Someone's already described this as a "love letter to the Fantastic Four," and that description certainly does the job. This is a multi-villain, universe-hopping, pathos-having, fun and jokey melancholy romp through FF history. Reed & Sue are absent here, presumed dead, but their presence is on every page. This is honest and fair storytelling, and Zdarsky here has produced an epic FF tale (with a lot of promising groundwork done for the next chapter) that stands alongside Lee, Byrne, & Waid's takes on Marvel's First Family.