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A review by chantaal
All-New Ultimates, Volume 1: Power for Power by Amilcar Pinna, Michel Fiffe
2.0
I had high hopes. High hopes! The teenagers in the Ultimate universe are the only thing good going for it right now and I continue to love Miles Morales, so naturally the Ultimate answer to the Young Avengers should be promising right?
Yeah, okay.
This started off nicely enough with getting the team together, but then you throw in some nonsensical plot about a gang and...some cops, and...I honestly don't remember what the actual plot was. Gang warfare! Ultimates fighting them! Cops getting in the way! Lots of explosions in issue six because apparently going Michael Bay is the only way to create excitement! (It didn't.)
Pinna's art was not the best for this series, especially after getting used to David Marquez's fantastic work on Ultimate Spider-Man (where these teens were born) and Miles Morales: USM. It's not hard to tell characters apart when they're in costume, but Pinna has this complete inability to draw any of the girls in different ways. If there were no color in this book, you wouldn't be able to tell Jess apart from Lana or Kitty or Tandy.
And then there's this:
(Shudder.)
Unfortunately I'll be dropping this book, unless there's a change in creative teams. At least I still have Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man.
Yeah, okay.
This started off nicely enough with getting the team together, but then you throw in some nonsensical plot about a gang and...some cops, and...I honestly don't remember what the actual plot was. Gang warfare! Ultimates fighting them! Cops getting in the way! Lots of explosions in issue six because apparently going Michael Bay is the only way to create excitement! (It didn't.)
Pinna's art was not the best for this series, especially after getting used to David Marquez's fantastic work on Ultimate Spider-Man (where these teens were born) and Miles Morales: USM. It's not hard to tell characters apart when they're in costume, but Pinna has this complete inability to draw any of the girls in different ways. If there were no color in this book, you wouldn't be able to tell Jess apart from Lana or Kitty or Tandy.
And then there's this:
(Shudder.)
Unfortunately I'll be dropping this book, unless there's a change in creative teams. At least I still have Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man.