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A set in Marvel's Ultimate An essay in which Ryan K Lindsay Universe, this began publication in attempts to dig deep and understand some December 2005 but soon took a hiatus four colour funnies on a deeper level. when #3 did not hit its April 2006 Not to be taken seriously. release date. It was delayed monthly for Not to be taken orally. the year until everyone involved pulled Copyright Ryan K Lindsay [c] the pin and admitted it was disastrously delayed. All characters/comics discussed are Copyright of their respective At SDCC in 2008, it was announced creators/companies that the title would return, with #1-2 Quote the hell out of this being rereleased in February 2009, and issues #3-6 running from March-May Share the PDF if the of that year. feeling takes you. Comics for life. Cover image by Leinil Francis Yu and Dave McCaig, taken from the ULTIMATE WOLVERINE V #1 reprint, 2009. The Ultimate Universe only works ?improved.? The Ultimate U, by as a pastiche of that which we analytical definition, is an know. It was purposefully created in experiment in taking something that 2000 to play upon the prior was and harnessing the distilled knowledge and desire of an ?cool? of it. Luckily, it was also aimed established fan base. The entire at a generation that viewed the premise of the publishing venture world through layers of reference was to be a ?new and improved? and repurpose. The Ultimate U was version of the regular (616) Marvel a success, but it was never original universe. As with most things, it and never could be. Quite honestly, was often neither ?new? nor perhaps it never should be. There is a dense posited in a ambience to the narrative world Ultimate U that is that zooms by maintained even with bombastic though the actual action and world building is always-clever shallow by dialogue. Having a definition due to its nature of only world to write in borrowing and means the tweaking and not creators can truly inventing. choose to either Most aspects, be drastically change they characters, a character for companies, or dramatic irony or technology, are mildly reliant upon the differentiate reader?s aspects of the understanding of world for sneaky what is being improvement or tweaked or riffed humorous effect. on. This shorthand is built by juxtaposing the 616 against a new metric of cool Peter Parker managed to stay in high hair beneath his chin. Sometimes the school for years of fantastic Ultimate U did things well; sometimes teenage-based stories without aging they did not with laughable results. him too fast. However, we also got a Either way, without prior knowledge ?new? who sported an ?edgy? of some sort, the shorthand of the do-rag, and he even fought alongside stories/characters/ an ?improved? Wolverine who was worlds does not work and the exactly the same except for the meta-Easter egg jokes fall flat. addition of a ?current? soul patch of

Sometimes the Ultimate U did things well; sometimes they did not with laughable results. "When I got hired, I literally thought I was going to be writing one of the last, if not the last, " - via [LI NK]

The Ultimate U had to turned away feel current and it had from the Hulk and started to connect to the dating Freddie Prinze Jr audience. It wanted to and Peter Parker visited be another cultural icon on the set of along with the the Spider-Man movie. By ubiquitous film, drawing connections, the television, and music Ultimate U laid down an reference points all cool easy base on which any teens know about. To do culture nerd could feel at this, it dropped in home. constant references to real world events, pop culture icons, and then other tangential 616 moments and events. Th e Ult imat e U is a sc ient if ic bat t er y t est t o see w h at t h e ma jor c ompo nent s of w h at w e k now a nd l ov e c a n be used f or w it h l ess inh ibit io ns.

That?s not to say the evident when you People want to be games, turn all the stories don?t work ? know all the reminded of screens off, and just the craft is evident ingredients that have something good while focus on reading ? an and clear in every gone into it. The also being presented archaic form of title ? but the true Ultimate U is a with something ?new? entertainment, even layer of cool in the scientific battery test and ?improved.? when paired with Ultimate U is the to see what the major Crowds have grown pretty pictures ? we winking eye. It lures components of what more fickle in this have to deliver in new readers and it we know and love can future of constant something to the makes established be used for with less interaction and brain on multiple readers around inhibitions. It?s like entertainment levels. The text needs with a grin. The creating an Olympics through various to be layered and it Ultimate U is fun and for drug users just to platforms, often at the has to make the sometimes amazing see how fast a man same time. If we audience care and be but the true proof of can really run. expect the audience entertained on all of the pudding is only ----- to step aside from the those layers. This six issue miniseries is an Ultimization of the original Hulk and Wolverine battle from The Incredible Hulk #181 (Vol. 1 Nov 1974)

others can sound The Incredible Hulk #181 (Vol. 1 accusatory but it has still Nov 1974). What previously took managed to produce up one sequence in a single many good comics, some issue suddenly becomes even great. Ultimate enough ground for six whole Wolverine Vs. Hulk issues. The book, quite (2006-2009) is a perfect honestly, almost shouldn?t work title to dissect this and yet through sheer of phenomenon as it tried its style it crosses the line with a hardest to be extremely smirk and a tip of the hat. This cool and ended up book is exceptional fun if read actually being fantastically alone but when paired with a enjoyable and well decent knowledge of the 616, crafted. This six issue and the wider world in and miniseries is an around the book, it becomes a The analysis of constant Ultimization of the original text full of hidden codes. name-dropping and minor Hulk and Wolverine battle from tweaking of the hard work of If you ever wanted to see a make it feel novel and exciting television show, like LOST, also condensed, and visual, blueprint for new readers while also has a very similar structure in of the Ultimate U, and its winking heavily at established each episode. Every single page structure of cool, then this is the readers. It also takes advantage in that issue ends with some book for it. Lindelof and Yu of the fact Lindelof was primary form of beat, something to deliver a mountain of narrative a television writer and so the ensure the reader is going to hooks and splashes and so much structure certainly feels applied turn that page. This should be in media res you are left to and methodical. This is nowhere standard practice in all comics, figure out a lot to make this more evident than in #5, titled and mostly is, and so Lindelof whole assembly work. It?s flashy, ?Episode 5: As Told In Five uses it to perfection in this it?s fun, and it?s condensing the Parts.? There is likely little issue. best and twisting as needed to coincidence that a one hour

It is also a perfect example of how the Ultimate U rolls. T h e M ir r or t o t h e 616 Even from the had a winking eye, the decompressed of the 616 is still a impetus of an idea, the Ultimate U just storytelling era but highly debatable topic. Ultimate Wolverine added a few elbow aside from stories the He?s even the sort of Vs. Hulk is informed nudges and characters nearly governmental big wig by the 616. The book, ?honka-honka? sound always have more that needs to make and most of its effects. The Ultimate added to them in the himself seem surrounding U wants you to feel adaptation rather impressive by universe, wants to included, it wants you than stripping the hanging a massive ham it up to the to feel special, and it character or situation Bosch fresco in his audience and it wants your knowing down) and so ?the office, offering fine sensibly chooses the approval. government,? a boring cigars, and bragging home crowd as its ----- and non-descript about Bill Clinton mark ? there is no group, becomes having an office in point playing to a In The Incredible Hulk S.H.I.E.L.D., though the same building. crowd that may Vol. 1 #181, Wolverine more specifically Nick This Nick earns never turn out. states, ?The Fury. It becomes a his street cred Marvel Comics were government sent me double treat when we through built on a foundation to take care of you, see this name-dropping and of interconnectivity Hulk.? This premise is exactly resembles surrounding himself so the Merry Marvel expanded in Ultimate Samuel L. Jackson, with finery. He is a Marching Society Wolverine Vs. Hulk with the addition of a perfect example of would feel clever (and whenever facial scar and a this universe and when they spotted something is patch. Why this what it peddles as Peter Parker in the Ultimized it is nearly version is cooler than currency of cool and crowd in Daredevil. always expanded ? the decades relevance. Marvel has always this was the heart of established Nick Fury The Ultimate U?s same as his 616 use these characters the Hulk?s skin tone major mission counterpart. This or this landscape, the has changed statement is to take story starts in 2006 style of this book is numerous times over what we know about and by this time, even decidedly centred in his decades of the 616 and make it the soul patch has the Ultimate publication in the 616. cooler. The old white been lost ? it was a wheelhouse. This Banner, here, even guy of Nick Fury dated kind of cool book is cool and very replies by simply becomes this when the sideburns meta. Banner treks stating, ?It street-wise Sam and gruff exterior of around the world and kinda? changes Jackson clone. The Logan are actually in #2 (Apr 2006) sometimes.? This Hulk is pushed to timeless. This classic finally lands in Tibet exchange doesn?t more ?adult? extremes isn?t messed with. to see the Panchen progress the by losing control and ----- Lama. The tiny narrative in any way killing hundreds of mystical master talks but it does make people in a jealous While much of of Banner?s angry those of us in the rampage. It is then Ultimate Wolverine alter ego and asks if know feel a little interesting to see Vs. Hulk feels like it he is ?with green? or warmer for having Wolverine, especially could actually just it is gray skin?? This our prior knowledge as presented here, is take place in the 616, throwaway line and hard work nearly exactly the there is no necessity acknowledges the fact referenced. in the narrative to Another moment of 616 War as Rogers fought The end of #3 (May (the original She-Hulk referencing comes in against the 2009) introduces in the 616), who here is #4 (June 2009) as we Ultimate She-Hulk with the other brain observe a game of ping Registration Act Stark a send off splash page. alongside Banner pong between Steve was aiding into She looks a lot like the behind the Super Rogers and Tony Stark. existence. Again, this 616 version; her clothes Soldier Serum that was Betty Ross is enraged exchange sits parallel have slight variations integral to Banner at discovering Banner to the narrative and of nil importance and hulking out in the first has been found and serves to play as a she now wears place. It should be Logan has been sent to comedic aside only for wraparound noted, rather than execute him and Stark the audience. Without sunglasses, because gamma rays effecting retorts by asking if any prior knowledge, everyone knows this change, as in the ?maybe we should just this purely feels like sunglasses are the 616, here we have the register Bruce like a chatter but with a little epitome of cool. Upon serum that originally car. Give him a wider reading the first reveal, we don?t produced Captain license.? This is audience can see know who this version America in just humorous because this behind the curtain and of the female Hulk is. another way for the is exactly what the 616 understand the Two females have been Ultimate U to feel more Stark pushed for rippling layers of this introduced: Betty Ross, connected and during the text. as Banner?s ex-lover, inclusive. event of 2006. To add ----- and Jennifer Walters to the cloying wink of the moment, Rogers states it?s ?kind of a good idea, actually,? whereas Stark admits ?it?s a terrible idea.? This is a flip on the central conflict of Civil Issue #4 gives us the This tweak on 616 aping the Ultimate U, of Ultimate continuity becomes shows that while the She-Hulk and while increasingly interesting alternate universe was everything is set up for if we flash forward a once the doyen of cool Walters to be She-Hulk few years and find that now the standard once more, a it predates the 616 storytelling arena wants switcheroo plays out actually doing this with some of that cache as Issue #4 g iv es us t h e or ig in of Ult imat e Sh e-Hul k toward the end to keep Betty Ross finally well. Where the 616 the audience on its toes. getting her hands on once set the standard, Betty Ross, in a some Hulk . She now it is willing to farm duplicitous turn we becomes the Red ideas from elsewhere. aren?t used to seeing in She-Hulk ? a character We now have a mirror the 616, steals the ?new switcheroo, with color held up to a mirror and and improved? serum modifications as well, it?s becoming and turns herself into a that is exactly what we increasingly difficult to calmer version of the would have expected see which is the Hulk. She then enters from the Ultimate U not original and which the the fray between our that long ago. This hitting us a two eponymous leads. event, the 616 finally nanosecond later. In a vicious fight (1989). Donning a cute as a nod to 616 for a laugh. These between Logan and patch over your left continuity when you hints and Easter eggs Betty at the start of eye might not be a take into account the are purely fun on #6 (Jul 2009), Logan fantastic way to hide fact ?Patch? briefly another layer and the has his eye socket your identity but it teamed up with the story can still be punctured by Ultimate did make the Hulk who was enjoyed on its own She-Hulk?s thumb. Canadian look sporting grey skin, an merits. It?s not This doesn?t slow him charming in his suit. intelligent brain, and homework, it?s just down but it does This is made doubly calling himself ?Mr another slice of effectively show the Fixit.? enjoyment the brutality of the fight ----- audience can take as well as set up with them or smile Logan to wear an These and leave behind. Yet, eye-patch for the acknowledgements if they know there?s rest of the issue of 616 continuity are more to see and get while his eye heals. never essential to then they might just This, again, isn?t a the narrative. The out the extra major plot point but Ultimate U info so as to feel part it is a delicious wink understands that to of the inner circle. to the alter ego do so would be That?s smart ?Patch? that 616 exclusionary, and marketing and it Wolverine used pushing away any makes for an when he wanted to reader is always a experience that is go in terrible idea. When layered and fun. in the the 616 is opening storyline of referenced, the nod Wolverine Vol. 2 and wink are played K now Yo ur Pop

The Ultimate U was always been intended audience and Ireland he is Bixby; both aimed at a whole new self-referential but product stick, the of these are nods to the generational readership much of this Ultimate U was old television show The and so it didn?t place all name-dropping and fashioned to speak the Incredible Hulk (1978) as its Easter eggs in the levels of homage took it same language. the character?s name one basket. Alongside up a notch within the Dialogue became a was changed from the old school 616 nods last two decades. heavy style choice Bruce to David ? are a slew of regular Television shows like across most of the titles, because, apparently, pop culture references. The Simpsons and so did pop culture Bruce was not a manly From movies, television, movie screenwriters references. It turned enough name ? and he music, and more like Quentin Tarantino out, for the most part, was portrayed by Bill movies, Ultimate have made stellar to be a smart choice. Bixby. Later in the Wolverine Vs. Hulk is a careers out of sliding same issue, Banner book firmly planted in pop culture into their meets a small monk in The references don?t the world the reader works. A generation Tibet and asks, ?This is really start until the inhabits. Wolverine just coming to an age of a Yoda thing, isn?t it?? second issue but once watches, and sometimes independent and which is a reference to the floodgates are open, doesn?t, the same disposable income was The Empire Strikes Back there are quite a few to movies we all know. being unleashed on the and is doubly funny as collect. When Banner is Characters sing in the world and Marvel did there is no way a monk on his flight for shower and references its best to capitalise on should know enough survival, and quest for permeate the regular this by investing about a Star Wars peace, around the language. heavily in the Ultimate movie to be able to world in #2, he goes by U. To make the quote it. many names. In France connection between Cultural offerings have he is David and in When Walters is set up because the Star Trek whose ability is Wolverine grumpily by Ross in #4, Fury reboot film was to be able to make corrects him by stages a mission to co-written by Lindelof, near anything on a stating, ?Star Trek is stop what he thinks is the scribe of this technical scale, ?Data.? for dorks. I?m talkin? a Super Soldier Serum comic. He also seeds In a quick and about the little kid sale which actually himself, and his work, humorous back and from Goonies.? Here turns out to be her into another scene as forth, assumes we get two references spending $10,000 on a Logan eats pretzels this is a Star Trek: The for the price of one. preview version of the out of a which is Next Generation There is a pattern new Star Trek movie a clearly labelled with reference and emerging where most month before it hits the DHARMA of these references are theatres. While cuffed Initiative logo, of genre materials. on the floor, Walters a nerd This is nerd fare, to justifies her actions rallying cry if put it bluntly, and by when she says, ?If there ever openly showing the you?re gonna give me was one as it nerd credentials of the a big speech about comes from book and its creators ? spoilers, you can stuff the TV show and even the it in your eyehole, LOST (2004) ? characters within ? jackass? / ?Cause a a show the creators are true Trekker?s got a Lindelof authenticating the right to know.? This is co-created views and likes most a perfect example of a and wrote probably character speaking many scripts representative of the right into the for. intended audience. wheelhouse of the In #5 (Jun assumed audience. 2009) This scene also works Wolverine on another meta level calls Forge, a There is one it?s alright to ignore individual. You can?t book epitomises the reference to a highly that stuff and stick to help but laugh in #5 fact the Ultimate U is lauded film in this sci-fi shows and nerd when the panda ? a playing to a crowd book. Sophie?s Choice television. spirit animal for that wants sensory (1982) gets a name Logan ? tells him, input from all drop in #3. All of these ?You won?t like me directions, at all Wolverine?s narrative references help to when I?m angry.? This times. captions ask of the allay the reader and readers, ?Ever see let them know this that movie ?Sophie?s place, this universe Choice?? / Yeah. Me they just invested either.? The one high $2.99 in, is a cool brow entry is only place. It?s a place credited because the they want to be. A main character hasn?t smooth pop culture seen it ? and he reference goes a assumed the long way to engage audience hadn?t the audience ? it?s either. This is a like a secret subversive way of handshake on entry. almost mocking the It confirms your established and status within the stiff-shirted high club and makes you culture and letting feel special, the audience know accepted, and BATTLE BOARDING FOR THE WIN D-Man, there cannot each other in There is a actually be an insane ways to see phenomenon within GA LACT US answer because it?s just what might the comic community dependent on many happen. This is a where people rank V things and Marvel fair play testing and compare D -M A N also wants to ground where all characters and their promote all their the same rules and strengths. Who would You decide? heroes as the best ? powers, mostly, win in a fight at least in their own apply but the ability between the Hulk and title. This way to stray far away ? Is Reed Daredevil can go from the company Richards actually toe-to-toe with line is allowed. In smarter than Hank or Thor in Ultimate Wolverine Pym, and where does his title and actually Vs. Hulk, there is Peter Parker fit survive. There can plenty of battle amongst it all? This be no definitive boarding at play. activity is known as answers, at least The Ultimate U ?battle boarding? and not in the 616. wants to settle bets it?s generally silly, but and then raise the also relatively stakes even higher. harmless. In most The Ultimate U cases, unless you?re works as the perfect comparing the crucible in which to strength of pit characters ? or against that of their Ultimized versions ? against The major factor put to still fluently participate can kill Wolverine? ? book addresses this the test is Wolverine?s in the following and Lindelof explores problem in #6 (Jul ability to heal. Granted, scenes. Wolverine isn?t the fact that in the 2009), and in a he?s survived some just a bad ass, he?s one Ultimate U perhaps the hilarious manner. zany situations in the that won?t be going answer is nothing. Wolverine narrates 616 ? even being away any time soon. Decapitation and a that he gets this revived from a drop of Throughout the rest of point blank gunshot to question all the time, blood once ? and in the title, Wolverine the face certainly don?t and ?every meatsock these six issues his continues to be work and so perhaps who asks thinks he?s healing factor becomes punished in new and the discussion, at least the first one to cook it a real plot point and exciting ways. He has in the Ultimate U until up,? and so he tells the audience learns a nuclear bomb this point, can be put them ??I?ve got a more about it through dropped on him, and to rest. *&%<$&ing stealth jet. / this. The book opens we see his skull Another great point of I don?t go to the with Wolverine being stripped of all flesh at discussion around <&$%*ing airport.?? The torn in half by the the moment of impact. Wolverine is his book is both accepting Hulk ? his legs are When captured by -laced the battle boarding then thrown four S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury skeleton. It might make mentality as something miles up a Tibetan has Wolverine?s head sense to wonder how that is to be mountain. This is a cut off and separated Wolverine could be encouraged but then grandiloquent way to from his body. The killed, that is a also squashes it if it state the sort of book head not only doesn?t legitimate narrative gets a little out of to which you want to die but when it is question, but hand. It?s a funny introduce the reader. placed into a vacuum wondering how he moment and one that The gauntlet is thrown it only shuts down. It transports his metal surely makes some down, the lead of this would appear nothing bones through airports fastidious fans think book can be torn in will kill this man. This is just silly and a little for just an extra half and not only will has always been the too particular. Yet, the moment. he survive but he?ll golden question ? what There is another every reader takes a moment moment that plays up to consider the measurements to the battle boarders given and whether or not the by not giving an Hulk could indeed master this answer, but surely nigh impossible feat. Wolverine hinting at enough to eventually responds with, fuel discussion. ?Nah. Probably not.? However, Wolverine is making both the low modality of his Forge create a collar words, and the look on his that will hold his face in this panel, leave hulking prey and Forge enough room for doubt to take is so proud of his hold. Conversations like these creation he states, ?No are exactly the sort of things one?s gonna yank it off. that work perfectly in the I made it to withstand Ultimate U. Due to the new 81 billion tons of continuity and rules there pressure. 81 billion tons actually is a chance this Hulk is what the moon could lift the moon. This whole weighs. So unless universe understands the whoever you?re discussions people have about slapping this on can lift these characters and tries to the moon? I think it?ll play to this fervency in a be enough. / Please tell multitude of ways. me they can?t lift the moon.? It is here Wolverine pauses and art and the fight and This mindset has also the pleasure of seeing had a blow back what happens. These response into the 616 title fight titles, like Vs. with an event comic, or Ultimate Wolverine Vs. X-Men Vs. Hulk, are often (2012) receiving a fodder for the spin off title that is continuity buffs who all about battle want to see these boarding. AVX: Vs. theories tested to (2012) is a book only extremes ? and this containing the fights proves the point that the main event title the ultimate audience could not completely for these books is the capture. Marvel has person who buckled and understands the acquiesced to the minutiae and wants to fansquealers who see it tested in a can now enjoy vacuum. The Ultimate ?widescreen? brawls U led the path in between their delivering this fan favourite characters. servicing content. There is no need for t h e ult imat e aud ienc e f or narrative or t h ese bo o k s is t h e per so n emotional character w h o under st a nd s t h e resonance here, this minut ia e a nd wa nt s t o see is just the style of the it t est ed in a vac uum St r uc t ur e O f Co ol

Linear narratives are having it talk directly Fiction (1994), to certain event occurs. It far too straight. to us. There is nothing Memento (2000) and also necessitates Ultimate Wolverine Vs old hat or straight up everything in between audience thought and Hulk shows us that a about the way Lindelof and before, fractured analysis. You cannot fractured narrative structures and tells narratives have long be passive throughout builds far more this tale. He is out to amazed audiences a fractured narrative, opportunities to be wow us on yet because it takes a you must be the cool and intriguing. In another level and it linear story and master of your own an effort to show that must be said he breaks it up into enjoyment. Put short, not only is the succeeds. puzzle pieces. A fractured narratives Ultimate U cool but For years, people have fractured narrative is are cooler because you every little detail known fractured better able to use have to work for them within it is, Lindelof narratives are exactly tension and dramatic and so if you goes crazy with the where the cool kids irony and it invests understand it all by structure of the title are at. From the one the audience into the end you might just by breaking it and everyone knows, Pulp guessing why a be incredibly smart. The book opens with Know what? / I?m the voices with such Wolverine bleeding sicka keepin? the style, and always on a white field. The order straight. [? ] gives them something very first page turn You figger out where to say, and so the introduces us to a it goes.? The book result is a highly borderless caption acknowledges that it?s enjoyable read. that reads: ?Three hard work, but it also Lindelof clearly and a half minutes throws the lifeline knows how to write ago.? You can that if you can piece dialogue and he is a instantly see this this jumble together perfect fit in the book is not standard. you?ll be doing better Ultimate U where This book is using the than the lead who most voices are comic form to just got torn in half. dazzlingly unique enhance your Another structural and full to the brim reading experience. It success is the way with pop culture becomes fun to keep Lindelof makes Leinil references and plenty track of where events Francis Yu stack the of witty verbiage. are taking places, pages with panels Accommodating all though Wolverine and words. There this word play are loses track during #3, feels like a lot of numerous pages with ?Where the *&*&< do action in this book as many as ten I start? / Not here. but in truth there are panels. The effect is Back up. / Back up. / only two showdowns. the feeling you are in Nope. Keeping going. The rest is talking a book like no other. / Too far. / Already heads and yet The result is a unique done this part. [? ] Lindelof infuses all experience. noted, things clunk were salvaged and M ay be Comic s Need down like a lead brought into the zeppelin. Marvel U proper, To Be Co ol The idea that you strip which is now a everything back and hodgepodge of The Ultimate U might have started whatever is as a vacuum of cool, a pocket KISS [keep it simple, stupid] has also been cool/whatever will exercise in style, but it is now yield a good story. The firmly a revolution in the comics well played by both major companies with Ultimate U ethos is industry. The 616 has finally now just the company turned the tables to start aping it is, at DC?s line of EARTH it s h ea r t , ONE OGNs and line.Ultimate Wolverine what goes on in the Ultimate U, Vs. Hulk is the and even other publishers have a n Marvel?s SEASON ONE ex er c ise OGNs soon after both blueprint by which we taken note: DC Comics? All Star can see what the line brought us ?out of continuity? in retelling origins [again] and trying to Ultimate U sets out to takes on characters that resulted c o ndensing do and how it can be in and Frank somet h ing make them simple as well as friendly for a done successfully. This Quitely telling arguably the ma ssiv e is the Ultimate U ? it greatest story of all a nd new generation of reader. Then there is is, at its heart, an time (All Star Superman va r ied exercise in condensing 2005-2008) and also a perverse DC?s New52 line-wide int o relaunch which began something massive new pulp view of ?the goddamn somet h ing and varied into ? by and Jim the movement that f init e a nd would definitely something finite and Lee (All Star Batman and Robin infinitely cool. It then the Boy Wonder 2005-2008). The inf init ely inform Marvel?s 2015 c o ol ?All New, All Different? makes you feel the test of pushing style and fan same for having been desires to the forefront has line up shuffle which finally saw the a part of it and shown the Ultimate U to be often understanding the successful. Other times, it must be Ultimate U collapsed, though the good pieces secret codes. T his has been a set of Ryan K Lindsay words in a Four Colour Ray Gun publication ryanklindsay.com -- ryanlindsay82@gm ail.com @ryanklindsay