First, the fact that they’re calling the “final” arc Fantastic Fourever is both wonderful and horrible, and I’m pretty sure the autocorrect on this computer will prevent me from ever properly reporting on this fact without meticulous care.

Second: when the rumours about the team’s demise first started floating around the internet, I wrote a piece about it over at Comics Beat, which still applies. An excerpt:

… if Marvel is going to take the Fantastic Four off the publishing schedule for a while, you can be sure it has nothing to do with the status of the team’s life in movies – or if it does, the team’s out-of-house status means Marvel actually has the luxury of putting the team’s book on hold. Stick with me here.

That’s the thesis. The story’s a few months old, but all the points still stand, and giving it a read will add context to this whole ordeal. Suffice to say, the cancellation is probably the best thing to happen to the team in a long time.