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[Amoebas]

The last page was good (if only the last few years had been a 10th this good).

Didn't care for Ben living for thousands of years though. I love him dearly (he is my favorite Marvel character by far) but the odds of Ben not being killed in duty for all those centuries just didn't work for me (or attacked during his one week a year being human).

Ben needs to go down fighting. Him growing old just doesn't work for me.

[Punchy]

This was the best issue of Hickman’s FF ever I think, and that’s mainly because it wasn’t insane cosmic nonsense for the sake of it, but insane cosmic nonsense that was tied in with the characters. Reed and his dad travel to the future, and find out that due to the serum the kids gave him, the Thing is now pretty much immortal, or at least, he’ll live until the year 6012. Seeing these glimpses of the future was a lot of fun, but there was a real sadness here, the scene where a millennia-old Ben talked to the statues of his long-lost friends was really tragic and effective. Reed returns with a renewed sense of family, and settles down to have a beer and watch the boxing with Ben and Bentle. This was just a great issue, and showed that Hickman can do real human emotion when he tries, which only makes it more annoying that most of his work is so sterile. I hope this issue marks the tone for the rest of this run, because for me, this was what the Fantastic Four is all about. Yes, there’s time-travel 4000 years into the future, but in the end, the book is all about the family and the characters.

[alaska1125]

This was the best issue of Hickman’s FF ever I think, and that’s mainly because it wasn’t insane cosmic nonsense for the sake of it, but insane cosmic nonsense that was tied in with the characters. Reed and his dad travel to the future, and find out that due to the serum the kids gave him, the Thing is now pretty much immortal, or at least, he’ll live until the year 6012. Seeing these glimpses of the future was a lot of fun, but there was a real sadness here, the scene where a millennia-old Ben talked to the statues of his long-lost friends was really tragic and effective. Reed returns with a renewed sense of family, and settles down to have a beer and watch the boxing with Ben and Bentle. This was just a great issue, and showed that Hickman can do real human emotion when he tries, which only makes it more annoying that most of his work is so sterile. I hope this issue marks the tone for the rest of this run, because for me, this was what the Fantastic Four is all about. Yes, there’s time-travel 4000 years into the future, but in the end, the book is all about the family and the characters.

Yep...well said.