Ultimate X-Men: Return of the King

Sadly, I’ve already written this once, and some strange combination of unfamiliarity with the machine I’m writing from and a copy/paste failure conspired to eat it, right after I’d finished everything but the html. This is, as you might imagine, lame. If I had not liked the current Ultimate X-Men as much as I did, the review would probably have been hurt by this turn of events?

Luckily, though, I did like Return of the King. For one thing, I think Mark Millar is finally getting better at writing about things that are interesting, but I know for a fact that he was helped by a return to the roots. That’s right, as the title indicates, Magneto is back with a vengeance. And since the X-Men are on the run from a government who (justifiably?) blames them for his return, there’s not much of anyone who can put a stop to his latest plan to rid himself of the pesky homo sapiens once and for all. I’m saying: way cool.

One thought on “Ultimate X-Men: Return of the King

  1. Mike Kozlowski

    FWIW, the next volume is the worst of the lot (or maybe not the next for you — I read the first batch in hardcover, so it’s whatever comprised volume 4 in hardcover), and I genuinely hated it after mostly liking the early stuff. But then they hand it off to Bendis and Kirkman who take things in vastly better directions.

    I’m warning you now so you don’t give up on it during the sucking…

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