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Graphic Novel In Marvel's Ultimate Series. Stripping Some Of Their Most Iconic Characters Down To Their Roots And Updating Them For Modern Life. Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Giant-Man And The Wasp Form This Small But Lethal Army Serving The US Government - After The Hulk Has Rampaged Through New York City, It's Ultimate Vs Ultimate As The Infighting Begins. With The City In Ruins, Can They Pull Together To Face Their Greatest Threat Yet?
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Forget everything you think you know about your favourite Marvel icons. The Ultimates drops them in a new universe with a clean slate (The Ultimate Universe), also populated by the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Spider-Man, for a refreshingly continuity free and bang up to date experience. The Ultimates are a UN funded superteam, formed in order to combat the ever increasing threat of superhuman rampages.
A big part of what makes The Ultimates stand out is the stunningly high standard of scripting, which slowly builds tension and drama through the interaction between the characters, rather than featuring fight scene after fight scene. This means that when everything does kick off, it is all the more dramatic and involving - you really do care about what happens to these characters, even if they aren't the most likable bunch of people. Which is another point: they feel like well rounded, real people. They have flaws just like you and me.
The script also provides lots of fun references to pop culture, another facet that keeps the story as close as possible to the real world.
The artwork also impresses, with Bryan Hitch delivering ultra realistic and believable characters and settings. The eventual disaster in New York is made all the more exciting due to the recognisable settings that it takes place in.
I cannot recommend The Ultimates highly enough, but be warned - this collection finishes on a startling, shocking note which will be picked up in the monthly series...only available through specialist retailers in the UK.
What are you waiting for? Grab a copy of The Ultimates, sit back and enjoy what is, in my humble opinion, the most believable and involving super hero story in recent memory.
A big part of what makes The Ultimates stand out is the stunningly high standard of scripting, which slowly builds tension and drama through the interaction between the characters, rather than featuring fight scene after fight scene. This means that when everything does kick off, it is all the more dramatic and involving - you really do care about what happens to these characters, even if they aren't the most likable bunch of people. Which is another point: they feel like well rounded, real people. They have flaws just like you and me.
The script also provides lots of fun references to pop culture, another facet that keeps the story as close as possible to the real world.
The artwork also impresses, with Bryan Hitch delivering ultra realistic and believable characters and settings. The eventual disaster in New York is made all the more exciting due to the recognisable settings that it takes place in.
I cannot recommend The Ultimates highly enough, but be warned - this collection finishes on a startling, shocking note which will be picked up in the monthly series...only available through specialist retailers in the UK.
What are you waiting for? Grab a copy of The Ultimates, sit back and enjoy what is, in my humble opinion, the most believable and involving super hero story in recent memory.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Ultimate Universe was one of the bravest and best decisions Marvel has taken in many a year - resetting the clock to zero on all their major characters and telling their tales from a distinctly 21st century perspective. These lines are definitely aimed at attracting new readers who have been drawn (pun intended) to the wonderful medium of the comic book by the recent spate of high-quality, big-budget movies.
While all the series are superlative, The Ultimates stands head and shoulders about the rest. Bryan Hitch's near photo-realistic, cinematic art and Mark Millar's slick, well-observed, characterful writing gave me a feeling that I haven't had since I first read The Watchmen: that 'this could be real' fantasy ...
The Ultimates plays to this well, referencing pop culture (in true Buffy-style) and using real characters (e.g. George W Bush and Freddie Prinze Jnr) alongside its own creations, so fiction very easily blurs with fact, giving us a far more believable world.
The legendary Marvel characters have always tended to be more rounded and 'human' than many comic book creations, but in The Ultimates Millar really seems to have given us the 'ultimate', mature, adult approach to 'what if all this really happened in our world'.
Can't recommend this book highly enough (or the other Ultimate series titles). If only all superhero comics were this good.
While all the series are superlative, The Ultimates stands head and shoulders about the rest. Bryan Hitch's near photo-realistic, cinematic art and Mark Millar's slick, well-observed, characterful writing gave me a feeling that I haven't had since I first read The Watchmen: that 'this could be real' fantasy ...
The Ultimates plays to this well, referencing pop culture (in true Buffy-style) and using real characters (e.g. George W Bush and Freddie Prinze Jnr) alongside its own creations, so fiction very easily blurs with fact, giving us a far more believable world.
The legendary Marvel characters have always tended to be more rounded and 'human' than many comic book creations, but in The Ultimates Millar really seems to have given us the 'ultimate', mature, adult approach to 'what if all this really happened in our world'.
Can't recommend this book highly enough (or the other Ultimate series titles). If only all superhero comics were this good.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Following the success of both the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Spider-Man lines, Marvel announced that their next project would be a re-working of The Avengers. This hit the shelves under the title The Ultimates, and quickly became their best-selling title.
Overall, the story itself kind of lacks focus. There is no obvious enemy, and the narrative seems content to let itself be propelled by the characters themselves, as opposed to the enemies they face. So, for the first chapter, all we see is Captain America taking out a Nazi nuclear missile before being lost, and Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) on Everest. Don't be fooled - the artwork in the WWII attack and the full-page shot of Everest are simply glorious.
As the book continues, we see how different the Ultimate characters are to the regular Marvel ones. Nick Fury is a morally ambiguous leader of SHIELD, a covert black-ops organisation. Bruce Banner is a wimpy, snivelly little scientist, dominated by his now-ex-girfriend, PR lady Betty Ross. Tony Stark is an extravagent ego-maniac, and Thor is a hippy with a big hammer.
The best part of the book comes when Banner deliberately turns himself into the Hulk to provide the Ultimates with a foe to battle. Fuelled by alcohol and hormones (his ex is having dinner with Freddie Prinz Junior, meaning that Hulk's first words are 'HULK WANTS FREDDIE PRINZE JR!'), Ultimate Hulk rampages throughout New York whilst he is hit by just about everything - even getting a tank dropped on his head!
The artwork throughout is detailed and fantastic, the writing is layered and captures the characters perfectly. No comic book fan should be without this collection.
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The Not So Ultimates
The Ultimate universe has always given the average Marvel fan something new, particularly a new perspective. Read more
Published 1 month ago by John
Watchmen+Avengers=The Ultimates.
This is most likely Millars best work for Marvel (nothing beats Kick Ass).This is unlike any other Avengers story out there . Read more
Published 2 months ago by Doctor polical nerd
ULTIMATES!!! ASSEMBLE!!!
WARNING!!! This Review may Contain Spoilers!!!
The Avengers are the Earth mightiest heroes (at least in the Marvel universe), consiting of the Marvel super-heroes who,... Read more
The Avengers are the Earth mightiest heroes (at least in the Marvel universe), consiting of the Marvel super-heroes who,... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dehumanizer
Home run for Millar
I find mark millar quite hit and miss, I loved Red Son and yet really find the kickass comic(s) inferior to the film. This is in my favourite work of his. Read more
Published 6 months ago by C. Mckelvie
One of the best Marvel graphic novels ever.
From the cinematic layouts, to the gritty and fresh characterisation, to the incredible art work, to the brilliant up-to-date re-imagining, this graphic novel has to be one of the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Too old to be collecting Action Figures
Ultimately ok
The story opens in 1945 in a bombing raid by the Allies over a Nazi compound and inside one of the planes is the one and only Captain America. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sam Quixote
From an old grey-head..Wow!...Exceptional re-working of The Avengers...
I was about 13 when the very first Avengers issue reached the UK, now I am returning to comics it's been intriguing to read this new take. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Roger from Wrexham
Loved the storyline. Interesting adaption of classic avengers
I'm reliving some of the comics I used to enjoy as a kid through the Ultimate Series. Ultimates 1 had me hooked all the way from storyline through to superb artwork where many... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by P. Stoddart
The Ultimates
A very good book with brilliant drawings. The plot was well thought out
10/10
10/10
Published on 9 Mar 2009 by Mr. Michael Cashman
Classic 616 Marvel fan: caveat emptor - it's more crack fic than fic
If you're like me (Generation X) and grew up reading The Mighty Avengers, West Coast Avengers, etcetera, you may find this imagining of the Avengers quite odd. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2008 by jazzy pom
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