Fantastic Four #560

The concept for this book is HUUUUGE, but this is one of those titles that suffers from being washed out of your brain by the four weeks it takes to come out between issues. As far as cool stories featuring A-list Marvel characters go, this is big science (sorry, Laurie Anderson), but not nearly as whacko-boingo as Millar's "Enemy of the State" or "Old Man Logan" runs on Wolverine. Sure, a subdued Galactus powering a time machine on his back isn't something you're going to find outside of John Byrne's brain, but next to some of the other stuff going in comics now, it all reads a little, well, Byrne from the 1980s. And i think that shipped has sailed, to employ the metaphor. Of course, the art is superb -- but does it matter?