Comics! and boy this week provided a whole slew of new reading material for me, none of which was the new Ultimate Comics line from Marvel.Those who know me might know that I have definitely read my share of Image and old Marvel stories but I am pretty dedicated to DC.I have read quite a bit of Spiderman up to the clone saga but everything after the “Ultimate” reboot in 2000 has me completely lost.
Well apparently the last couple of years there has been this whole Ultimatum story covering the marvel universe in which Magneto steals Thor’s hammer and causes a series of disasters that hurts a ton of heroes and kills Captain America, Daredevil, Valkyrie, , Dazzler, Beast and Nightcrawler. Xavier then confronts Magneto and Magneto states that the human race has been in constant decline and must be stopped. After Xavier compares Magneto to Hitler, Magneto kills Xavier. Thor sacrifices himself to save Valkyrie and Captain America from Hela (Thor’s now dead, they are not). Hank Pym bites of the Blob’s head for eating the Wasp. Doctor Strange dies. Angel is killed by Sabretooth, who bites off one of his wings. Magneto manages to kill Wolverine by ripping the Adamantium from his bones. Cyclops decapitates Magneto with his eyebeams. The Thing kills Dr. Doom, crushing his head in his hand. Cyclops is shot in the head by Quicksilver.
Basically everyone cool dies. The story got super bad reviews and now Marvel is trying to do another reboot of the entire Marvel universe with the previously mentioned Ultimate Comics. Today they released both Spiderman #1 and Avengers #1. I didn’t get a good look at Avengers but Spiderman looked laaaaame.
It looks like some Fox network Saturday morning cartoon crap. Hopefully for Spidey fans this is just this artist’s interpretation of the reboot and not a new direction the Marvel team is looking for.
I’m gonna go read some Blackest Night now, I’ll report back later…
