I have to say, I thought the arc was rubbish. Having your big bad show up and defeat Galactus off-screen is such a shallow way of making them appear tough. It's ****ing top trumps. And you know what? He
did that trick twice in the same arc. How does the arc start? Doctor DOOM shows up going, "Guys. My *** hurts because these NEW villains are so bad-*** they've kicked my *** so much it hurts." And if THAT wasn't enough, (THEY BEAT DOOM! How often does THAT happen... this week?) they then beat GALACTUS. Then... they turn out to be superheroes from the future led by Wolverine and Sue Storm and didn't really want a fight and are quite happy to go somewhere else if that's okay with you.
If your villain is so wussy that you have to give them gratuitous victories as they trump previous benchmarks of villainy, you're villain needs a root canal. (Look at Heroes and Arthur Petrelli and Adam Munroe... geez.)
Sue Storm dying was predictable. I've not been keeping up with the hype, but when she went up to Doom it was so obvious what was going to happen. What's more, the time-travel thing doesn't work.
Right. If Reed can inject Sue with a compound so he can track the future Sue (this is smart), why doesn't Future Sue
remember being injected? Why doesn't she know Doom will kill her and this is how it will end? Why do Millar's rules of time travel in this issue kinda work when he wants them to? It's just not been thought out properly.
Like the Logan reveal. We already had the whole "one of the future's big bads is from the present!" with Sue Storm. Logan's reveal is just tacked on. It has no relevance to the story, save for making it 'tie-in' with Millar's crossover. Also, Logan's reveal was rubbish. He just decided to out himself and use his claws. Why didn't he do this earlier? It wasn't dramatic then. (And it wasn't dramatic when he did, either.) This whole thing was stupid. And Galactus
died. Ugh. What a rubbish thing to do. It's a crappy death for the character, and that's why it'll be retconned (making this pointless).
That said - I did not see the Nu-World thing coming. Maybe because I'm only half-reading this title, but I'm going to give Hitllar the benefit of the doubt and say that it was well plotted and well thought out. Giving the future billions Nu-World was a smart resolution to the story, and actually made me smile. Good idea, well executed. Well done, guys.
Opinion question:
So far, what do you guys think is better: Millar's current Fantastic Four run (#s 554-570) or his solo Ultimate Fantastic Four run (#s 21-32)? I've only read bits and pieces of each, but I was just wondering what you guys thought.
Both as stupid as the other.
Millar is so intent on filling the F4 with 'crazy, sci-fi' ideas that he isn't actually developing any, and they come off as shallow, sometimes idiotic, cliches.
As I say, the only original thing was Nu-World (you could argue it's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but it's used very differently here, thus making it somewhat original) and it was introduced in his first issue and wasn't paid off until the climax of the second arc. Because for some reason, the first arc (which was all about Nu-World) descended into a rubbish fight against a big robot Captain America. See what I mean? One good idea, takes back seat to idiotic time-travelling robots.
