Fantastic Four #7

 " A portable self-contained TV receiver! Amazing!"

This issue is... well, as silly as any in the surprisingly disappointing run of Fantastic Four up until now. I mean, Kurrgo, Master of Planet X? Another random alien, who begins the issue with some old-fashioned "as you know, Bob" style exposition? Even so... there have been worse issues. Like, say, the last one.

I suppose there are a few interesting points, like the probable influence of The Day the Earth Stood Still on the robot (with its "atomic scanner") sent to collect the FF. But the over-the-top horseplay between the Thing and the Torch is just too much. And we have a highly advanced alien civilisation which faces imminent doom but can't flee their planet because they literally couldn't be arsed to build more than two spaceships. Yes. literally. This plot makes zero sense.

But then the ending becomes truly bonkers. Reed saves the population by shrinking them to fit inside the two existing ships... so how will they pilot them now? And then Kurrgo just randomly dies of hubris, and Reed decrees he never actually created an antidote but just lied about it. Er... 

I'm sure Fantastic Four will get good fairly soon. Right?