So Red Skull is Cap's son. Don't spoiler it for me, I've only got that far.
OK, already spoiled in a sense, it seems to be not that popular but that's because you're all hardened comic book cynics! Yeah, you heard me right! HARDENED!
I'm going to take this preposterous revelation at face value and see where it ultimately leads.
OK, reading issue 2 now, just a few pages in and we get the full Red Skull back story, and I'll tell you what, I'm sold! I actually think it works! See there's me being infected by cynicism before giving it a chance.
Uh-oh! "The Red Skull's been out there ever since. A freelance assassin…"
****ing freelance assassins! Come on! You had me! I was buying into this, I was enjoying the kick of Cap having an illegitimate child that is for one reason or another a pointless psychopath and then they go and make him a freelance assassin. Comic book conventions of cool meaningless evil, you never let me down.
End of issue 2.
So, the cliffhanger du jour of this series is "meet you long lost, ne'er before mentioned family member"!
Can't wait until the end of ish 3 where we get to meet Nick Fury's nan. Who I'm guessing also has an eye-patch, and beard.
But I'm still none the wiser why Cap has gone all wibble over this kid thing. He's got a kid with a stupid red face and has started beating up his mates and jumping out of aeroplanes. Well I'm sure it will either be fully explained (read not explained) or was given in the deep character grounding of the Loeb penned Ultimates stories (which i didn't read, for obvious reasons).
So bizarro Tony Stark eh. Well at least they didn't just open up a portal to another dimension to get another Tony Stark that was blond, wore white, didn't have a drinking problem and has an aid called Mrs. Jarvis. But they may as well have done! In fact, it possibly would've been nice, because apart from the obligtory 28 pages per issue of Cap beating people up nothing has happened yet. I like slow character driven stories but come on! OK OK, we found out Cap has a lunatic son and Tony has a lunatic brother, so not nothing has happened.
Anyway, still reading, can't wait for the cliffhanger!
Taking that cynicism right back! Nearly.
Still not much going on, but bullet Wasp thing pretty cool, exposed brain Hulk pretty cool, War Machine pretty cool, Cap… yeah, lots of Cap fighting, again.
It's got a good few action beats and I suppose since The Ultimates are being reintroduced there's a certain amount of getting people where they need to be but…
No, no more buts. This is the best Ultimates comic since the last one not written by Jeph Loeb or that homophobic **** that I can't remember the name of.
