Ultimate Fantastic Four #55 - Marvel

I enjoyed this book. We kind of slowed down on the action a tad, so we could see into the teams personalities a little bit. Really, that's what I love about the FF. They are such a personality driven group. As with their powers, there personalities are very distinctive. Whether they admit it or not, as powerful, and smart, as each of them are individually they operate and accomplish so much more as a team than they do singularly. Anyways, we got a couple of things going on right now. First there's this team that's trying to set themselves up as the new team in town . . the Seven. But, Johnny finds out later that they used to operate out of Oregon. They called themselves the Salem Seven. For some reason or another, it seems that they followed Sue back from her recent trip there. Speaking of which, the entity . . or something . . that also followed her back, and has been lurking around the Baxter Building . . seems to be trying to figure out how not to let it's presence be known. I'm not sure what it wants to do, but because of the Buildings advanced security measures it hasn't figured out yet how to make a move without alerting everyone of it's existence. Also, while all of this is going on, Agatha Harkness, SHIELD's psychologist, has come in to the mix to evaluate the team and it's possible effectiveness in future SHIELD ops. But to me, it seems that she's determined to stir up the pot a bit. But that's ok, because as she goes through her little psychological escapades with each person, we learn more and more about them as individuals and a group. But right now it seems the most pressing matter is the Seven, and what Agatha knows about them. At the end of the issue Agatha whisks Sue off, saying that Carol Danvers wants her to see something. But it seems as if she's delivered her right to the Seven. There's a battle, but hey, it's still seven to one. Eventually the odds just overwhelm her. In the end, they drop her in the river, supposedly to die in the water, but really, they've just dropped her straight into the arms of . . . Namor! This could be an interesting twist. I enjoyed the previous story-line, but I liked this issue so much better. I'm not sure why. Mike Carey wrote all of them. I think it was the personalization of the characters. But I'm much more interested as to where this story-line is going. Also Tyler Kirkham does the art.