‘Ultimate Marvel’ Archives
Ultimate Human
This is a mini-series pitting the ultimate versions of Iron Man and Hulk against each other. It's not actually a battle between the two, even though there is one fight between them. But the main reason behind this team-up is that Bruce wants Tony's help in trying to remove the Hulk. After figuring out how the Hulk works, Tony actually manages to [...]
Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk
This mini has been a long time in the making, but luckily I didn't read it when it first came out, so I get to enjoy the whole story all at once. I enjoy Lindelof's writing in Lost, so I was curious to check out how he does writing a comic. I wasn't disappointed, as this is just a fun story with plenty of action and some twists. It's an over [...]
Ultimate Origins
This is the story that supposedly tells the secrets about the Ultimate universe. Bendis said that some parts of this story were agreed on since the beginning of Ultimate Marvel, and they would tie all super-powered beings together. We already saw that many of the Marvel scientists were connected to the super soldier serum project, but here they [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man #112-128 + Annual 3
Here starts Stuart Immonen's run on USM and I couldn't have asked for a better successor to Mark Bagley. Immonen has his own style which is different from Bagley's, but at the same time it looks different than his recent work on Ultimate X-Men. His first arc is Death of the Goblin (#112-117) which is exactly what it sounds like. I like the way [...]
Ultimate Fantastic Four #33-57
Mike Carey's run on UFF introduces many of the classic FF villains, but the main focus of the run is Thanos and the cosmic cube. They are introduced in his first arc, which puts the FF in the middle of a galactic war. The art by Pasqual Ferry is very good, he has a very clean but at the same time artistic style. I am not crazy about the colors [...]
Ultimate X-Men #66-93
This is Robert Kirkman's run which had its ups and downs, although he did have an overall arc in mind since the beginning. He starts with a few issues focusing on relationships within the team. Scott and Jean, Rogue and Iceman, Logan and Ororo, Kurt and Alison, Kitty and Peter Parker, and he also introduces Lilandra, which continues the [...]
Ultimate Gah Lak Tus
This is a trilogy of mini-series written by Warren Ellis, about the ultimate version of Galactus. Ultimate Nightmare (art by Trevor Hairsine and Steve Epting) is a set up for what's to come. It is the ultimate version of Tunguska, in the form of Vision, who was sent to warn humanity about the coming of Galactus. This is only revealed at the [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man 79-111
In these issues, Ultimate Spider-Man has basically become the series guest-starring all New York urban heroes. Even the X-Men are featured prominently. In Warriors (79-85) the Kingpin is manipulating Spider-Man in order to maintain his control over the criminals in NY. He gives him information about his rival Hammerhead, and Spider-Man [...]
The Ultimates 2 (re-read)
Even though it hasn't been that long since I read this, I had to re-read it again and go into more details about this series. The first arc (1-3) lays down subplots of the big theme of this series, that is the Ultimates in foreign countries. But the big issue in this arc is Hulk's trial. Somebody leaked information about Hulk's real identity, [...]
Ultimate X-Men #46-65
After Bendis, Brian K. Vaughan comes on board and give us interesting story arcs. At first they all seem disconnected, with their own ending. But they are also part of the big puzzle, and they are all utilized in the final arc. The first arc Tempest (46-49) introduces Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse. It's a completely different concept, with [...]
Ultimate X-Men 34-45
After the initial Mark Millar run, Brian Bendis steps in this series writing a team book for the first time. He starts focusing on Wolverine, who is aided by Spider-Man and Daredevil (both very familiar characters to Bendis). The plot revolves around rogue ex-members of Weapon X, who kill themselves rather than be captured. This is just the [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man #40-78
Ultimate Spider-Man continues to provide high school drama and comedy, mixed with superhero action/adventure. I must admit that this series really reminds me of Buffy the TV Show. There's a lot of character drama about teenagers, mainly Peter and MJ. But there are also a lot of other characters around them, either their classmates, or some new [...]
The Ultimates
I've already reviewed the 2nd and 3rd volume of the Ultimates, but I never got to review the first volume here, also I didn't remember much about the story details, so I thought I'd re-read Ultimates, and I am glad I did. The first issue is about Cap during WW2, with lots of action and allusions to future storylines. I'm not sure why any [...]
Ultimate X-Men #1-33
Contrary to Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men has a more adult approach. Even though the X-Men are teenagers here, they don't really have to deal with the typical teenage life, instead they feel more mature and deal with "adult" situations, like war between races. Mark Millar's run on the title is mainly about the opposing forces of Xavier [...]
Ultimate Spider-Man 1-39
I've always wanted to read Ultimate Spider-Man, but they published this series so fast that I decided to wait and read a big chunk of issues all at once. There are now more than 120 issues out, so I think it's time for me to start. Also, Ultimatum seems to be rebooting the whole Ultimate line, so I think it's a good time to read all of Ultimate [...]
The Ultimates 3
The first two series of the Ultimates were very well crafted comics, with plenty of action but also good themes and interesting flawed characters. This third series saw a change of creators and a different result. Loeb seems to be following Millar's characterization, making every hero very flawed. However he goes a bit too far making them [...]
The Ultimates 2
What I remember from the first Ultimates volume was an action-packed wide screen story about the funding of a superhero group working for the US government. Some great characterization, especially Cap America. Mainly fun action. What I got from the second volume was so much more. We didn't get two 6 issues stories, instead we got 4 shorter [...]
Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-32
Here I will review all Ultimate Fantastic Four issues so far, that is #1-32. They almost all collected in TPB so if you are interested I have included the Amazon links. This is a fresh re-imagining of the F4, and so far I like it. The first volume "Fantastic" is the origins of the F4, but this time there is no space shuttle and Doom's name is [...]