After Hickman draws to a close what he’d built up to for three years the content is variable, although admirably varied. So much so it has inspired me to change my own life, stop working in the trades and follow my dream as an artist.

If you pay any kind of attention at all to comic books, then you probably heard the news around early 2011 or so that a founding member of the FF was going to die. As cool as the sci-fi adventures of the F4 are, stories like these are carried by the characters, and I've gotta say, Hickman's Fantastic family is endlessly charming. I loved the characters alot and the ideas to be honest were awesome especially the council of Richards and the annihilation story Ark. For the rest of the four it will take some time for him to find their individual voices, especially in the beginning but they are largely superfluous to that first series anyways so that's fine. 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.

Inside a room kept secret from even his closest friends and family, Reed Richards had scrawled upon the walls 100 of the biggest and boldest ideas his brain could produce. Well, turns out this is one of the most impressive collections of comics I have ever read in any genre. As the team contends with Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, an older Franklin arrives from the future with an ominous warning! One of the greatest comics period, the way it all bends so seamlessly and all the plots come together so well, existing concepts are used in such a brilliant manner and then each character gets their own spotlight and moment that makes you love them even more and the inter-play between them and finally the big thing to come, its just perfect plus it has a murderer's row of artist, each one soo perfect and makes this book so visually striking to look at, just wow!

We will never knowingly harvest your data beyond the cookies needed for smooth running of the site, and wouldn't dream of passing it anywhere. He hits the right notes, and thoroughly highlights the cosmic zaniness that makes a good FF story (with the support of many great artists).Marvel cleverly closes out this volume of the omni with the sort of rising tension that'll make you want to start volume two straight away!

I must have done so in an alternate universe, and then the memory from that timeline must have somehow bled into this one. But the Celestials invade the Reeds' sanctum, which pretty much puts and end to that, until a few of the Reeds crop up to present a problem much later on. This book has feeling, intelligence, a fantastic story and some unbelievably good characters and fight scenes. The book starts with Reed Richards asking himself how he can solve everything, how he can make up for mistakes in the past, and avoid conflict in the future. The look of these series comes from an incredible, you could say to an inconsistent degree, number of artists ranging from fantastic to just passable.Another page, another stunner, and overall the best run of issues Hickman produces on what will be remembered as among the best runs on the Fantastic Four.

There's a turning point where everything locks into place, though, and like Hickman's other books, it's totally mind-blowing when that point hits. I can't and won't spoil much, but for any fan of mind-bending sci-fi and creative storylines in general, this is a treat to read. Hickman plays the long game, so it's neat to see seeds he plants early in the series, knowing that they blossom later on. Hickman has an amazing ability to showcase the essence of these characters in new and interesting ways despite the fact that they have been around for 60 years.

As the Fantastic Four contends with Dark Reign, an older Franklin arrives from the future with an ominous warning. Hickman is king here, god knows how he managed to fit so much character development in between a family, friends and enemies and still pull off one of the best reads ever! As the team contends with Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign, an older Franklin arrives from the future with an ominous warning!