About Heroes

Writer: Jeph Loeb
Artist: Joe Madureira
Colors: Christian Lichtner

This book should be titled “Ultimate Therapy” or “Ultimate Counseling” because most of the characters are crazy in this book. The plot of this issue is pretty confusing and a lot of questions from issue one still remain unanswered. The book begins with Hawkeye targeting Spider-Man (Joe Mad does a great Spidey by the way) and shoots Spidey with a dart that paralyzes the hero. Hawkeye thinks Spidey sent Venom after the Ultimates, but Cap shows up and sort of saves the day. Back at the mansion, Hank is still unconscious thanks to his overdose of medications, Tony is very drunk, Jan doesn’t know what to do, and Pietro is sad he isn’t getting any off his sister who is now dead. Magneto and the Brotherhood show up and fight with the Ultimates. The Blob has some wicked new mouth that looks a lot of like Venom’s, and some Spirit mutant possesses Thor who has to fight his new girlfriend Valkyrie. Magneto confronts Pietro and the two sort of make up since Pietro helps the Brotherhood take Wanda and leave. The issue ends with Wolverine showing up to help the sales of the book even more.

Thoughts/Comments:
That was different. The art was very beautiful, but the story is really hurting my head. Like I said above, most of the team members need therapy of some sort. Hawkeye is bat shit insane shooting tons of Madrox multiples with no regard for life while Hank had some overdose on medications. Pietro was doing his own sister and now is sad she is dead, while Tony is extremely drunk after losing Natasha. Even Magneto has issues; he still can’t look at Pietro without being reminded he once fell in love with a human. Plus, when did Magneto’s costume revert to his 616 colors? I thought the Ultimate Magneto costume was darker similar to how it was portrayed in the X-Men movies. The art was great but the story hurts my head. I give this issue a C.