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Über #3
Uber, Volume 3
Avec l'apparition de soldats améliorés, la guerre a pris une tournure désastreuse pour les Alliés. Leurs tentatives visant à contrer les redoutables Übers les conduisent alors à mener de nouvelles recherches. Mais les deux camps connaissent de lourdes pertes et les surhumains dévastent le monde entier, provoquant les pires horreurs qu'ait connues l'humanité. Ce volume contient les épisodes #12 - 17.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published March 3, 2015
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October 14, 2021
Tomo de transición después del no parar que habíamos vivido en los dos tomos anteriores, con la carrera armamentística que había comenzado justo antes de la toma de Berlín por las fuerzas aliadas entre todos los contendientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial pero con los nazis a la cabeza y la primera aparición en público de sus superhombres, Siegfrid, Sigmund y Sieglinde. Y en el último número habíamos visto el ataque de Sieglinde a Londres, ataque que le había costado la vida al propio Churchill, mientras en Berlín el propio Sigmund acababa con la vida de Hitler. Así que con los dos titanes descabezados, llegaba el momento de redistribuir el tablero, y en este tomo Gillen, acompañado de Gabriel Andrade y Daniel Gete (Caanan White se lo tomó libre), aprovecha para tomar aire y centrar sus números en cuestiones apartadas del foco central: las investigaciones de Stephanie, la presencia de la pequeña María en Ucrania o la huida de Sieglinde de Inglaterra se convierten en lo focos de la historia, permitiendo explorar nuevos puntos de vista o incluso nuevos proyectos de superhombres y nuevas tácticas que se plantean por uno y otro lado.
La serie es bastante uniforme por parte de Gillen, e incluso en estos números, que son un poco de relleno, el escritor se ha guardado sus giros y sus sorpresas, y incluso alguna de las de dejar la boca abierta, pero aunque Andrade y Gete hacen un buen trabajo, yo he echado mucho de menos a Caanan White y de ahí que haya bajado un poco las estrellas... Pero la verdad es que mola mucho. Muchísimo.
La serie es bastante uniforme por parte de Gillen, e incluso en estos números, que son un poco de relleno, el escritor se ha guardado sus giros y sus sorpresas, y incluso alguna de las de dejar la boca abierta, pero aunque Andrade y Gete hacen un buen trabajo, yo he echado mucho de menos a Caanan White y de ahí que haya bajado un poco las estrellas... Pero la verdad es que mola mucho. Muchísimo.
September 12, 2022
Rating 3 out of 5| Grade C-; Interlude
Mature content warning. Graphic Violence & Nudity
The book Uber, Volume 2, ended at a highpoint for the Nazis, who, thanks to the solo assault of Battleship Sieglinde, managed to destroy the heartland of London, as well as assassinate Winston Churchill. This action, while holding little value strategically, nevertheless send eaves across the lines, earning a highly anticipated Symbolic victory for the Germans. And we all know how much the Nazis put emphasis on looks.
The Allies, reeling from this humiliating defeat, not to mention the loss of one of the pillars of democracy, throw their entire naval might to try and annihilate the weakened retreating Sieglinde. Only to be thwarted by the sudden arrival of the newly introduced Blitzmensch who can serve as one man long distance artillery units, shooting devastating halo energy from afar, and destroying a good part of the British homefleet. Also allowing Sieglinde to escape.
Elsewhere the Allied Panzermensch research group, with double agent Stephanie, code breaker Alan Turing facing setback after setback, along with the sole defective allied Battleship, now christened HMH Churchill, try to outmaneuver the initial scientific advantage that the allies have in terms of the Ubermensch, by trying to design new variants of Tank-men; Destroyers & Frigates, which lie in power between the tank men and Battleships. All the while the former double agent has to deal with the PTSD of being an evil nazi scientist for better part of the war.
All the way out in Soviet Russia, Maria Andreevna, having developed as a Battleship & escaped the Gulags, is dictating her own terms. She can afford to, as the powers which she can manifest, far outstrip even the strongest German Battleship. Including being able to manifest and transmute everyday objects into catalyst. Her actions for the future are worthy of attention.
Back to the Western front, the introduction of Blitzkrieg, complemented by Tank men, has allowed the Germans to deploy small groups of human artillery formations, which infiltrate allied lines, and reach within visual distance of high value targets. This visual range allows them to deploy their halo fields on long range, and to essentially destroy entire cities from afar.
Allied armor, airforce and naval defenses were essentially rendered ineffectual due to their presence. Although the allies are able to retaliate using tactical formations of their own, as well as exploiting the weakness of the specific panzer mensch, they have a long way to go.
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Gillen has added another piece to the smorgasbord of allied and axis Ubermensch, each able to counter another variant in a war game version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
So far, the newly introduced Blitzmensch (human artillery), are ranged units able to take out targets from afar. But are quite weak at close ranges.
They can be countered by deploying your standard force of well rounded tank-men, as the Blitzmensch have only minimal physical enhancements to compensate their overpowered ranged abilities.
Tank men, while strong against the Blitzmensch, find themselves prey to the physically superior Super tankmen, who are often tagged with the Blitzmensch for protection.
The lumbering behemoths that are super tankmen, are in turn vulnerable to the long range devastation delivered by the Blitzmensch.
Rock, paper, Scissors
Panzermensch, Blitzmensch, Heavy tankmen
This volume largely serves as an interlude after the significant events of Volume 2, where most players returned to their corners and are busy preparing for the next move.
The Germans, despite having tactical superiority, are still facing long term disadvantage in front of the considerable allied forces, not to mention their geographical low ground. They are still looking at a situation where the edge they got due to the Ubermensch is being fast closed by the allies.
The Allies, despite having suffered continued losses, hold on; partly due to their superior numbers and resource bases, as well as the inability of the reminder of the German military to capitalize on their advantage.
The Soviets, despite scoring the first significant blow to the German battleships, have yet to follow up on that initiative. They have yet to get fully involved in their renewed rules of engagement.
Imperial Japan to the East, is largely absent from this volume. Here's hoping to see more of the Kamikaze Panzermensch, and possible the first Japanese Battleship.
On other news, at the expense of being called a simp, Sieglinde squarely falls into the Even though I hate everything about her ideology, I'm still smitten by her category. I mean, can you really blame a man?; she's like a wicked wonder woman! Closer to maybe Queen Maeve.
Mature content warning. Graphic Violence & Nudity
The book Uber, Volume 2, ended at a highpoint for the Nazis, who, thanks to the solo assault of Battleship Sieglinde, managed to destroy the heartland of London, as well as assassinate Winston Churchill. This action, while holding little value strategically, nevertheless send eaves across the lines, earning a highly anticipated Symbolic victory for the Germans. And we all know how much the Nazis put emphasis on looks.
The Allies, reeling from this humiliating defeat, not to mention the loss of one of the pillars of democracy, throw their entire naval might to try and annihilate the weakened retreating Sieglinde. Only to be thwarted by the sudden arrival of the newly introduced Blitzmensch who can serve as one man long distance artillery units, shooting devastating halo energy from afar, and destroying a good part of the British homefleet. Also allowing Sieglinde to escape.
Elsewhere the Allied Panzermensch research group, with double agent Stephanie, code breaker Alan Turing facing setback after setback, along with the sole defective allied Battleship, now christened HMH Churchill, try to outmaneuver the initial scientific advantage that the allies have in terms of the Ubermensch, by trying to design new variants of Tank-men; Destroyers & Frigates, which lie in power between the tank men and Battleships. All the while the former double agent has to deal with the PTSD of being an evil nazi scientist for better part of the war.
All the way out in Soviet Russia, Maria Andreevna, having developed as a Battleship & escaped the Gulags, is dictating her own terms. She can afford to, as the powers which she can manifest, far outstrip even the strongest German Battleship. Including being able to manifest and transmute everyday objects into catalyst. Her actions for the future are worthy of attention.
Back to the Western front, the introduction of Blitzkrieg, complemented by Tank men, has allowed the Germans to deploy small groups of human artillery formations, which infiltrate allied lines, and reach within visual distance of high value targets. This visual range allows them to deploy their halo fields on long range, and to essentially destroy entire cities from afar.
Allied armor, airforce and naval defenses were essentially rendered ineffectual due to their presence. Although the allies are able to retaliate using tactical formations of their own, as well as exploiting the weakness of the specific panzer mensch, they have a long way to go.
______________________________
Gillen has added another piece to the smorgasbord of allied and axis Ubermensch, each able to counter another variant in a war game version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
So far, the newly introduced Blitzmensch (human artillery), are ranged units able to take out targets from afar. But are quite weak at close ranges.
They can be countered by deploying your standard force of well rounded tank-men, as the Blitzmensch have only minimal physical enhancements to compensate their overpowered ranged abilities.
Tank men, while strong against the Blitzmensch, find themselves prey to the physically superior Super tankmen, who are often tagged with the Blitzmensch for protection.
The lumbering behemoths that are super tankmen, are in turn vulnerable to the long range devastation delivered by the Blitzmensch.
Rock, paper, Scissors
Panzermensch, Blitzmensch, Heavy tankmen
This volume largely serves as an interlude after the significant events of Volume 2, where most players returned to their corners and are busy preparing for the next move.
The Germans, despite having tactical superiority, are still facing long term disadvantage in front of the considerable allied forces, not to mention their geographical low ground. They are still looking at a situation where the edge they got due to the Ubermensch is being fast closed by the allies.
The Allies, despite having suffered continued losses, hold on; partly due to their superior numbers and resource bases, as well as the inability of the reminder of the German military to capitalize on their advantage.
The Soviets, despite scoring the first significant blow to the German battleships, have yet to follow up on that initiative. They have yet to get fully involved in their renewed rules of engagement.
Imperial Japan to the East, is largely absent from this volume. Here's hoping to see more of the Kamikaze Panzermensch, and possible the first Japanese Battleship.
On other news, at the expense of being called a simp, Sieglinde squarely falls into the Even though I hate everything about her ideology, I'm still smitten by her category. I mean, can you really blame a man?; she's like a wicked wonder woman! Closer to maybe Queen Maeve.
November 15, 2022
This series has been the best blend of superheroes and war in a comic that I have encountered. Very realistic action scenes, so that can lead to a move graphic visual than most are used to in comics. Interesting storyline and ideas. Very recommended
April 7, 2015
Pretty much the same as my previous reviews. It's the story that keeps me coming back rather than the art, but I like it well enough.
December 2, 2017
The Allies are in a bit of trouble. After the devastating attack on London and the death of Winston Churchill at the hands of the Battleship Sieglinde, everyone has been left reeling. The Germans are not holding back and they are making steady advances in developing their Übers compared to everyone else. They are pulling ahead and if England or Russia or the United States does not do something soon, Germany could win the war. Stephanie, the scientist and double agent on the side of the angels has an idea why this is though. Despite every breakthrough that the Americans make, the Germans are always a step ahead and there can only be one reason why. One terrible and mortifying reason… a traitor.
Three collections in and Über continues to be as inventive and innovative as it was in the beginning. With Kieron Gillen at the helm chronicling a history where the world is in an arms race of a very different kind, he does what most would not and gives the Germans the advantage. Because of that, it creates a world that is on the brink of exhaustion. The war has lasted a very long time and every nation upon the Earth has taken heavy losses. If any one of them were to give up, it would make everything that they have gone through for nothing and in the end that is unacceptable. After Sieglinde’s brutal assault, the world is staggering, for if she can do that, if Germany can accomplish something this unfathomable in the heart of a major city and to a world leader with just one Battleship, the question on everyone’s mind is what is going to follow and what else can they do?
Gillen uses this volume to give a more in depth look at Stephanie who is frustrated that what she is doing is making little headway against the Germans. She has made a breakthrough, one that could turn the tide of the war, but as soon as she reveals what she knows, the Germans then make the very same discovery. The only difference between what she is doing and what the Germans are accomplishing is the final outcome of the experiments. Where Stephanie is able to enhance the bodies of the men, or women, the German scientists are able to do a similar job except with the powers that their men hold. It is an advantage that the Reich uses without compunction as they not only have superior Battleships, but now they have their Blitzmensch who are able to strike from afar, like super-powered snipers. It is an advancement that the Allies soon feel the sting of when their fleets start to get torn apart as if they were nothing but paper.
The way Gillen writes this series is probably one of the better things about it, switching styles in the book off and on, from a character’s narration to a third person narrative like a newsreel or a History Channel program. It is a very interesting way of relating the information to the reader and while it might seem a little strange at first, almost like reading a textbook at times, the uniqueness of it works in its favour and does so quite well. In fact, it becomes quite thrilling and fairly suspenseful as you know when you get to these parts within the story that big things are going to be happening, even if it is presented in a more, matter of fact way. It is definitely a different way of telling a tale in comics these days, giving it that big-screen, larger than life feel and is refreshing to say the least.
The book is not all about what Stephanie or the Germans are up to as we get a little bit of story concerning Katyusha, one of the few remaining Soviet weapons as well as finding out what Leah, the American’s Heavy Battleship, looks like, which is really not all that good. There is a lot going on and Gillen, Daniel Gete and Gabriel Andrade pack the book full of action, intrigue and machinations by everyone whether good guys or bad guys. You can guess where the story is going, or at least where it is going to end up because no matter how dark the story is or how dominating the villains, the good guys always win. At least, almost always. As it is, we will find out soon enough if that comes to pass.
Three collections in and Über continues to be as inventive and innovative as it was in the beginning. With Kieron Gillen at the helm chronicling a history where the world is in an arms race of a very different kind, he does what most would not and gives the Germans the advantage. Because of that, it creates a world that is on the brink of exhaustion. The war has lasted a very long time and every nation upon the Earth has taken heavy losses. If any one of them were to give up, it would make everything that they have gone through for nothing and in the end that is unacceptable. After Sieglinde’s brutal assault, the world is staggering, for if she can do that, if Germany can accomplish something this unfathomable in the heart of a major city and to a world leader with just one Battleship, the question on everyone’s mind is what is going to follow and what else can they do?
Gillen uses this volume to give a more in depth look at Stephanie who is frustrated that what she is doing is making little headway against the Germans. She has made a breakthrough, one that could turn the tide of the war, but as soon as she reveals what she knows, the Germans then make the very same discovery. The only difference between what she is doing and what the Germans are accomplishing is the final outcome of the experiments. Where Stephanie is able to enhance the bodies of the men, or women, the German scientists are able to do a similar job except with the powers that their men hold. It is an advantage that the Reich uses without compunction as they not only have superior Battleships, but now they have their Blitzmensch who are able to strike from afar, like super-powered snipers. It is an advancement that the Allies soon feel the sting of when their fleets start to get torn apart as if they were nothing but paper.
The way Gillen writes this series is probably one of the better things about it, switching styles in the book off and on, from a character’s narration to a third person narrative like a newsreel or a History Channel program. It is a very interesting way of relating the information to the reader and while it might seem a little strange at first, almost like reading a textbook at times, the uniqueness of it works in its favour and does so quite well. In fact, it becomes quite thrilling and fairly suspenseful as you know when you get to these parts within the story that big things are going to be happening, even if it is presented in a more, matter of fact way. It is definitely a different way of telling a tale in comics these days, giving it that big-screen, larger than life feel and is refreshing to say the least.
The book is not all about what Stephanie or the Germans are up to as we get a little bit of story concerning Katyusha, one of the few remaining Soviet weapons as well as finding out what Leah, the American’s Heavy Battleship, looks like, which is really not all that good. There is a lot going on and Gillen, Daniel Gete and Gabriel Andrade pack the book full of action, intrigue and machinations by everyone whether good guys or bad guys. You can guess where the story is going, or at least where it is going to end up because no matter how dark the story is or how dominating the villains, the good guys always win. At least, almost always. As it is, we will find out soon enough if that comes to pass.
March 29, 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 managed to win the Second Battle of Kursk with massed penal battalion Ubers disabling Battleship Siegmund. The one Soviet agent not to be deployed, the late-activating Soviet Sniper "Katyusha" Andreevna, broke out of her gulag and headed off into the wilderness...
The counter-offensives reach a peak with a terror attack, where 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. Churchill's final order to Stephanie was to avoid deploying the still incomplete Heavy Battleship Leah Cohen.
The war carries 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 disarray following the deaths of their respective leaders, Adolf Hitler and Winston S. Churchill. Their scientists are slowly improving the technology to create the superhuman soldiers and new variants are heading to the battlefield. However, do the Allies have an ace hidden up their sleeves?
An intense read. 4 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 managed to win the Second Battle of Kursk with massed penal battalion Ubers disabling Battleship Siegmund. The one Soviet agent not to be deployed, the late-activating Soviet Sniper "Katyusha" Andreevna, broke out of her gulag and headed off into the wilderness...
The counter-offensives reach a peak with a terror attack, where 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. Churchill's final order to Stephanie was to avoid deploying the still incomplete Heavy Battleship Leah Cohen.
The war carries 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 disarray following the deaths of their respective leaders, Adolf Hitler and Winston S. Churchill. Their scientists are slowly improving the technology to create the superhuman soldiers and new variants are heading to the battlefield. However, do the Allies have an ace hidden up their sleeves?
An intense read. 4 stars.
November 17, 2022
3.5 I think when you first start this series its just gore alternate WWII oh the Nazis have super soldiers, then oh the allies do too, but by this volume it grows beyond the blood and dismemberment and becomes interesting war strategy with side quests of people caught up in this different kind of arms race... Pretty brilliant but some pages are just info dumps which keep this from getting that fourth star, or more ....
December 19, 2020
This continues to be a fun look at supermen as weapons in WWII, with the ongoing "arms race" between Germany and the Allies (with the Soviet Union and Japan also pursuing their own enhanced soldiers). The artwork was a real step up this time around.
August 20, 2017
While this moves the technological and military story arcs in necessary ways, this has been the weakest of the series.
I did very much appreciate the Virginia Woolf reference.
I did very much appreciate the Virginia Woolf reference.
July 5, 2018
This series continues to be disgusting in all the best ways.
March 6, 2019
Škoda, že celý UBER nemá tak 5x tolik dílů. Celé vyprávění dává tušit epické škále na které se může odehrávat (čtyři hlavní mocnosti, tři hlavní fronty) a bojím se, že bude zákonitě utnuté.
October 31, 2020
It's nice. WW2 taking a drastic turn. The UK hitting Germany hard, the Germans hitting the British back.
August 25, 2022
Troska slabší diel ale stále dobrý
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 15, 2017
This series just keeps getting better! I felt like there was a lot more action in this volume, with greater plot intrigues weaved more naturally into the story. On the down side, during the first quarter I found some of Stephanie's 'ask me what my first memory is' nonsense really stifling and failing to achieve...well whatever it was the author intended other than pretentious boredom. The rest of the book more than makes up for it however, with an amusing tale about Maria 'protecting' an elderly couple on a farm and, my personal highlight of the series so far, The Battle of Southend-On-Sea, which includes a cameo from Dad's Army character Captain Mainwaring (or so I'm convinced).
January 24, 2016
Not as big, shocking, or powerful as Vol 2, but it is still really good--an excellent series so far. The fill-in artists were also very good, keeping it consistent. Maria is the best character--we need more of her.
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March 30, 2016The landscape continues to darken, as Nazi Germany regains the lead in the superhuman arms race. It takes a special and terrifying set of skills to create ways in which the Second World War could have been this much worse.
February 21, 2017
This continues to be an inventive and enjoyable read.
December 2, 2015
Not as great as volume 2 but still great, one weird note, it's really hard to tell the female characters apart.
December 13, 2015
Still a decent idea but seriously a very bloody book. I hope we see some progression of the story next time because this trade did not move things along much
September 30, 2016
Suffers a little from the more frequent shifts in viewpoints, but another good volume of this monstrous epic.
March 25, 2017
(See my review of this series' first volume for a warning of some aspects that you might find objectionable.)
This series continues to broaden its horizons, and while there is still a lot of research that is fueling this story, inevitably we're getting more and more away from history as we know it.
But I can't stop reading.
This series continues to broaden its horizons, and while there is still a lot of research that is fueling this story, inevitably we're getting more and more away from history as we know it.
But I can't stop reading.
April 6, 2017
Each side keeps escalating the conflict. I don't know where it's going to end. It's M.A.D. but with ubermensch instead of nuclear weapons.
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