Fantastic Four #555 - Marvel

This is really turning out to be a pretty Fantastic story-line. A little unbelievable, but . . when were the Fantastic Four stories ever with-in the realm of possibility? Mark Millar is really taking this bull by the horns. We've jumped right in to this Nu-Earth story-line. Basically an old flame of Reed's, Alyssa Castle has come back in to his life. She's as brilliant as he is, and now she's married to a billionaire philanthropist. Anyways, they're recently discovered that all the news about what we're currently doing to our Earth has not been blown out of proportion. If anything it's been down-played a bit so as to not cause mass hysteria. They've discovered that, honestly, the Earth has about 10 years left to it. And about 8 years ago, they passed the point of being able to do anything about it. So, rather than sit on thier hands and wait for the end to come, they've decided to do something about it by creating a nu-world. Basically, in another universe, they're trying to recreate Earth piece by piece, but leaving out the negative influences such as, war, famine, poverty, crime, weapons, depleted rain-forests, etc.. A loft goal, but you just know that removing all of that stuff is going to create a vacuum . . which will have to be filled by something. The question is . . what? Anyways this issue the protector that they've built for this nu-world, has escaped from his incubation tank. Reed and Alyssa were talking about the positive things that they were trying to create for this nu-world, and apparently CAP overheard them talking and decided to be preemptive. This could be a big mistake. Meanwhile Johnny has joined a rock-band, and on the way to practice he comes across a diamond robbery. In trying to stop the villains he comes across a villainess that appears to have some kind of magnetic powers. They struggle and fight for a while, and then end up rolling around on the floor making out. Ben's also starting dating someone new recently. And Sue has decided to create an all new, women only, charity super-team. We haven't really seen any of the repercussions of those decisions yet. But, I'm sure we will. The one thing you can count on with Mark Millar's stories is that he's going to introduce a lot of radical new ideas. And he's got a bag full of them here. Oh . . and don't forget Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary's fantabulous artwork. It's . . to die for. This book is in a great place right now, and, as far as I know, these guys are signed on for the forseeable future. Fantastic!