Looking at the CBR boards I've seen a preview of #5 of ultimate Iron Man II.
I thought this finished, was the series really so dull that I forgot it was still running.
Doesn't really bode well for it eh? I suppose its kind of obsolete now I can get my War Machine fix from Initiative, oh and Iron Man, and his own solo title coming soon.
I don't know what went wrong with Ultimate Iron Man. Well actually I do. The Idea was flawed to begin with. Seriously, and this goes for the Iron Man animated series too. I'll map it out.
I don't want to see a kid Tony Stark. I don't want to see him running around with Kid Jim Rhodes and having adventures against Kid Obidiah Stane. It interests me.... Not a jot.
Its a shame because the actual grown up incarnation of Ultimate Iron Man was great, his armour was more of a weapons platform with a 50 strong support team but the partying sarky drunkard was fun to read.
Shame actually because with this and the heap of offensive dung Ultimates has become, the Ultimate line is no longer something you can recommend off the bat to people.
Still, for my Iron Man fix all is not lost. The latest story in the Iron Man: Director of SHIELD title has ended, and was pretty good. Much more on form than the previous stories, although actually getting issues out has helped. And of course the next story is the War Machine arc. How to win over Pie Man in one easy move. In fact both main Iron man titles are good, and I'm hoping that with his current foe in Invincible being Ezekiel Stane we may get an appearance by The Order. Finally we actually got a second issue of Viva Las Vegas, the Faverau penned movie continuity story. Its slow because of the CG art but had some brilliant shameless flirting with Elsa bloodstone.
SO, and it may be a first, if you want to read Iron Man, don't read ultimate.
I thought this finished, was the series really so dull that I forgot it was still running.
Doesn't really bode well for it eh? I suppose its kind of obsolete now I can get my War Machine fix from Initiative, oh and Iron Man, and his own solo title coming soon.
I don't know what went wrong with Ultimate Iron Man. Well actually I do. The Idea was flawed to begin with. Seriously, and this goes for the Iron Man animated series too. I'll map it out.
I don't want to see a kid Tony Stark. I don't want to see him running around with Kid Jim Rhodes and having adventures against Kid Obidiah Stane. It interests me.... Not a jot.
Its a shame because the actual grown up incarnation of Ultimate Iron Man was great, his armour was more of a weapons platform with a 50 strong support team but the partying sarky drunkard was fun to read.
Shame actually because with this and the heap of offensive dung Ultimates has become, the Ultimate line is no longer something you can recommend off the bat to people.
Still, for my Iron Man fix all is not lost. The latest story in the Iron Man: Director of SHIELD title has ended, and was pretty good. Much more on form than the previous stories, although actually getting issues out has helped. And of course the next story is the War Machine arc. How to win over Pie Man in one easy move. In fact both main Iron man titles are good, and I'm hoping that with his current foe in Invincible being Ezekiel Stane we may get an appearance by The Order. Finally we actually got a second issue of Viva Las Vegas, the Faverau penned movie continuity story. Its slow because of the CG art but had some brilliant shameless flirting with Elsa bloodstone.
SO, and it may be a first, if you want to read Iron Man, don't read ultimate.
I'd heard dodgy things about the first couple of issues of Ultimates 3, but not much else beyond that. Its a pity that such a good series has gone so wrong.
ReplyDeleteKind've agree about Ultimate Iron Man as well. When I'd heard he was getting a solo mini, I was pretty excited, but making Tony a mutant didn't really work, and a proper Ultimate Iron Man solo series could've built on the fun character from the main series.
Still, I'm enjoying Ultimate Origins, and the whole Ultimate Universe is about to get Crisised DC-style anyway, so it'll be interesting to see what they do with it.
Oh yes, Ultimatum, wonder if they'll reference the fact that Zarda of the Supreme Power universe is still kicking about, because at least the Squarden Supreme series thats running with Ultimate Nick fury finding similar yet different versions of Marvel heroes in the Ultimate Verse is at least interesting.
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