{"id":1962,"date":"2010-05-11T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-05-11T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T01:12:58","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, just to get it out of the way: the Ultimatum storyline is poorly collected across three or four books. (I am hoping across only three, and that the epilogue book will at least have continuity[1] again.) I have read each of the three books in question, so I can say this with authority now, not merely the speculation that marked <a title=\"My review of Ultimatum: X-Men\/Fantastic Four\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1917\" target=\"_blank\">my last review<\/a>. As a result, even <a title=\"Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 22: Ultimatum by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Vol-22-Ultimatum\/dp\/0785138455\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man&#8217;s take on the Ultimatum event<\/a> is kind of disjointed. But here&#8217;s what I liked about it. While the other authors were stumbling past each other trying to figure out who could tell which part of whose story and in what order, Bendis got past the actual event as quickly as possible so that he could tell a smaller, more personal story about the immediate aftermath, and not incidentally about the nature of heroism.<\/p>\n<p>The final issue of Spider-Man&#8217;s Ultimate run, #133, had the fewest words I think I&#8217;ve ever seen in a single comic issue. It may also have been the most affecting I&#8217;ve seen. And just to repeat myself, this in the midst of what has otherwise been a useless mishmash of tangled and rarely more than half-complete storylines. But, y&#8217;know, I should save a little vitriol for the next review, since this one deserves basically none whatever.<\/p>\n<p>[1] The literary kind, not the years-or-decades-of-plot kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, just to get it out of the way: the Ultimatum storyline is poorly collected across three or four books. (I am hoping across only three, and that the epilogue book will at least have continuity[1] again.) I have read each of the three books in question, so I can say this with authority now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,22,40],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-superheroes","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}