These issues start Jonathan Hickman’s run. There are several reasons why I should hate this run, not the least of which is that it involves dozens of alternate universes. But I don’t hate it because it’s so well done.
Reed Richards recently decided to “solve everything.”
The story starts with young Reed afraid to make a big leap out of a treehouse until his father says that if he doesn’t, he’s a coward–so he does. That’s some parenting, man.
Then, it’s a little action sequence as Reed captures The Wizard, but before he does, Wizard warns him of a big danger coming that even Reed cannot stop.
Richards turns to his newest invention, The Bridge, which allows him to peer into alternate realities. He meets with three other Reeds, who tell him that all of them also asked how to solve everything.
They invite him to join the Council of Reeds.
ScreenshotI’m not going to tag most of these characters individually–they’ll just go under a collective “Council” tag.
Then, he eats green cereal. Gross.
Reed and the Council do some big things, like killing a Galactus. Reed clearly fits in with the group. But in the end, the Council wants Reed to leave his family and join them in solving big brain problems.
Reed chooses family over the Council.
This sets the stage for Hickman’s run, where instead of solving problems across the universes, Reed decides to raise children. A whole bunch of really smart children from all over Earth 616. Including a young clone of The Wizard and his own daughter Valeria, who invents a grappling rockinghorse in this story.
She’s much smarter than any of her family, it turns out.
She’s supposed to be just three years old, which is ridiculous.
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