Fantastic Four #556

So the all powerful super robot that the nu-world team built to be the peace keeper of nu-world has gone haywire and escaped to our earth and is carrying out his primary objective. That objective is to neutralize all weapons and threats. He knows no good or evil so anything with power or a weapon is considered a threat including our heroes. I've been really disappointed in this book. I had read a lot of hype about this story arch and I usually love Mark Millar's stuff so I was really excited to get into this one but it has been downright boring. There is none of the team dynamic that makes the FF great and not a lot or real action either. No super smart plans or gadgets or strategies to save the day, nothing of what makes the Fantastic Four great. They bring in 40 of marvels biggest guns and all they do is throw themselves at the robot and get swatted aside. There is now strategy or even dialog. Mr. Fantastic wasn't even in this issue which could be part of the problem and I get that all of this destruction is to build up how big of a threat this really is until Mr. Fantastic can show up and save the day as he zooms off on some sort of fantastic bike on the last page, but really we didn't need this issue. It's one of those filler issues that are supposed to build up some anticipation for the big battle but all it did was try my patience. You can probably wait on this one until next month when the action gets started. Batman Death Mask #1 This is the first of a four part mini series written and drawn by the amazing manga artist yoshinori natsume. Of all the super hero characters batman probably translates best into the manga style. His action, hand to hand combat, and gadgets play really well with the art style and his dark , brooding side fits to the story content as his inner demons are often more fierce and dangerous than his external ones. This is a thick book, which reads right to left in the Japanese style, with a lot of content. There is a villain from batman's past that ...