Ultimate Marvel Storytime
>What's being storytimed?
Ultimate Marvel, later known as Ultimate Comics, was an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics, featuring re-imagined and updated versions of the company's superhero characters from the Ultimate Universe. The imprint was launched in 2000 with the publication of the series Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men, providing new original stories for the characters. The Marvel Multiverse, which comprises an infinite number of galaxies and alternate universes, calls this universe Earth-1610.
>Why are you doing this?
Because there's a lot of good stuff that people ignored that deserves recognition and even the bad stuff can be fun.
>Why this order?
I originally planned on doing USM to Death of Spider-Man, but I want to do the rest now. I've separated things into groups for convenience.
>Where can I catch up?
Right here http://pastebin.com/NfBDHt1X
We're in the final phase of the storytime.
The Ultimates #1-13
The Ultimates 2 #1-6
The Ultimates Annual #1
Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk
The Ultimates 2 #7-13
The Ultimates 2 Annual
Supreme Power #1-6
Doctor Spectrum #1-6
Nighthawk #1-6
Supreme Power #7-18
Hyperion #1-5
Squadron Supreme #1-7
Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk #1-4
Ultimate Power #1-9
Squadron Supreme #1-12
Supreme Power #1-4
Ultimate Human
Ultimate Captain America Annual
Ultimate Hulk Annual
Ultimates Saga
The Ultimates 3
Ultimate Origins
Ultimatum
Ultimate Armor Wars
Ultimate Avengers
Ultimate Avengers 2
Ultimate Doomsday
Ultimate Captain America
New Ultimates
Ultimate Thor
Ultimate Avengers 3
Ultimate Avengers vs New Ultimates
Ultimate Fallout
Ultimates #1-18
Ultimates #18.1
Ultimates #19-24
Ultimate Comics Iron Man #1-4
Ultimates #25-30
Hunger #1-4
Cataclysm #0.1
Cataclysm: Ultimates #1-3
Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand #1-5
Survive
All-New Ultimates #1-12
Ultimate FF #1-6
Ultimate End #1-5
>>83256641
This is some good decompressed Millar edgefest.
>>83256958
Wait until we get to Avengers.
boomp
>>83257276
Thanks
Asshole Cap revived
>>83256641
The last great Avengers comic.
>>83257809
>what is Mighty Avengers?
>>83257809
>>83257846
Ultimates 1 and 2 are fucking great.
If not for the iffy art Ultimate Galactus would rival them
>>83256641
Fuck yeah ultimates
>>83258559
Bump
Thanks for this storytime OP. I'm just finishing up Ultimate X-Men.
I just got to say the last two years. The Big Two and Marvel especially have taken the wind out of my sails and I almost gave them up entirely. But this storytime has reinvigorated my love of comics.
Honestly, I just really needed to say thank you. You're going the lords work /co/mrade
>>83258697
That's great to hear anon! Thanks for joining us.
Probably dumb question, but you gonna do Ultimate Galactus between this and Ultimates 2?
That's where it fits chronologically.
>>83258611
Bruce had the best arc going from 1 to 2
>>83258885
Yes
>>83256732
>>83258885
Also Bruce has the best arc period. From Millar to Fialkov.
I always liked Ultimate Hulk. He was pretty terrifying.
>>83259155
Agreed.
But within the confines of Millar's even, it's just such a kick thatthe Hulk becomes a better person when Bruce gets his shit together.
>>83256641
IT'S YOU AGAIN!! Thank you in advance for storytiming.
>>83259281
That was really cool, but what about that gash on his cheek?
>>83259467
No problem!
>>83259565
It's stitch up
>>83259981
The Power Trio in the good days
I remember I had a friend
Oops, forgot the auto was on kek. I had a friend who loved Joss Whedon and she had pulled this off the shelf after the Avengers came out and saw he wrote the intro to it. She got to this issue and was like "everyone is just a massive prick except Jan and Hank, I like these two a lot. Like lights in the darkness". I got to watch her face drop as she read this issue. It's really great stuff, but man is is it edgy,
>>83257763
He comes from Brooklyn.
>>83260247
Hank gets so much more entertaining in Ultimates 2
>>83260725
I agree andI like where he goes in Ultimates 3 and his redemption in Ultimatum. pls no bully
>>83259853
#GiveJarvisABoyfriend
>>83261006
Nah, I can't abide by that.
His and Janet's story had so much more potential and Ultimates 3+ was just a waste of it.
Also, fun fact, the intro to this issue inspired the opening scene of the movie version of Watchmen
>>83261047
>Watchmen
Meant Wanted, fuck.
In a Moore thread too, wires got crossed.
>>83261047
>Also, fun fact, the intro to this issue inspired the opening scene of the movie version of Watchmen
Huh, I can totally see that, but never knew it.
>>83261081
But this makes way more sense kek. I was stretching really hard with Comedian's death
>>83261091
Haha, meant Wanted.
Some panels are lifted verbatim by the movie.
Especially Widow's jump
>>83259055
ahh the classic
i forgot how good/bad this was
I feel like the Ultimates gets a bad rap now. It's very much of its time, of course, but it's a pretty good satire of the Avengers while working as an Avengers story.
>>83260954
The cover that defined Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch for a generation. Or at least for Jeph Loeb.
>>83261626
Millar knew enough to keep it hinted and then have her ask out Vision on a date.
Loeb was a fool
>>83261477
It's the best/worst
>>83261131
I liked Wanted the movie, never read the comic.
>>83261626
Millar introduced the incest, Loeb just ran with it.
>>83261664
Wanted the comic has a misunderstood message, but how it transmits that message is pretty shit.
>>83261626
I was reading Joe Casey's "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" series the other day and that gave me a new appreciation for Millar. That's a 616 story but it tries to retell the early days of the Avengers as if they made sense in the real world, and it's mostly a lot of pointless additions to stories that weren't supposed to make sense.
Millar at least has a POV on the Avengers and superheroes, it may be dated but it works.
>>83261716
Sounds like typical Millar kek
>>83261748
Yeah.
Millar having the Avengers being soldiers just as susceptible to toyetics and special interest groups/agendas in a post 9/11 climate...has a certain focus that works when you were there
>>83261663
But Vision is a chick.
>>83261798
That reminds me, whatever happened to that comic he was doing that he said was basically Ultimates 3?
>>83261816
Not that Vision.
The one Hank Pym created BASED on that Vision.
Something I never noticed until I read Ultimate Galactus later.
>>83261842
Abandoned
>>83261897
Are you gonna do the issue wherethe team + the yuros gang up on Thor? I loved that one when I was a kid
>>83261856
You sure that's not Ultron?
>>83261958
Gonna try to.
>>83256732
>>83261986
Check it if you want
Hank had 2 robots with him
Ultron and The Vision Mk. II
Wanda flirts with the Vision Mk. II
>>83262016
I remember the two robots, but swore they were identical
>>83262093
They are.
If you want to get technical Hank Pym calls them "Ultron Models" or some such.
But explicitly names one as "The Vision Mk. II"....which Wanda then asks out on a date
>>83260247
Tony and Thor never really registered as jerks to me, Thor was an annoyong hippie at his worst and Tony just didn’t give a fuck and was a hedonist with brain tumor and was pretty much RDJ Tony monus the jerk.
>>83260247
>>83260276
>>83260302
Honestly this three get along better than their MCU counterparts, at least
>>83262204
Yeah, Tony and Thor are absolutely amigo-tier in Ultimates 1 and 2...and sometimes after that.
Thor is literallyJesusand Tony is just trying to get some good doing done while he can.
>>83262140
And then it falls in love andI love Ultimates 3 okay. There, I admitted it. It's loud, it's dumb, and a lot of it doesn't make sense, but dammit if it isn't fun.It's not a good comic and I would never say it is, but I love it and am perfectly okay knowing I'm in the minority. I feel the same way about Ultimatum. I absolutely understand the hate for them but they're like Transformers: Age of Extinction, there's some dumb charm to it that draws me in.Storytimed ruin, hate me all you want.
I don't really hate any Ultimate story. Even Kirkman's stuff got redeemed by Spencer and this is all shit I grew up on so it's all very nostalgic for me. I love the best and I love the worst. Fuck Marvel for ending it.
>>83262204
>>83262261
Why CAN'T the MCU have these kind of interactions? I feel like the closest we got to the team feeling like friends is the hammer scene.
>>83262310
Well, I hate Evil Reed and think it was a dumb development...so we're both minorities
