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Ultimate FF #1-6
Ultimate FF: Strangest Ever
Sue Storm, Tony Stark and Sam Wilson are the all-new Future Foundation...and they're all that stand between us and complete and utt er doom! When a lavish vacation spot for the super-rich suddenly goes dark, with hundreds missing, the only suspect is an old frenemy of the Fantastic Four! Meanwhile, a mysterious new member will join the FF's ranks, whether they like it or not...and when their secret origin is revealed, the truth behind this newcomer spells doom for another team member! When a parallel Earth invades, sending something unimaginable through the rift , a new Atlantis will rise...but will Namor massacre his own people to survive? Meanwhile, trapped outside the Universe, an old friend returns to help face the coming destruction. Tune in and experience the ultimate adventure! The all-new FF is the strangest team of all!
Collection: Ultimate FF 1-6
Collection: Ultimate FF 1-6
136 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2014
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Joshua Hale Fialkov
445 books140 followersJoshua Hale Fialkov is the creator (or co-creator, depending) of graphic novels, including the Harvey Nominated Elk’s Run, the Harvey and Eisner nominated Tumor, Punks the Comic, and the Harvey Nominated Echoes.
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
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October 30, 2022
The Future Foundation are Iron Man, Invisible Woman, Falcon, Machine Man & Phil Coulson. There earliest problem is Dr Doom, and they also run into the Ultimate-Spider-Ham! This turned out to be quite daring in its off-key approach and humour but coupled with horrific art (see below) and abysmal plotting this was a second huge nail in the coffin of the Ultimate franchise, a lacklustre One Star read, 3 out of 12.
2022 read; 2017 read; 2015 read
2022 read; 2017 read; 2015 read
September 10, 2016
What a mess. The art is barely passable, the stories are crap, the dialog is ham-fisted at best, and the characterization is confused. None of these characters feel like anything more complicated than cardboard standups. Worst of all is the cheap and unearned rehabilitation of Ultimate Reed. Luckily, it seems like this book was roundly ignored by other writers, as it should have been.
February 25, 2015
The idea of mashing up Fringe with a Future Foundation on Ultimate Earth is a fun one, especially as a prelude to the reality troubles of Secret Wars. Unfortunately, the storytelling isn't very good. The first three issues with their Namor and Doom plot are a mess, and they seem more intent on explaining Doom's continuity than telling a story. Throughout it all (and throughout the whole volume), many of the characters are played for laughs, and the result feels very inappropriate. If Marvel wanted to have this sort of wackiness ... well, the surprise shock ending to issue #4 shows how to do it well, but it's not enough to save the series. By the time the last issue winds things up in a too-fast, off-kilter way, I really wasn't surprised to have stuff anticlimax so much. But I was annoyed by a totally unearned "redemption" of Evil Reed. Hopefully future authors will ignore that bit.
The art is also very uneven, varying from cartoonish to muddy to totally horrible. It's really not helped by the new costumes. Though the dark purple of the cover art might have worked, the lavender shading that appears inside is really, really ugly. I rarely drop comic's ratings for the artwork, but this is one where it's deserving.
Overall, some interesting ideas, but a waste of a graphic novel.
The art is also very uneven, varying from cartoonish to muddy to totally horrible. It's really not helped by the new costumes. Though the dark purple of the cover art might have worked, the lavender shading that appears inside is really, really ugly. I rarely drop comic's ratings for the artwork, but this is one where it's deserving.
Overall, some interesting ideas, but a waste of a graphic novel.
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July 5, 2021When the Ultimate Universe was beginning, I'd buy everything that came out of it. In its efforts to create a new, clean slate companion to the long and tangled history of the main Marvel Universe, it prefigured the MCU, right down to a Nick Fury openly remodelled after Samuel L Jackson, who duly got the role. But assuming you let anything actually happen or matter in the stories you tell there, rather than going with the Saturday morning cartoon approach or John Byrne's 'illusion of change', then any new superhero universe will inevitably develop its own tangles soon enough. The MCU, not helped by months without any actual C, has been deep in a decadent phase* on the small screen; a slate of untested properties are lined up for the reopening of the big, simply because a lot of the stars' stories reached natural ends. And the Ultimate Universe...the Ultimate Universe got blown up, then blown up some more, merged with the 616, and I believe sort-of-resurrected in something that I've not read. And somewhere in amongst its long, drawn-out dying, it spat out this, a book whose existence came as a complete surprise to me when I saw it in a recent sale. Compared to Spider-Man, the Avengers (AKA Ultimates), even the X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four was very much the also-ran of the line's main books from the off, not helped by rotating creative teams and a truly terrible take on Doctor Doom (a villain with whom the big screen has also had problems). About the only good thing which came out of it was the eventual and genuinely unexpected villainisation of its Reeds Richards, the coldness and creepiness always latent in the character brought to the fore as he was remade as the Maker.
So unlike the main FF book, this one doesn't lean too heavily on him. Instead, a core cast of the Ultimate Universe's Susan Storm, Tony Stark and Sam Wilson are joined by a rotating cast of guest stars and support staff as they clean up the ravaged dregs of their world. Some of these characters, I genuinely don't know whether they'd been introduced before and I forgot them because the moment was gone, or whether they're new creations here – was there already an Ultimate Phil Coulson? An Ultimate Machine Man who's also Ultimate Danny Ketch? Has the world 'ultimate' lost all meaning for you yet? It certainly has for me. The dialogue has an agreeable snark to it, even if it can't match the early Bendis and Millar-on-a-good-day high points of the line; the art has an indie comic unglamourousness and distortion which I'm not altogether sure comes off, though at least it's not Greg Land like the covers. The plots, though...they're bold, I'll give them that. I don't know how much that counts for when the writing was clearly on the wall for the setting anyway; it has some of the same last-day-of-term weightlessness as an old What If? issue or an apocalyptic alternate timeline, where you can kill everyone off because it doesn't really matter anyway. Despite all of which, it would take a harder heart than mine to entirely write off a comic featuring Galactus as a platypus.
*Not inherently a criticism, obviously. Well, except as regards that fucking boat.
So unlike the main FF book, this one doesn't lean too heavily on him. Instead, a core cast of the Ultimate Universe's Susan Storm, Tony Stark and Sam Wilson are joined by a rotating cast of guest stars and support staff as they clean up the ravaged dregs of their world. Some of these characters, I genuinely don't know whether they'd been introduced before and I forgot them because the moment was gone, or whether they're new creations here – was there already an Ultimate Phil Coulson? An Ultimate Machine Man who's also Ultimate Danny Ketch? Has the world 'ultimate' lost all meaning for you yet? It certainly has for me. The dialogue has an agreeable snark to it, even if it can't match the early Bendis and Millar-on-a-good-day high points of the line; the art has an indie comic unglamourousness and distortion which I'm not altogether sure comes off, though at least it's not Greg Land like the covers. The plots, though...they're bold, I'll give them that. I don't know how much that counts for when the writing was clearly on the wall for the setting anyway; it has some of the same last-day-of-term weightlessness as an old What If? issue or an apocalyptic alternate timeline, where you can kill everyone off because it doesn't really matter anyway. Despite all of which, it would take a harder heart than mine to entirely write off a comic featuring Galactus as a platypus.
*Not inherently a criticism, obviously. Well, except as regards that fucking boat.
September 16, 2017
I was never a dedicated reader of Marvel's Ultimate line. I'm familiar with a lot of what it accomplished, good and bad, but as to whether or not there's a story capable of having a "final word" on it, I can only guess.
But if I had to guess, I'd say it was probably this. The real ending was Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars, which was also a Fantastic Four story by the way.
The writer of Ultimate FF is Joshua Hale Fialkov, who somehow remains criminally undervalued. I think this is another fine example of that.
For a lot of fans, the Ultimate line ended with Jeph Loeb's Ultimatum, which was a step too out there for even the jaded fans who accepted the idea of a Marvel reboot that happened to co-exist with the original material still going on alongside it. These were always comics that accelerated the typical Marvel storytelling pace, so that at some point, all the bad stuff that tends to pile up for these superheroes reached an honest-to-Jack climax. The only writer capable of surviving that was Brian Bendis, whose Ultimate Spider-Man has been its own thing-within-a-thing all along anyway (like Mayday Parker all over again), and so eventually it was really only his Miles Morales left standing, and now he's part of regular continuity anyway...
So yeah. Eventually someone was going to come along and tell the Ultimate story for what it...ultimately was, a chance to comment, mostly, on the nature of Marvel storytelling in general.
Fialkov treats it as a kind of farce. The best thing to come out of the story is that it posits Sue Storm, actually, as the real star of the Fantastic Four. Which is fantastic, by the way. Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Namor, and Doom are rewritten as her series of suitors. There's a great bit near the end where Spider-Ham explains it. (Spider-Ham is great, by the way. I have no idea why Marvel has largely ignored him in its current bid to dominate the wacky superheroes market.)
And clearly the movies were based on the Ultimate comics. Tony Stark here is based on the movie version. Or is the movie version based on the Ultimate version? I don't know. I haven't really read the original Ultimates comics. But the ending of the story clearly riffs on the movie version.
Anyway, great fun. And as I said, it would make an excellent conclusion to the Ultimate experience.
But if I had to guess, I'd say it was probably this. The real ending was Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars, which was also a Fantastic Four story by the way.
The writer of Ultimate FF is Joshua Hale Fialkov, who somehow remains criminally undervalued. I think this is another fine example of that.
For a lot of fans, the Ultimate line ended with Jeph Loeb's Ultimatum, which was a step too out there for even the jaded fans who accepted the idea of a Marvel reboot that happened to co-exist with the original material still going on alongside it. These were always comics that accelerated the typical Marvel storytelling pace, so that at some point, all the bad stuff that tends to pile up for these superheroes reached an honest-to-Jack climax. The only writer capable of surviving that was Brian Bendis, whose Ultimate Spider-Man has been its own thing-within-a-thing all along anyway (like Mayday Parker all over again), and so eventually it was really only his Miles Morales left standing, and now he's part of regular continuity anyway...
So yeah. Eventually someone was going to come along and tell the Ultimate story for what it...ultimately was, a chance to comment, mostly, on the nature of Marvel storytelling in general.
Fialkov treats it as a kind of farce. The best thing to come out of the story is that it posits Sue Storm, actually, as the real star of the Fantastic Four. Which is fantastic, by the way. Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Namor, and Doom are rewritten as her series of suitors. There's a great bit near the end where Spider-Ham explains it. (Spider-Ham is great, by the way. I have no idea why Marvel has largely ignored him in its current bid to dominate the wacky superheroes market.)
And clearly the movies were based on the Ultimate comics. Tony Stark here is based on the movie version. Or is the movie version based on the Ultimate version? I don't know. I haven't really read the original Ultimates comics. But the ending of the story clearly riffs on the movie version.
Anyway, great fun. And as I said, it would make an excellent conclusion to the Ultimate experience.
October 21, 2014
I'd decided not to review books I intensely dislike. But I'm making an exception here -- potential readers must be warned. Some years ago Marvel relaunched it's comics in the Ultimates universe. I thought they worked rather well, in general. But ever since they (Marvel) killed off half the heroes, things went from bad to downright dreadful. And then we get Ultimate FF, the book under review. This graphic novel is a complete shambles, from the ill-formed artwork to the OTT script (let's put everything we can think of to make it exciting -- yeah). The FF now comprises of Sue Storm, Iron Man, and a couple of bit-players. And then they bring back Dr Doom!!! As I read it I couldn't believe how bad it is ... then I reached the last page of chapter 4. Totally idiotic -- and would only work in the 'funny pages'. Avoid.
February 24, 2015
What happens when every character on your team is witty? The Dialogue becomes a chore to read. ok... go ahead say your little quip, can we move on?
Ultimate Doctor Doom is playing a role very similar to Doombot from Avengers AI, except he is far less entertaining. This title was certainly ambitious, as it seemed to be the Ultimate companion for everything that Hickman was building up in Avengers and New Avengers. Unfortunately, I think they had to wrap the book up way too quickly, the art was sub par and the dialogue in the book was as annoying as I mentioned before. Here is an example-
Tony Stark- Let me try to sound like Robert Downey Junior
Falcon- Let me make a pop culture reference to talk about how annoying you are
Sue Storm- I wish there were more women on this team
Doom- Will all of you shut up?!!
That is 80% of the dialogue in this book
Ultimate Doctor Doom is playing a role very similar to Doombot from Avengers AI, except he is far less entertaining. This title was certainly ambitious, as it seemed to be the Ultimate companion for everything that Hickman was building up in Avengers and New Avengers. Unfortunately, I think they had to wrap the book up way too quickly, the art was sub par and the dialogue in the book was as annoying as I mentioned before. Here is an example-
Tony Stark- Let me try to sound like Robert Downey Junior
Falcon- Let me make a pop culture reference to talk about how annoying you are
Sue Storm- I wish there were more women on this team
Doom- Will all of you shut up?!!
That is 80% of the dialogue in this book
August 30, 2015
Closer to a 2.5.
I had reserved this at the library ages ago and I was trying to figure out why, since I've found the Fantastic Four to be kind of difficult in the modern comics scene.
Then Spider-ham and Captain Americat showed up.
In terms of using alternate universes, this is fun. In terms of storytelling and pacing, the arcs were too short and nothing seemed fleshed out enough. It had moments, but lacked a fullness. Ultimately, it felt more like a missed opportunity than anything else.
But please give me an entire series with Spider-ham and friends. Please.
I had reserved this at the library ages ago and I was trying to figure out why, since I've found the Fantastic Four to be kind of difficult in the modern comics scene.
Then Spider-ham and Captain Americat showed up.
In terms of using alternate universes, this is fun. In terms of storytelling and pacing, the arcs were too short and nothing seemed fleshed out enough. It had moments, but lacked a fullness. Ultimately, it felt more like a missed opportunity than anything else.
But please give me an entire series with Spider-ham and friends. Please.
January 4, 2017
NO!! JUST NO!!!
I mean seriously, were you high!!!!
NOOOOO!!!!
I mean seriously, were you high!!!!
NOOOOO!!!!
August 18, 2023
So, Sue Storm is leading a team consisting of Falcon, Ironman, Coulson, and Danny Ketch (who is a gah lak tus infused cyborg now. It's... dumb.) when they realize they're out of their depths with the situation they're looking into so Coulson releases Doom to help them. After some shenanigans with Namor, they eventually run into the ultimate spider-ham, who warns them that Sue has to have a baby with Reed. Any universe where Sue doesn't have a baby with Reed is destroyed.
Sue goes to perform some kind of surgery on Reed, but Reed suggests inseminating her with Ben's semen instead. So, instead of just having sex with her fiance, she impregnates herself with his semen that they had around without his consent. The baby is born and immediately uses its powers to get rid of the people attacking (for some reason). Then Coulson and Stark both steal jokes from the Avengers movie, but in a way where you may not even realize what they're talking about if you hadn't seen it.
This is bad. Unspeakably bad. But also weirdly ambitious? It really wants to do what Ryan North will do successfully a few years later, but unfortunately, it's just not funny. The plot completely revolving around who Sue has a baby with also feels really... unfortunate.
The art is also disastrously bad. I think the pencils themselves are fine or at least could work if the colourist was any good. It barely looks inked, and the colours look like the work of an especially talented first grader.
The baby messiah plot also suffers from the fact that the ultimate universe's days are indeed numbered, but no baby will save it.
Sue goes to perform some kind of surgery on Reed, but Reed suggests inseminating her with Ben's semen instead. So, instead of just having sex with her fiance, she impregnates herself with his semen that they had around without his consent. The baby is born and immediately uses its powers to get rid of the people attacking (for some reason). Then Coulson and Stark both steal jokes from the Avengers movie, but in a way where you may not even realize what they're talking about if you hadn't seen it.
This is bad. Unspeakably bad. But also weirdly ambitious? It really wants to do what Ryan North will do successfully a few years later, but unfortunately, it's just not funny. The plot completely revolving around who Sue has a baby with also feels really... unfortunate.
The art is also disastrously bad. I think the pencils themselves are fine or at least could work if the colourist was any good. It barely looks inked, and the colours look like the work of an especially talented first grader.
The baby messiah plot also suffers from the fact that the ultimate universe's days are indeed numbered, but no baby will save it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 18, 2022
What the heck did I just read! I can't decide whether I really enjoyed or really hated it. The writing was witty and fun. It reminded me of Ryan North's humor – which endeared it to me.
The illustration was harder to swallow. I thought I hated the first half's artwork, until I didn't. It bears resemblance to older classically pencilled comics, and I eventually came around. Then it switched to a folks, sketchbook doodle-style and I thought I hated that too... until I didn't. It began to remind me of Eric Chase Anderson or the Napoleon Dynamite amateur drawing style (it evoked the journal doodles of the Tom Holland Spider-Man film credits).
The story eventually got SO weird, but I was here for it. As much as I should have hated this, I think I really liked it.
The illustration was harder to swallow. I thought I hated the first half's artwork, until I didn't. It bears resemblance to older classically pencilled comics, and I eventually came around. Then it switched to a folks, sketchbook doodle-style and I thought I hated that too... until I didn't. It began to remind me of Eric Chase Anderson or the Napoleon Dynamite amateur drawing style (it evoked the journal doodles of the Tom Holland Spider-Man film credits).
The story eventually got SO weird, but I was here for it. As much as I should have hated this, I think I really liked it.
June 19, 2023
Yikes. This has to be one of the worst comic runs I have ever read. The art is absolutely abysmal. They are half sketched and are truly the worst artwork I have ever seen in a comic. The story makes no sense. Doom is the only decent part to this series but it seemed like the writers just wanted him to be front and center but didn’t have an actual story to write. There is no cohesion at all between the issues. It seems as if they wrote a one shot for each issue and called it a series. The ending is awful, and just down right stupid. I mean what the hell were they thinking on this one..
February 6, 2025
This is a hot mess express. I’m not familiar with Ultimate FF but have been sucked in by enjoying the Maker in the new Ultimate Universe run. This was a random pick up and I agree with all previous reviews about the art, dialogue and plot being rough. The art especially in the first three stories make it almost impossible to follow what’s happening and as an Ultimate Universe neophyte this is one that should be forgotten.
September 22, 2020
Well, first off, this was the worst art in a mainstream Marvel book I've ever seen. This was not a match for this story in any way. The story however was abysmal as well. This universe has been done to death, literally, for a reason. Nothing good here at all.
May 24, 2019
A strange tale with Doctor Doom, Namor, Ultimate Spider-ham and a baby...
May 26, 2019
First volume of the Ultimate Universes new FF team,starting the build up towards the events of Marvels Secret Wars. Solid read,let down in parts by the artwork.
March 17, 2022
Kind of weird but not bad really.
January 31, 2024
I don’t know man, this may go down as worst comic ever.
March 10, 2025
Love these weird ass tie ins
September 30, 2025
Read this review or all of my reviews on my site!
Fantastic Four?
Nah, Future Foundation!
It’s a really weird story.
Random incursions from random dimensions. Animal people. Cyclops super heroes. Atlanteans.
And oy talk about tonal whiplash. Death and doom to animal people to kidnapping to quippy one liners to rape. All over the place.
And finally, the art. It starts off, a bit unfinished… but I kind of like it. But then it gets even more unfinished and cartoony. Not a fan.
Overall, a vaguely interesting story wrapped up in a lot of weird.
Not surprised this is all it got.
Onward!
Notes. Spoilers.
That’s certainly a different art style. Feels unfinished. But I kind of like it?
Also, Ultimate Coulson? After all this time.
Girl power?
Mostly, it seems a weird time for a quip from someone not particularly known for one liners.
She has a point.
😆 Once again, not wrong.
I like this style even less.
… wat.
Yeah okay. That’s hilarious. Tonewise, truly bizarre. But hilarious.
A bit gross. Right.
… well that escalated quickly. Tonal whiplash yo.
May 11, 2015
Collects Ultimate FF issues #1-6
The concept of this book is actually pretty good. A team of genius superheroes unites to help out with dangers threatening Earth, specifically of the parallel universe variety. Lead by the Director of the Future Foundation, Phil Coulson, this team is made up of the Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Falcon, and Machine Man.
Like I said, the concept is solid, however it takes a few issues to find its stride. Early on, the story-telling felt jumpy and all over the place. I wasn't sure why the heroes were going where they were going, but once they got there, I could usually pick out some fun parts from their adventures.
The second half of this book was a lot of fun to read, with some great character appearances from the Multiverse. Although not a member of the Future Foundation, the Ultimate Reed Richards makes an appearance in this book, and every time he is on the page it feels important.
A couple notes for potential readers. This will be a better reading experience for someone that has a good knowledge of past Ultimate Universe events. I have a medium amount of knowledge here, so while I felt lost occasionally, I could follow things pretty well.
Another note is that this doesn't really tie into the Incursions that are happening on Earth-616. I thought that this book would set up the 2015 event, "Secret Wars," but it doesn't seem to have a strong connection.
On the negative side, the artwork isn't my favorite. I experienced this with "The All-New Ultimates," as well, and it has me guessing that Marvel decided to give lesser known artists a chance to hone their skills with some of these Ultimate titles.
The concept of this book is actually pretty good. A team of genius superheroes unites to help out with dangers threatening Earth, specifically of the parallel universe variety. Lead by the Director of the Future Foundation, Phil Coulson, this team is made up of the Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Falcon, and Machine Man.
Like I said, the concept is solid, however it takes a few issues to find its stride. Early on, the story-telling felt jumpy and all over the place. I wasn't sure why the heroes were going where they were going, but once they got there, I could usually pick out some fun parts from their adventures.
The second half of this book was a lot of fun to read, with some great character appearances from the Multiverse. Although not a member of the Future Foundation, the Ultimate Reed Richards makes an appearance in this book, and every time he is on the page it feels important.
A couple notes for potential readers. This will be a better reading experience for someone that has a good knowledge of past Ultimate Universe events. I have a medium amount of knowledge here, so while I felt lost occasionally, I could follow things pretty well.
Another note is that this doesn't really tie into the Incursions that are happening on Earth-616. I thought that this book would set up the 2015 event, "Secret Wars," but it doesn't seem to have a strong connection.
On the negative side, the artwork isn't my favorite. I experienced this with "The All-New Ultimates," as well, and it has me guessing that Marvel decided to give lesser known artists a chance to hone their skills with some of these Ultimate titles.
June 11, 2016
Ultimates alumnus Fialkov takes on the Ultimate Universe version of the Future Foundation, aka the NotFantastic Four Marvel cooked up to spite Fox, owners of the Fantastic Four movie license before they decided to cancel Fantastic Four altogether.
A funny, fast-paced read with uneven artwork - the cartoonish style of the guy in the last few issues, Araujo, is a good deal better than the earlier one, Guevara.
Mostly amusing for the stretched out mystery of the return of Doom: you can tell Fialkov was really upset by Jeph Loeb's dispatching of the Latverian despot in his Ultimatum event miniseries a few years beforehand. Ultimate Doom has his goat's legs again, too, which I enjoyed.
Oh, and I never thought I'd read an official Marvel comic that ended in a hilarious CUM SWITCHAROO by Sue Storm.
A funny, fast-paced read with uneven artwork - the cartoonish style of the guy in the last few issues, Araujo, is a good deal better than the earlier one, Guevara.
Mostly amusing for the stretched out mystery of the return of Doom: you can tell Fialkov was really upset by Jeph Loeb's dispatching of the Latverian despot in his Ultimatum event miniseries a few years beforehand. Ultimate Doom has his goat's legs again, too, which I enjoyed.
Oh, and I never thought I'd read an official Marvel comic that ended in a hilarious CUM SWITCHAROO by Sue Storm.
January 10, 2015
I didn't hate this as much as other reviewers did I guess. I don't know, maybe I've just had my expectations lowered so many time by anything Ultimate other than spider-Man that there wasn't much room left for disappointment. I liked the art for the second half of it, butt he first half... lord, it was awful and hard to follow the action.
That being said this was... a mess. The Ultimate line deserves better. If there is a next volume I'll read, but just to see what happens to these characters that I've followed for so long.
That being said this was... a mess. The Ultimate line deserves better. If there is a next volume I'll read, but just to see what happens to these characters that I've followed for so long.
October 29, 2017
Bad art (really bad art), bad story, bad book, bad Marvel. This will probably be my last trip into the Ultimate Universe.
March 3, 2015
Oh come on, it's got Captain Americat. That's got to be worth at least three stars.
Want to read
November 1, 2015Edición española. Coleccionable Ultimate 100.
November 5, 2015
"Strangest" is correct; this one is out there. I liked the Multiverse plotlines that finished up this trade, but the earlier stories were.....eh.
February 8, 2016
This book was a little strange, though the story wasn't bad. The art left a bit to be desired
January 9, 2016
I thought this was pretty fun. It was incredibly rushed and herky-jerky but also imaginative and playful. It felt like a too-long What If? rather than a too short epic story.
May 6, 2016
"Strangest Ever" sure is. So much inter-universal spaghetti thrown against the wall to see what would stick, and we're left with kind of a mess.
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