Ultimates 3 - Thumbs Down

I absolutely loved Ultimates and Ultimates 2, and even though I'd heard bad things I still had faith in Ultimates 3, so much so that I bought the hardcover version of it last week. Well, my faith was destroyed when I got round to reading it yesterday. OK, so maybe destroyed is a bit harsh because the artwork was pretty damn good. The story however, well, it was over-complicated and seemed to pay no attention to wha had gone in the previous instalments. Jeph Loeb took over from Mark Millar as the writer and it shows, big time.

Luckily Mark Millar is back on board for the next stage which is Ultimate Avengers - looking forward to it already!

Happy Early Birthday Marvel

As a fairly new reader of Marvel comics I can't recall much of the past 70 years of Marvel, but 70 years is indeed the landmark that Marvel will be celebrating in 2009. Click through to a larger version of the graphic above and you'll see a few of the plans Marvel have announced so far.

Most exciting to me is the Marvel Masterworks in paperback format. As awesome as the Masterworks are, and I even have the first Spider-man volume, they are pretty expensive in their native hardback format.

As you would expect, the characters featured in the 70th Anniversary logo are the subject current Marvel film franchises or in the case of Captain America and Thor, upcoming films.

Superhero eat flesh!

Continuing the previous blog's discussion of combing two great things...

Marvel Superheroes + Zombies = MUCH FUN!

Previous Marvel Zombie series have been great and is a nice change of pace from the sometimes overly serious Marvel world, with lots of humour and some great interaction between the different zombie characters.

Preview series 3 here.