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A review by the_graylien
Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman
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.