Matt's Blog
Ultimately Cold.
I’ve tried reading Ultimate Spider-Man, and it didn’t stick. Then I tried reading the Ultimates, and it stuck. Oh yes, it did.
Now I’m starting Ultimate Fantastic Four, and I find the first trade is reducing me to extreme boredom. So I skip to the second trade, and that’s better. Warren Ellis, Stuart Immomen (did I spell that right?), light fast superheroics with a good sense of humor.
I thought all the Ultimate titles were supposed to be, “Oh, hey, lookit me, I’m all popular and great, and I started everything fresh so you cool kids wouldn’t have to know all the continuity like those nerds over there, and I’m going to take you to prom after we give that X-Men fanatic over there a swirlie.”
Well, they’re not all that. Not all that. At all. That.
I will agree that the Fantastic Four are the weakest of the Ultimate titles. But for a really good UFF trade, I suggest skipping to trades #5 and #6 for MARVEL ZOMBIES!!!! Crossover (#5) starts the zombie arc, but then it goes into stuff like Namor (who is my least favorite marvel character). Frightful (#6) continues and finishes the zombie arc and also has a really good arc involving the skrulls.
I’m going to ignore what you said about Ultimate Spider-Man…..* glare *
heh. To each his own.