Ryan North approaches the Fantastic Four with the same sensibility Paul Dini approached Batman: The Animated Series. He gets what makes Marvel's First Family fun, and he zeroes in on that month after month. This issue, coupled with Carlos Gomez's delicate line work, is a clever elseworlds film noir take on the Four that reminds me why I love comics.

Most of this was fine, but I want to talk about the final story, by Azzarello. I haven't seen anyone discussing this for what it clearly is: a self-insert for Azzarello as Joker about his time at DC. There's even an extremely poor taste batd*ck joke! It's wild this made it past editorial, and that no one in the reviews seems to be calling it for what it is.