Ultimates 3 #1-2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

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Ultimately incestuous! Ultimately banal! Ultimately confusing! Originally uploaded January 25th, 2010. RUMINATIONS: Doing Ultimates 3 before doing Ultimatum was just as much for myself as it was for the audience. At the time, I was under the impression that people didn't want to hear about the comics history and just wanted to get on with the reviews (hence the creation of the Continuity Alarm - it wasn't there whenever a continuity issue arose; it existed to prevent me from talking about excessive continuity instead of getting on with it). However, as I've brought up on many occasions, I'm not a fan of the Ultimate Universe. I'll freely admit that Ultimate Spider-Man is great. I've read some of it and it's good stuff, but it's not what I'm looking for in a Spider-Man comic because I'm not really all that interested in all his teenager issues. However, the rest of the Ultimate Universe? Eesh. Admittedly, I haven't read very many of the other titles, but everything that I've read about them (and what I HAVE read) does not paint a picture of the kind of universe I'm interested in. It's written like an excuse to have every kind of dark, sadistic, overly gruesome and violent and "shock" idea put to paper all in the veneer of being "mature." The Ultimates is probably one of the prime examples of that. It's so... joyless. They're not BAD, but they're not anything I really want to reread any time soon. And so walking into Ultimates 3 knowing what was decent beforehand was just... blegh. And the people needed to see some context before Ultimatum got reviewed... like, a year or two later. Whoops. This part contains one of my favorite jokes I've ever made - "OH MY GOD HE ATE TOO MUCH PUDDING." I did multiple takes of this line because I loved it so much that I wanted to get it just right. And the results speak for themselves.