{"id":3886,"date":"2013-04-15T01:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2013-04-15T01:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:29:05","slug":"ultimate-comics-ultimates-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Comics Ultimates – Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have previously pointed out that the current Ultimates run has been turning the dial to 11, and I think that\u00a0has\u00a0been true of the Ultimate series[1] in general since pretty much Magneto’s Ultimatum and on forward. Even the most laid-back of the current storylines, surrounding Spider-Man, has had a major character death in the not-too-distant past<\/a>. Meanwhile, this particular episode has reached a conclusion of sorts, although not without multiple devastating nuclear strikes and a more-divergent-than-usual final outcome. And I’ll admit, however much I may have complained that the Ultimate line is working a little too hard to achieve the appearance of a full-throttle, all stories have major consequences! approach to things, it is<\/em> nice to not be familiar with what’s coming next like I used to be during the first decade of that run.<\/p>\n

As far as the current conclusion<\/a>, I’m hopeful that something useful will finally be made of the main villain,\u00a0whose\u00a0identity I have been trying to keep quiet over the last few reviews; as things stand currently, all I have is a question mark about whether I’m expected to believe his beef with humanity (and the Ultimates in particular) is as straight-forward as it seems[2] and a smaller question mark as to what\u00a0precisely\u00a0occurred in his final scene of the book. Also, Tony Stark? Still cool.<\/p>\n

[1] There is a definite downside, Marvel of ten years ago, in having one letter to distinguish between your current world-building \/ imprint and a team of heroes that reside within that world. I’m a little amazed I haven’t complained about this before.
\n[2] Because yes, I will be extremely disappointed if the most powerful Ultimate\u00a0Comics\u00a0villain since Galactus is only a villain because he was feeling butt-hurt and didn’t get over himself. That right there is a massive character shift with no provided explanation. (Ironically, if this were regular Marvel, I would completely believe it. That<\/em> guy has always been a dick.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have previously pointed out that the current Ultimates run has been turning the dial to 11, and I think that\u00a0has\u00a0been true of the Ultimate series[1] in general since pretty much Magneto’s Ultimatum and on forward. Even the most laid-back of the current storylines, surrounding Spider-Man, has had a major character death in the not-too-distant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,22,40],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-superheroes","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}