Recent content by Captain Brighton

Re: Ultimate Avengers (Discussion & Spoilers) I have very modest whims. I haven't actually read this yet. Flicked through it in the shop. It seemed pretty lightweight for $3.99. Likewise USM, or UCSM, or USM v2.0, or whatever it is. Both seemed OK, but not really worth the price tag...

Re: Ultimate Avengers (Discussion & Spoilers) I'm still depressed about Ultimatum. I've been drinking cocktails in a hot tub surrounded by bikini-clad babes satisfying my every whim for weeks now, and it still won't go away.

This was when Miracleman was still Marvelman; Alan Moore and Alan Davis were working together on Captain Britain for Marvel at the same time that they were doing Marvelman for Warrior. In fact I think that it was a Captain Britain related falling out that soured their working relationship, which...

Has there been any point in the last ten years where the Triskelion hasn't just been destroyed and is in the process of being rebuilt? As far as I can remember, it always looks that way...

Of course, the original, commercially-driven point of the Ultimate Universe was to get rid of all the confusing continuity and so hook in new readers to buying comics that still featured Marvel's big iconic characters (as seen on TV/the movies). That was screwed when a changing cast of writers...

Re: Ultimate Spider-Man Requiem #1-2 The Jonah/Bugle stuff is great, and the MJ/Tony Stark interview. Unfortunately then the majority of the comic is a flashback/ 'untold' tale/Iron Man team-up thing. With Ult Hydra making their rather underwhelming and pointless debut. As Immonen drew the...

Yeah, that Kitty, always with the excuses. Next it would have been, "oh, but I haven't got my superhero shoes on," or somethin'.

My own Alan Moore reference for "Ultimatum as superhero snuff movie" was his take on Captain Britain, actually: specifically, when The Fury was first introduced and we saw him, in flashback, killing off all these superficially disguised versions of British superhero characters from the 1960s...

I must confess, I am still buying it. Partly it's the carcrash syndrome. Partly a bloody-minded, I've started, so I'm damn well going to finish it mentality. And not just for this book, but the whole ultimate universe. I've emotionally invested in these characters, and I want to see it through...

There is definitely a snuff movie element to modern comics. Fans seem to really respond to their favourite heroes being murdered in as sick and sadistic a manner as possible, though it's almost always in some alternate timeline. I trace this back to the success of Claremont's X-Men Days of...

Just reading that is painful when you think about what could have been.

Re: "People seem to be digging Ultimatum.." What he meant was, people are digging a very deep hole in which to bury Ultimatum. Forever.

I agree with the principle, but you can't have a dark side without the light. Meaning, that to have a specific thread for the haters presupposes that anyone has anything good to say about Ultimatum on the main thread. Therein lies the fatal flaw! I'll try to think of something nice to say...

I actually thought this was okay, considering. I should say first of all that I like Ultimate Spiderman. Pretty much all of it. I don't think there's been a bad issue. It may never have been GREAT great, but it was always pretty good, in my opinion. Which I realise puts me in a minority...

Was Magneto singing old Byrds songs to himself just before all the good guys came crashing in through various windows? Hey, who should be in the team to go get the master of magnetism? How about guy with metal skeleton, guy with metal armour, guy with metal guns and metal arrows, guy with...