You don’t think “the Blob eats the Wasp” is more offensive then Lois finding a pair of panties?

I haven't read neither Austen's Action, nor Loeb's Ultimates, so I am speaking in general terms. I'd say Lois finding Lana's panties is intrinsically less offensive the Blob eating the Wasp. I can imagine a modern take on the classic Silver Age love triangle of Lois-Clark-Lana that would actually be worth reading. Get a writer with a sense of humor and that scene might actually be worth reading. My sense is that Chuck Austen isn't that guy.

Conversely, the Wasp being eaten is just ... horrific. It is a sick joke, which is a shameful way to send out a likable character.

See, I absolutely loathed Jim Lee`s work during his young hotshot X-Men heyday. Hush, while a story that I`m not in any way defending as a story, was the first time I ever found Lee`s work appealing visually (ASSBAR is also a case of Jim Lee I actually think looks good, whatever you might say about the story).
Rulk I can tolerate partially because the art, including the recent work by McGuinness, has a nice retro zip to it, whereas I found the art in Ultimates 3 to be outright fucking hideous, totally failing to make up for the crappy writing.

I thought that was now called "All-Star Wonder Woman"...

Is that why she stopped being Asian in Ultimates 3?

Deadpool - Medium Rare, Warm Pink Center

I'd like to see the Color imprint be a runaway success, so that down the line they're scraping the bottom of the barrel:

Aquarian: Puce

This would be perfect for an Ultimate Captain America story, where the other Ultimates hold an intervention after a big crossover team up where Steve refuses to work with the X-Men until Colossus gets a baptism and stops sinning against the Lord, and won't stop pestering the Thing for accounting advice.

* Though if we are to run with the idea that Ultimate Cap retains the bigoted notions of his period, then why did he enter into a relationship with the Wasp? *

Luke Cage: Yellow

Deadpool: Burned Fleshtone, Slightly Hamburger Color

Doctor Doom: Green

Lockjaw: Nomnomnomnom

Daredevil: Blind

I would totally buy a comic titled Quicksilver: Messenger Service.

Cyclops: Ruby

Iceman: Translucent

If it's "Lois Lane, Mrs. Superman" you're talking about, then yes. I find Loeb's stuff far more enjoyable than anything Chuck Austin has ever written. Hush and Hulk are fun in the same way a Michael Bay movie is (as others have noted) -- lots of spectacle and action, but mostly fluff without a whole lot of substance. That kind of thing isn't always enjoyable, but it can be fun to turn your brain off and enjoy the ride. Plus you've got Jim Lee and Ed McGuinness artwork to look at.

Chuck Austin's work was insultingly bad because, unlike Loeb, he takes it seriously. Not that I'm saying Loeb isn't in that same ballpark with Ultimatum, but at least some of his stuff is fun to read. I can't say I've ever enjoyed a Chuck Austin issue. Well... that's not fair, because he did have Ron Garney for some of his X-Men run, and I like his work. And to be honest some of his set-ups were good. But then you got crap like Black Tom Cassady draining the blue from Arcangel's skin, the Church of Humanity Pope bit, Nightcrawler being connected to an otherworldly devil (or something), rednecks in armor fighting Cannonball's family, and all of that terrible drama forced into Superman. I hate to rip on Austin like that, but if you're comparing the two, I'd gladly take Loeb's writing.

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John Cage

Perhaps I should be corrected. Frankly, I've had no desire to read Ultimatum, so I've missed the random, senseless killings that Loeb has decided to put into the "event" to make it "important". But what you've said sounds pretty terrible.

Sad to hear that Loeb is digging himself into the cesspool of bad writing. He just might be killing an entire imprint of comics with one terrible event mini-series.

Fair enough, T, but while Loeb has never written anything good, he hasn’t written anything as offensive as Austen’s “Pope Nightcrawler”, “Every X-Person has sex with each other” and “Lois Lane finds Lana Lang’s panties in Clark’s bedroom”, which is why I maintain Austen is worse

This, I must admit, is a very valid counterargument. Although his latest Ultimates Vol. 3 with the outright incest between Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and rape tease with Pyro and Valkyrie along with Blob eating the Wasp and Giant Man biting off the Blob's head have him closing the gap in offensive tackiness.

You don't think "the Blob eats the Wasp" is more offensive then Lois finding a pair of panties?

Fair enough, T, but while Loeb has never written anything good, he hasn't written anything as offensive as Austen's "Pope Nightcrawler", "Every X-Person has sex with each other" and "Lois Lane finds Lana Lang's panties in Clark's bedroom", which is why I maintain Austen is worse. But yes, while Austen has written good stories before, his cesspool is deeper than Loeb's.

Reading the reviews of Austen's Action Comics on the Superman Homepage was like reading an articles about horrific train wrecks.

Not that I read any of these. I avoided Hulk: Gray like the plague after the first issue. I suppose the Thing: Orange would actually work in the series, except I have no idea what "orange" is supposed to evoke. Florida? (Yes, yes, I know all about Agent Orange in Green Lantern.)

Maybe "The Thing: Oatmeal" if we wanted to go the classic Silver Age route.