I expected this because it's a team book (x2) and you have even more characters to juggle, but there are only a few characters so far that I feel get explored enough. There's a family dynamic there and in Avengers that's mostly gone. You have Ben feeling like an outsider on top of his appearance, Reed shutting himself off for long stretches (no pun intended) of time, Susan feeling the need to hold everything together. Hickman's run was my first FF story and I understood immediately why the team had been a Marvel staple for decades, since there's so much in the dynamics to mine. Even though there was a lot going on in his FF already, there was still enough focus on the members of the team and how they interacted with eachother. The way Hickman weaves different plots together is impressive and is on the same level as his Fantastic Four run, but there's something important missing here that FF did have: more characterization and character dynamics for the main cast.
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