Fantastic Four 673. My, how things have changed in 50 years. On a simple binary thumbs up or down, the issue gets a thumbs up from me. It's the conclusion to the latest Griever story. Now the Griever being a cosmic being who doesn't quite fit into a typical comic book fight, even a "kosmik" one with ray blasts and stuff, needs something else. The FF end up fighting more personal battles from which Johnny saves them. It's a nice moment for the Torch with the sacrifice he made (or was willing to make) for his family and friends. I think that was the best part of the issue.
Not quite as good was the Surfer's role in the book. Reed calling in a favor from Norrin made sense and was a nice piece of world-building, but this particular favor seemed a bit much. Was Galactus in on this or not. I wonder.
The ending seemed OK starting to look like a homage to X-Men 59 ("Do or Die, Baby!") but it ended up a lot like finding someplace else for Galactus to get himself a planet to eat that wasn't Earth. Between this and his Surfer series, I've said Slott doesn't do heavy deep cosmic stuff well. He doesn't do them poorly, but I guess, adequately.
Was Sue even in this issue? I know there was a big cast but, come on, Sue needed something.
And WTF was up with the Lyja/Sky exchange? Maybe the Human Torch Revenge Squad was more of a reality than I thought.