I'll admit I'm a big fan of Mark Waid's previous work, and I've been a loyal follower of the Fantastic Four for as long as I've been collecting comics. With this in mind, I can't hide the fact that I probably enjoy this material far more that the newer reader who might've been pulled into the book by the nine cent issue. I mean, I've been with this book for 20+ years, and as such I've been on the book during it's high points, and equally I've been there for its lows, so any time the book looks to be entering the latter, I'm always a bit blinded by the simple fact that this book is good again. Based on these first three issue, I can't help but like what I see. Mark Waid seems to get the idea that the Fantastic Four can be interesting contemporary characters, and not merely tired echoes of the personalities that Stan Lee created in the 1960s. He's also is nicely playing up the idea that the FF function in their own little world where the extraordinary is everyday, as one has to love the Read Full Review

Not as many comedic or touching moments as the last issue but Waid writes the main 4 characters perfectly and he writes the strange and unusual foes of the FF just as well. The art could be better for Sue and Franklin but everything else is, well, fantastic