"Fantastic Four #1 is a phenomenal first issue, a perfect blend of humor, heart, and fantastic art. North is a must-read! Read Full Review

Fantastic Four #1 begins a new era for the First Family by tapping into the elements that make them an iconic team. With future issues set to focus on the other members of the Four, and a jaw-dropper of a final page, it's safe to say that the creative team isn't pulling any punches when it comes to their approach to the title. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four #1 is a fun, lighthearted intro into the titles new run. North softpeddles the introduction of a mystery so that at no point does it ever feel like there is missing information. Theres never a time where it feels like North is being clever with dialoguehave the characters dance around discussing something they know so that it can stay hidden from us. As the first step into a new arc as well as a self-contained story it works very well. Read Full Review

Ryan North and Iban Coello start the series off with a quiet and beautiful story featuring Ben and Alicia. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four is a bit of a shock right out of the gate as it doesn't take big cosmic swings or even show off a lot of action. Instead, it gets at the heart of its characters while making you fall in love with them all over again. Fantastic Four is a breath of fresh air, reminding us this franchise is fun, adventurous, and accessible to all readers. Read Full Review

When read without any expectations, Fantastic Four #1 is an outstandingly sweet superhero story filled with warmth, creativity, and cleverness. However, the newest issue #1 of Stan and Jack's foundational series is the last debut to appear without expectations. That's bound to leave readers, myself included, torn between the quality of comics displayed and the entirely unfulfilled promise of this title and cover. Read Full Review

The first issue of this new relaunch is full of humor, heart, character and creativity, which is exactly what I'm looking forward to with Ryan North on Fantastic Four. Read Full Review

As a one-shot, Fantastic Four #1 works really well. As a break between arcs, an annual, or even a one-shot special, it'd be a fun and entertaining read. But, as a debut issue that's supposed to hook us, it doesn't quite get there. The story and art is quite good, but there's a lack of excitement and barely a tease of what's to come to try to get readers to come back. As the start of a new volume, it's a bit of a headscratcher. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four #1 was not how I expected Ryan North and Iban Coello to kick off their run on this series. This is a very character focused start as Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters-Grimm take the spotlight rather than the entire Fantastic Four team. That could've raise a lot of eyebrows but once you get to the end of Fantastic Four #1 you understand why North and Coello are going with this direction. The fun dynamic between Ben and Alicia along with the mysterious final page was more than enough to sell me on what North and Coello have planned for the Fantastic Four. Read Full Review

The new Fantastic Four #1 tells a fine story that's funny at times, but it's not a great first issue. Readers will get a nice misadventure with the newly wed Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, and Alicia Masters that's drawn well by Iban Coello with Jesus Aburtov's coloring, but that's about it. The ending is what truly gives readers an impression of what may be in store for them and the Fantastic Four in the next few issues, and hopefully there's a great story there. Read Full Review

Fantastic Four #1 is a bizarre way to start the series. It's not a FF comic but a Scooby Doo-style adventure in Pennsylvania starring Ben and Alicia. The story has all the wholesome charm of a YA adventure but lacks any sense of danger or drama. It's unclear why Ryan North chose to kick off a FF reboot without the Fantastic Four, but here we are. Read Full Review

In somewhat of an odd way to launch a new title, Fantastic Four #1 only gives us one member of the team and sticks him in a time loop for the entire issue. Read Full Review

This was great. A lot of the complaints in these reviews are stupid.

It's good and fun, even though I expected all The Fantastic Four to appear and not just The Thing.

It's an amazingly sweet start that combines terrific character spotlight on Ben and (especially) Alicia with a compelling one-off mystery. And we get some subtle hints, both plot and theme-related, about why the FF are broken up.

It looks and sounds great, with a lot of heart and humor packed into the dialogue. I particularly like the deft way the author and artist team up to keep the story rolling, with prose and art seamlessly sharing the job.

I can empathize with readers who are frustrated with the absence of the full roster and the mystery of what split them up, but dismissing the comic because of that frustration is kinda like burning down the forest to spite a few trees.

(As long as those folks aren't just hiding a pre-reading decision to dislike any FF book written by the Squirrel Girl guy, of course.) more

Ryan North starts his run off strong with a fun, Groundhog Day inspired story focused on Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters. There were some really strong emotional beats, great art, and fun writing. Looking forward to the rest of the run!

Like the title says, this is fantastic.

This comic was a blast to read I'm really looking forward to reading this volume of fantastic four. The writing was great as it did an excellent job voicing the characters and giving me the feel of the individual personalities of all the characters even smaller supporting one's. The story also had lots of emotion and depth which I love. I'm very intrigued to find out what they did I just hope it's not stretched out like in asm. I love the idea of having the first four stories being about the individual characters and where they are at now. The artwork was fantastic as well and fit the feel of the story perfectly.

Reminds me of the early Byrne issues tbh.

An unusual start to the new series, but it was fairly entertaining.

For a number one, this is a bummer in a way. The story itself is entertaining. It wasn't what I was expecting, but I had fun. I wouldn't say it was a great FF book. It didn't even have the team. It was just an entertaining story.

This was fun start to this new relaunch. The story harkens back to ‘60’s shows like the Twilight Zone and other anthology series which I enjoyed. The last page sets up an interesting plot line going forward which to some may feel too similar to ASM at the moment. Iban Coello’s art is fun as well. Overall, it’s a very serviceable start to the series but nothing in it is blowing any doors off yet.

Nice story but odd choice to start the run and would’ve read better placed later on.

It's not bad just disappointing. It's just not a F4 story that should have started the run. This is a filler down the road once you establish your story. Iban Coello is good on art. Going to give this an arc and see where we are then.

This was a mixed bag for me. I think the story had a bunch of holes and even them coming across the town was completely convenient. In sixty years no one else ever came across this town except for Thing and Alicia. That doesn't make any sense. They should have come across other people from different times that have been caught in the loop, that would have been more interesting. Instead, we get a rehash of Groundhog Day, that's been done to death.

The saving grace is that we get to see Thing and Alicia by themselves, which we rarely do. This has got be the cutest version of Alicia I've ever read, so there's that.

Its a fun issue, solid writing and art, but the ending is uninspired and uninteresting... so I'm not so sure about the future

I wish Al Ewing would team up with a talented artist to write a Fantastic Four book. Marvel's first family deserves the Immortan Hulk treatment.

To call this book “Fantastic Four” is just wrong. This was a Ben Grimm/ Alicia Masters comic. It was way too simplistic and really not too enjoyable. Very disappointing.

What an odd comic. If this was a prelude special it would be top-notch and I'd be excited for the series, if it was a Ben & Alicia one-shot it would be an easy 10/10, but as #1 of a Fantastic Four series it's weird to start with a story that mostly doesn't even mention 75% of the team. I'm also not convinced I want to see "the main characters have done something terrible and it's a mystery as to what" in two comics at the same time, especially since the results have been so uneven in Amazing Spider-Man.

The story itself however is excellent, the kind of old-fashioned-in-a-clever-new-way stuff that Mark Waid and Karl Kesel do. Iban Coello does wonderful work throughout — I especially appreciate the thought he put into depicting Alicia's blindness through her body language.

So it's hard to put a number on this: in isolation it's a wonderful story with gorgeous art, but it's also a bizarre pacing choice and I'm not (yet) enthused about where they're going. more