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I don't live that far away from Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D. writer Jonathan Hickman, so it wasn't all that surprising that we ended up on the same flight back from San Diego the day after Comic-Con International. What was surprising, though, was that he offered to give me a lift home from the airport, and sitting in a car next to the writer of Marvel's FF right after the biggest convention in

Welcome back to the latest installment in our annotations of FF, Jonathan Hickman's run on Marvel's First Family! This week we're taking a look at FF #5, with art by Barry Kitson, featuring the second part of the battle for Old Atlantis and the return of a fan-favorite Mighty Marvel Monarch...

On sale this week from Marvel Comics is FF #5, continuing the long awaited "War of Four Cities" storyline. Written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by guest artist Barry Kitson, the story finds Mr. Fantastic assembling his worst enemies to help defend our universe from a war being waged by Reed Richardses from other dimensions...

Welcome back to our (admittedly delayed) annotations of Jonathan Hickman's hugely successful run on FF, formerly Fantastic Four! Chris Eckert of Funnybook Babylon and Savage Critics and I have been taking a look at every issue to provide annotations for readers that explore the book's connections with the rest of Hickman's work and the run's influences from all over the Marvel Universe... Read Mor

It's been quite a week of reveals for Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys. On top of Marvel Vs. Capcom and Thor box set offerings, they've not announced that a Future Foundation box set featuring Spider-Man will debut the week of San Diego Comic-Con International...

On sale this week from Marvel Comics is FF #4, beginning the much anticipated "War of Four Cities" storyline. Written by Jonathan Hickman and illustrated by guest artist Barry Kitson, Mr. Fantastic assembles his worst enemies to help defend our universe from a war to be ignited by Reed Richardses from other dimensions...

On sale this week from Marvel Comics is the third issue of the hugely acclaimed and highly annotatable FF. Written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Steve Epting and covers by Epting, Daniel Acuña and Marko Djurdjevic, this issue succinctly answers the question that's been on readers' minds since the beginning of Hickman's Fantastic Four opus, 'Whatever happened to all those Reeds?"Follo... Rea

We're back with another installment in our series of annotations for Jonathan Hickman's FF run, this time taking a look at the second issue, "Doom Nation," as well as the second installment of our exclusive question/answer with Hickman after the release of each issue...

As regular readers probably know, we here at ComicsAlliance are pretty big fans of Jonathan Hickman's groundbreaking run on the Fantastic Four, which as of last month transmogrified into the new ongoing series FF, the first issue of which ended on a cliffhanger: Doctor Doom's joining the group...

Yeah, I know we were annotating Hickman's Fantastic Four run from the beginning, but let's just jump ahead, catch up, and get right into the thick of things: Chris Eckert and I annotating comics. This is a big chunk, so get ready -- and features an exclusive question and answer from Jonathan Hickman himself that will continue with each set of annotations...