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FF by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 4 (FF (2010-2012)) Kindle & comiXology

by Jonathan Hickman (Author), Nick Dragotta (Illustrator, Artist), Gabriel Hernández Walta (Illustrator), Format: Kindle Edition
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Collects FF (2011) #17-23.

The Future Foundation explores the furthest reaches of the Marvel Universe from Wakanda to the Negative Zone, encountering the Wizard and the Universal Inhumans along the way! Plus: What horror lurks inside Spider-Man and Human Torch's bathroom?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00PSN1HAQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (May 22, 2013)
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    Jonathan Hickman (born September 3, 1972, South Carolina) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write Avengers and New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. As of 2015, he is writing the crossover event Secret Wars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the end...
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Within these pages lies optimism at its most pure. The last work of Hickman's FF run...

Now read his Secret Wars and prepare for the FEELS...
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5.0 out of 5 stars The world's greatest comic magazine
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The end of the Hickman run. The end of the best run on the title save for lee and Kirby.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great ending to Hickman's run with the Fantastic Four family - This volume goes hand in hand with Fantastic Four Volume 6
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014
Collects FF issues #17-23

This is one of the best modern Marvel stories I've ever read, but be warned that you can't start with this volume. There is a lot to read before you can appreciate what happens in this book. In fact, I don't believe you could read this book, and fully understand all the intricacies of what is happening.

Before reading this, you need to read the following collected editions:

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four (by Hickman) volumes 1-4
FF (by Hickman) volumes 1-2

Then you have to take turns between Fantastic Four Volume 5 and FF Volume 3. For example, you will read the issues like this: Fantastic Four #600, FF #12, Fantastic Four #601, FF #13, and so on and so on...

Now that you know all that, I definitely recommend reading this legendary run by a remarkable writer, Jonathan Hickman.

SPOILERS (from both Fantastic Four and FF for continuity's sake):

Fantastic Four #605:

-Reed and Nathaniel travel to New York City in the year 3012.

-In the future, humanity has aligned itself with the Shi’ar and Badoon in an oligarchy. Meanwhile, the Kree Empire now holds the Skrulls in slavery. There’s a Fantastic Four in the distant future, and Franklin and Benjamin Grimm are both members. It turns out Ben doesn’t age when he is in his Thing form, so the only time he ages is when he takes the formula that the Future Foundation developed for him. If I remember correctly, that means that for every one year, he ages one week.

-Reed wants to go further, but they haven’t explained why he wants to check out the future. They travel to NYC Territory in the year 4012. Thing is still alive, and he is giving a commencement address to the 4012 graduates of the Future Foundation. Franklin has left to go “run with gods.”

-Reed wants to go further. They travel to The York Prefecture in 5012. Thing is alone, visiting statues of Reed, Sue, and Johnny. Franklin hasn’t returned yet.

-Reed wants to go further. They travel to the TNY Orb in 6012. Franklin stands over the Thing’s dead body.

-After this, Reed wants to go home, and while there, he spends some quality time with Thing and Bentley, as they watch some boxing. Ben seems surprised that Reed would take the time to do this, and tells him that he’s missed him.

#605.1:

-In this issue we get to know more about one of the members of the Council of Reeds. It is the one with the long beard and the Infinity Gauntlet (which he calls the God Hand). This Reed’s story is that he is from a parallel universe where the Nazi’s are ruling over modern day Germany. The Fantastic Four are Germany’s first astronauts. Reed kills Doom to steal a piece of his brain, and then goes into space. Ben becomes a different version of the Thing. Johnny becomes an Iceman-like being, and Sue becomes the Human Torch. They are all bad guys, and all but Reed are killed when Reed uses the Thing to kill Hitler. Reed takes power, and fights against the likes of the Avengers and the X-Men. He later decides to build the Bridge, and that’s where he met the Council. I think this issues exists to hammer home the fact that the Council is (overall) bad, even though their mission statement was to “solve everything.”

FF #17:

-This issue was a humorous break from the dramatic story that has been being told so far. The whole thing centers on how Peter doesn’t like having Johnny as a roommate, and ends with Johnny getting kicked out.

Fantastic Four #606:

-Willie Lumpkin is dying of cancer, so the Fantastic Four go on a mission to find a cure.

FF #18:

-Reed is trying to help broker a peace between the Inhumans and the Kree, as Kid Franklin and Mister Franklin help heal Hala’s sun. Mister Franklin later tells Black Bolt that he has to accept peace with the Kree because he is needed on Earth. It is the focal point for some sort of coming disaster. Future Franklin tells Black Bolt that he won’t be able to help him, though, because he isn’t going to make it. Meanwhile, in the Negative Zone, Johnny has brought the Future Foundation kids there with him as he addresses a revolt. It turns out the creatures there want free elections. Bad news…the voters of the Negative Zone voted Annihilus back into power.

Fantastic Four #607:

-To celebrate the Black Panther’s marriage to Storm, the FF visit Wakanda. But T’Challa has other needs for Reed, and an ancient evil now threatens Wakanda again. The biggest thing I took away from this was the line, “Everything die,” spoken by T’Challa. This was meaningful to me because I know that Hickman will again use this as a theme during his Avengers/New Avengers run.

FF #19:

-The FF kids have an adventure in Wakanda, led by their super smart guide, Onome. Onome impresses them, and Val tells her that she is going to talk to Reed about letting Onome join the FF. During their adventure, they stop the villainous Hyena Clan.

Fantastic Four #608:

-It seems like this is the introduction of Necropolis, the Wakanda City of the Dead. I have read future storylines where Black Panther rules over this land, but I believe this is the first time that Necropolis is mentioned in the Marvel Universe. It isn’t so much a neighboring city as it is a city in a pocket dimension.

-In the City of the Dead, they meet a goddess who assesses the desires of T’Challa. The goddess foreshadows events that will happen in the 2012 Marvel Event, "Avengers vs. X-Men," and she also foreshadows events that will be primarily addressed in Hickman’s Avengers/New Avengers run. Knowing that T’Challa has to be there to help save his people, she makes him King of the Dead, ruler over Necropolis. T’Challa’s sister will remain the ruler over Wakanda, though.

-The goddess also tells Reed and T’Challa that Reed’s presence at this moment will bind their lives together until their death. Their fates are now intertwined, and when the world faces the great trial that she has foreseen, the two men must face this danger together.

FF #20:

-Mister Franklin tells Black Bolt, “Everything dies.”

-Knowing the date, Future Val stops young Val from writing a journal entry, which is actually a prospectus on how to defeat and subjugate the Kree Empire. The Vals still hate each other, but the Franklins have fun together.

-Mister Franklin is really open to telling Kid Franklin about future events.

-Medusa tells Crystal that she has to come home to Attilan.

Fantastic Four #609:

-Lame story about the people of Nu-World, which felt like an in-story way of getting these characters out of the narrative. They
were never my favorites because I didn’t know their back story. Also, I thought Galactus did something with the corpse of his future, dead self a few volumes ago. He was really mad at these people then.

FF #21:

-Black Bolt explained to the Supreme Intelligence that they should work together until the “everything dies” scenario, and peace is achieved.

-This is why Medusa summoned Crystal. The Supreme Intelligence demanded that Ronan return to him alone for peace to be agreed upon.

Fantastic Four #610:

-Dr. Andrew Forson and the Wizard are the villains in this issues as the FF takes on A.I.M. This issues marks the first recognition of Barbuda as A.I.M. Island.

-Reed becomes the U.S.A.’s ambassador to A.I.M. Island.

-The Wizard, in his madness, says that he had a vision of Reed (as a man of half light and half darkness), and he also saw with Reed other men of day and night. I believe this is a prophecy about the Illuminati.

-Wizard tells young Bentley that he is him, and implies that Bentley can’t escape his destiny.

FF #22:

-This issue went hand-in-hand with Fantastic Four #610, with a focus on how Val and Bentley experienced the events. At the end, the two youngersters hold hands for the first time, and Bentley tells Val that he loves her. Val reminds him that she is only three years old.

-Bentley, though he has a hint of evil in him, seems to be breaking away from the villainous nature of his “father.”

Fantastic Four #611:

-This seems to be the end of the story that Hickman has been telling since the beginning of his Fantastic Four run. There are still some plot threads left dangling, but overall, things have come to an end. Nathaniel and Reed save Doom from the world that he created with his Infinity Gauntlet. It seems like there was more story that could have been told there, but instead, they wrap up the whole Doom story in one single issue.

-Nathaniel announces that he will now use the Nexus to travel to all other parallel universes where orphan Reeds exist to try to help out. Val says she is going to stay and help her grandfather, but she really wants to stay at the Nexus (the former home of the Council), because in her words, “Here I can build.”

FF #23:

-The issue opens with Future Val and Franklin talking about how it is time for goodbyes with their present-day family, and they always knew this is how things were going to end. We are told that this issue will act as an epilogue to Jonathan Hickman’s 3-year run with the Fantastic Four family.

-Mister Franklin, Kid Franklin, and Leech go into Franklin’s closet universe and act out a lot of adventures. There, Future Franklin tells his younger self not to be intimidated by Val’s intelligence. She will one day recognize that it is Franklin’s creativity that makes him so special because he can see things in ways that others cannot. Intelligence without imagination is useless.

-Mister Franklin, as he helps Kid Franklin into bed for the night, tells him to remember that the door to the closet is more than it appears to be.

-The door is more than it appears to be. It separates who you are from who you can be. You do not have to walk through it. You can run.

-Future Franklin then starts saying his goodbyes to everyone else. He tells some funny stories about the future to Ben and Johnny. He explains to his parents that the universe is sentient, and that if she realizes there are two Franklins, she won’t be happy. He also tells his parents that Franklin will manifest soon.

-The most touching scene is when Sue and Reed, right before Future Franklin leaves, confess that they always have doubts about their parenting. They ask him is they do a good job, and Franklin tells them that they do a perfect job. Seconds later, he fades away, possibly back to the future.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sad to Hickman leave this title :.(
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2013
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I'm not as fond of the art, but Hickman helped me love these characters & I can honestly say that I'm ruined for the following creative team. :P
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Louis-Philippe Mac Aulay Bruneau
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this, it's a great addition to the Fantastic ...
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Loved this, it's a great addition to the Fantastic Four series by Hickman. It shows you the gaps in the timeline that you didn't see. A must read in my opinion.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Up and running
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2013
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This volume establishes the Future Foundation in its own right, pulling it out from under the Fantastic Four's wing. More whimsical and engaging than the "Young Avengers", which suits its much younger cast, it has something of a British sensibility to it; the Foundation is a kind of nuclear-powered "Hogwarts".

And Bentley "kicks ass", as the Americans would have it. Well, actually, in one scene he kicks- no, I leave that to the reader to discover.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The whole marvel Hickmanverse has been a wonderful ride. This
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2016
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The whole marvel Hickmanverse has been a wonderful ride. This? Probably my least favorite book of them all. But still good and recommended for the whole picture.
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