Fraction had a lot to live up to, following Jonathan Hickman on this series - and so far, he's holding his own. Read Full Review

Matt Fraction has a gift. He crafts these lines of dialogue that you can't help but repeat. You want to wear them to dress yourself in the conversation of superheroes. If you read Hawkeye, you know plenty of them. Well, "Yancy Street Don't Bend!" It's not just because it sounds great when you yell it, it's because it has weight. When Ben Grimm says it, it means something. There's an intensity in those words that you don't always find in superhero comics. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four #8 is that classic time travel, space trotting story that takes you back to a familiar time, where even though the setting that is explored is old, we discover new things about Ben Grimm. Read Full Review

I was thinking about dropping Fantastic Four, but with issues like these, there are still plenty of reasons to stick around. With future issues delving into the meaning of the F4, it looks like there are also just as many reasons to keep reading. Read Full Review

Despite these hiccups, Fraction weaves a very interesting story, with wonderful dialogue and character dynamics. In the plus column, Bagleys artwork shines in this issue. He does a great job of capturing Bens emotional state in both his forms, and conveying very real humanity in the short scenes we are given. While I cant say I love this issue, I do love what its trying to do, and look forward to whats coming in the future. Read Full Review

The idea of the Thing returning to human form once a year is a neat idea. Unfortunately that time feels as if it's come too quickly and passes by even quicker. The action in this story passed by way too fast and it feels like it was just setting things up for the possible big implications hinted at for the next issue. Ben Grimm in Yancy Street was cool but with his 'mission' changing, it just felt like an average story instead of being allowed to have story elements fleshed out. I just wanted more from the issue. But we do have a pretty big twist possibly coming next issue. Read Full Review

In the end, this isn't a bad comic, but there is nothing revolutionary within the pages either. Die hard fans of Thing will enjoy some moments of it, but other than that it is a rather generic read. Read Full Review

I Love FF issues that focuses on Ben

There was some good and bad moments to this issue. Ben gets to be human for one day a year and he chooses to spend it in 1953 on Yancy Street. We finally get to meet Ben’s favorite aunt Petunia and his uncle Ira as the Yancy Street gang demands payment from them. Ben defends his future aunt and uncle and although Bagley’s 1953 art sucked the issue itself wasn’t that bad as Ben continuously shouts Yancy Street don’t bend while fighting off the gang