Oh wow, really? Now I feel as if Earth X has lost some of its luster.
No...the Earth X Asgardian "aliens" were much more deep than just being aliens...and the whole reason they had their powers was explained as well.
Oh wow, really? Now I feel as if Earth X has lost some of its luster.
I also like having Wonder Man build up to be a stereotypical villain and then have him sell his tech. I always wondered why villains didn't just sell their goodies and forget about vengeance (who really seeks that anyway in real life?).
I also think getting the Ultimates back with SHIELD opens up the characters available for play. They have Vision, Falcon, Mahr Vehl, Betty, Fury, Hank, the money and power to hide Hulk, She-Hulk, Carol Danvers, and every SHIELD personnel you could want. Having them leave SHIELD cut the supporting cast down to nothing but Happy since Jarvis died.
Is my idea perfect? No. Just threw it together right here. I also thought about making the Ultimates into an allegory for the real life Blackwater Worldwide but it would take more thought to figure out what to do with them once you've made them basically amoral mercs who work for governments after all the events of Ultimates 2.
Thinking about it, another thing that Loeb has totally ignored:
Humanity spends thousands of years fighting and debating about whose religion is true and real, but no one religion can ever "win" because no religion can ever produce definitive evidence that there god is the true god.
Then one day the Norse gods just come strolling in on a rainbow bridge to save America.
How could the confirmation of the existence of Asgard and the Norse gods not be the BIGGEST ****ING THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THAT THROWS EVERY RELIGION INTO COMPLETE UPHEAVAL?
Remember, this isn't 616 or the DCU, where wacky stuff like this happens all the time. And yet Loeb doesn't even mention it.