The only thing good is the cover .

The Taylor and Rucka stories were absolutely sensational both with art and writing! I liked the other stories quite a bit as well, considering I’m not a big fan of Watters or Tamaki. I was a bit underwhelmed by this anniversary issue compared to previous milestone centennial issues, where you’d often find additional pin-ups by great artists as well as an occasional essay or two. Still, a really really good read for fans old and new! more

LOST AND FOUND
A silent story but it's heart speaks volumes. One of the very best Bat stories I've read in years. Taylor & Janin are sensational.

YOU'RE ROLE IN COMMUNITY
Easily the one to forget. Joker vs Bat/Press vs Wayne. It's been many times over - and better.

THE KNIFE AND GUN CLUB
The art is iffy, but Rucka's story of two Doctor's talking is fantastic.

FALL
The story is iffy but Sienkiewicz's art of a murderous suicider is fantastic. more

Godzilla kicks the hell out of everyone - which is great.

That the heroes are basically useless is not great.
That the villains are even more useless is really not great.
That the villains are written as a comedic afterthoughts doesn't help. Heck, even Stiltman survives fighting Godzilla. Stiltman!?
More comedy with a Saturday morning version of Fin Fang Foom.

For all the devastation, no one has been killed yet except for a future Johnny (who won't exist soon because of an even more comedic usage of (ugh) Herbie).

I'm not feeling the stakes that should be EVERYWHERE by now.


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Only three heroes here - Red Tornado, GL: Simon Baz and the glorious return of POWER GIRL!

She's back people! We can put that dreadful Leah Williams series in the bin, because this Power Girl is confident and powerful - the way she was always meant to be!

Thanks Saladin Ahmed her return! And thank you Clayton Henry for a surpubly drawn issue!

This book has VERY loud echoes of Scott McCloud's "Destroy" from 1986, so what was inside wasn't a surprise.

What was a surprise was the art by McGuinness/Farmer. The Thing looked like the Thing (which doesn't happen nearly as much as it should elsewhere). [Note: one exception is the last page where he's WAY larger than he should be).

As for the story, Ben fights robots of his friends and foes. Nothing we haven't seen before - and done SO much better in Fantastic Four #100.

And since when was Impy smart enough to make a robot, let alone one that could pull the moon out of orbit?

North writes Ben better here than in the FF series, but it's still a lame story and worse explanation for why it all happened.

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An Adam Hughes cover.

That's the good news. What's inside is a wannabe 4th wall breaking Harley Quinn story.

And c'mon - the Lizard defeated by a simple overhang sign.

And c'mon, - as if her breasts falling out every panel wasn't enough, the gratuitous bathtub page was, well, gratuitous.

Summary:
Nova gets a new helmet.
Maximus betrays the Grandmaster.
And a whole lot of blah blah blah yakkity yak.
The art gets more cartoony too.

A total snoozer.

Another superb issue.

Talok II? Braal? What's up with this I wonder.

This story is basically a stand alone issue for Sue RICHARDS with a bit of Reed spread throughout (I mean that literally as Reed has never looked sillier).

We're expected to believe that Reed Richards covers the entire planet in arrows made of diamonds, that somehow haven't had a tectonic movement in 8 billion years.

Sue RICHARDS won't drink the water because she'd... rather die?

Later, they have Doom on his heels and then the FF just stop thier attack allowing Vic to psuedosciencebabble his way to victory.

And Doom's new tactic of time manipulation? Stolen straight from Rick & Morty's "The Vat of Acid" episode (which was taken from a Futurama episode).

These last two issues rely completely on forced plot devices that North sets up just for the specific needs required to move this story.

That said, I'm beginning to think that North isn't so much the problem as it is the editorial team. The letters page apologizes for a massive creator credit problem from last issue and if they're that sloppy with credits, that might explain why my favorite Marvel team suffers on and on and on from poor story telling.

Never been a Ramos fan but he's hasn't been too bad - but then he draws Sue RICHARDS when she tries to protect the team in a field in such a laughable way that's it's not even funny.

As for my capitalization of Sue RICHARDS in this review, she is called that on the credit page, but then in the recap just below it, it's back her maiden name - heck even Reed (twice) refers to her by the name she hasn't had since 1965!

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Marvel's sliding time scale doesn't mean you overload things with more recognizable real world events. Cap doesn't need to be fighting against the Taliban when there's plenty of Hydra, Secret Empire whatever groups out there that can fill the gaps without making this story outdated in a few years.

And that idiotic new costume doesn't help. He's Captain America, not Captain Wardrobe.

And now there's a new guy who plays at being Cap (and probably more over the years). Seems so unneccessary.

The art is just okay. It looks like the Doombot is huge - which makes no sense because Vic's ego would never make a robot bigger and more imposing than himself. more

Once again, a very forseeable move by Doom that "the smartest man on earth" never saw coming.
And since when does Reed call himself the world's smarterst man.

Someday North will be off the FF and it'll be a good day.