FF #10

djotaku's FF #10 - What I Need review

A Breather

I've started to understand Hickman's rhythms. He throws a lot at you and then you and the characters get an issue to reflect on all that to greater understand it. This is one of the reflection issues. There's no action, just a regrouping after the huge fight.

If there's one continued criticism I have of Hickman it's that there was no reason to break this off into FF when it depends HEAVILY on his run on Fantastic Four. There are tons of things you cannot and will not understand if you havne't read his F4 run. And, on top of everything, unlike more Marvel books, there isn't any footnoting. So you don't know where in F4 to read about the Nathanial battle.

That aside, Hickman's still doing well on his FF run. I'm very, very curious about what it means that Fantastic Four will have an issue #600 (that's 100 pages? wow!) and whether F4 continues beyond that issue and what it means for the focus of FF.

I'd say this book is safe to skip if you're cash-strapped, but knowing Hickman, you'll regret it two years from now when the plot hinges on something that happened or was mentioned in this issue.

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FF #10 - What I Need by thanosrules on January 27, 2012
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