The End of the Fantastic Four!
This one is something of a Hulk. On the one hand you have a pretty intelligent, character-driven premise based on human flaws and everyday troubles of paying the bills. Then on the other you have this terribly overly fantastical plot of the God of the Sea (or whatever Namor is) buying a film studio (presumably with magic fish money) and using it to kill off his four nemesis one by one in a series of unbelievably elaborate action sequences. Of course, in the end Namor gets to walk off into the ocean again, learning from his heart’s mistakes and in that vein the issue is better off, but with such a wacky second act, much of that great character work is muffled in amongst degrading comic capers that The Fantastic Four have thus far worked hard to move away from. Intriguing, somewhat radical and laughable all at the same time.
