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An improvement over the choppy first volume, I think -- the wordless underwater issue is just a total drain on the pacing (Eaglesham's a great artist, but even he has trouble keeping this thing going), but the rest is some great building on the first volume's hints of changes to come, as it becomes clear that the Four are headed straight towards being caught in the middle of something nuts. I could have done with a bit more background explanation -- it still feels like I missed a Volume 0 or something somewhere -- but this is the kind of weird, super-science adventures I want out of a Fantastic Four comic. ( )

I'd have rated this higher, as the storytelling is compelling and solid, but it's obviously a collection of set-ups for a bigger tale rather than a complete book/story on its own. ( )

A lot of setup in this story for future events, this volume basically sets up the cities that are prophesied to war. ( )