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Post by Brendocon » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:00 pm

I just ordered a batch of Ultimate Marvel trades to take me upto pretty much where Ultimatum happens. I figure that I invested enough time and money on the story upto there that I may as well finish it. Last couple of Spidey, Ultimates 3, Wolvey vs Hulk, Ultimate Power... of course I can't really remember what happened up until where I am, but sod it.

The X-Men/Fantastic Four Ultimatum book is set before the main Loeb title, yeah? Same with the Spidey TPB by the same name?

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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:54 am

Paul, you still reading uncanny xforce?

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Post by Ozz » Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:00 pm

Brendocon wrote:The X-Men/Fantastic Four Ultimatum book is set before the main Loeb title, yeah? Same with the Spidey TPB by the same name?
No. Ultimatum is one of those crossovers that's not easy to read in trade form. The ideal would be to read it in the order the singles were released (well, almost, because the main title was delayed).

I haven't re-read it in trades yet, but from what I remember the best compromise between reading the story in correct-ish order and keeping jumping between books to minimum would be:

- first half of main title (issues #1-3)
- two other books
- second half of main title

There's also the March on Ultimatum TPB, and that one is set before the crossover, but I guess that's easily to gather from the title alone. :)

EDIT: Oh, and Ultimatum: Requiem, which is the epilogue.

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Post by Brendocon » Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:29 pm

Yeah, March and Requiem sort of stood out fairly straightforwardly as being before and after respectively. ;)

Cheers squire. They don't make it easy, do they? This is part of the reason I steer clear of the main universe books... whenever they do a crossover (which has been more frequent in the past few years), it's an absolute mission to try and work out what I need to read in what order. Easier not to bother most of the time.

So...

- Ultimate Power
- Ultimate Origins
- The Ultimates 3
- March on Ultimatum (the annuals, yeh?)
- First half of Ultimatum TPB
- Spider-Man v22
- Ultimatum: Fantastic Four / X-Men
- Second half of Ultimatum TPB
- Ultimatum: Requiem

Yeah?

I have a very bad feeling about this.

Is the "Ultimate Comics" universe follow-ups any good? The presence of Millar on the Avengers stuff makes me hopeful, but I can't help noticing the word "Loeb" cropping up on a lot of it.

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Post by Yaya » Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:48 pm

Is the Uncanny X-force stuff out in trade yet?
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Post by Ozz » Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:19 pm

Brendocon wrote:So...
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Yeah?
Yeah. If you have Ellis' Ultimate Human (trade might be called Ultimate Hulk vs. Iron Man), then it goes between Power and the annuals.
Brendocon wrote:Is the "Ultimate Comics" universe follow-ups any good? The presence of Millar on the Avengers stuff makes me hopeful, but I can't help noticing the word "Loeb" cropping up on a lot of it.
Loeb only wrote Ultimate Comics X (probably his best work in Ultimate, but sort of cut short because of the delays) and Ultimate Comics New Ultimates, five issues each.

Bendis is still Bendis on Spider-Man, but whether you'll like the art is another issue. He also wrote an event similar in structure to Ellis' Gah-Lak-Tus.

Millar's UC Avengers is definitely not his Ultimates, but still can be a fun read if you like Millar.

There are also minis with Iron Man (Ellis is having a bit of fun again), Thor (set before The Ultimates) and Captain America.

And the realunch of Ultimate universe that has just started so far is really good. I'd continue post Ultimatum just for that.
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:23 am

Yaya wrote:Is the Uncanny X-force stuff out in trade yet?
haven't seen it.
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:00 am

Yaya wrote:Is the Uncanny X-force stuff out in trade yet?
haven't seen it.
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Post by bumblemusprime » Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:50 pm

My fiftieth column! In which I plug the works of James Roberts like mad.

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=050
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Post by Best First » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:32 pm

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Post by Best First » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:58 am

Fear Itself 7.1!!!

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Post by Professor Smooth » Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:20 am

Best First wrote:Fear Itself 7.1!!!

Excellent slight of hand by Marvel. Love it.
That's got to be some sort of record, right?
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:01 pm

Fear itself uncanny x force was good.

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Post by snarl » Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:47 pm

Really enjoying The Boys mini about Butcher.
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Post by Best First » Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:50 pm

snarl wrote:Really enjoying The Boys mini about Butcher.
Yeah - tis good stuff.
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Post by bumblemusprime » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:00 am

Read the first trade of Uncanny X-Force.

ARE YOU ******* HAPPY NOW, OPR?

It's pretty damn good. Nice ending.
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Post by Best First » Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:16 pm

took you long enough. Read the next one.
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Post by Yaya » Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:42 am

So it's out? My turn, I guess.
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:04 am

Bout time sprunks.

Waiting for my comics dealer to get my *****.

Btw X23 HAS GONE TOTAL ****. It almost redeemed itself when lara became captain universe, but then went back to **** when she babysat for the richards.
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Post by Best First » Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:40 pm

yeah x-2 was much better as part of the New X-Men with the occassional balls out mini.

Now we have no New X-Men and a rubbish x-23 series.

Still, at least its not as bad as Daken. Sheesh, that's some bad juju.
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Post by bumblemusprime » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:11 pm

Numbers don't lie--married Spidey beats single Spidey.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.co ... or-single/
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Post by bumblemusprime » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:46 pm

My Christmas poem for the year, inspired by Shanti: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=052
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Post by Best First » Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:07 am

A vs X appealing to anyone else's inner 5 year old?
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Post by Professor Smooth » Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:05 am

Best First wrote:A vs X appealing to anyone else's inner 5 year old?
Have you read the original?
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Post by DJ_Convoy » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:40 pm

Perfectly fine until the last issue when Roger Stern was unceremoniously removed for whatever reason.
For now, it seems like IDW wants my money.

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Post by bumblemusprime » Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:09 pm

Anyone else read Craig Thompson's Habibi? I have a [composite word including 'f*ck'] to say about it:

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=053
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Post by DJ_Convoy » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:06 pm

Interesting take- I wasn't really sure what to make of it, to be perfectly honest.
For now, it seems like IDW wants my money.

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Post by Jack Cade » Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:33 am

Here's another take on that, Bumblemus, perhaps a bit more critical:

http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/10/ca ... ns-habibi/
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Post by bumblemusprime » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:27 am

I read that about halfway through writing the review. I was always a bit weirded out by the white guy drawing the Arabic girl as she is raped, so that kind of helped me think it through.
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Post by Best First » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:34 am

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Have you read the original?
Trial of Magneto?

Point...
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