Fantastic Four #573: Nuday Same Problems
The boys (Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm) are taking a vacation to Nu-world but as cliché as it sounds in comics super heroes never get a vacation unless they are replaced by another character.
This issue completely destroys or resolves Mark Millar’s run on Fantastic Four. Millar always loves to fit in some social statement along with some apocalyptic future imperative, then finishes it with an ending that never quite measures up to the build up. By now, you’ve finished Old Man Logan and realized that Banner JR is the Hulk who calls Logan dad in Millar’s Fantastic Four. They resolve the problem of an impending Earth crisis of over population by transporting the population of a dead Earth to Nu-World. Unfortunately, Ted Castle made one gigantic helium sized mistake and that mistake has Nu-World on a collision course with a black hole. To further complicate things, Ultron and Lightwave start a coupe d’etat that most of the deceased Invisible Woman’s team became a part of.
Johnny and Ben are dropped in the middle of this conundrum with the kids. You can imagine what happens next, there’s a battle, a prison break, a man faced with a dire decision to make, and in the end every thing resets itself.
The shocking fate of two female Millar characters that played a significant role in his plot lines was pretty sudden and almost reduced to a miniscule impact in their final fate. If I didn’t know better, this was Hickman’s giant “Fuck you” to the Shockmaster Scotsman Millar.
Neil Edwards does his best Hitch impression. His work is a little cleaner than Hitch’s work. It works except I think Hitch is a little better at progressing the intensity of the action.
Rating: Buy it. If for no other reason than the surprising fate of two of Millar’s characters introduced during his run and the Fantastic Force spin off.
