I almost missed out on Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run. I’ve heard of great things about it but I never was able to get myself to buy an issue or trade of it at the height of his run. As he winds down his final story arc, Marvel made available on the Digital Comics Unlimited app on their site for free for a week, three issues from his run which I devoured gratefully. Those issues were so good that when a spotted a lone copy of a trade featuring his first arc, I secured it almost immediatel...

This was a good first trade in the Hickman run of Fantastic Four. This seems a bit like a jump around at first in that the stories don’t necessarily seem to link together. However throughout small links are made between details and it’s becoming quite the interesting story! There’s some pretty cool looking fights in this and the art is amazing.I love how the story is centred a lot around family above anything else 💗

Reread:07/06/2021The story picks with Reed after the whole Dark empire fiasco and he meets with the Council of Reeds and they talk about various things and show Reed what it is they do and face off against Galactus and Doom of different realities until they are attacked by the Dark celestials and its upto Reed to rescue them and he has a good realization about his family and then he returns to Susan which was such a heartful moment and then the other story is about Johnny and Ben's adventures on...

This was my first real attempt at reading Fantastic Four. And yet, I kind of feel like I know the characters, at least on a basic, shallow level. Hickman didn't really write anything that would make me change my mind about any of them, but I really don't think he was trying to reinvent the characters. That's fine. Not everything needs to be reinvented. I'm looking at you, DC. The stories here are solid and fairly well told, if nothing terribly exciting. The multiversal council of Reeds is a real...

I really like the fantastic four characters but I dont know what it is, some reason the writing just doesnt do it for me. I think I dont feel like the multiverse story line is overly exciting. I also felt like some of the characters stories were a little too simple as compared to others. Still a good read, just didnt blow me away.

The Fantastic Four deal with the Wizard, the Council of Reeds, Nu-Earth, and Franklin Richards' birthday...There was a time in my life when the Fantastic Four was undisputedly my favorite comic. I must have been a subscriber for six or seven years. Aside from reading Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus - Volume 1 and Fantastic Four: 1234, this is my first foray into the FF's adventures in a decade or more.The book starts off a little slow. The Wizard-centric story at the beginning didn't knock

[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 devel...

Reed Richards is an isolated super genius whose pursuit of greatness routinely leaves his family neglected and/or exposed to deadly gamma radiation. This has been a integral part of his character since the very first issue of Marvel comics. Jonathan Hickman breathes new life into the old idea, making Richards' obsessive need to "solve everything" feel tragic and personal. He totally is the type of guy who would abandon his family to work on science problems with alternate versions of himself. Th...

4.5 stars!First time reading Fantastic Four and I loved it! I never had any interest in Marvel's first family, but so many people love the characters so I had to try some run, and gosh, what a fantastic time! First little arc focuses on the interdimensional Council of Ricks Reeds. It's such a creative story that quickly paints a picture of the smartest man on Earth. There are some little flashbacks of Reed's childhood, and the lessons taught by his father. What can I say? I got the feels.Then th...

This book is good. It’s a short read, so saying that I read it cover to cover in a single sitting isn’t saying much, but, hey, I read this book cover to cover in a single sitting. I’m not sure why the Fantastic Four never seems to get mentioned when people talk about great runs, or great books overall. They should be at the top of the list for both Marvel and all of superhero comics in general. While other heroes are busy fighting street thugs, or beating the villain of the week for the 50th ti

Brief Introduction: I have heard of the Fantastic Four for many years and I had seen most of the movies and the TV shows that was based on them. However, I never picked up a comic of the “Fantastic Four” until recently, since I am a huge “X-Men” fan and I have been constantly reading their comics for years now. After hearing so many good things about Jonathan Hickman’s run on “Fantastic Four,” I just had to give this series a shot and see if it was worth checking out. Well, I was really amaze

I wasn't planning to pick this up, I'd heard good things but the Fantastic Four was never really on my list of must-reads. But flipping through it I saw a picture of a room full of Reed Richards and three Infinity Gauntlets and my inner fanboy demanded I buy it.I'm glad I did.The Fantastic Four was always about big ideas but not every writer can pull them off. Sometimes the writer just doesn't think them through, other times the reader is left wondering why the FF have this world-changing techno...

Absolutely delightful. Hickman keeps building upon the the multiverse concept with a story that revolves around the collective of Reed Richards-es from multiple universes trying to "solve everything" and save the world(s). Meanwhile, Johnny, Ben, Val and Franklin go on vacation in another universe, and then Franklin has the best birthday party a kid could wish for — featuring Spider-Man! The character work is phenomenal, the stories are smart and a lot of fun, and at the core of it is the huge b...

Hickman creates sone of the most enjoyable comic reading today - believable characters, subtle struggles, big action, and mind-bending reality tweaks.His first entry in the FF landscape is no exception. I had a lot of fun reading this - it moves quickly without filler or self-narration, and I blazed through it faster than I wanted. I really want to savour these stories but Hickman makes it too fun to stop the pace and linger.Reed is a hard character to do something new with - he's saved the worl...

So as I'm reading Hickman's Avengers run I keep hearing I have to read his Fantastic Four to really enjoy Secret Wars. So...here we go! Reed is a genius. Everyone knows this. When he begins to meet other versions of himself, all to save the multiverse, it all becomes about saving the entire universe/world/multiple worlds. However, it would come at a price to fix everything. We also have a little side story here where The Thing is down, and Johnny decides to travel to a new world as a vacation to...

Finally! A super fun Fantastic Four book. My admiration for Hickman grows and grows.

Our FOURTH week of Shallow Buddy reads is a nod to Marvel's oldest family, The Fantastic Four! Part of the challenge for me this week was to find a Fantastic Four title that really got me interested in...well, a Fantastic Four title.Most of the time when I think of this team?By Sunday, I'm hoping that image will be erased and replaced with something much cooler. And this volume was a step in the right direction, I think. Not too shabby!There was still a lot of underlying things going on that I d...

I've been a little skeptical about the wild acclaim Hickman's received since his appearance on the comics scene a few years ago. I've found Secret Warriors to be an enjoyable but occasionally troublesome series, and I flat-out hated his SHIELD series. But now I think I get it. He is absolutely the perfect choice to take over Fantastic Four. All of the huge, imaginative yet scientific ideas he had in SHIELD are here, only instead of just being spoken about as pure genius by characters who are lar...

Jonathan Hickman gives you your money’s worth as he crams his first volume of “Fantastic Four” with a number of interesting sci-fi storylines worthy of Marvel’s cosmic silver age tales. Reed Richards tries to answer a challenge he set for himself - “Solve everything” - which leads him to a parallel dimension full of other Reed Richards who are tasked with solving everything in every universe. The down side is that no Reed Richards has time for his Sue Storm and kids so they fall by the wayside;

So... people like this one?What’s it about?Reed has a hard time dealing with life because he is so smart. After some crazy shit happens he finds a bunch of alternate universe versions of himself. It’s even worse than it sounds.Pros:The art is mostly good. I did have one minor issue with it that I’ll get to later but for the most part it looks okay.This book has some pretty good action scenes.This book is pretty unpredictable which is a nice surprise.Cons:The story is kinda stupid. It’s basically...