The premise of the X-Factor/Fantastic Four run is an interesting one.  One of the alternate dimension Reeds (presumedly left over from the Hickman multiple Reed storyline) is, maybe, actually Doom, and…well, it’s unneccesarily complicated.  Marvel needs some sort of Infinite Crisis to seal off the Ultimate, Zombie, and gazillion other universes and possible futures.  I would love to see what would happen if the characters were confined to Earth 616, present day for a long, long time.

This issue teetered dangerously close to being a convoluded mess.  I think most writers would have made this a six issue crossover with lots of callbacks to previous issues and arcs.  David, thankfully, has the sense to get us out of this plot fairly quickly.  We get just enough of the story to appreciate what’s happening, and then he moves on.  While I usually prefer more fleshed out stories, I think the hit and run approach was the best choice for this type of story.

Madrox has a series of narrative boxes about good guys and bad guys that should be the core of this story, but somehow feels tacked on at the end.  I can’t decide if there was too much or not enough.  I just know that the wrap up of that theme should have felt weightier than it did.  Instead, it felt like a throw away assessment of Guido.

Cansino’s art was very inconsistent.  And we have another case of background characters with no faces that seems prevalent in X-books.  I can’t wait for that to go out of style.