Fantastic Four, Volume 1 by Jonathan Hickman

Gathering some young, great minds, Mister Fantastic forms the Future Foundation, a team that will come up with solutions to the world's problems.Įssentially the leader of the Fantastic Four and now this newly-formed team, Reed Richards has often pushed his work in science more than his position as a family man, and whilst his wife Sue/The Invisible Woman is participating in a peaceful truce between the Old and New Atlanteans, it is up for Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ben Grimm/The Thing to be the jolly uncles for Franklin Richards. After becoming discouraged by how Earth's scientists view science and its applications, Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic forms a new group to create a better future for all of humanity. After the long wait for its release (as well as myself occupied by reading other comics), this volume starts placing some stuff in action, whilst continuing to have fun with the family dynamic, which is part of the Fantastic Four’s appeal.Īlthough he maintains the classical nature of Marvel’s First Family, Hickman has certainly opened the door for new opportunities as established in the first issue here. It’s been a really long time since I read the first volume of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run, in which he was already establishing a lot of elements from the multiple worlds that each of the titular foursome have visited, whilst setting up something huge for the heroes. I hope that part will be explained on down the line. The only part I’m still a little shaky on and the plot with the future Valeria and Franklin. Things are heating up and I’m looking forward to continuing the story. By the end, we find out the other Reeds are really up to no good and our Reed has to do the unthinkable to come up with a plan to deal with that. Some real heartfelt moments as the characters deal with that. And you have Johnny, Ben, Valeria and some of the Future Foundation kids dealing with sealing off the Negative Zone gate as Annihilus and trying to break through with his army. Valeria snuck into Reeds lab and found the gate to all the different Earths in the multiverse and the council of Reeds.

Now current Galactus found the body and pulled up on Reed like, you got some explaining to do. The people from the future who created nu world to escape their demise by using the future Galactus to power the place which killed future Galactus. You have Sue dealing with the Old Altantean city popping up after thousands of years being hidden under the ice in Antarctica.

There are a few plot threads that are bubbling up here.

Fantastic Four, Volume 1 by Jonathan Hickman