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Ultimate X-Men (Collected Editions) #18
Ultimate X-Men, Vol. 18: Apocalypse
The sinister Shadow King is desperate to escape from the mental prison he was placed in centuries ago - and he'll destroy Storm to do it But will his freedom also unleash the horrifying swarm of the alien Brood? And will even the X-Men be enough to battle a being who has plotted our death and destruction for ages?
Collecting: Ultimate X-Men 89-93
Collecting: Ultimate X-Men 89-93
126 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2008
About the author
Robert Kirkman
2,647 books6,612 followersRobert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.
Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.
In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.
Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.
In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.
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July 18, 2021
I thought this was interesting especially when readers truly find out the role that Bishop and Cable play into the entire narrative. Clearly everyone was working together to make sure Charles was strong enough to fight the coming of Apocalypse. However, this work suffered greatly from pacing issues. In four quick issues we see Apocalypse come and then Jean/Phoenix comes and saves the day. I think I was waiting for a much bigger build up and I didn’t get that. I don’t feel like readers learned enough in this volume but the artwork was good and for someone who may be knew to XMen and wanted to learn more about the Ultimate run, this may be a good option.
August 12, 2021
This was pretty awful.
Opening with a terrible Shadowking story with a dumb as fuck twist that made no sense. Then we get right into Apocalypse. And You can tell Kirkman didn't want to write this. Kirkman has been very vocal about his time at Marvel and especially near the end of his time there, and how awful the mandates and forced editorial were So this was for sure shoved into his face to do because Apocalpyse appears and dies within 70 pages...what a useless character in this universe.
On top of that, you have Jean's phoenix story here but it's so...blah. Like it's a literal "Restart" button BUT guess what? There's only one more volume of this series before Ultimatum and they do another restart there so...
Yeah this was shit to put it nicely. Also the art was meh, with faces ugly as can be.
Opening with a terrible Shadowking story with a dumb as fuck twist that made no sense. Then we get right into Apocalypse. And You can tell Kirkman didn't want to write this. Kirkman has been very vocal about his time at Marvel and especially near the end of his time there, and how awful the mandates and forced editorial were So this was for sure shoved into his face to do because Apocalpyse appears and dies within 70 pages...what a useless character in this universe.
On top of that, you have Jean's phoenix story here but it's so...blah. Like it's a literal "Restart" button BUT guess what? There's only one more volume of this series before Ultimatum and they do another restart there so...
Yeah this was shit to put it nicely. Also the art was meh, with faces ugly as can be.
December 8, 2017
Continuing the trend of rather bland stories this updated Apocalypse arc underwhelms. Now, I have to admit never being a huge fan of this X-villain, but at least in the past, he was written in a manner that was intimidating. Here he is a one dimensional bore-fest.
The other problem is the fact the art isn’t as outstanding to me as previous volumes.
The other problem is the fact the art isn’t as outstanding to me as previous volumes.
December 1, 2011
This is the third part of Robert Kirkman’s final three arc story on Ultimate X-Men, a nostalgic retelling of the Nineties X-Men stories and characters. This is supposedly where everything he has been building up in his entire run pays off. But I’m afraid the reader would think that the ending is rather abrupt and made inconsequential everything in the last two arcs that came before this.
It was indeed a disappointing way to end a story that had much promise.
It was indeed a disappointing way to end a story that had much promise.
July 20, 2016
Apocalypse was boring, but that's hardly new. The worst part was just how closely he aligns with the original version of the character. He was far more interesting as the probable hallucination of a mentally unstable murderer. Shadow King was boring, but that isn't new, either. Making him a jealous ex-lover of Storm's is weirdly reductive for a character who was so powerful in his original form, but I guess it means it gets him out of the way quickly. Jean finally becoming Phoenix was, sadly, boring, but it shouldn't have been. Probably because she just transformed and flew away. Ok? It's a shame that so many important threads all coming together at once made for such a dull book.
August 7, 2023
This may be the worst thing published under the Ultimate imprint, and yes, I do realize how big a statement that is.
September 11, 2023
Apocalypse est enfin là, mais d'abord le passé de Storm revient la hanter pour une issue, au final pas vraiment intéressante... Le Shadow King était teasé depuis un bon moment, mais au final l'origine de ce personnage est bancale et ne présente finalement pas un si grand danger que ça.
Kirkman conclut donc son run avec une adaptation du personnage d'Apocalypse à la sauce Ultimate. Le terrain avait été préparé depuis le premier arc de Vaughan, The Tempest, avec l'implication de Sinister, supposé tuer 10 mutants afin de faire revivre Apocalypse. C'est chose faite dans ce volume, et Apocalypse renaît, plus puissant que jamais, si bien que les 4 Fantastiques sont aussi obligés d'intervenir.
Même si ses motivations sont bateaux, on ressent bien la puissance d'Apocalypse, de même que celle du Phoenix, qui dévoile enfin sa réelle puissance après plus d'une soixantaine d'issues de frustrantes apparitions par intermittences dans le corps de Jean Grey (bien que l'incertitude sur l'existence de l'entité dans Phoenix, le premier arc de Kirkman, était intéressante). On se demande toutefois pourquoi ajouter toutes ces machinations temporelles entre Xavier, Cable et Bishop si Phoenix possède un tel pouvoir (+ Xavier dans un mécha, mauvaise idée). Tout ce build-up n'a donc pas servi à grand-chose.
On verra où le reset button utilisé par le Phoenix nous mènera.
Aussi, bizarre d'un point de vue continuité, Pyro est toujours en bonne santé et membre des X-Men, donc cela suggère que ce volume se déroule avant Ultimates 3, où Pyro , mais Susan Storm mentionne aussi au tout début d'Ultimates 3
Graphiquement, ce volume est bon avec Larroca aux pinceaux, puis Tolibao sur la dernière issue, qui a de moins bons visages je trouve mais dessine bien Phoenix et Apocalypse. Les arrières-plans mériteraient peut-être un peu plus de travail tout de même.
Kirkman conclut donc son run avec une adaptation du personnage d'Apocalypse à la sauce Ultimate. Le terrain avait été préparé depuis le premier arc de Vaughan, The Tempest, avec l'implication de Sinister, supposé tuer 10 mutants afin de faire revivre Apocalypse. C'est chose faite dans ce volume, et Apocalypse renaît, plus puissant que jamais, si bien que les 4 Fantastiques sont aussi obligés d'intervenir.
Même si ses motivations sont bateaux, on ressent bien la puissance d'Apocalypse, de même que celle du Phoenix, qui dévoile enfin sa réelle puissance après plus d'une soixantaine d'issues de frustrantes apparitions par intermittences dans le corps de Jean Grey (bien que l'incertitude sur l'existence de l'entité dans Phoenix, le premier arc de Kirkman, était intéressante). On se demande toutefois pourquoi ajouter toutes ces machinations temporelles entre Xavier, Cable et Bishop si Phoenix possède un tel pouvoir (+ Xavier dans un mécha, mauvaise idée). Tout ce build-up n'a donc pas servi à grand-chose.
On verra où le reset button utilisé par le Phoenix nous mènera.
Aussi, bizarre d'un point de vue continuité, Pyro est toujours en bonne santé et membre des X-Men, donc cela suggère que ce volume se déroule avant Ultimates 3, où Pyro , mais Susan Storm mentionne aussi au tout début d'Ultimates 3
Graphiquement, ce volume est bon avec Larroca aux pinceaux, puis Tolibao sur la dernière issue, qui a de moins bons visages je trouve mais dessine bien Phoenix et Apocalypse. Les arrières-plans mériteraient peut-être un peu plus de travail tout de même.
May 8, 2021
This was definitely one of the best Ultimate X-Men volumes in a long time. Very interesting plot with the back-and-forth, generally good art, etc. - it all seemed to fit together rather well. It started off a bit slow and scattered plot-wise, but then built up into action-packed for the last few issues. The artist also started off with a bit less consistently good art (his human characters and perspectives were sometimes just not top-notch), but got better by the end with some excellent panels that complemented the story/action really well and increased the intensity of it all... Though why they decided to switch artists for the last issue in this volume, I have no idea (though at least that guy did an overall very good job too). Regardless, the epic level of the action and the good art by that point was very interesting and overall enjoyable.
January 10, 2020
A massive letdown after the previous two Kirkman volumes, this story sort of reimagines the Age Of Apocalypse / pre-Onslaught era of the X-Men. But where the previous volumes felt compact and well-thought out, this felt like Kirkman had to throw a bunch of storybeat together to reach his intended climax. He undid nearly all of the interesting character work he'd set up, and left a flat emotionless ending to a reinterpretation of two of the most powerful X-Men stories of all-tme ("Age Of Apocalyse" and "The Phoenix Saga".
This is a very skippable volume. I imagine many of the developments will be undone in the remaining volumes.
This is a very skippable volume. I imagine many of the developments will be undone in the remaining volumes.
August 18, 2020
They just can't seem to finish these arcs in a satisfying way. It started off really well and they did a good job at escalating the situation as soon as Apocalypse appeared, but it stopped just as fast as it happens and in the end felt very anticlimatic. Here's hoping the next arc is more engaging, because considering THAT's the huge event the guys from the future wanted to prevent I found it pretty disappointing. Not because the villain wasn't worth the set-up but because it ended too unspectacular for the build-up to be worth it. Still some great art and some cool moments in this.
October 30, 2017
The two best X-Men stories ever are "God Loves Man Kills" and "The Dark Phoenix Saga." Ultimate X-Men is wise to steer clear of both but even hinting at The Dark Phoenix Saga feels like a mistake and tying it in with the appearance of Apocalypse does both story lines a disservice by not giving room enough for either.
June 22, 2020
Two dangling threads: the goofy and stupid Mr. Sinister and the Phoenix come colliding head to head.
And neither one really makes sense or comes to a full conclusion except that the Sinister/Apocalypse story ends.
There are a couple of "big" or "fun" moments, but it's not a great book. Not Kirkman's fault that he had to put away these broken toys.
And neither one really makes sense or comes to a full conclusion except that the Sinister/Apocalypse story ends.
There are a couple of "big" or "fun" moments, but it's not a great book. Not Kirkman's fault that he had to put away these broken toys.
May 1, 2021
Sementara Storm berhadapan dengan musuh dari masa lalunya, rencana Cable dan Bishop terus berjalan. Apocalypse akhirnya bangkit kembali setelah Sinister berhasil menunaikan tugasnya menumbalkan sepuluh nyawa mutan. Terbukti kemudian Apocalypse benar-benar kuat hingga dibutuhkan kekuatan Phoenix untuk mengalahkannya.
October 8, 2021
Llega Apocalipsis y cuando la derrota parece inevitable surge una fuerza con forma de pájaro para enfrentarlo. Kirkman cierra su etapa y deja una sensación de "esta bien pero no tan bien". Salvador Larroca demuestra como se dibujan los X-Men y todo conduce al final de los Ultimate X-Men, las cosas solo pueden empeorar.
September 11, 2018
All in all, I actually really liked Robert Kirkman's run. I mean, it feels like his whole run took place over a long weekend, it moved so fast. This volume isn't the best of his work, but it's blockbuster action.
July 15, 2021
Big bad guy comes,
big bad guy goes.
The end.
big bad guy goes.
The end.
April 8, 2022
A fairly blah version of a fairly huge villain. It feels like they're trying to adapt as many non-Ultimate storylines as they can before Ultimatum.
March 1, 2023
The changes to Apocalypse are interesting but it goes nowhere.
June 21, 2023
They did the Phoenix saga dirty and they also did my boy Apocalypse dirty.
December 13, 2023
Well, that was terrible.
August 21, 2012
Stuff I Read – Ultimate X-Men 90-94
Well here it is, Hickman’s finale to his run on Ultimate X-Men. And really, it delivers as far as bringing everything back together. The action opens with events surrounding Mr. Sinister, who faked his own death and managed to get himself free. He is still seeking to finish his mission to deliver ten mutant souls to Apocalypse, so he goes off in search of the Morlocks. Once he finds them all hell breaks loose. The X-Men arrive on the scene and give battle with Sinister, only Bishop kind of turns on the others and lets Angel get killed because it means that Apocalypse’s ascension is one that they knew about and planned for. Which makes his subsequent death at Wolverine’s hands kind of deserved, but at the same time a bit of a waste. It is the battle that comes next that really makes the arc what it is. Sinister transforms into Apocalypse and begins his rampage while the X-Men struggle to contain him. Apocalypse here is an incredibly physical threat as well as a mental one, as he can force people to his will.
The battle itself is huge. It quickly pulls in the Fantastic Four and Ultimates as some X-Men are taken over by Apocalypse and others must continue to try to fight. Apocalypse is a more interesting villain here, in my opinion, than in the normal Marvel Universe, because here he is not only a survival of the fittest kind of bad guy. Here he actually steals mutant powers, making them his own, so that he has control over how strong he becomes. Seeing Wolverine deal with this is quite interesting, and we are treated to seeing how the transformation of Wolverine to Cable might have happened in the alternate future Cable is from. And the battle is epic, but only really picks up once Professor X and Cable return to the present to take up the fight as well. It is interesting to note that Professor X is supposedly the only mutant that should have been able to Apocalypse, and yet even with the extra help from Cable he ends up failing. Perhaps it is just who he is, the eternal loser, but Professor X turns out to be too weak, and the X-Men seem doomed.
Which is when Hickman pulls out the card that he had been simmering in his back pocket for a while, and that is Phoenix. While her application of deus ex machina is nothing really new, this does seem more of a legitimate pay off because this has been hinted at for quite some time, and definitely from the very beginning of Hickman’s run. She explodes in power and puts Apocalypse in his place, taking away all of his power and illusions and leaving him with nothing. She then proves her own powers by effectively resetting time a bit. She admonishes Professor X for not doing more with his gift and not making the world a better place and then just takes off into the stars. The X-Men are retuned to normal, and some to life, and at the end of the issue Professor X informs everyone that they are going to change the world. It is an incredibly optimistic end in a series that has tended much more to brooding.
But the ending just works. It doesn’t feel cheating in any way. Indeed, it is quite critical of most of the characters in the book, who the Phoenix shows have done little to make the world a better place. They are tasked with trying, and we see the potential to the X-Men all together again. It is hilarious to here Pyro worry about his place on the team, and it is refreshing to see that Hickman seems to have been setting up a new status quo and team. And it leaves the series much better than when it found it. New villains have been met and overcome while old enemies have been revived, enemies have become allies and new faces have joined the team. It is just good story-telling, and it is great to see that most of the characters grew during their time under Hickman. It is a rewarding ending, and I have to give it a 9.25/10.
Well here it is, Hickman’s finale to his run on Ultimate X-Men. And really, it delivers as far as bringing everything back together. The action opens with events surrounding Mr. Sinister, who faked his own death and managed to get himself free. He is still seeking to finish his mission to deliver ten mutant souls to Apocalypse, so he goes off in search of the Morlocks. Once he finds them all hell breaks loose. The X-Men arrive on the scene and give battle with Sinister, only Bishop kind of turns on the others and lets Angel get killed because it means that Apocalypse’s ascension is one that they knew about and planned for. Which makes his subsequent death at Wolverine’s hands kind of deserved, but at the same time a bit of a waste. It is the battle that comes next that really makes the arc what it is. Sinister transforms into Apocalypse and begins his rampage while the X-Men struggle to contain him. Apocalypse here is an incredibly physical threat as well as a mental one, as he can force people to his will.
The battle itself is huge. It quickly pulls in the Fantastic Four and Ultimates as some X-Men are taken over by Apocalypse and others must continue to try to fight. Apocalypse is a more interesting villain here, in my opinion, than in the normal Marvel Universe, because here he is not only a survival of the fittest kind of bad guy. Here he actually steals mutant powers, making them his own, so that he has control over how strong he becomes. Seeing Wolverine deal with this is quite interesting, and we are treated to seeing how the transformation of Wolverine to Cable might have happened in the alternate future Cable is from. And the battle is epic, but only really picks up once Professor X and Cable return to the present to take up the fight as well. It is interesting to note that Professor X is supposedly the only mutant that should have been able to Apocalypse, and yet even with the extra help from Cable he ends up failing. Perhaps it is just who he is, the eternal loser, but Professor X turns out to be too weak, and the X-Men seem doomed.
Which is when Hickman pulls out the card that he had been simmering in his back pocket for a while, and that is Phoenix. While her application of deus ex machina is nothing really new, this does seem more of a legitimate pay off because this has been hinted at for quite some time, and definitely from the very beginning of Hickman’s run. She explodes in power and puts Apocalypse in his place, taking away all of his power and illusions and leaving him with nothing. She then proves her own powers by effectively resetting time a bit. She admonishes Professor X for not doing more with his gift and not making the world a better place and then just takes off into the stars. The X-Men are retuned to normal, and some to life, and at the end of the issue Professor X informs everyone that they are going to change the world. It is an incredibly optimistic end in a series that has tended much more to brooding.
But the ending just works. It doesn’t feel cheating in any way. Indeed, it is quite critical of most of the characters in the book, who the Phoenix shows have done little to make the world a better place. They are tasked with trying, and we see the potential to the X-Men all together again. It is hilarious to here Pyro worry about his place on the team, and it is refreshing to see that Hickman seems to have been setting up a new status quo and team. And it leaves the series much better than when it found it. New villains have been met and overcome while old enemies have been revived, enemies have become allies and new faces have joined the team. It is just good story-telling, and it is great to see that most of the characters grew during their time under Hickman. It is a rewarding ending, and I have to give it a 9.25/10.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 17, 2016
Well... here it is. A little late, but who really cares? I'm finally review X-Men: Apocalypse to tie in to the film of the same title being released.
I was planning on reading Volume 17 sooner, but Sentinels seems to be in the same grubby child's hands that prevented me from reading Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol. 1, and Star Wars Legacy Vol. 6 until almost a year later. I'll review Sentinels when I get it.
But, hey! Something big happened between volumes 16 and 18 that immediately pissed me off. Spoilers from here on out...
Hank McCoy is alive. Robert Kirkman, you bloody wanker, I oughta slap you. Not only did I get faked out that a comic writer actually had the balls to kill Professor X but didn't... but now, he's resurrecting long dead characters. F***ing wonderful.
I'd say this is the big payoff for all the build-up... but there really hasn't been much build-up for this, has there? Just a hint with Essex earlier in the series, and then a ton of meandering around (some good meandering, some bad), until this eventual series climax. It seems a little odd to come out of nowhere, especially with all these characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to be called out for about five seconds to handle the problem.
It's incredibly dumb, schlocky comic book fighting and overdramatic dialogue at it's worst. It's strange to see Kirkman handling the reins so well, and then sending his metaphoric carriage into a massive snow pile. There's no attention to characters (save for the little bit of Storm's development in the unrelated first issue), no real drive to defeat Apocalypse, and nothing interesting in the fights or conflict.
It's sad that this normally climactic and weighty confrontation was so poorly handled... both in the comics and in the film that came out a little earlier. I liked how X-Men Evolution handled it, but I've also heard about how fantastic the holy series known at the 1990's X-Men Animated series is, so who knows? Maybe it actually is that good.
I was planning on reading Volume 17 sooner, but Sentinels seems to be in the same grubby child's hands that prevented me from reading Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol. 1, and Star Wars Legacy Vol. 6 until almost a year later. I'll review Sentinels when I get it.
But, hey! Something big happened between volumes 16 and 18 that immediately pissed me off. Spoilers from here on out...
Hank McCoy is alive. Robert Kirkman, you bloody wanker, I oughta slap you. Not only did I get faked out that a comic writer actually had the balls to kill Professor X but didn't... but now, he's resurrecting long dead characters. F***ing wonderful.
I'd say this is the big payoff for all the build-up... but there really hasn't been much build-up for this, has there? Just a hint with Essex earlier in the series, and then a ton of meandering around (some good meandering, some bad), until this eventual series climax. It seems a little odd to come out of nowhere, especially with all these characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to be called out for about five seconds to handle the problem.
It's incredibly dumb, schlocky comic book fighting and overdramatic dialogue at it's worst. It's strange to see Kirkman handling the reins so well, and then sending his metaphoric carriage into a massive snow pile. There's no attention to characters (save for the little bit of Storm's development in the unrelated first issue), no real drive to defeat Apocalypse, and nothing interesting in the fights or conflict.
It's sad that this normally climactic and weighty confrontation was so poorly handled... both in the comics and in the film that came out a little earlier. I liked how X-Men Evolution handled it, but I've also heard about how fantastic the holy series known at the 1990's X-Men Animated series is, so who knows? Maybe it actually is that good.
August 18, 2010
I'll start off by saying, firstly, that I never liked Apocalypse. I always thought the character design was cool, but the actual character is just a hollow, all powerful bad guy with designs for world domination. His dialogue consists of nothing more than variations of this phrase: "You are fools to think you can defeat me!" His Ultimate counterpart is, disappointingly, not very different. Most of this book is spent watching Apocalypse effortlessly wail on all of the Marvel heroes (except for the Ultimates), until he is defeated by the Phoenix. On this note, the conclusive issue of the Apocalypse arc was illustrated by Harvey Tolibao, and let me just say, it is laughably awful. There is such a thing as putting WAY TOO MUCH DETAIL in one's art, especially when you can see every fucking sinew of a character, even though they are just wearing a casual t-shirt. He goes so overboard trying to draw every detail of a person's face, they faintly resemble Freddy Kreuger. It's just bad. Salvador Lorrica, however, did a fine job, and it boggles my mind why they'd bring in this pinch hitter for the climax of such a huge arc.
BTW, the Shadow King stuff was crap too. I always hated Storm, and thought her past in the original Marvelverse was uninteresting, but they managed to make it even more so by making the Shadow King an ex-lover who somehow gained supernatural mastery of the dreamworld. Anyway, this volume of Ultimate X-Men is a good quick read, but nothing really special, and kind of a wasted opportunity to totally revamp a popular X-Men villain.
BTW, the Shadow King stuff was crap too. I always hated Storm, and thought her past in the original Marvelverse was uninteresting, but they managed to make it even more so by making the Shadow King an ex-lover who somehow gained supernatural mastery of the dreamworld. Anyway, this volume of Ultimate X-Men is a good quick read, but nothing really special, and kind of a wasted opportunity to totally revamp a popular X-Men villain.
September 3, 2015
The culmination of Kirkman's run the journey too this point has been mostly fun it is a bit of a shame the ending is a bit of a let down. Mostly the story is there to facilitate a final show down, it is a bit of a shame that culmination of this is a big reset button.
The art across the editon is up and down Larroca and Tolibao really bring the action scenes to life but the reinterpretation of the characters at the end is weirdly grotesque which I don't believe is intended.
All in all a little disappointing the perivous stories promised so much but this slightly failed to deliver.
The art across the editon is up and down Larroca and Tolibao really bring the action scenes to life but the reinterpretation of the characters at the end is weirdly grotesque which I don't believe is intended.
All in all a little disappointing the perivous stories promised so much but this slightly failed to deliver.
September 21, 2008
Read during the great blackout of '08...
Desperate for more reading material during the power outage, I grabbed this new collection, knowing full well that I had not read the last five or six. Say what you will about the Ultimate line of comics, they are fairly easy to dive into without a lot of catching up beforehand. Of course, that could be because the book itself is pretty much all action and explosions and very little exposition.
Desperate for more reading material during the power outage, I grabbed this new collection, knowing full well that I had not read the last five or six. Say what you will about the Ultimate line of comics, they are fairly easy to dive into without a lot of catching up beforehand. Of course, that could be because the book itself is pretty much all action and explosions and very little exposition.
July 30, 2011
Not even fan-favorite writer Robert Kirkman can fix the train wreck that the Ultimate X-Men have become. Bishop is still leading a team of unproven soldiers as the X-Men (Pyro - really?) and Storm is dealing with the revelation that Beast is not dead, and neither blue nor furry. Between a mental plane revamp for the Brood and Shadow King to the time-travel armor for Professor X and Cable, the end result of Apocalypse is a reboot. Let's hop Ultimate X gives us a true Ultimate X-Men...
April 30, 2013
The first issue in this volume was filler with the Shadow King, I felt that the amount of time given to this character is not enough compared to its original counterpart. The main arc is about Ultimate Apocalypse. He is obviously an evil entity. I liked that he could control mutants and that his immense power brought out the Phoenix. I wish more was done on this iconic villain.
January 8, 2009
I've liked this series so far. This offering just seemed to be a bunch of pieces thrown together without anything to make them gel together. There were some bright points, but otherwise disappointing.
January 21, 2018
Book Info: This collection contains
Ultimate X-Men
issues #89-93.
ABSOLUTE RATING: {2+/5 stars}
STANDARDIZED RATING: <2/5 stars>
ABSOLUTE RATING: {2+/5 stars}
STANDARDIZED RATING: <2/5 stars>
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