Gosh this comic has changed. A few years ago I borrowed a load of the original Ultimate Spidey run and was really impressed with them. A solid re-invention of the character. They hadn't tried to remake the wheel they'd just carefully updated all the parts that needed it and left the rest all alone. It was solidly written and the art was clean and slick. So, I had high hopes when I borrowed this one from the library this morning. Same writer, different artist combining to make a pretty poor comic all things told.The writing is still pretty solid but do young people really speak like that? The ones I teach certainly don't. Some of the plotting was a bit off too. The dark Kitty (Pryde) thing was unlikely but the Chameleon and Chamelia (I kid you not) was just weak.
I'm not impressed with this artist either. His layouts are ridiculously hard to follow as half the time you're not sure whether you're meant to be reading across the staples or not. His faces are lifted straight from the Big Bumper Fun Book of Shitty Manga Cliches and it all generally looks ugly.
It's a real shame this book (along with the rest of the Ultimate line) was allowed to go to the dogs quite this badly.
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