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Fantastic Four #609 – Review

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Ryan Stegman (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters)

The Story:  The Nu-World leftovers decide to return home.

The Review:  For the most part, Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four and FF have been doing a whole lot of wheel-spinning for the last couple of months.  We can all thank Marvel for that, as they decided to keep Hickman on after the natural endpoint of his run.  As a result, we get issues like this one.

We’ve reached the point where Hickman has so nicely wrapped up every loose end (well, barring Bentley’s family background, which are the only remaining issues I’m looking forward to) that this issue actually sees him dealing with loose ends left by OTHER writers runs.  Hickman seems to have so run out of mileage that he’s left picking up Mark Millar’s leftovers from a much maligned idea and story-arc.
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