What The Hell Happened To Ultimate Spider-Man?
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- Ultimate Spider-Man quickly became a lot of Marvel Comics fans go-to comic. Great art, interesting story and fun action separate from most of the drivel released by modern Marvel or DC. But this weeks Ultimate Spider-Man took a break from what makes the series great. Ultimate Spider-Man is 30 pages of people eating while having awkward conversations about everything but Spider-Man. To put it simply, Ultimate Spider-Man #4 is an enormous letdown. Wes reviews Ultimate Spider-Man #4 and explains why this issue misses the mark in every way conceivable. What the hell happened to Ultimate Spider-Man?
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God forbid a comic series takes an issue to slow down and focus more on character development and exposition instead of nonstop action
Yeah sometimes you need those quiet moments in comics. Anime fans hate to hear this but you need filler sometimes. Otherwise you blow your load too quick
Yeah. But you know, still needs to be well written and interesting.
It may be the comic book equivalent of "My Dinner with Andre" but it's still a zillion times better than anything Zeb Wells has ever written.
That's why you read the decades of great comics instead of reading Chip Zdarksy, Joshua Williamson, Hickman, McKay because "at least it isn't Cody Ziggler."
Yeah, at start I was thinking "oh no, not eating," but then I got hooked in all the character dynamics and scheming going on and suddenly the comic was already done. Shows good writing can make anything interesting.
Zeb Wells did great work in Marvel before the wokeness, you just didn't read it. Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock is easily one of the best DD stories since Miller's run.
Agreed
@@SpikeValentine Yeah, I remember really liking his New Mutants run from 15 years ago. I think the only current-day Zeb Wells I've read is Hellions and I found it very annoying and stupid.
Geez not every issue needs action. I like these kind of stories that help build up and expand the characters, Most of Spider-Mans best moments comes from issues without action every panel
Bruh stfu. We need this type of stuff to love these characters more. We need to see them actually together. Otherwise they're bland characters that we don't care for
Personally, I liked the issue. Yeah its filler, but it gives a nice look at how Peter and Harry’s relationships are handled. It could’ve used maybe some slight Spider-Man presence since each issue is going by a monthly timeline; and it would help to see how much is Peter learning as Spider-Man between issues since “The Masked Man” is continually referenced but one of the last times we see Peter as Spider-Man, he’s still getting the hang of coming to full stops at the end of his web swinging.
Other than that, its seems like this issue is meant to instill Peter that sense of purpose to even become Spider-Man since he’s just operating as a vigilante because young Tony Stark told him too.
Filler? How? Gwen was introduced and the “with great power comes great responsibility” speech is all important in Spider-man lore
@@spider9886 No one is denying that. I’m saying filler in relation to that the book takes place entirely in location at a dinner table with everyone talking and nothing more outside of showcasing the relationship dynamics between Peter/MJ and Harry/Gwen.
@@Apeirophantthat’s still not filler, this issue has more substance and development than every other issue before it
The comments sound so doom post worthy. A single exposition chapter isn't cause for calling the book trash and talking about dropping the line. I will say, Hickman is a bit notorious for relationships being eh
I really like this series, especially Ultimate Spider-Man vol.3.
I like when Peter swinging together with his daughter, May.
I just freakin' love it!
There's no way you will get these kind of lighthearted moment at Amazing Spider-Man books.
Issue 4 was great! Peter actually having a loving wife is a win.
I will say two things:
1. I like how this issue showed the vast priority difference and life difference between Harry and Peter, especially in their relationships/marriages. Slow paced, odd art here and there and everyone loves watching characters eat, but it did its job nonetheless.
2. Funny how you mention your hairstyle when I’m watching your video in the barbers shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut 😂
This was actually a solid non action issue imho. Plus this type of scene should flow well in the trades but I will admit I would’ve felt a tad robbed if I bought this for 5 buck$
Agreed
Unfortunately, I paid the $5 for this, and sadly this was better than most modern comics that I have read. Just read the Immortal Thor book with the nice Alex Ross cover of the Enchantress ripping up the first Thor book. Unfortunately, that book is just a cover.
Hickman is known for the "slow burn", but I agree - we need a little meat on the bone each issue to keep us invested. The first couple issues were great, because though the action was light, we got to see Spidey confront Shocker in an interesting way. Hope Hickman kicks things into gear and we start getting some progression, adventure, and COMBAT!
You should have shot this episode sitting in a barber chair, talking to your reflection in a giant mirror. It would take your show to a whole new level. Ask your wife. She would agree.
After reading Ultimate Invasion, I am pretty sure that Hickman's heart is not into these new Ultimate titles from Marvel.
I can see the cracks in the façade. Pretty soon, they'll have Tini Howard or others of the legion to write it.
Would it kill you to Try and be positive!
Honestly, I liked it. Not loved, but liked. Yes, it was awkward. Yes, Harry Came off as a tool and Gwen uppity. Here's why I liked it: when was the last time we got to see Peter....just be Peter? Not having to interrupt dinner and make some lame ass half baked excuse to get away to be Spider-man? We got to see the dynamic of Peter and MJ like how so many of us have longed for for decades. They're strong, marriage hasn't made Peter unlike able or in relate able or a perpetual man-child. I mean the fact that the dinner was bring for both the reader and Peter and MJ as a couple shows how relateable they are.
Maybe, yes, a little early for a "filler" issue like this, but nonetheless I am down for it because it gave me what *I* want, Peter and MJ. For once no villian , Spider-Man (other than convo between Peter and Harry), and no Editor to royaly cuck Peter.
I'm sure Hickman's idea was to show the differences between Peter and Harry...but I can't help but think there was a much better way to do this.
Is this an episode of “days of our lives” ?
is this what happens when my attention span is reduced to none where i can’t even stomach character development? jesus
If you don’t like USM (which the majority does), there’s always ASM for you! :)
Honestly, asking another couple about “When are you having kids?!” is sort of an a-hole thing parent couples don’t realize they’re doing
Yeah the art was the least of my worries. I don’t mind if we have no action in an issue but at least give us something. All it was basically is just small talk at a restaurant.
...and what's going on with MJs hair???
Get used to it, Marvel and DC can't keep it together on any of their books.
There’s a What If? where uncle Ben lived and Aunt May died and it was really interesting how Peter developed a different more assertive personality when Uncle Ben guided him about how to stand up to bullies at school and JJJ’s slander of Spider-Man.
I thought the artwork was weird. Some panels looked too on model with the original artist like they were swiping their head angles, but then when the angle would change the head would get all warped. The women especially sometimes have very distinct on model faces and then other times they’re way off. Like the artist couldn’t find any more reference of the person they were drawing. Then all of the pictures with the girls eating food, putting on lipstick and mj sticking her thumb in her mouth seemed weirdly suggestive haha.
The reason for the wine glasses is simple. It's an attempt to try and make what is a visually disinteresting 9-panel page have some kind of visual flair. I wouldn't doubt it was an artist choice rather than specific to the script, because it would be just mind-numbing to draw the same faces with bland dialog with only the smallest of expressions being warranted. What I see is an artist who feels like they feel they are wasting their time, going through the motions. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like this was more the writer writing for themselves than actually giving something that advances the story.
You know, I like worldbuilding, I like exploring character dynamics, I like character development. So, on paper, none of this sounds bad, but what I think is missing from this is: Tension.
Again, on paper, a scene like this does not require unnecessary drama, life or death stakes et cetera, BUT scenes are supposed have a transition built into them, if the scene starts one way and has not shifted into a different way by the end of the scene, then that scene serves no purpose to the story. it is unnecessary fat. That is what feels lacking here perhaps. No conflict, no friction against the narrative's momentum, nothing that makes it interesting.
Also, comic books are not novels. You don't need "Action" in every chapter of a novel (though it helps). If you expect people to pay money for each issue of a comic book, you have to fulfill the promise made to them and in a superhero that is: you are going to see the superhero punching somebody in here. You always have to try to meet that minimum standard.
But no one should be buying this book anyway. This is not your Spider-Man. This is not main continuity spider-man. This is no one's spider-man. This is glorified fanfiction.
If Gwen Stacy dies---again, if Harry goes crazy as the Green Goblin--again or Peter lying to MJ about being Spider-Man for pointless melodrama---again?
More retreading, no creativity, nothing new, no forward progression, nothing here matters.
It is just another con.
And Peter Parker with a beard is just grotesque. It looks awful & symbolizes how fake this entire book is.
I'd double-like this comment if I could
@@josesarango3408 Thank You, I appreciate that.
Do Marvel or DC have any super hero comic writers left?
Seems to me they have a bunch of people writing vanity projects and slapping on some super hero colored paint over the whole thing. Sure Hickman can keep the paint roughly in the lines but some of them are the literary equivalent of a college undergrad attempting to imitate Jackson Pollock.
Does nobody want to write stories about the good guy triumphing over the bad guy in a showstopping slugfest anymore?
Perhaps the writer either didn't want to put forth the time and energy, and or just didn't have enough creativity to think of a reason other than her being a pretentious jerk for her still being alive in this alternate reality and not being with peter romantically as well having harry still become the green goblin in this alternate reality with the same lackluster thought process in regards his backstory as well!!!
The original Ultimate Spider-Man was this boring as well, go read it again. Classic Bendis.
All of bendis' books are boring are just vehicles for him to fill pages with worthless dialogue..that's why marvel and dc put really good artists on his books..
The art was Le Terrible, or maybe it was just the expressions that threw me off.
Despite the forth issue being OK at best, it’s still a pretty good series in my mind. And as a former baseball player I can just say this you can’t hit a home run all the time you can’t have a great issue every issue just not possible. There’s going to be a down as you were too, I hope this is the one in this run. Anyway I’m still hoping for the best thinking optimistic expecting the worst.
I haven't read it yet . As far as i know Hickman doesn't have any interference from anyone either unlike the spectacular spider men book which i dropped after first issue
Yeah spectacular Spider-Man was a drag. I genuinely do not care about miles and peter being regulars at a coffee shop
@@saiyangoddess4310 I frankly do t care about peter and miles existing in the same universe either that is played out now miles needs to stand in his own two feet
@@thewatcher9500 I’m totally the same way. This series has no real reason to exist and it writes peter horribly
Give it a month and you'll have the "Chris Gore" cut! Thanks again for another great breakdown!
To be fair the original run had multiple issues like this
See, I think you and I are looking for different things in this comic. I loved this issue, and I didn't think it was filler at all. It was dense with character development that helped us see and get to know Peter and MJ, their relationship, and how they interact with others. I want to see that because to me, that IS the heartbeat of Spider-Man that makes the action and the big plot twists worthwhile. To me, character is the meat, and action is the spice. When you make action the meat, with character as the spice, you get Zeb Wells ASM. That's my take, anyway.
What the fuck did you think was going to happen? 😂 Why the fuck are you people still giving them money?
Cuz I thought we were getting something good?
I read for all of the set up and The Ultimate line comics they we're alright. I legit had fun sucks that we are getting this issue.
@@TMF979Resurge I am gamer I learn't to wait. Had to, because buggy releases got to the point of ad nauseam. I am waiting on a seal of approval when the run is finally done. Trade paperback format please.
People pay for a good read. You should try it, you might end up liking it.
@@TMF979ResurgeAre you 12?
happy wife happy life. so my wife tells me.
Oh, what's this. A bait and switch happened. I've been saying this since issue 1. Marvel has done this over and over again. That's why I have my personal rule. Marvel has to make a good comic for 2 years straight. Til I go and buy it. This is something that should be intercutting between the main plot. This is not stuff that can hold an entire issue. Still saying MJ is gonna be killed over a bridge by Harry, as the "twist".
This is why I was waiting for the trade. I don't trust Marvel, no matter who is working on it. The fact Gwen is still alive was a concern, as I was hoping for Peter to just be an older version of who he was. Now I can just see something happening with Gwen dying in some conflict between Peter and Harry, and another dive back into Osbourne/Goblin bollocks.
Yeah new comic guy and a trade paperback guy. Gaming the same always wait. I don't buy into early access gaming that's not finished.
Trade! Forget it! I don’t trust them so much that nowadays I wait until the entire run is over and still consider to get the omnibus or not!
@@kiyankurji67 I like trades I can pick and chose the parts I like that way. Not everything is going to be a re-read. Some stuff is one and done. I donate what I don't keep back to LCS.
Why the fuck would Gwen be dead if he hasn't been Spider-Man up to this point? It makes sense she'd still be alive
@@Mrcool210Low reading comprehension, that's why.
That looks like a Chris Cantwell haircut there.
This comment section is very enlightening.
It seems like some people are desperate to hear their own opinions recited back to them.
I guess that in 10 issues we´ll see The Ultimate Clone Saga... where all Clones will be just eating shawarna for the entire saga instead of fighting Peter.
Also, the Ultimate Black Simbionte saga will beall about Peter and Eddie eating Pizzas for 3 issues.
What’s wrong with the haircut? I think you look very handsome.
What's with MJ's hair? Is she wearing a head scarf?
And Peter's hand at 2:41. The art just isn't working for me here. It looks so bizarre
The great things about this comic are Peter and MJ spending dinner with Harry and Gwen, J. Jonah and Uncle Ben staring their news business online while babysitting May and Richard, Harry telling Peter that he must tell MJ about his Spider-Man identity in order to protect them and to make sure that with great power must come great responsibility, and Peter and MJ spending the last few pages taking a stroll in Manhattan. Overall, this comic is great!
Less yaking, more smacking.
How did the comic writers of yore did it? How did they incorporate character building and action into the scenes? I will wait for the trades as long as this doesn’t drop the ball by the end.
Utterly cretinous video. This is by far the best issue of the series so far, purely because it treats its readers like they have a modicum of intelligence and arent dopamine starved fiends looking for their next action fix. Showing the difference in mindset and beliefs when it comes to heroics between Peter and Harry and touching upon a lot of interesting and very relevant issues faced by many young people today, in the context of the oppressive world that the Maker has created, is important to help us not only understand these characters better and the world they inhabit. Plus it will hit much harder when they inevitably have a falling out and become enemies, with the great power and great responsibility line gaining a whole different meaning.
Is ANYBODY surprised?
What the hell is going on with MJ's hair? Most of the time it looks like she's wearing a shroud to cover her bald head that resulted from her chemo treatments.
This was definitely the weakest issue so far, hopefully the next issues pull it back.
Ive got a possible explanation for the wine glasses. So as an artist at Marvel Comics you want to draw cool stuff. Half a book of talking heads is anything but cool. Todd McFarlane used to do this when he eas working on ASM. He would sometimes draw things like Aunt May reglected in her tea kettle just to give himself something more interesting to draw when it came to talking heads scenes.
Your haircut looks cool. I don't see anything wrong with it.
I didn't think it was that bad. I think the take that it was disappointing is pretty accurate, I enjoyed the comic, but the comic moved the plot forward very little. This is a big issue in general with what I've read of Marvel right now, they seem to have a ton of filler. The Ultimate X-Men Peach Momoko comic #1 was exceptionally bad, it had a total of 814 words in it. Many of them were short or repetitive and the one page with the most words was the a page of the comic with a newscaster recapping everything in the comic so far. I read the whole thing in under 10 minutes easily. I think it was under 5 and I tried to not rush when timing. I got some of the new Ultimate line because of Ultimate Spider-man, but I didn't feel like it was worth the time or money, so I mostly dropped them.
So Gwen and Harry want to have kids, but Gwen's over 30? She's in for a miserable time, if this was real life. Then again, who cares. This is a Spider-Man book, we want Spider-Man. I don't care about this MJ crap. I'm looking for adventure, not home life. There are Manga if you want that stuff.
The whole thing reads like a Hollywoodie's idea of 'the middle class'. This is not Parker's life. Gwen being snippy at MJ for stealing her man (Parker) feels very TV.
I thought it was a fun read but some of the facial expressions were really weird.
Dude, your hair looks great. Kudos to your wife, you look slick and civilized now. It's not a bad look. I didn't get on the hype bandwagon for this book because Hickman, and watching this I'm glad for it, but I will be getting the initial TPB just to check it out. I want Peter and MJ together in the main storyline, accept no substitutes.
The fact that there is a guest artist already shows the ineptitude of Marvel editors. They should have started production on the title quicker. And they want 18 issues of uncanny and X-Men a year? They can't plan their way out of a paper bag there's no way it'll happen there'll be guest artists galore.
I don’t get comic fans they say they want Peter to be happy have a normal life let him have happiness but when they give Peter sum happiness a normal issue of him just having fun with his wife mj like everyone always wanted it boring and stupid didn’t u guys ask for this???
At least read the comments before you decide who everyone is
What a waste of comicbook real-estate, this affirms my choice to stay away from the Tiolet of Ideas for quite a bit of time.
And this is one of the reasons why I have said many times that Hickman is overrated. He is a terrible superhero writer who writes drawn out boring as hell talking head comics with little or no action.
facts
So true. He always does this crap. Spends forever doing set-up, establishing a setting, and introducing ideas... then it goes nowhere. He's not a storyteller. The fact that he's considered a premier "writer" in today's comic industry speaks to how far the bar has been lowered.
Just as an aside in this current period of 3D asset outrage. David Messina lays out his pages in 3D modeler. The characters, the backgrounds, everything. All of his pencils come from an 3D asset program.
That must be why his art looks boring and lifeless..
@@tonyfrickey9062 100%
It was always gonna be bad, but this is just the beginning I'm sure. And Hickman doesn't seem to care in my limited opinion.
I thought it was the best issue so far
I thought it was a fascinating issue. Not every issue needs to be just action. As long as the writing keeps the story interesting, for me its still a good issue. My only gripe with the ultimate universe is the progression of their timeline in actual real world time. Its been months since issue 1 and we are just getting snippets on what is really happening with these characters.
Maybe Peter dodged a bullet when it comes to Gwen 😂
I thought it was a great episode, interesting to see deeper into the mindsets of these characters because they're new. Weve seen a million fight scenes before
I read the whole thing thinking, "can't wait for green goblin spider-man stuff" , then it ended
And this is why it's better as a trade paper back so while the art is still good the story was more less a slice of life issue. Not hating it but it's more like a filler issue.
Bothers me that Harry is the one to tell Peter about power and responsibility. Its like everyone in the multiverse knows that 'with great power must come great responsibility' EXCEPT Parker? Not even sure Harry is the bad guy. ''Its institutional, its systemic''. Maybe Hickman learned more from his X-Men Krakoa co-writers than they learned from him. I liked the art though.
10:07 eh I like 616 when MJ knew Peter was Spiderman they even did the same thing in original ultimate
Well not every issue has to be some ground breaking story piece. You establish certain characters knowing other certain characters, and lay ground work for what may come down the road. Hard to get upset just because we have a "pause" issue here if I interpret what Wes is saying in the video. I think not much more needs be said. I doubt a bunch of people are going to dump the book simply because Hickman told this story in this issue. However yeah, the artwork didn't feel right after those first 3 issues. But one issue of fill in again is no reason to over react. WTF20.
Wes just got the ",silky smooth"
So if you drew Gwen like Liz Allen in Ultimate Spider-man....she would just be a meaner version of Liz Allen?
what i mean of course, is that if she's NOT going to have any characteristics that define her as "Gwen Stacy", why bother calling her "Gwen"?
@@sweatyheroes4560She wasn't sweet in her Ditko version.
Do we all forgot how slow the OG ultimate Spider-Man was? That took forever to make any progress, so taking a moment to develop character is important.
I disagree. MJ and Peter were hooking up and breaking up every month.
The ultimate universe made a lot of characters jerks or villains. So if anything I’m not surprised that they made the sweet Gwen Stacy a mean upper class person. Second keep the beard let it grown out
I can tell my wife that when I would get drunk and be disagreeable that I was just being "Ultimate" me.
I remember how Stan used to apologize for having too much conversation with stuff like "And before you think this book has become a soap opera, back to the action..."
Borefest issues like this are why I quit buying new comics back in the 2000s and why only geriatrics buy them now.
very accurate recollection of what Stan believed a good comicbook should be (and I agree)
I'm no Geriatric, but the fury I feel when saying " To think of all the time and $$$ I've wasted on you!!!!"
@@LowellLucasJr. For real. And keep in mind, Stan was apologizing for the TWELVE CENTS ($1.21 in today's money) people spent on the book.
He would build up backstory like this dinner party over two or three issues. New writers are so busy unloading 20 page expositions to see that is exactly why the industry shrunk.
It's easier to find new vinyl records than new comic books. That's how awful things have gotten.
Low attention span
@@Courier_333 The current sales and interest speak for themselves.
One day the industry will run out of divorced dentists with unread pull lists.
OR to shake things up, MJ is the one who dies instead of Gwen, Gwen learns it was Harry, leaves him and that sets Harry down the dark path. Ben and JJJ are the Aunt May characters in raising the kids while Pete does other things. May eventually becoming MayDay like in Spider-Girl. Take the expected and turn it on its head. Still have the events but not how they are in 616.
This feels more like either a slow burn OR a calm before the storm.
It was nice FINALLY knowing what MJ's business is.
#5 will be focusing on Harry and his story, while Peter comes clean to MJ and Richie.
Will he tell Ben? Who knows. I have a feeling by #6 thinks will pick up and we won't get a calm until #11- or #12.
I didn't realize Marvel owned the rights to Mary Worth
Something like this used to exist between two fights in an issue. I like it but not as a whole issue. If I know my modern comic sensibilities Harry will be fridged and Gwen will become the Goblin.
Honestly I thought the dialogue was great and it was good issue to introduce Gwen and show her mindset and the conversation between Peter and Harry was interesting. The double date in general did well to highlight the contrast of their situation.
People writing off the comic because of this issue are just being myopic. Not every issue has been like this. There has been action, major plot d developments, or both in each issue before this, but i can understand why someone would be disappointed if they got this issue individually. Its good to have character development and more dialogue driven scenes but its reasonable to be disappointed if this was all we got before haivng to wait a month for the next issue reading on the trade would prevent that problem.
Personally I love ultimate Spider-Man it’s really awesome and badass and amazing.
It was baaaaad... I think Hickman is trying to set up the next few issues backstory, with much more action needing less explanations; and having this one like the calm before the storm. But who would pay for a monthly issue of this?! (I read them online)
He might be writing the story as a graphic novel, like for a volume, but he knows he has to release it as a monthly comicbook, and this seems like a big screw up on him and the editing team: they should've split it in two, or find a different way to convey the information and impressions. That's precisely what editors are paid for.
Disappointed. Next issue better be great, otherwise Im dropping it (even when Im reading it online 😂)
The way MJ's hair was colored during her bathroom chat with Gwen was mesmerizingly bad. Just look at those hard outlines on what I presume are meant to be gradations of light and try to justify the ongoing employment of whoever inked, colored, and ultimately edited that mess. 🤢
Ugh.
Is it me or do the hands looks extra fucked up in this issue? In an action scenes you can get away with the fingers being so spread out they look dislocated, but in calm scenes like these they stand out like a sore thumb (pun not intended). I dare anyone to try replicate the hand gesture Peter does in the upper left corners at 2:50 without puling a muscle. Also, the proportions on Gwen's hand in the middle bottom panel at 4:01 are downright cursed, just look at how tiny and vestigial her pinky looks next to the rest of her fingers! That shouldn't look like that, especially with how her pinky is closer to the "camera" than the rest of her fingers.
Sounds like the curse of decompressing storylines is still going strong at Marvel. Hope things works out for fans of the book. I ain't sticking around for it though. Neither of the big two can be trusted to keep a good thing going and I don't want to be around when the axe drops.
I just read it - it was fine. I've no objection to a talking heads issue once in a while and David Messina's art was perfectly good too. Comics aren't always about fight scenes with no character. But obviously don't do it this slow every issue.
Remember brother, Hickman.
Slow burn.
Let’s just hope we get back to normal with the next issue
Today on Thinking Critical. Haircuts and beards. :) Also Green Goblin's revenge on Spider-man. Norman buys a bigger tv! lol Thank you Wes and I wish you success on the tv. The haircut and beard trim do make you look younger. Issue sounds like bad self insert filler. This issue, the Parkers are alcoholics at dinner.
It's a good change of pace story as long as it is an every once in a while occurrence. The biggest problem was the Mary Jane art.
So did the timeline changed because why is Uncle Ben alive!?
I'm currently reading the earth x trilogy and I'm so amazed at how many things from those books that are in later marvel books and now thats including gwen and Harry's marriage
The issue was fine. I expected some insufferable slice of life issue, but it was fine. I had no problem with them slowing it down, and still adding something to the story.
I liked the back half of the issue a lot more than the first half. I did love tje differences between the two couples; Peter and MJ are more grounded and down to earth whereas Harry and Gwen care more about their achievements. Also, giving Harry the "With Great Power" speech felt a lot more sinister than hopeful.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about the art. At times, it looks good but there were a few panels that looked not finished.
Also Wes, your hair looks great. Listen to your wife.
There was a Hellblazer one-shot called Heartland, I think, by Garth Ennis, which just had John Constantine's Irish girlfriend talking to people for the whole issue but it was really well done and well received by fans. It needs a master writer to pull it off though. Maybe all this stuff is just trying to copy Love and Rockets.
Hickman like alot of "writers" is more of an idea guy and less of a actual writer.. jaime hernandez would have done so much a entertaining comic of 4 people having dinner..
The art looks pretty boring...im sure boring people who like mundane stories will love this...super hero comics seem to have become super slice of life stories...bendis started this crap..
yup
My lcs owner said Ultimate Spider-man is still getting a good reception. Not the time to jump ship on that yet Wes. Now Bloodhunt, Marvel is coming for your veins, extending the story parts out even more!