Sunday, January 04, 2009

Ultimate Fantastic Four #59 - Marvel


My only real criticism of this book . . and it's not really . . is that there isn't much going on here that has to do with the Ultimatum attack. Yes, the current predicament of Sue's is because of that incident and her burgeoning use of her powers to push the wave back that was engulfing NYC. And yes Dr Molekevik has to be brought in by Ben to try to figure out what wrong with her, now that her powers seem to be giving her some type of feed-back. But . . as far as the actual attack, or whatever Magneto is up to now . . there's no talk of it. But that's ok. There's another Ultimatum book, #2, sitting in my pile that's about 3 or 4 days away, so . . we'll get into it then. Anyways, this issue Ben and the good Dr. use a space shuttle, and some Pym particles, to do a fantastic voyage into Sue's innermost workings. They go to the brain, and the Dr. fixes her. But the big news is that while in her blood-stream their ship is attacked by, what they think at first is anti-bodies, but they turn out to be nanobots. One crashes into the ship, and they kill it. So when they enlarge they bring it out with them. The main reason Sue begins to focus on this is because they look to be Reed's design. Which means Reed put them in there. And if he did that, and now she has to check Ben . . then chances are he also put them into Johnny. If he did that then Sue can find out the wavelength that they use to communicate and reverse engineer it to find out where Johnny's at. I thought Joe Pokaski did a fantastic . . no pun intended . . job on this book. He really brought a lot of personality into these characters. He does a couple of flash-backs on Sue and Ben, and they're all pretty heartfelt. I thought Tyler Kirkham art was also pretty good. It wasn't perfect but, he had 3 different inkers on this issue, so I'm not exactly sure who did what. All I know is that some panels look better than others. I'm guessing this can be attributed to one of the 3 inkers. I really enjoy reading the Fantastic Four . . both titles. I think this one is unique because of their younger perspective on things. It'll be interesting to see what effects the Ultimatum has on this book.

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