Re: Ultimate Avengers (Discussion & Spoilers)
Swarm (who, for whatever reason, calls herself The Insect Queen...did they ever call her Swarm back in Ultimates 2?) got "put back together" after Grand Theft America. That's literally how it's worded in the issue and is also, I assume, why she wears such a stupid-looking costume. She must need it to live.
The costume is an homage to Wasp's original costume, I think.
Lol I really don't know how she could've been put back together seeing as how she was flattened like a pancake by Wasp.
Or how Tony Stark has a smarter, less moral, older brother
who has never been mentioned before. Seriously, all that hassle Fury went to in order to get Stark Tech, and here was a more 'evil', sober, Stark. The idea a player of that caliber hasn't been mentioned before is ludicrous.
This is kinda my problem with this whole issue - it's one thing to add to and develop the backstory to characters in the series, it's another to just add things that simply don't make sense. What's worse is that the
reason for them is so annoyingly shallow. Why is Gregory Stark there? If Millar want's Tony, why not use Tony? If he doesn't want Tony, why have a character whose entire identity is, "Tony's Brother". If he needs a financier for the team, why not have Helmut Zemo? Have this guy help fund the Ultimates and as the arc continues, he tries to sieze it.
But here's another problem - one of the things that made the Ultimates work was that the Ultimates, firstly, were RARE. There was maybe a dozen supeheroes of their caliber on the planet. That's why they let a total drunk with no military training be Iron Man. Why Hank Pym was Giant-Man. When the Reserves got made, it created a supherhuman arms race, and all the Reserves were copies of those same heroes. The arms race then resulted in a huge war.
So it stretches the credibility of the team - a bloated, military industrial complex - if they can keep finding new copies of the same superheroes, the superheroes become less special, less amazing, and the repeatable nature of the team makes it feel like cookie-cutter stories.
Yes, War Machine being a transformer is cool, but I just am disappointed because this is just a rehash of what we've seen. None of the characters are interesting because they're just repeats of previous characters taken to a shallow extreme. And what's happening right now? Captain America is on the run. This is like...
his fourth time. I'm sick and tired of Captain America "going rogue" and underground.
Blech. Its' not bad. It's not as rubbish as Grand Theft America, but it's just... it's just so bland. I don't care about the characters, it doesn't seem to fit with what we've already established, and it's just a pale shadow of what it was.
Dammit. 
