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Über #4
Uber, Volume 4
With the realization that the Nazis have pulled far ahead of the Allies in development of Ubers, hope starts to fade and some greater gambles are taken in hopes of turning the tide. Desperation is the currency of the hour with no end in sight to the horrors of enhanced human warfare. The German war machine has been developing the most powerful weapons ever fashioned. Their Battleship class Ubers are like living atom bombs annihilating every obstacle in their paths. But they were once humans, and it takes more than power to make a monster, so what could have forged such cold, murderous beasts? The past is revealed with the genesis of the German Battleships in this groundbreaking alternate history war story.
Kieron Gillen, Daniel Gete, and Caanan White spin a new chapter of fear and genocide in the pages of the most devastating war comic being published. And for the first time ever, the origin and first missions of Sieglinde and the German Battleships are declassified and illustrated by Gabriel Andrade.
This volume collects issues #18-22 of the ongoing Uber comic book series and the Uber 2014 Special.
Kieron Gillen, Daniel Gete, and Caanan White spin a new chapter of fear and genocide in the pages of the most devastating war comic being published. And for the first time ever, the origin and first missions of Sieglinde and the German Battleships are declassified and illustrated by Gabriel Andrade.
This volume collects issues #18-22 of the ongoing Uber comic book series and the Uber 2014 Special.
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2015
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Kieron Gillen
1,485 books1,925 followersKieron Gillen is a comic book writer and former media journalist.
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April 4, 2019
Very good superhero war comic. The plot and characters are interesting and keep you guessing. Somewhat graphic but this fits the war atmosphere the story is set in. Recommended
June 19, 2015
Uber power,uber origins,uber shock and uber thrills.
The fascinating study of pwer taken to extremes against the backdrop of an alternative universe circa WWII but no clears winners have emerged because of the introduction of superhuman weapons in the conflict.
The fascinating study of pwer taken to extremes against the backdrop of an alternative universe circa WWII but no clears winners have emerged because of the introduction of superhuman weapons in the conflict.
April 7, 2021
1945
Days before the fall of Berlin, a secret German program for manufacturing enhanced humans turns certain defeat into unlikely victory - though the simultaneous theft of the procedure by double-agent Stephanie allows the Allies to start their own development. In the months since then: the prematurely deployed Allied Battleship HMH Colossus was killed when Paris was near razed; Japanese tank-men emerged to extend the Battle of Okinawa; and the Soviets won the Second Battle of Kursk with massed penal battalion Über disabling German Battleship Siegmund. The one Soviet again not to be deployed, the late-activating Soviet sniper "Katyusha" Andreevna, broke out of her gulag and, now recovered, appears to have regrown her own arm and be displaying Halo Effect powers far in excess of any other Über.
The counter-offensives reach a peak with a terror attack, where German Battleship Sieglinde is launched on London in a V2 rocket. She assassinates Churchill before going on a rampage. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler is quietly killed by German Battleship Siegmund, using his powers to fake a heart attack for the Führer. Shortly afterwards, much to the bemusement of Siegmund, Hitler appears to be alive again - though showing no knowledge that it was Siegmund who killed him.
Sieglinde manages to escape via deployment of the distance-specialised Enhanced Humans in the Battle of Southend-on-Sea. These "Blitzmensch" lead to a recommencement and escalation of the Naval Blockade on Great Britain. In an attempt to break the deadlock, the British Heavy Tank-men are deployed in a raid against the submarine bases. There they manage to disable the opposing Heavy Panzermensch by breaking their knees - taking advantage of a design flaw evident from their own men's designs. This shared flaw confirms Stephanie's suspicions that there must be some manner of enhanced human spy at work in Bletchley Park, leaking information. When reported to Allied High Command, this suggests an answer to a key question - what actually happened to the Atomic Bomb...
The war goes on.
Über is a graphic novel that pulls no punches. Brutal and gory; it is set towards the final days of the Second World War. Nazi scientists unleash their last hope; Übermensch are enhanced super soldiers capable of wiping out entire battalions without breaking a sweat.
Both sides are in an arms race of sorts developing hybrid superhumans, some with enhanced Halo powers and others with enhanced strength. As they decode the secrets of the technology the war swings from side to side. Some superhumans are also being under-developed as the American authorities fear allowing certain races having the power the overthrow them, in a clearly racist motivated move. As both sides move towards the end game, can either find a small advantage to swing the war in their favour?
An intense read. 3 stars.
Days before the fall of Berlin, a secret German program for manufacturing enhanced humans turns certain defeat into unlikely victory - though the simultaneous theft of the procedure by double-agent Stephanie allows the Allies to start their own development. In the months since then: the prematurely deployed Allied Battleship HMH Colossus was killed when Paris was near razed; Japanese tank-men emerged to extend the Battle of Okinawa; and the Soviets won the Second Battle of Kursk with massed penal battalion Über disabling German Battleship Siegmund. The one Soviet again not to be deployed, the late-activating Soviet sniper "Katyusha" Andreevna, broke out of her gulag and, now recovered, appears to have regrown her own arm and be displaying Halo Effect powers far in excess of any other Über.
The counter-offensives reach a peak with a terror attack, where German Battleship Sieglinde is launched on London in a V2 rocket. She assassinates Churchill before going on a rampage. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler is quietly killed by German Battleship Siegmund, using his powers to fake a heart attack for the Führer. Shortly afterwards, much to the bemusement of Siegmund, Hitler appears to be alive again - though showing no knowledge that it was Siegmund who killed him.
Sieglinde manages to escape via deployment of the distance-specialised Enhanced Humans in the Battle of Southend-on-Sea. These "Blitzmensch" lead to a recommencement and escalation of the Naval Blockade on Great Britain. In an attempt to break the deadlock, the British Heavy Tank-men are deployed in a raid against the submarine bases. There they manage to disable the opposing Heavy Panzermensch by breaking their knees - taking advantage of a design flaw evident from their own men's designs. This shared flaw confirms Stephanie's suspicions that there must be some manner of enhanced human spy at work in Bletchley Park, leaking information. When reported to Allied High Command, this suggests an answer to a key question - what actually happened to the Atomic Bomb...
The war goes on.
Über is a graphic novel that pulls no punches. Brutal and gory; it is set towards the final days of the Second World War. Nazi scientists unleash their last hope; Übermensch are enhanced super soldiers capable of wiping out entire battalions without breaking a sweat.
Both sides are in an arms race of sorts developing hybrid superhumans, some with enhanced Halo powers and others with enhanced strength. As they decode the secrets of the technology the war swings from side to side. Some superhumans are also being under-developed as the American authorities fear allowing certain races having the power the overthrow them, in a clearly racist motivated move. As both sides move towards the end game, can either find a small advantage to swing the war in their favour?
An intense read. 3 stars.
December 9, 2017
With the realization that the Nazis have pulled far ahead of the Allies in development of Ubers, hope starts to fade and some greater gambles are taken in hopes of turning the tide. Desperation is the currency of the hour with no end in sight to the horrors of enhanced human warfare.
Kieron Gillen, Daniel Gete, and Caanan White spin a new chapter of fear and genocide in the pages of the most devastating war comic being published. This volume includes the origin and first missions of Sieglinde and the German Battleships which are illustrated by Gabriel Andrade. The German war machine has been developing the most powerful weapons ever fashioned. Their Battleship class Ubers are like living atom bombs annihilating every obstacle in their paths. But they were once humans, and it takes more than power to make a monster, so what could have forged such cold, murderous beasts? The past is revealed as we see the genesis of the German Battleships in this groundbreaking alternate history war story. This volume collects issues #18 - 22 of the ongoing Über comic book series and the Uber 2014 Special.
This instalment also sees the Red Army unleash their secret Uber who drives the Germany army from the Soviet Union and nearly destroys Sieglinde. This volume maintains the high standards of the first three books. The art style largely remains consistent despite the fact that more than one artist is used.
Kieron Gillen, Daniel Gete, and Caanan White spin a new chapter of fear and genocide in the pages of the most devastating war comic being published. This volume includes the origin and first missions of Sieglinde and the German Battleships which are illustrated by Gabriel Andrade. The German war machine has been developing the most powerful weapons ever fashioned. Their Battleship class Ubers are like living atom bombs annihilating every obstacle in their paths. But they were once humans, and it takes more than power to make a monster, so what could have forged such cold, murderous beasts? The past is revealed as we see the genesis of the German Battleships in this groundbreaking alternate history war story. This volume collects issues #18 - 22 of the ongoing Über comic book series and the Uber 2014 Special.
This instalment also sees the Red Army unleash their secret Uber who drives the Germany army from the Soviet Union and nearly destroys Sieglinde. This volume maintains the high standards of the first three books. The art style largely remains consistent despite the fact that more than one artist is used.
May 9, 2025
This might be my favorite Gillen. Alternate history universe where everyone in WWII gets a super soldier and it doesn't really work for anyone! every volume has such twists and turns, which is why I guess I am still ready. Beware: It's graphic gore and nudity and it's not anti NAZI, so you'll have to be an adult.
March 25, 2017
New types of Uber(menscchen) arrive on the scene, and things start to escalate.
Obviously this is building towards a major event in the final volume (well, the final volume of the first half of the series), and with things happening on several fronts some may find the storytelling becoming ever more fragmented.
Obviously this is building towards a major event in the final volume (well, the final volume of the first half of the series), and with things happening on several fronts some may find the storytelling becoming ever more fragmented.
May 10, 2017
The Allies strike back. It sort of sucks for the generals to have troops that don't feel that they need to follow orders since there can be no consequences to rebellion.
October 31, 2020
The Soviet Battleship Katyusha.
That's the review. That's how you stop Nazis. Bring em up in Siberia, make them battle hardened. And unleash on Fascists.
That's the review. That's how you stop Nazis. Bring em up in Siberia, make them battle hardened. And unleash on Fascists.
September 29, 2024
Review for volumes 2-7 read consecutively
Read the story but avoid the authors essays; to much real-world political bleed will pollute the experience.
Read the story but avoid the authors essays; to much real-world political bleed will pollute the experience.
February 28, 2017
As usual it never begins by directly continuing from where the last issue finished, instead jumping around time and location. In this volume we delve straight into the progress of the atomic bomb (apparently still a thing in the age of Ubermensch) and are introduced to a new kind of advanced human in the sabotaging of it. There is a strong focus more on the British and Americans rather than the Germans this time around, but Goebbles really makes a shocking, crazy, goofy and amusing impact in the last act. Consistent with the rest of the series the characters are all rather attractively dour and their fates never obvious. There are several entries covering the backstories of a few of the Uber's 'first kill' which helps understand their characters a bit more, and for more traditional 'superhero comic' fans the first duel between fully activated Ubermensch-class enhanced humans allows us to see the full destructive potential of these fighting Titans for the first time.
Overall Volume 4 is, like the rest of the series, both touching and gruesome in equal measure.
Overall Volume 4 is, like the rest of the series, both touching and gruesome in equal measure.
September 30, 2016
I do feel it's unfair to review each volume of this individually, especially since I read the equivalent of volumes 2-5 over a weekend in single issue format, and now find it a little difficult to distinguish which bits happened when. This is an episodic 60+ issue series, of which half is currently extant, and the rest is forthcoming in Uber: Invasion. As such, there is a natural ebb and flow of which issues work better than other issues. I can imagine how these issues could work in collected form, but it simply isn't written as a series of graphic novels, so there's a real danger of picking up this volume individually at some point and being underwhelmed by it. That's certainly something I've had happen with manga series.
Taken as a whole, though, even though half of it isn't done yet (and there is perhaps an argument for waiting until the saga is complete), this series is intelligent, horrific, and feel necessary. This is a long rambly reasoning of why I've given a "liked it" rating to an installment of what is on the whole a "really liked it" book of the sort you want to spread the gospel about, as it were.
Taken as a whole, though, even though half of it isn't done yet (and there is perhaps an argument for waiting until the saga is complete), this series is intelligent, horrific, and feel necessary. This is a long rambly reasoning of why I've given a "liked it" rating to an installment of what is on the whole a "really liked it" book of the sort you want to spread the gospel about, as it were.
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April 9, 2015The Second World War was among the conflicts most shaped by espionage: what effect might the presence of enhanced humans have had in the shadow theatre? As ever with Uber, the answers aren't pretty. The details don't perhaps follow as naturally from what's already been established as other variations on the theme have, but given how little we still know about how these powers work, I have complete faith it will all make sense. And in the meantime, it's a wild (if hardly a fun) ride.
January 24, 2016
I only have one volume left. This was really intense, but also very much a moving of the pieces for the final arc. And there was a lot more of Maria being awesome. I can't wait to see what she does in the last arc.
But it was also Canaan's last issue, which is sad since he is a great artist and very much set the tone of this series.
But it was also Canaan's last issue, which is sad since he is a great artist and very much set the tone of this series.
October 15, 2016
I think we actually got some character development of the superhumans in this one!
February 21, 2017
I'm enjoying this series but this volume did tend to jump around a bit at the start and finish. A great solid middle act though. It's going to be interesting seeing where Gillen takes this.
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