Fantastic Four #556

I really want to like this.  The high concept is great, the creators are great, the characters are great so why isn't it working for me?  I think I can sum it up in two words: CAP ROBOT. 

I get the hubris of the scientists playing God and creating a new world with no weapons and making these tinker-toy soldiers to police their "pacifistic" world only to have it all come back and bite them in the end but it's a robot.  This is the FF.  They defeated a force of nature that wanted to gobble up our planet.  They've high fived Jack Kirby in Heaven.  If a bunch of teenagers that can barely control their powers can defeat big five story tall robots then how is a Cap Robot supposed to inpress me by defeating a bunch of super-heroes off panel.  And that's another thing, Robbie the Robot did it all off panel.  And the list of people defeated in that great double page splash included The Sentry?  Isn't he Superman with a complex?  I would have loved to see Robbie the Cap Robot do something to him and then the heroes show up but as it is, it just rings a little hollow.  There's no denying that Hitch is a great artist yet the scenes in the Arctic with the blinding snow were so realistic that I couldnt see what was going on making me feel a little more detatched from the fight as well. 

I know things read different in trades and we're only halfway through the first arc but so far the villain in this piece just seems..well..kind of boring.  For all the energy and excitment that this book gives off as soon as you open it there is an overwhelming sense that Reed can fix this in no time.  I don't feel any danger despite everyone telling me on the page that this is an incredibly dangerous situation.

Maybe that's the problem with great creators though, I hold them to the bar they set with previous works and when a title they are on is merely great and not AWESOME I feel the need to come here and point that out.