Richards has built a machine that accesses alternate dimensions in the hope of finding a solution to the problems besetting the world. Hickman has bigger worlds to explore, and super-villain threats are, for the most part, off the agenda. The Wizard, a genius-level inventor had previously been a formidable menace, and here delivers a viable threat, but it’s dismissed in a few pages and the action is related as bedtime story by Reed to his son Franklin. Also apparent is that this is going to be different style applied to the Fantastic Four. The twin themes of science and children dominate Hickman’s Fantastic Four stories, and these twin representations of hope are apparent from the opening pages of this collection. As such, and with its focus on Reed Richards wanting to rectify the mess his world had become, it leads directly into this first collection of Hickman’s run on the parent title. Writer Jonathan Hickman’s first Fantastic Four material was the Dark Reign story, which provided few concessions to the crossover event after which it was titled.
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