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Ultimate Comics Avengers: Next Generation (2010)

by Mark Millar(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785140107 (ISBN13: 9780785140108)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Marvel

series

Ultimate Comics: Avengers

review 1: The Marvel Ultimate series restarts their most popular titles with a more modern perspective. This book picks up after the events of Ultimatum. Nick Fury has been fired and Captain America has gone rogue. Tony Stark's big brother lends a hand as well as a kinder, gentler Hulk.This is an interesting story that provides a new take on Red Skulls origin.However, it seems mundane compared with the pre-Ultimatum story-line.NotesWar Machine plays rough.Learning CurveModerate: Readers new to the series might be confused.
review 2: This was my first post-Ultimatum read in the ultimate universe, so I wasn't to sure what to expect. Honestly I was expecting utter crap, and this pleasantly surprised me.Now, this wasn't any where's near as good as Ultimates 1 and 2, but I t... morehink very few things ever will but. It was most definitely WAY better than Ultimates 3. The artwork was stellar, and up to the high standards set by past Ultimate universe publications, and the story had a pretty solid flow to it. At first I felt like I wasn't getting to know much of anything about all of the new characters that were pretty suddenly introduced, but I felt by the end of the book I had learned a reasonable amount about all of them given how many were introduced and the length of the book.There were a few things that seemed to internally contradict them selves and detract from the story. Unlike others I was okay with the Red Skull being a total sociopath that acted in seeming nonsensical and inhuman ways for no good reason, that seems to be the norm for a sociopath. But the speech he gave at the end about just wanting the cube to set the world right (from the view of his personal narrative) and have grown up with his mom and dad, it came off as him being too sincere and thus ruined being able to explain away his action as simply being that of a sociopath.The second thing was the until now unmentioned older (and seemingly just as successful) Stark brother. It felt a little to obviously made up for this story.I was blown away by the last few pages. I liked seeing Red wasp get her revenge/closure while Fury watched, which seemed very his style. And the next page, where Stark confronts Fury about this all being a plot of his to regain his old position was insanely well played. That next panel where it seems Fury is going to deny it, which I at least thought was the truth, until you read the last panel where WAM he comes right out and admits yes, he planned it all. What an unbelievable, yet consistent, prick.Finally, I was left REALLY wanting to know what was up with the Spider-Man in the the tube. I assume he's a stray/left over Parker Clone. Is he one we've met? Is he one we never saw? I was definitely left wanting to see much more of him. less

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