1) There's no way Ted Grant is really dead - so funeral issues are meaningless in the end.
2) The 'traitor' arc is getting tired because it just doesn't move at a decent pace.
3) Having the JLA basically scold the JSA is just weird.
4) I like this new guy's (Rafael De Latorre) art.
5) I would have given this a higher score but Lemire called Powergirl "Paige".

This is a must read series. Yeah, it's basically just another zombie apocalypse (with cats) but every page, every panel, it's just just so damn good.

With this issue (and what's coming next) I'm hoping Elsie (finally) gets a chance to do something good.

North does it again - he continues to ignore proper characterization and history.

History first:
North says that the cosmic rays that powered the 4 ONLY happened once. I'm guessing he never read FF #13, #197, #310, Hulk #254, etc.

Ben absorbs the majority of cosmic rays? Reread any of the issues I just mentioned - there are LOTS of cosmic rays, it's just not possible. And at the ending of this issue - again, North must never have read What If v1 #36 where the powerless foursome still became heroes.

Characterization:
Johnny - is not that much of a goofball (and really needs to lose the asinine moustache). Despite being one of the fastest and most agile fliers in the MU, he needs Sue to save him (because she is somehow faster?).

Reed - Yes he's super smart but after a decade+ (MU time) of dealing with (as North writes them) dim Ben and idiot Johnny, you'd think Reed wouldn't be such a sesquipedalianistic grandiloquentish vocabularian who incessantly speaks logophilisticstically. (see, I can write like North too). Yet, despite being so smart he can't figure out a way to restore Ben's powers (via actual power or exo-suit (see FF #170)).

Sue - She may as well be a Green Lantern now. A flyswatter? Are boxing glove arrows next?

Ben - like last issue, Ben is a weak-willed fool here. He's gone from wanting to give himself the equivalent of a lobotamy to insisting he become the Thing again. He's all over the place (and in therapy?). Hey North, go read FF #25, 26 and Marvcek Two-in-One Annual #7 and see how Ben has THE sgtrongest will power in the MU.

Devos the Devaster - Nice impression of King Kong climbing the Empire State Building despite being able to fly (LOL).

Artwise, it's barely okay. The pencils might be decent, but the inking is atrocious.

One last thing for whomever edits this mess, if you're going to cite a back issue to explain how the FF lose thier powers when traveling the multiverse (whish I am SO tired of), it helps to state more than "Marvel Two-in-One" (which has over 100 issues). For those that would like to know it was M2i1 v2 #3. more