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Review: Cataclysm: Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #3
If you haven’t already heard the good news, it seems that Miles Morales’ life as Spider-Man gets to continue in the Ultimate Universe. He’s not jumping over to the regular Marvel Universe. He’s not dying. Miles gets to live on and continue having adventures, which is fantastic news. I want to keep reading Miles Morales comics for the rest of my natural born life. I want to read Miles as an adult Spider-Man, like normal universe Peter Parker. That’s all I’m about: want, want, want! Unfortunately, I have been denied the excellence of Brian Michael Bendis’ original plans for Miles revealing his identity to his father, and that’s a shame.
Spider-Man Cataclysm #3
The final issue in this 3-parter is a bit of a let down, if only because not much really happens. The emotional confrontation between father and son is short and bittersweet, and the issue ends with just a continuation into the main Cataclysm series. It doesn’t serve as a finale to Ultimate Spider-Man or as much of a finale to this 3-parter.
Comic Rating: 6/10 – Pretty Good.
I don’t know what Bendis originally planned for the moment when Miles reveals his identity to his father, but I can’t imagine it was this. There’s no way Cataclysm was on the table back when Bendis was putting together his plans for Miles. So to have such an important moment wasted in the middle of this big mess is kind of disappointing. The confrontation happens in a logical and reasonable way, but it leaves a lot to be desired, and a lot on the table. That makes sense, considering the story is going to continue, but for a single issue, it’s just disappointing.
And there’s too much going on with Galactus destroying the world for anything else to matter. Everybody, especially Miles, is in crisis mode. Nothing slows down enough to be cherished. It’s all rush, rush, rush in every direction. So while that means the action is cool, all of the potentially important or interesting story beats are lost in the rush. And then, like I said, the end is just a ‘To Be Continued in the Rest of Cataclysm’ thing. So this issue is fine, and it’s well made, but everything is a little too discombobulated by Cataclysm to be really effective.
Join me after the jump for a full synopsis and more review!
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 1/11/14
I’m a little embarrassed. There are only four comics on the review slate today, and none of them are Indie titles like I promised last week. But that’s only because I couldn’t settle on one I liked, and most of them were already mid-story. Fortunately, Image just announced a ton of new books coming this year, so maybe I can get in on the ground floor of some of those. But still, only four books this week! What’s wrong with me? Well, for starters, I’ve been a bit under the weather. Blame it on the Polar Vortex!
At any rate, at least we’ve got some good books this week! All-New Marvel NOW! has launched, and we’ve got the first issues of Avengers World and Black Widow, both solid starts. And DC Comics gives us a healthy dose of green, with both Green Arrow and Green Lantern! They should market that somehow. Too bad they already cancelled Green Team.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Green Arrow #27, which continues its so-far amazing The Others storyline – but don’t let the name fool you, it’s far more interesting than that.
That is some very pretty arrow shooting. How is it that both Green Arrow and Hawkeye are such great comic books these days?
Comic Reviews: Avengers World #1, Black Widow #1, Green Arrow #27 and Green Lantern #27.
Sinestro Gets His Own Comic!
Sinestro, the long-time Green Lantern villain and lifelong badass, is going to get his own ongoing comic book series from DC Comics in April. And based on the preview cover, it already looks amazing!
Me Sinestro, you Jane
A comic about Sinestro out alone in the cosmos, battling aliens and fighting to survive like some kind of action hero, living only by his wits and Yellow Power Ring, sounds all kind of awesome to me! Geoff Johns left Sinestro off in such an amazing place at the end of his lengthy, legendary Green Lantern series. If new writer Cullen Bunn can tap into even a shred of Sinestro’s potential, this series could be amazing.
But then I also had hope for the Larfleeze comic…
So yeah, according to Newsarama, the comic will be written by Bunn and drawn by Dale Eaglesham. Sinestro is going to be heartbroken out in the wilderness of space, having lost all of his friends, family, loved ones and home planet. But Lyssa Drak shows up to remind him that he still has fear! Will Sinestro take back the Sinestro Corps or will he forge a new destiny?
I’m excited to find out.
The Future of the Ultimate Universe Revealed!
Saints be praised, Miles Morales lives! In an article with the Associated Press, Marvel has revealed that the Ultimate Universe will continue beyond the current Cataclsym storyline, and it will be re-branded in April as Ultimate Marvel NOW!
The line will continue with three comics:
1. ‘Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man’ written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by David Marquez. The book is going to be about Miles’ continuing struggles as Spider-Man in the new post-Cataclysm world.
Said Bendis:
“You can look at this as kind of his Bar Mitzvah of sorts and, now, he has to take the reins of Spider-Man under the new world he finds himself in. His entire life as a human being has changed.”
2. ‘All-New Ultimates’ written by Michel Fiffe and drawn by Amilcar Pinna.
This book will feature Miles and a team of young superheroes trying to pick up the pieces after whatever happens to the regular Ultimates. Along with Spidey, the team will feature Cloak, Dagger, Kitty Pryde, Black Widow and Bombshell. So it looks like the little team Bendis has been building in Ultimate Spider-Man will get to live on after all! I’m very excited. Hopefully Fiffe can write them as good as Bendis.
3. ‘Ultimate FF’ written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Mario Guevara. This book will be the Future Foundation, not the Fantastic Four. It will feature four of the world’s smartest people, including Sue Storm and Tony Stark, as well as a fifth, psychopathic genius – which probably means Reed Richards.
Those are the new titles coming out of Cataclysm. Based on the article, it appears that something monumentally tragic is going to befall the Ultimates, leading to this change in lineups.
Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso said this:
“Once again, we’re destroying something and building something new, but there’s an end game in sight,” he said of the move, noting that Marvel’s so-called Ultimate universe has always been noted by readers, writers and artists and editors for its “elasticity” and experimentation.
“We created the line to take chances,” he said.
“Dead is dead,” he said, so don’t expect any miraculous resurrections. “The long and short of it is this: The Ultimate (universe) benefits from a good, old kick in the butt.”
My guess is that Captain America is probably going to sacrifice himself to save the day in Cataclysm, along with a few other characters. That would definitely warrant the ‘dead is dead’ declaration, not to mention a shakeup to the Ultimates themselves. It also appears that Spider-Woman might die too, which would be a crying shame. She’s one of my absolute favorites!
But I like what I’m seeing here. I might even start reading All-New Ultimates when it comes out!
What do you guys and gals think? Let me hear it in the comments!
Hail to the Doop, Baby!
In what is either the craziest or most brilliant comic book idea since the beginning of time, Marvel is giving Doop is own mini-series. The little floating booger is going to debut with All-New Doop #1 in April, written by co-creator Peter Milligan. Though why we need the words ‘All-New’ in the title are anyone’s guess.
He’s sexy and he knows it
The mini-series is going to be set during the recent Battle of the Atom crossover, telling the untold story of what Doop was doing during the big battle, and how he probably actually caused or saved everything. That’s usually Doop’s style. David Lafuente will be on art.
Marvel revealed the series in an interview on their website. Said Milligan:
Doop is a character who lives mostly in the margins, and this story takes place, if you like, in the margins of Battle of the Atom. It shows what happens in those moments just before or after or behind the main storyline. And though Doop seemed to play no part in the original Battle of the Atom, this story reveals the truth. And the truth is very surprising, in a very Doop kind of way.
I’ll definitely be checking this one out. The more Doop in this world, the better.
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