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civreader's review
2.0
Nowhere near as good as UC: X-Men or, especially, UC: Spider-Man. Disappointingly thin.
josephodoran's review
5.0
I haven't been this excited by a comic since I read the original Ultimates. Fantastic artwork, amazing story, some much-required retconning of rubbish introduced by other writers (ahem, Loeb). Buy it. Love it.
joshbrown's review
4.0
I still don't really love any Ultimate heroes that aren't called Spider-Man, but the Maker is so interesting that I ended up enjoying this a lot.
booknooknoggin's review
3.0
I like the direction they are going with this revamp, but this was an okay read.
coffeeandink's review
3.0
Read in single issues.
Hickman carries forward Millar's virtues of not being afraid to make huge changes to the status quo, while he is somewhat better at making fewer of the characters complete assholes. Ultimates Nick Fury is a scary scary man, but I am okay with that. I wish there was less blowing things up and more character interaction, but I am not sure my expectations are particularly in line with where the Ultimates line wanted to go, so I can deal. Hickman's dialogue is sometimes weirdly clunky, but the quickly developing plots and the building undercurrents of bigger changes are fascinating. And I feel like Hickman is actually critiquing some of the issues Millar just got off on -- Cap is having grave reservations about his former role as a symbol and its inspirational effects (dare one hope May Parker going off on him has chastened him for real?), Tony Stark is dealing with a group of people even more ruthless than he is and facing up to the collateral damage he has caused and dismissed, Thor is forced to confront difficulties godhead has made invisible to him.
There are even fewer women in major roles than in Millar's run, but honestly I find the side-lining a lot easier to take than Millar's misogynistic stereotyping.
The racist Yellow Peril stereotyping of China is just terrible, though.
Quite like the artwork, though the switch between the initial artist and the second one who likes woodcut-like cross-hatching is startling.
Hickman carries forward Millar's virtues of not being afraid to make huge changes to the status quo, while he is somewhat better at making fewer of the characters complete assholes. Ultimates Nick Fury is a scary scary man, but I am okay with that. I wish there was less blowing things up and more character interaction, but I am not sure my expectations are particularly in line with where the Ultimates line wanted to go, so I can deal. Hickman's dialogue is sometimes weirdly clunky, but the quickly developing plots and the building undercurrents of bigger changes are fascinating. And I feel like Hickman is actually critiquing some of the issues Millar just got off on -- Cap is having grave reservations about his former role as a symbol and its inspirational effects (dare one hope May Parker going off on him has chastened him for real?), Tony Stark is dealing with a group of people even more ruthless than he is and facing up to the collateral damage he has caused and dismissed, Thor is forced to confront difficulties godhead has made invisible to him.
There are even fewer women in major roles than in Millar's run, but honestly I find the side-lining a lot easier to take than Millar's misogynistic stereotyping.
The racist Yellow Peril stereotyping of China is just terrible, though.
Quite like the artwork, though the switch between the initial artist and the second one who likes woodcut-like cross-hatching is startling.
katytron's review
4.0
Some time ago I read an online article recommending people new to the Marvel universe start with Miller's Ultimates, which I did. This was a huge mistake and made me very unhappy. I was extremely reluctant to indulge the Ultimate universe any further but enough people I trust vouched for Hickman's offering so I decided to give it a try. So far I like it! Apparently the way to make me like Reed is to make him a villain! I've known this ever since an alternate universe Mr Fantastic showed up in PAD's X-Factor, somewhere around the renumbering.
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