Post by Marvel Boy on Jan 10, 2016 11:02:36 GMT -5
Alright, here we go, the new Ultimates series by Al Ewing with art by Kenneth Rocofort.
To catch up, this team is composed of Blue Marvel, Black Panther, Spectrum (Monica Rambeau), Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) and Ms. America. Now, Blue Marvel (Dr. Adam Brashear) is a new character to me, he was introduced back in 2008. Simply, he's a living stable anti-matter reactor, which grants him numerous powerful abilities which can put him on par with the Sentry. He's also a genius physicist and engineer (perhaps in the same ball park as Banner, Pym, Stark and Richards). Also, his son is currently leading one of the scientific divisions on Sunspot's AIM island for the New Avengers.
Anyway, this team's self-stylized goal is tackle the ultimate problems and threats facing humanity and the world. They are based out of the same space station that Carol commands as part of Earth's first defense against spatial/cosmic threats. So naturally, their first goal is tackle the problem of Galactus. In which they find an unusual solution, in surmising that when Galactus first emerged after this universe's birth, he emerged too soon, before he could assume his true intended form. Which this group then manipulates Galactus into doing, transcending him into his true form of being a force for giving life instead of taking it.
Galactus returns to the very first planet he ever consumed and using his new powers, renews the planet's life-source, causing life to bloom once more upon it. When members of the Sh'iar Imperial Guard learn of this, they inform Gladiator who becomes infuriated over the continued meddling of humans in celestial matters.
His outrage falls upon deaf ears however as the group tackles their latest problem, the cracked nature of space/time. (This goes back to the dropped plot thread by Bendis in that 'Time is broken'). Too many temporal aberrations have occurred (and still occurring) that is pushing the continuum to the brink (highlighted by the Age of Ultron event). T'Challa theorizes that a piece of Doom tech, called Doomlocks, may be partially responsible as it prevents paradoxes from forming by any traveler's actions. Blue Marvel thinks the only way to truly diagnose the problem is to view the patient from the the outside, travel outside known space/time.
With the use of some highly modified Pym particles, the group traverses known space, travels through the Superflow that bleeds between universes, finally ending up in the Negative Zone, the last stop in known existence before...nothing. However, the group is surprised to find the Anti-Man here, Blue Marvel's former friend and bitterest foe, who was responsible for killing his wife. How and why he is in the Neutral Zone is still a mystery.
I have to give credit, this is a different type of title, not so much an Avengers book, but one where Ewing is clearly intent on keeping alive Hickman's model of the BIG IDEAS. It has action but it's more of a sci-fi flavor to it. This team tackles BIG problems and they have the power to handle it. The interaction between the members is good and Rocofort's art style may take some getting used to for some. But he handles the big ideas such as different dimensions and an altered Galactus with style, I think. This may be a title worth watching for what occurs within it.
To catch up, this team is composed of Blue Marvel, Black Panther, Spectrum (Monica Rambeau), Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) and Ms. America. Now, Blue Marvel (Dr. Adam Brashear) is a new character to me, he was introduced back in 2008. Simply, he's a living stable anti-matter reactor, which grants him numerous powerful abilities which can put him on par with the Sentry. He's also a genius physicist and engineer (perhaps in the same ball park as Banner, Pym, Stark and Richards). Also, his son is currently leading one of the scientific divisions on Sunspot's AIM island for the New Avengers.
Anyway, this team's self-stylized goal is tackle the ultimate problems and threats facing humanity and the world. They are based out of the same space station that Carol commands as part of Earth's first defense against spatial/cosmic threats. So naturally, their first goal is tackle the problem of Galactus. In which they find an unusual solution, in surmising that when Galactus first emerged after this universe's birth, he emerged too soon, before he could assume his true intended form. Which this group then manipulates Galactus into doing, transcending him into his true form of being a force for giving life instead of taking it.
Galactus returns to the very first planet he ever consumed and using his new powers, renews the planet's life-source, causing life to bloom once more upon it. When members of the Sh'iar Imperial Guard learn of this, they inform Gladiator who becomes infuriated over the continued meddling of humans in celestial matters.
His outrage falls upon deaf ears however as the group tackles their latest problem, the cracked nature of space/time. (This goes back to the dropped plot thread by Bendis in that 'Time is broken'). Too many temporal aberrations have occurred (and still occurring) that is pushing the continuum to the brink (highlighted by the Age of Ultron event). T'Challa theorizes that a piece of Doom tech, called Doomlocks, may be partially responsible as it prevents paradoxes from forming by any traveler's actions. Blue Marvel thinks the only way to truly diagnose the problem is to view the patient from the the outside, travel outside known space/time.
With the use of some highly modified Pym particles, the group traverses known space, travels through the Superflow that bleeds between universes, finally ending up in the Negative Zone, the last stop in known existence before...nothing. However, the group is surprised to find the Anti-Man here, Blue Marvel's former friend and bitterest foe, who was responsible for killing his wife. How and why he is in the Neutral Zone is still a mystery.
I have to give credit, this is a different type of title, not so much an Avengers book, but one where Ewing is clearly intent on keeping alive Hickman's model of the BIG IDEAS. It has action but it's more of a sci-fi flavor to it. This team tackles BIG problems and they have the power to handle it. The interaction between the members is good and Rocofort's art style may take some getting used to for some. But he handles the big ideas such as different dimensions and an altered Galactus with style, I think. This may be a title worth watching for what occurs within it.
