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  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; 1st Pocket Star Books Pbk. Ed edition (19 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416510710
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416510710
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Stark Industries has developed a technology to detect the alien Chitauri using on-the-spot DNA screening. The American defence department intends to make the technology widely available, but someone in the government puts a stop to it. Captain America sees the government's suppression of the Stark technology as evidence that the people making such decisions are themselves compromised. Using as his model Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive orders during World War II, he begins to gather power to himself and those Ultimates and government officials sympathetic to his authoritarian approach so that power can be concentrated in the hands of those capable of taking quick and decisive action. Hank Pym, who desperately wants back on the Ultimates team, has been feverishly working with his ants in the hopes of finding something that will help defeat the Chitauri. When his ants attack one of his research assistants, who turns out to be a Chitauri, Captain America resolves his differences with Pym and the new team begins work on what they call Operation High Hopes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read: I'd advise you to be acquainted with this universe before reading this story though... , 21 Nov 2008
By jazzy pom "jazzypom" (united kingdom) - See all my reviews
  
Right, background before I get into the review.

The Ultimates is a reboot of the Marvel comic superheroes The Mighty Avengers; but upgraded to modern times. For instance, Nick Fury in this imagining looks like Samuel L Jackson, Jan Pym is Asian and a mutant. Tony Stark is an alcoholic playboy with a sharp mind, Thor is man who might be a god who is anti co operate hegemony, Hawkeye is an embittered man with a murky history of black ops for SHIELD and Steve Rogers is a super soldier who has thawed out from the 1940s into modern times.

This book assumes that you've some prior knowledge of these characters. If you're coming from Marvel 616 (classic) verse and seeing these characters the first time, you might not like the characters much. For instance, Tony Stark is less a martyr in this universe and more a libertine (e.g. he has to drink alcohol in this universe for pain management, so he's delightfully sozzled), Captain America is well... very much bordering on jingoistic.

So, plot: there are alien shape shifters called the Chitauri, and they were defeated by the Ultimates in a previous battle (check the Ultimate Avengers animated movie on DVD). Tony Stark has developed a means of quickly detecting Chitauri DNA, but the federal government refuses to adapt the technology. Captain America is frustrated by the government's decision and takes matters into his own hands, by leaking the technology. As a result, chaos ensues. However, salvation might be at hand: Hank Pym wants to get back on the Ultimates team, and he's been experimenting with ants as a fool proof option of detecting the Chitauri. His experiments are promising... but are they promising enough for them to let the disruptive Hank Pym back on the team?

The story is tightly told, and for those of you well acquainted with the Ultimates comics/trades (or even watched the cartoon, you'll be able to follow the gist of the story, and even appreciate the chance of over 300 pages devoted to the team (better than a 32 page comic one shot). For those of you who are classic Avengers enthusiasts, I recommend this story on the proviso that you enjoy it as its own entity, and don't compare it to classic 616 verse.

Just. Don't.

Even though the story is very much superheroes versus the bad guys, in a way, The Ultimates are warring among themselves too. Tony Stark dislikes Steve Rogers because of his inflexible and high handed attitudes, Steve Rogers thinks that Tony Stark is everything that is wrong with America in terms of big money interests taking over the interests of the people. Nick Fury needs Tony Stark, but distrusts him because of his dissolute lifestyle; Tony Stark plays at super hero but is resistant to commit fully to The Ultimates because he knows Fury is going to throw them under a bus.

Hawkeye (Clint Barton) is cynical as all get out, and does this because there's nothing else. Hank Pym wants back on the team but can't do it because he's estranged from his wife, and Jan is exasperated that Hank has been kicked off the team (due to an incident that caused their estrangement, now soon to be divorced) because she too is a scientist and can see the value of his work. Thor is on the outskirts of this, choosing not to dwell in the affairs of 'mortals' and chooses to pitch in when he thinks he's needed.

On one hand, this sort of to and fro among the heroes make for interesting reading, and even makes the characters a bit sympathetic to the reader. On the other hand, this sort of team dynamic makes them more reactive to the actions of the Chitauri instead of proactive, and they wait until really late to get themselves together, and at the end of the book, even when the bad guys are defeated (c'mon, you expect anything else?), you get the feeling that the team members have a long way to go before approaching camaraderie - but you find yourself wishing them luck in doing so.

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