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Fantastic Four: Flesh and Stone

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This is just the thing for those of us who love the FF! A nice compilation of recent issues in which great changes happen <spoilers> a new HQ and the Thing get's the abiltiy to change back to Ben Grimm </spoilers> in a handy format much easier to store and read than a bunch of loose issues

The best Fantastic Four team is here! Jeph Loeb and Carlos Pacheo's work for this book are excellent. I've always admired Pacheo's artwork ever since I saw Avengers Forever and he's the best penciler for the FF. I've always liked Jeph Loeb's writing from his Batman: The Long Halloween. If you like the Fantastic Four and good stry telling and art this is the book to get!

I had a choice between this and FF Visionaries: Byrne. I picked this because Pacheco's artwork and Loeb's writing are always good. So what's the problem?
Dialogue.
Until Loeb takes over scripting towards the end of the book you could mistake this for an olf fashioned Image book - great art, horrible dialogue. It's certainly not terrible - but it's not great either.
The great thing about this book though, is the sense that it actually takes place in the Marvel Universe, the Grey Gargoyle, the Avengers appear, as does old-time FF villain Diablo.
However, at the end of the day, if you have to pick up a Marvel trade paperback, go with Inhumans, the Sentry, X-Force, Ultimate Spidey, or any of the Essential collections.

I loved this story. Great story and fantastic (pun intended) art. Carlos Pacheco is one of the best artists in comics today. Possibly one of the best ever. You won't regret checking this one out.