Ultimate Novel Spoilers through Ultimate Requiem

[Crothian]

I had pretty much stopped reading comics in the early 90's. Over the past few months when I found out the local library has a descent Graphic Novel collection and after going to a pretty good symposium on comics at my college I started reading them again. I found Ultimate Spiderman and read through them all and really enjoyed them.

Over the past few months I have quickly read through basically all the Ultimate universe Graphic Novels up to Ultimatum Requiem. I enjoyed them for the most part but not paying attention to comics I'm not sure what others though so that's the purpose of this.

I was at times a little shocked by the violence in the Ultimates. The slaughter of Hawkeye's family was unexpected. Wasp being a punching bag for Ant man was also darker then I wanted. On the flip side the Spiderman comics were teen relationship and high school politics. It was light hearted and at times superficial but fun.

X-men was mostly good but the anti drug bit with the drug developed from Wolverine was too much. At least they ended it there. The Apocalypse story line was so well foreshadowed that the anti climatic ending was a huge let down.

Fantastic Four had the most story lines that I just didn't care about. The Inhumans were not interesting, Namor was just a super powered freak with no depth (pun included), and then the way they did Thanos and Silver Surfer was just not that interesting.

 

[Welverin]

Fantastic Four had the most story lines that I just didn't care about. The Inhumans were not interesting, Namor was just a super powered freak with no depth (pun included), and then the way they did Thanos and Silver Surfer was just not that interesting.

They had Thanos?

I haven't missed a single issue of Ultimate Spider-man, I stopped getting a lot of the others when they starting getting writers I didn't recognize. Unfortunately I did this with Brian K. Vaughn's run on UXM, sometime I shall have to pick up the issues of his I'm missing.

Since you like Ultimate Spidey, I'd suggest giving Takio by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming a try. It was released about a month and has some similarities with USM.

 

[Crothian]

They had Thanos?

Yes, in name. He was after the cube thingy and was evil and ruled a alien civilization that conquered things. With the story lines being smaller less time given to villains ones like him really seemed a lot alike. It was like they just wanted to include character names that people knew but really didn't do them justice.

Thanks for the suggestions I'm going to look into those.

 

[Welverin]

Yes, in name. He was after the cube thingy and was evil and ruled a alien civilization that conquered things. With the story lines being smaller less time given to villains ones like him really seemed a lot alike. It was like they just wanted to include character names that people knew but really didn't do them justice.

There have been a few time where they've gone overboard in trying o make preexisting characters different.

Thanks for the suggestions I'm going to look into those.

I'd suggest anything by Bendis, though a lot of it's quite a bit different from USM.