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Posted: Sun 20:32, 01 Sep 2013 Post subject: ULTIMATES 3 |
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ULTIMATES 3,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The first issue of Ultimates 3 arrives after a delay far shorter than the one preceding the arrival of Ultimates 2 #13. While I appreciate the relative timeliness of its release,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it feels less like a natural continuation of the last miniseries than a tacked on follow-up. Rather than expand upon the larger story already in progress, it opens with a number of changes to the team lineup with explanations offered via dialogue. The Black Panther and the Valkyrie have joined the team. Captain America and Janet Pym relationship seems to have dissolved. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch ambiguous relationship has been revealed as not questionably incestuous but completely incestuous. To top it all off, a sex tape between Iron Man and the Black Widow from before she betrayed the team and died, of course has found its way to the Internet. To top it off, Venom has it in for the team over an unnamed woman. The identity of Venom target provides the series main hook, along with the question of who filmed the sex tape.
This feels like X-Men United in that it has many of the same characters and circumstances that defined its predecessors, but the relationships between them have changed into either something else entirely or halfhearted imitations thereof. It only distinguishes itself by presenting the team with some of the same ridiculous challenges faced by celebrities most notably,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the airing of personal issues by the media for public consumption. But,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the series immediately dives for the bottom of the barrel with a sex tape scandal a la Paris Hilton or Pamela Anderson. You could call it commentary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or an excuse to show the very luscious Black Widow in a few compromising positions I not sure why else the team would watch the tape on a big screen television together, even as they fret about its repercussions.
Joe Madureira and Christian Lichtner combined art and colors, respectively,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], look like either someone tattoo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an airbrushed t-shirt, a graffiti mural,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or some meeting between the three. I seriously have to wonder who the editorial genius was who thought it a good idea to replace Millar/Hitch with any combination including Joe Mad.
The tone and voice of U1 2 has been completely tossed out the window for this over-the-top cliche in every way approach. It's awful from every perspective; I didn't know Loeb could write that badly, Joe Mad is COMPLETELY the wrong choice to follow Hitch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the colors are an exercise in excess.
I didn't expect someone to fill every inch of the shoes left by Millar and Hitch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. But I did expect some kind of continuity in tone and voice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Best example of a smooth handoff that maintains tone and voice in my mind would be Daredevil: Bendis/Maleev to Brubaker/Lark was as smooth and effortless a transition that kept me "in the zone" as one could pull off.
This Ultimates 3 is garbage. Pure garbage. Take for example Mr. He did not copy Ellis work, nor did he change the characters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or story. He took the characters on his journey. It totally possible to take over a book without making the changes Loeb has made. The changes being the characters and their actions, attitudes, ect.
My problem with this arc is the drastic change in the art. And it not the manga style, it the lack of storytelling. You simply can go from the artwork we were all lucky enough to see in Ultimates 1 to 20 pages of splash pages. Sure it kinda cool looking , but it not right for this book. It good for covers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trading cards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but not this book. His art is just in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
I'd say I don't fully agree with you on the art thing. I guess I'm saying that, if you took someone that had the same type of art as Bryan Hitch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would become the same type of book it was before and from the way they are treating the Ultimates right now, it's obvious they want to bring something new into the book.
Joe Medeueria is good, his art is nice to watch (forget the realism of a human body with him that's true) but, I guss I'm more glad to just see different then what we have and I'm already not expecting nothing as good as MM and BH but just something completelly different.
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