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the_graylien's review against another edition
5.0
Over the years, the superhero comics that have really blown me away have had a sort of element of shock. You know the feeling. When you're reading and there's this sensation of panic. You flip pages compulsively, you get totally lost in the action, and you're thinking, "Oh shit! These are out modern gods! The epitome of being the best we can be!"
And while you're reading, the heroes may be getting beaten and things aren't going quite the way that humanity might hope they would but there's this feeling... When you're in that moment, it really makes for a good story.
That's how this book felt.
A city of radically evolved humans have decided that Earth needs to the taken over. The Ultimates (the Ultimate Marvel Universe version of the Avengers) are the only thing that stand between us and total domination... and they're getting their butts handed to them.
And when you see when the villain of the story is, your eyes are gonna bug out of your head...
Writer Jonathan Hickman had never really swayed me this much with the few things of his I'd read before. This one changed all that.
The art, most of the interior work being done by the talented hands Esad Ribic and Dean White, was stellar, not to mention the beautiful covers of Kaare Andrews.
This may be the best Ultimates story I've read yet. Definitely great.
*- I read this book as digitally downloaded issues of Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #s 1-6.
And while you're reading, the heroes may be getting beaten and things aren't going quite the way that humanity might hope they would but there's this feeling... When you're in that moment, it really makes for a good story.
That's how this book felt.
A city of radically evolved humans have decided that Earth needs to the taken over. The Ultimates (the Ultimate Marvel Universe version of the Avengers) are the only thing that stand between us and total domination... and they're getting their butts handed to them.
And when you see when the villain of the story is, your eyes are gonna bug out of your head...
Writer Jonathan Hickman had never really swayed me this much with the few things of his I'd read before. This one changed all that.
The art, most of the interior work being done by the talented hands Esad Ribic and Dean White, was stellar, not to mention the beautiful covers of Kaare Andrews.
This may be the best Ultimates story I've read yet. Definitely great.
*- I read this book as digitally downloaded issues of Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #s 1-6.
civreader's review against another edition
2.0
Nowhere near as good as UC: X-Men or, especially, UC: Spider-Man. Disappointingly thin.
josephodoran's review against another edition
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 against another edition
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 against another edition
3.0
I like the direction they are going with this revamp, but this was an okay read.
coffeeandink's review against another edition
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 against another edition
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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