VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by DWAYNE MCDUFFIE
Pencils by PAUL PELLETIER
Cover by MICHAEL TURNER Dr. Doom has come from the future with a message: Reed Richards must be stopped now, before his ultimate Civil War plans come to fruition. What was Mr. Fantastic really doing during Civil War? The answers are finally revealed.
"Like a lot of Dwayne McDuffie’s current books, there’s something that makes this well-written, well-drawn book just… boring. I mean, it’s his last arc before Millar and Hitch take over, its got Doom, its got an almost issue-long brawl between Doom and The Thing. So why did it barely make an impact on me? Maybe because, and this isn’t PRECISELY a bad thing, it’s exactly the comic you think it’s going to be. None of the ‘surprises’ are surprising, everything occurs exactly how you think it would, and there’s nothing really ORIGINAL about any of it. It’s a good, solid, acceptable superhero book. Which, if Marvel published 17 comics a month, would be enough. But like the upcoming team of Millar and Hitch seem to be promising, you need to be more than just ‘solid’ and ‘acceptable’ these days."
THIS BOOK GETS 6 GRAHAMS OUT OF 10
