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A review by theartolater
Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman
4.0
I got off of the Ultimates train kind of early. With the Ultimate Comics restart, I'm diving back in a bit finally, and I ended up liking Ultimates for a few reasons:
1) Jonathan Hickman gets large-scale stuff, both in his indies and in every Marvel thing I've seen of his. This is no different, because there is a lot of big stuff coming in this arc.
2) Danger is ever-present, in a way it largely hasn't been prior to Ultimatum, and even in general in a universe where death is permanent. There's a final frame in one of the chapters where you see a total look of shock and fear on Nick Fury's face, and it may be the most perfect comic frame I've ever seen.
3) Superheroes are both heroic and limited. The impressive thing about this arc is that you get the feeling that the Ultimates have met their overall match. That doesn't happen often.
It's got me excited for the next volume, for sure. It's got me excited about the Ultimates again.
1) Jonathan Hickman gets large-scale stuff, both in his indies and in every Marvel thing I've seen of his. This is no different, because there is a lot of big stuff coming in this arc.
2) Danger is ever-present, in a way it largely hasn't been prior to Ultimatum, and even in general in a universe where death is permanent. There's a final frame in one of the chapters where you see a total look of shock and fear on Nick Fury's face, and it may be the most perfect comic frame I've ever seen.
3) Superheroes are both heroic and limited. The impressive thing about this arc is that you get the feeling that the Ultimates have met their overall match. That doesn't happen often.
It's got me excited for the next volume, for sure. It's got me excited about the Ultimates again.