Well, to begin… if you’re not reading Ultimate Comics X-Men… drag yourself to the store tomorrow and buy all twelve issues. It’s that good. This series is one of those books that when you’re done reading the last page you keep trying to turn it to find more hidden pages and upon giving up you read the issue again trying to catch things you missed. The book has been telling multiple story lines and doing a great job at it so far and leaving you hungry and wanting more each time. I was particularly excited for this issue due to it focusing on one of my all time favorite characters… Alex Summers aka Havok.
It picks up months after the Ultimatum wave where we find Alex Summers checked into a mental institution.
I’m going to try and make this review as spoiler free as I can so here goes…
The art is clean and fantastic. The story flows well with what has been going on in the past issues (like I said… spend your kids lunch money) and even makes it make less sense but in an awesome way. Flashbacks, hallucinations, bears… oh my. Well minus the bears that is.
The secondary focus of the issue is a mysterious character who you wont find out the identity of until the final page. And when you do find out his identity and you also pay close attention to that page and the “… what the hell” aspects of it… you’ll definitely go back to page one and give this book a second read. I’m more bummed that I have to wait another month to read the next issue than I am by the news of GI Joe being pushed back a year.
Maybe I’m being a tad biased due to my love of this series (and trust me… I used to be quite anti-Ultimate)
Score: 8.5/10