Three

The Fantastic Four's current run is called Three because the writer Jonathan Hickman is killing off one of the four.  Now I warn you there will be spoilers in this post.  I recently caught up on Hickman's full run on Fantastic Four because I heard about Three and because of my deep seeded hatred for the soulless bastard that is Reed Richards I was so excited when I heard that one of the team would be dying.  I also hate Sue Richards for staying in her loveless marriage with such an emotionally abusive man.  Johnny Storm annoys me to no end because he has been the same one-dimensional womanizer for nearly sixty years.  But then there's Ben.  Ben Grim The Thing who is the team's comic relief and the only one of the four who I can tolerate.  So I was shocked when I really enjoyed Hickman's run on the Four.  He didn't make me like any of the characters any more then before but he just told really good stories with these people that I can't stand.

Anyway lets talk about Three.  Reed and Sue have been collecting dangerously intelligent orphans from all across the universe and Reed has put them and his daughter in a class with a dragon to try and solve the world's problems. Anybody find this strange...  Then let's move on; the first problem they tackle is The Thing's ability to transform into a human.  They come up with a concoction that allows Ben to be a human for one week every year.  We know that one of four characters is going to die and the only one I like has just lost his invulnerability.  But I don't believe it will be Ben who kicks the bucket.  When we last left them, Sue was at the bottom of the sea being the delegate between Namor and a new/ old race of sea people, (or seaple if you'd prefer) Reed was on some far off planet trying to evacuate people before Galactus ate the planet, and Johnny was with human Ben and their band of merry orphans trying to fight off a group of giant bugs that I think were from the negative zone but frankly I don't really know what the Hell is going on in this book!  I don't think The Thing is going to die because he is just to obvious.  I would like it to be Sue.  I want to see some characterization from Reed and Johnny after her death and hopefully the rest of the world will see what a despicable monster Reed Richards is after his wife's death.  But perhaps I'm biased.  I will post again on this topic once we find out which one of the Fantastic Four has died.