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Summary: He's Back
Review: Magneto has returned and a new Brotherhood of Mutants blow up the broklin bridge. The ultimates decide to take the x-men down to for keeping maggs alive. Magnetos costume is much cooler and quicksilver and scarlet witch join up. It had no hulk in it but it says he escaped and at 6 people.And Banner is a vegitarian.The 4 installment is best Wolverine tears into iron man.Storm is clobbered by Thor only to have colosuss smash him up. Then Hawkeye shoots a nuclear arrow. Black widow blows up the x-jet and beast and prof X barely escape. Cap blasts wolverine and Ice-man ices the whole city and wasp captures xavier. It is a great buy
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Summary: The X-Men vs The Ultimates - What more to ask for?
Review: The showdown between the X-Men and the Ultimates in this 4-parter has been commonly terms as lackluste, but I actually enjoy it very much. The sypnosis has already been discussed in other reviews, so I'm just going add some other points that I thought were interesting. I particularly find the choice of "who vs who" very well done. Storm vs Thor, for example, was a clear indication for the weather girl vs the God of Thunder. Colossus taking on Ironman pits a man of steel against another. Also, the pace of the story was good enough to sustain interest in an other weak plot. A highly recommended read.
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Summary: cool
Review: This book is cool, because in the other x-men graphic novels you don't get as much fighting as here. Also you get great characters like: Cap. America, Thor, Hawkeye, Iron Man, and a reference to The Huk. So I'd reccommend it for the price, since it is the cheappest Ultimate X-men graphic novel, even though the story is pretty simple and it doesn't end in the volume, you have to continue in vol.6, The Return of the King.
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Summary: Good But what About Captain Vs. Wolverine
Review: This was a great comic X-Men vs. Ultimates first of all my two favorite characters Colossus and Wolverine were awesome. Colossus beat up iron for a little and then beat up Thor. And wolverine just killed every one in his path. The only thing i really wanted to see was Capn America vs. Wolverine. INsted all the action ends with Capn america playing a mind trick on wolverine then shooting him with a machine gun. Where is the hand to hand combat even though the better fighter is wolverine that would be great stuff ending is awful though
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Summary: Ultimate Farce
Review: When I see colossus kicking Thor ... for ten minutes then I have to laugh. Not on colossus's best day and Thor's worst in any comic timeline or reality. And Wolverine defeating Ironman quickly. Please. These are the Avengers. Wolverine is not in Ironmans league. The Ultimates and X-men battle in the last chapter hardly with much art work depicting it. Artist are getting to fancy for their own good. Lets see blow after blow not one frame. A real stinker. Save your money.
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Summary: This is more of a delaying action that a full out war
Review: You would think that a showdown between the Ultimate X-Men and the Ultimates (the Nuevo Avengers) would offer an epic battle, but instead "Ultimate War" is pretty much a holding action. This trade paperback which is Volume 5 in the "Ultimate X-Men" series collects the four issue mini-series, which follows up on the conclusion of Volume 4 "Hellfire & Brimstone" where Magneto remembers himself and prepares to put humanity in its proper place. In the wake of the revelation that the Mutant Master of Magnetism was not killed and that Charles Xavier had lied about Magneto's true fate, the X-Men join the Brotherhood of Mutants on the government's hit list and the Ultimates are sent to bring them down.Of course the lineups of the two groups is substantially different from the first time they fought in "The Avengers" #53, with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Black Widow added on one side and Wolverine, Storm, and Colossus on the other. More importantly, it takes the Ultimates until issue #4 to track down the X-Men, although the Ultimates do get to tangle with Magneto when Daddy Dearest comes looking for Pietro and Wanda (I do hope that Magneto really is their father this time around because that would be a pretty good change from the first time through the Marvel Universe). Writer Mark Millar and artist Chris Bachalo reduce the "war" to a series of one-on-one battles: Iron Man vs. Colossus, Thor vs. Storm, Captain America vs. Wolverine, and the Wasp vs. Professor X. The problem is that they all take place in one issue, which means we only get a couple of pages for each confrontation. To quote Xander: "Big overture, little show." The biggest problem with "Ultimate War" is that the mini-series is hamstrung from the beginning: not much can actually happen because the big showdown with Magneto has to be with the X-Men. The end effect is not a complete reset to where we started, but its is close all things considered. There are also some implications for down the road, such as when Captain America recalls Wolverine as Corporal James Howlett of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (of all of the new and improved Marvel Superheroes in this Ultimate book the one I like the most is Cap; the living legend is now much more of a pragmatist than an idealist, which makes perfect sense for somebody who fought Hitler and the Nazis during World War II). Consequently, it is not like you can skip this without being at something of a disadvantage when the story continues in "The Ultimate X-Men," which is precisely the point of such mini-series.
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Summary: This is more of a delaying action that a full out war
Review: You would think that a showdown between the Ultimate X-Men and the Ultimates (the Nuevo Avengers) would offer an epic battle, but instead "Ultimate War" is pretty much a holding action. This trade paperback which is Volume 5 in the "Ultimate X-Men" series collects the four issue mini-series, which follows up on the conclusion of Volume 4 "Hellfire & Brimstone" where Magneto remembers himself and prepares to put humanity in its proper place. In the wake of the revelation that the Mutant Master of Magnetism was not killed and that Charles Xavier had lied about Magneto's true fate, the X-Men join the Brotherhood of Mutants on the government's hit list and the Ultimates are sent to bring them down. Of course the lineups of the two groups is substantially different from the first time they fought in "The Avengers" #53, with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Black Widow added on one side and Wolverine, Storm, and Colossus on the other. More importantly, it takes the Ultimates until issue #4 to track down the X-Men, although the Ultimates do get to tangle with Magneto when Daddy Dearest comes looking for Pietro and Wanda (I do hope that Magneto really is their father this time around because that would be a pretty good change from the first time through the Marvel Universe). Writer Mark Millar and artist Chris Bachalo reduce the "war" to a series of one-on-one battles: Iron Man vs. Colossus, Thor vs. Storm, Captain America vs. Wolverine, and the Wasp vs. Professor X. The problem is that they all take place in one issue, which means we only get a couple of pages for each confrontation. To quote Xander: "Big overture, little show." The biggest problem with "Ultimate War" is that the mini-series is hamstrung from the beginning: not much can actually happen because the big showdown with Magneto has to be with the X-Men. The end effect is not a complete reset to where we started, but its is close all things considered. There are also some implications for down the road, such as when Captain America recalls Wolverine as Corporal James Howlett of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (of all of the new and improved Marvel Superheroes in this Ultimate book the one I like the most is Cap; the living legend is now much more of a pragmatist than an idealist, which makes perfect sense for somebody who fought Hitler and the Nazis during World War II). Consequently, it is not like you can skip this without being at something of a disadvantage when the story continues in "The Ultimate X-Men," which is precisely the point of such mini-series.
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