Theres some good moments of black humor. Like when Logan has to kill a mutant whos mutant power is that everything dies around him. Bendis is definitely better at it than Millar. I enjoy Millars work in a lot of ways tho, I feel like he was really showcasing how gross the comic industry is by being extra gross and was mocking American media in general
Which I understand to be a totally emotional response on my part to a damn comic book line, but I remember staying away from all the 2000’s era stuff for a while. It’s weird I have a sort anti-nostalgia for comics of that era. I read a lot of older Marvel/DC comics during that time in my life.
Sorry didn’t mean to make this into a lore dump, just felt like I should expand upon why I hated the Ultimate universe. It did give us Miles though.
Is the “Ultimate” universe like the “New 52” thing that DC did that turned Superman into a Randian douchebag and gave a bunch of sensationalism-focused SV baggage and straw-feminist man-hating to Wonder Woman?
Mark Miler made Captain America a patriotic chauvinist (“the A on my head doesn’t stand for France” line), Hulk a cannibal murderer, the Maximoff twins an incestuous couple, etc.
Smells P R E S T I G E T V flavored to me, which lines up with the height of that fad.
I will forever hate the Ultimate universe.
Theres some good moments of black humor. Like when Logan has to kill a mutant whos mutant power is that everything dies around him. Bendis is definitely better at it than Millar. I enjoy Millars work in a lot of ways tho, I feel like he was really showcasing how gross the comic industry is by being extra gross and was mocking American media in general
I think that’s a fair to accurate read on them. Personally, when I was sorta reading them I just thought it was “edgy” without much to say. I didn’t have any of the literature analysis skills I have now, but it just didn’t feel good for me. I was in high school when these titles dropped and personally anything that felt “edgy” felt like the like stuff the kids who would bully me would read. I didn’t like reading stuff I thought the people who made high school a not fun time would read (doubtful they’d read for fun but whatever such is the teenaged mind). That’s part of the reason I move to stuff like Spawn (which felt more “X-treme™©®” than edgy) and Hellboy (which is just a damn fine book) and Invincible (which felt more my speed at the time).
Which I understand to be a totally emotional response on my part to a damn comic book line, but I remember staying away from all the 2000’s era stuff for a while. It’s weird I have a sort anti-nostalgia for comics of that era. I read a lot of older Marvel/DC comics during that time in my life.
Sorry didn’t mean to make this into a lore dump, just felt like I should expand upon why I hated the Ultimate universe. It did give us Miles though.
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Is the “Ultimate” universe like the “New 52” thing that DC did that turned Superman into a Randian douchebag and gave a bunch of sensationalism-focused SV baggage and straw-feminist man-hating to Wonder Woman?
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Smells P R E S T I G E T V flavored to me, which lines up with the height of that fad.
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