Customer Reviews

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up

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I always loved the old Marvel Team-Up book from the '70s; It was my favorite book when I was a kid. When I heard that Marvel was going to dust off the concept and make it an "Ultimate" book, I had two reactions: Yay! and Hmmm...The Ultimate universe is so new that this might just clutter up things with tons of new heroes and villains. The truth is a little of both.

I still feel that they moved too fast to populate the Ultimate universe, but at least they delivered a hum-dinger of a book in the meantime. Writer Brian Michael Bendis does a great job of making each story accessible, and the artists really do a great job with their chapters. The trade-paperback reprints issues 1-5, and include appearances by Wolverine and Sabretooth (with art by Matt Wagner), The Hulk (By the Green Arrow team of Phil Hester and Ande Parks), and Iron Man (By Madman creator Mike Allred). The stories are quick and to the point, with the two-part Hulk story just a big chase scene, albeit a VERY well-done one. Bendis, Hester, and Parks deliver some stunning action, and manage to drop a few cryptic clues as to the TRUE reason all of these people are suddenly gaining super-powers. (I hope the Ultimate books pick this ball up and run with it!) Fans looking for a good (FUN!) read will love this book!

Okay, in true Marvel form, Spider-Man goes around teaming up or fighting any super-powered person that stumbles through the city. Great concept, not so great product. The Wolverine story is good, and the way they show Spidey sort of looking up to Wolvie is cool. Hulk and Spidey fighting, well what's not to like? Spidey is ridiculously outclassed, as always, but manages to survive a good thrashing. Spidey and Iron Man, well it makes for alot of "huh?" and "what?" All in all, the first two stories are good, the last is a little lame. My main complaint with the work is the art. Offhand I forget who drew this, but with the quality of the other two Ultimate series, you yould expect more. I give it 1-2 stars for art, but it gets 4 for the first two stories.

I don't know how fans of Ultimate Spider-man or X-Men can rave about these stories. If you like Bagley or Kubert's art from the mentioned titles, you will surely be turned off by the weak artwork in these stories. The stories are ok, though incredibly simple. Ok for someone just getting into the Ultimate universe because the stories are easy enough to understand, but it really offers nothing for long time fans.

I was very disappointed with this TPB. The art and writing are both sub par. Especially the Ironman story which looks like it was written by a twelve year old and penciled by his kid brother. Really bad.
I think the Ultimate spider-man series is one of the best comics I've seen in years but this doesn't belong on the same shelf. The by-line says Bendis, but I don't believe it for a minute. I've read Bendis, I really like and respect Bendis. This is no Bendis (lol).
Seriously, do yourself a favor. Skip this one.

This was ok. It was really a Spider-Man collection. The first story teams him with Wolverine fighting Sabertooth. It was pretty good. The second story has Hulk in it. They fight--more or less evenly. It was a good story. The third story teams him with Iron Man. It's not such a good story. And it is drawn kind of cartoony.