I can't think of too many charaters who have been 'ultimised' as much as they could have.
There seem to be too many direct ports or even worse, less intresting versions in the ultimate books.
Like the writers either aren't thinking about them hard enough, or aren't being allowed to make any changes too dramatic.

This problem has always been there with the Ultimate U, and has always bugged me (and I quite like most of the Ultimate books), going right back to Ultimate Spiderman - it shocked me that the webs weren't organic.

(Of course, never having brought an issue my opinion shouldn't really count, but I was intending to pick up some of the trades).

Yes, that's right, he's following the continuity of HAMMER!

HAMMER!

From the Six Pack!!!

HAMMER!

I have faith in Slott on She-Hulk to give us a good supporting cast, and I'm willing to be patient, but I remember the Michilinie disaster on Amazing Spider-Man, from which I don't think the book ever fully recovered. by ditching the entire supporting cast, Michilinie made Peter's life a lot more boring. I don't want to see that happen with She-Hulk.

But man, this last arc has sort of crystallized all the worst parts of Kirkman's work on the book. For one thing, he seems unable to "get" some of the stuff that drives the Ultimate universe in the first place -- notably, killing off a character that we all know is going to be back, which I'm sure is supposed to be very suspenseful but is in fact tremendously boring. Ultimizing characters that don't work -- without improving them to make them work, as Vaughan did -- has been another problem. I mean, Ultimate Domino? Ultimate Kane? Really?

And he's also carrying over the worst aspect of Invincible and The Walking Dead, which is having a zillion subplots going on at once, inching forwards ever-so-slowly, robbing the book of any momentum.

"Date Night" was a solid arc, and "Phoenix" was... well, not terrible, but the book is completely stalled. "Cable" was four months of nothing -- we never find out a damn thing about the future, about why exactly Cable wanted to kill Bishop or why Bishop defected, none of the characters even bother to take the time to reflect on how weird this whole time travel thing is, etc. Christ, it's just a messy, four-issue fight.

Loved Marvel Adventures Avengers, though, and I was quite happy with She-Hulk, particularly since that looooooong Thanos/Civil War/John Jameson/Starfox arc is finally over. I don't think it's fair to knock the book for not having a supporting cast just yet -- this issue features one reappearing supporting cast member (Doc Samson), and introduces two newbies (Clay Quatermain and Agent Cheesecake), so there's three support characters right there. And I'm sure Slott will be building it over time. No doubt SHIELD's new director will be appearing just as soon as he/she can.

Wow, Greg, I don't know what you did to piss off Alex. He got so mad at you he renamed the site!

Omar, you'll be happy about P'Gell. She's treated correctly in the issue. To tell the truth, I liked #1 better, but this was still a good one.

Thanks for looking that sales info up, Bill. That statement had been driving me crazy too. With Greg's three buyers, myself, Kevin Church, and Cronin, that made up almost half of the supposed sales on the book. That seemed inconceivable to me. Why did Hickman say that? Weird.

Did anyone actually get a copy of MA:Avengers #9?

~ Gil

You didn't like SPIRIT 1.

Just another day at COMICS SHOULD BE SHITTY.

I'll probably buy Spirit #2 despite not liking issue #1, since it was the cover to #2 that sold me on the series against by original, better judgment. But if P'Gell is played as an outright evildoer rather than an amoral hedonist, I'll be disappointed with Cooke for the second issue running.

And yeah! Where's Spirit #2? Or Marvel Adventures Avengers #9? Don't forsake the MODOK, Greg!

I can't fault you for not getting Wisdom #2. Yet, anyway. Honestly, I bought #1 and haven't read it yet. But! I'm going to get around to it. Yes.