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Raien · Regular Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 106

I'm back! And I'm up to date on my comics to boot. But for now, the Ultimate comics.

EDIT: I re-read these comics with a fresher head and have rewritten my comments accordingly.

Ultimate Comics Spider-man #1 was a little underwhelming, for the reason that it introduced a lot of different elements without developing any of them. The Hood is in town, Peter is making out with Gwen, Johnny Storm collapses at Peter's house. It's hard to make any judgments about where Bendis is going with this series as a result, or where the promised "fresh change" is supposed to come into it. As for LaFuente's art, I can't say I like it. The character designs just look weird and... I don't like it.

Ultimate Comics Avengers #1 was a fantastic action-movie introduction to the new series. Pacheco did an excellent job drawing this comic and the writing was very complimentary to the artwork. I look forward to seeing what happens next.

Reaper · Uber Geek! Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3627

I'm hoping this 'fresh change' doesn't cause the writing on SM to degrade. It has been one of the more consistent titles for a long while, I like the first issue and am happy for it to start up multiple threads.
However the artist needs to walk out of the door and go back to Japan..... I don't like this incursion of anime style art that is creeping in everywhere, it tires me. Anime stylings should stay in Japan, american cartoons and comics should try and have their own identity and stop jumping on the bandwagon.
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Longshot · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

Just read the last issue of Exiles, which was cancelled at issue 6. Don't know if anyone else was reading this, and I'm not overly surprised, but it was a shame, when all the storylines had to be hashed into a quick ending. Then again I guess its always good when my reading list shortens. Anyone got any ideas why Marvel are cutting down on some issues, and then releasing random new other ones in other areas.
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Batmanuel · Mod Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 2484 Location: Canterbury

Why does The Ulitmate Spider-Man have such a BIG round head???
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Reaper · Uber Geek! Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3627

because he has such a huge brain it has taken all the nutrients from the rest of his body
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Batmanuel · Mod Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 2484 Location: Canterbury

sounds like a very reasonable explanation Smile

Oh and for those of you who have decided to jump off of the Fantastic Four because Miller has left, i fear that you may be missing out on what could become a seminal run by Johnathan Hikman.

Hikman is no stranger to those familiar with the likes of The Nightly News
10 or so pages we posted by myself many moons ago.

Don't say that you have not been warned.
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Web of Fear · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject:

I jumped off Fantastic Four because Millar joined ....
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Batmanuel · Mod Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 2484 Location: Canterbury

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Reaper · Uber Geek! Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3627

Why don't you like Miller?
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Raien · Regular Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 106

Back again!

I also didn't like Millar's FF because the story was all over the place and nothing really hinged together comfortably.

Anyway, NEW COMICS!

Spider-woman #1 came out today and Bendis spent a whopping six pages getting to the point that Jessica Drew's life is worse than Wolverine (which is still debatable). The obvious padding wasn't helped by the fact that the characters spoke as if they didn't really know what they were saying. Why do Marvel characters suddenly regress to the mental state of a fifteen year old whenever Bendis writes them? At least Alex Maleev's artwork was good. You can always count on Maleev to boost the average review score of a Bendis book.

Superman: Secret Origin #1 also came out today, and it was surprisingly good. I was expecting a padded version of the earlier events depicted in Superman For All Seasons, and while it did to that to some extent, there were two things made it stand out in other ways:

1) The first issue actually covered the Superman For All Seaons backstory in its entirety, so the remaining five issues promise an original story that diverges significantly from Jeph Loeb's book.

2) Geoff Johns writes Clark Kent as a modern, opinionated 21st Century Kid, as opposed to the shy and retiring (i.e. boring) character we've all come to know and love. All I can say is that I wish this mini-series was the precursor to a new Ultimate Superman series because the Clark Kent character is in sore need of updating, despite how well some writers like Grant Morrison have written him recently.

So yeah, this one looks good and I recommend it to anyone who cares.