Tuesday, 3 March 2015

The noise of a metal man getting an erection

"Kashink"

I recently bought a subscription to Marvel's "Unlimited" service, in order to read the Ultimate Spider-man series that I'd heard so much about.

After a long binge session I decided to dive head first into the Ultimate universe, following a reading order found at:


The Ultimate series treads the line between realism and ridiculous darkness, spread with moments of typical comic comedy.

The X-men series in particular grabbed me, having been raised on the 90s TV show and the early 200s films, I was both surprised and intrigued by the reinterpretations Bendis provided for the characters I had given hardly a spare thought. 

For the first time I had seen questions are raised such as "did the Proffesor mess with the X-men's heads", "what if George Bush jr. formed his own mutant squad?" And most amusingly "what if Collosus got horny?".

I'm less than 50 issues in, and already firmly gripped! I can't wait to read on and highly reccomend the Ultimate Universe as a read for any comic fan. 

Now here's hoping for more bikini shots of Kitty Pride...