Re: Fantastic Four #570+ (Hickman/Eaglesham) Spoilers.
I read #573. I'm definitely adding this to my pull list. It's wonderfully bizarre and exciting. I love that #573 is a one-off issue. It's not anything amazing. The concept is rather dull and it's a kinda bizarre way to just get rid of Millar's run but because it was just one issue and not dragged out, it's rather enjoyable. What's more, is it me, or is Franklin making it up?
Regardless, the thing about Hickman's run is the bizarre wonder of the over-the-top science in it. Whereas some writers just use bombastic keywords to make it sound incredible (Mark Millar does this a lot, but so do Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis), Hickman retains a level of poetry that gives it meaning. Instead of treating it like top trumps and random word generators, there's an element of "science as metaphor for life" which is kinda what sci-fi is all about. The idea of a spire so tall people jump off it and are swept into a black hole as a form of defying nature, is rather compelling, and it does what it needs to: creates the backdrop of a desperate world. Inverting life and death. And there was that whole "The cost of solving everything is everything". These kinda philosophical conundrums that make it compelling.
I'm sincerely impressed, and I'm very glad to be so. I hope this continues as well as it has begun.
