Ultimate Invasion

stories and art are great

To be honest, I’ve avoided reading most anything from Marvel since the 1980s, because too many of the stories were getting stupid and ignoring decades of canon so that some new writer could indulge their own bad ideas. And now, over a quarter-century later, I don’t even understand what’s going on anymore, and the plotlines seem to be getting more and more outlandish. In the midst of all that, I saw a few panels from this series and they caught my eye, and so I picked this up when it was released. It turns out that some origin material that would’ve helped put everything into context was not included in this collection, but nevertheless, I got the basic idea: an evil alternate-universe Reed Richards is tinkering with the world of the universe that these stories are set in (whatever universe that may be) and various parties are trying to stop him. I just just treated it as an alternate-universe story, and as such I enjoyed it. There were a lot of interesting ideas, and dialogue to match. The artwork was generally excellent as well.

Marvel comics are a nice escape and I enjoy retellings and alternate universes. I also enjoy philosophical questions and thought exercises.

It was ok, just not as good as some of the other ultimates I’ve read.

Amazing story great condition

This was a great introduction to the new Ultimate Universe. I just hope they can keep these universe cohesive so it stays as good as this.

This comic got me back into comic book purchases. Nuff said.

I was never an marvel Ultimate Universe fan. I really didn’t like the way any of the great marvel characters were portrayed. Always felt it was only there for the shock value of killing characters and also setting things up that might be later portrayed in the Marvel movies.The writer Hickman does a great job of getting the reader to care about these characters. He makes all this seem new and very interesting. I will be buying some of these Ultimates series this time around