoking in the Marvel offices, but I suspect it's illegal.

But who cares? Ryan North's run is very good overall and will be followed by another Ryan North run. So the best thing to do is read this run and move on to the next one as if nothing happened.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I was expecting this to be an incomprehensible mess to anyone, like myself, who hadn’t read the One World Under Doom core book that this crossed over with. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not to be the case. There was some great stuff in here and it was all totally understandable with just the small amount of exposition given in the recap pages and the stories themselves.

If only all crossover tie-ins could say the same…

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Fantastic Four face a world run by their greatest enemy, as One World Under Doom strikes their title. However, given that Ryan North wrote this as well as the main book, there feels like a bit of a disconnect between the stories.

The opening issue of this volume is easily the strongest, both in terms of tie-in and in terms of story. We then get a longer story about Doom removing Ben's powers and the knock-on effect of that, as the Four try to get them back again for everyone's sake. There's some timeline jumping, a bit where they deal with Galactus, and then there's some insane science stuff to explain how it all works - I did enjoy the final issue reveal regarding the Power Of Love which I'm a sucker for, but it all felt a little like North didn't have a way to give the F4 something to do since they're pretty front and centre in the main book, so he sidelined them in other dimensions/timelines with this book.

Still decent, but not my favourite arc of the series. Maybe the relaunch will give it a shot in the arm.

[Atomread W. Megaforce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Der Band soll Teil des "Doom - Herrscher der Welt" Events sein.
Der einzige der kaum vorkommt ist Dr. Doom. 🤷‍♀️
Es ist weniger eine zusammenhängende Handlung als viel mehr sechs einzelne Geschichten. Die lesen sich aber sehr unterhaltsam, auch wenn ich denke man kann ruhig auch mal wieder kleinere Brötchen backen und muss nicht ständig ganze Zeitlinien löschen oder das Universum neu starten.

[Snow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh North Run, how I love you. Weird place to end things but hey, that’s not Ryan North’s fault. I’m excited to read the (new) FF series next!

[Joy ;) · Rating 4 out of 5]

“And if love is the reason why there’s something in our universe instead of nothing, why there’s endless life instead of endless void, well. I’m not a robot, Val, but to me, that computes.”
Argh I love Fantastic Four

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the “Science Heroes” vibe.

[Maxine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the volume follows a story of Doom taking Ben's powers away and the FF working hard to get his powers back. The idea is sound, but unfortunately the result doesn't really work for me personally. I really liked the issue with Ben, Alicia, and Puppet Master though - loved seeing the callback to Alicia controlling her dad prior to her wedding.

There is also a single panel showcasing a parallel world where humans are replaced by shark-people, and now I desperately want to see a miniseries about the shark-people FF.

[Tyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read as individual comics, ratings below:

#29= 3 stars
#30= 4 stars
#31= 4 stars
#32= 3.5 stars
#33= 4 stars

Overall rating of 4 stars

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75
The more One World Under Doom stories were the better ones. The others are just ok.

North just doesn't work for me most of the time.

Not sure why they are ending and restarting the title with the same writer, other than #1s sell.

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Fantastic Four living in a world under Doom!


I bought the single comic book issues, but I am choosing thiss TPB edition to be able to make a better overall review about the storyarch. Howerver, I didn’t buy the “Giant-Size Fantastic Four” #1, so I won’t comment about that issue in particular but main arc collected in the regular comic book issues.


This TPB edition collects “Fantastic Four” (Vol.7) #29-33 + “Giant-Size FantasticFour” (2024) #1.


Creative Team

Writer: Ryan North
Illustrator: Cory Smith


IF ONE FALLS, ALL FOUR FALL

I reviewed a couple of days (February 2026) the comic book event of One World Under Doom so I thought that it was wise to read the tie-in arc in the title of Fantastic Four that I’d bought anyway but I haven’t the chance to read it completely, but I picked the issues collecting the tie-in arc.

While the tie-in arc is quite good, it didn’t give me any further insight about what happened in the main event (not necessarily is something bad, but I wanted to mention it). However, the whole tie-in arc is developed from something happened in the pages of the main event…

…Doctor Doom using his magical powers of current Sorcerer Supreme, transformed The Thing to his original human form of Benjamin Grimm…

…in the main event besides that, it wasn’t much developed, but in the Fantastic Four tie-in arc is basically the premise for everything there…

…it’s explored the psychological troubles that Ben has now that he’s not superpowered anymore and a simple mug from a robber can send him to the hospital (which actually happened!).

Also, dealing with his family, his blind wife Alicia Masters-Grimm and his adopted alien kids, Jo-Venn (male Kree) and N’Kala (female Skrull), that not matter they totally accepted the change, Ben was suffering inner psychological issues difficulting the situation.

However, Doctor Doom doesn’t do anything without a reason and devolving The Thing to his powerless human form was a carefully movement to disrupt the entire team of the Fantastic Four since their powers are such delicately linked that now that Ben was no more The Thing, the rest of the team was starting to lose their powers too and eventually they’d be totally powerless too.

So, Reed Richards started to think in a plan to give back Ben his powers originated from the exposition to comic rays.

However, that wasn’t so easy to accomplish, since their group accident was functional with certain elements and timing involved.

They followed initial Reed’s plan but it isn’t working, and worse, they’d end far worse than before!

It’s when Valeria Richards, daughter of Reed and Susan, and easily smartest than even his father, that she thinks in a new plan, but it’s almost impossible to achieve!

Maybe this tie-in arc doesn’t give you any additional knowledge about the main event of One World Under Doom, but definitely, it’s a truly great arc about family bonds wrapped in fantastic sci-fi concepts.

Totally recommended to any Fantastic Four fans!

‘Nuff said!

[Trike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ryan North continues to bring the heat. Constantly inventive, finding clever ways to incorporate real science into this fantastical superhero fantasy world. Plus H.E.R.B.I.E. gets an issue to shine. That’s how you use every part of the buffalo.

Also, THIS is how you handle yet another stupid company-mandated crossover. Just as with the whole vampire crossover previously, North spends an issue dealing with it and then completely ignores it to tell another banger of a tale.

I don’t know anyone who enjoys those crossover “events” so I wonder who’s buying them. Is anyone? Are they now so ingrained in the corporate culture that Marvel thinks they have to do them constantly?

North’s part of the book is superb, despite the intrusion of the event. Doom rules the world or something? Eh, who cares. North mostly sidesteps it. Then there’s the addition of Giant Size Fantastic Four written by Fabian Nicieza, which has a nice concept but is poorly written, a contrast that’s made even sharper when compared to North’s work that comes immediately before it. There’s a line by Stingray that reads, “The same sheer power that overwhelmed Reed and I was pummeling the FF.” Argh. Does no one at Marvel know grammar? One could handwave it away by saying it’s the character who doesn’t know it, but it’s clear later it’s a writer problem, not a character quirk.

Hopefully they’ll leave this issue out of the inevitable omnibus collection they release in 2027.

[Alex Sarll]

When a Marvel event emerges from a particular ongoing series, it can often leave that series a little lost for the duration, stuck running stories about the supporting cast – though it's by no means unheard of for this to be a blessing in disguise (MacKay's Avengers was much improved while his regular leads were off doing Blood Hunt and he got to use a team of misfits and B-listers such as was always going to suit him better). Well, not this time. Ryan North may be writing One World Under Doom, and Doom may be an FF villain, but they're not taking the lead against him there, and here we see why: after Victor takes the opportunity to demonstrate his superiority to Reed Richards by curing the Thing, they've been in no position to do much heroing. First Ben has to come to terms with getting what he's often longed for, but which now cuts away so much of how he's come to see himself, his strength and imperviousness; then, because of some woo about their cosmic linkage on which I must admit I'm not super-keen, the rest of the family start losing their powers too. Cue the series' usual focus on solving problems and thinking big. No, really big. Bigger than that. But always with a lot of heart, and the final H.E.R.B.I.E.-centric issue in particular will have anyone who ever shed a tear for a Mars rover in floods.

[Nevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just like with the earlier Blood Hunt, Ryan North's Fantastic Four is at its best when it's crossing over with another event. Yes, this is the opposite of what I normally expect, but I won't complain. The opening issue gives us a quieter, character-focused story about how the latest event is impacting people, and then it moves on to a thread that One World Under Doom set up for it. Each issue still feels like it's telling its own story, even though they're part of a larger one.
I guess there's also a "Giant Sized Fantastic Four" comic included here. Since I read the monthly comics and that one wasn't written by North, I skipped it.

[reels · Rating 3 out of 5]

such an underwhelming ending for such a good series!! i loved most of the issues in this run, the character dynamics are so fun to read about. there was so much buildup in all the previous issues and it all led to nothing. i think it would have been better if the final arc wasn’t part of the one world under doom tie ins because it made this feel like a weak and incomplete conclusion of this series, given that it was basically a side plot of the owud storyline.

[Tyler Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn’t dislike this but I was expecting the Fantastic Four tie-in to an event where the main villain was Doctor Doom to have a lot more to do. I like following the fall out of what Doom does to Ben in issue 2 of One World Under Doom but that’s all this volume is, I just would have liked to see more.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

The stories in this all look great and they're all infused with a fantastic understanding of what makes the titular cast and their related characters so enduring. They're also informed by a genuine love for and curiosity about science that's infectious. So, in other words this is an absolutely wonderful collection.

[Carrie Griffin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I highly enjoyed reading this final volume from the arc while also reading the crossover event One World Under Doom. There is a suggested reading order I have been following with those and this. Looking forward in continuing with Ryan North's next Fantastic Four arc.

[cc · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

[A J · Rating 4 out of 5]

HERBIE <3

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best current superhero book in comics - North rounds this 33 issue run out the way he started it. Creative, clever and with heart.

[jai · Rating 4 out of 5]

i loved this run! especially as a newcomer to the f4 this was a lovely introduction to everyone for myself and i’ll definitely be reading more from the first family :)

[The_J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Choppy but occasionally interesting.

[wellreadkait · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing else will ever matter to me more than HERBIE’s sacrifice for his family.

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun in places, but suffers from the crossover event of it all.

[Scarred Wizard · Rating 3 out of 5]

#29 - #31 : engaging & interesting
#32 - #32 : boring, too much science & too wordy
Giant-Size : what this has to do with Fantastic Four? 😅

Overall : 3/5 reads

[Andres Pasten · Rating 3 out of 5]

extraño cierre, con historias unitarias

[Keegan Schueler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ryan North run comes to an end with some nice tie in volumes to Doom which work well.