The first chapter, "Death of the Invisible Woman" featured a future version of Sue Storm traveling back to present day to aid the FF in stopping Dr. Doom's latest plot for, you guessed it, world domination.
The second and weakest of the arcs told a tale of the Richards family traveling to Scotland to visit Reed's cousin. More of a tale about the Richards children than anything else, this one just didn't have much for me as a reader.
The finale, "Doom’s Master", involves the being who trained Victor in the black arts returning to Latveria to have a little talk about the Fantastic Four and what is taking Doom so damn long to defeat them. Each arc is written in the "wide-screen" format that Millar loves to tell stories in. This theatrical style of storytelling is the perfect compliment for a team of super hero's who travel through different dimensions and battle intergalactic beings on a regular basis.
Bryan Hitch's work on regular books over the years has become a real issue with me. Similar to his run on The Ultimates, the art in Fantastic Four started off stellar, loads of details, realistic facial expressions, and the best city-scape's in the business. As his run on this title drew to a close the art started to get lazier and less impressive. The final 15 pages are mostly fill-in artists with a few Hitch pages scattered in. I have a major problem with this. It's a form of bait-and-switch. It's like going to see a Ben Affleck movie and half way through replacing him with Casey Affleck.
This was an enjoyable trade overall, however the lack of in execution in the final act of the book really left me feeling as if Millar and Hitch got tired of this book and simply gave up.
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