To be clear, this was not the next book in question, although I’ve now started that book, and it really will be the next book reviewed. It’s just, I still hadn’t found a replacement for my vanished Dresden Files #3, and took the excuse to make a little bit more delay by reading a little bit more Marvel modernity. (And, as I expect to like the next Dresden Files, you can see that I’ve still failed to find it or its replacement copy. Alas, for more reasons than one.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, the continuation of the Ultimates, Homeland Security<\/a>, was every bit as good as the original; what it lacked in characterization (which was not much at all), it more than made up in plot. In brief, the Ultimates (substantially expanded in scope from volume 1<\/a>) must defend the world from shape-shifting Nazi aliens bent on the destruction of free will. Which I know sounds awesome enough all by itself, but it includes battles between massive military armadas, superb plot twists, semi-cannibalism, and discreet incestuous undertones. Plus, like I said, fantastic characterizations. Quicksilver, only present in a couple of scenes, is worth the price of admission all by himself on that front, and everyone else is well worthwhile. (Except Henry Pym; deeply flawed, I can handle, but he was pretty boring in this one. Still, that is a minor complaint, and about my only one. This is, as the first volume was, a flat-out excellent story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To be clear, this was not the next book in question, although I’ve now started that book, and it really will be the next book reviewed. It’s just, I still hadn’t found a replacement for my vanished Dresden Files #3, and took the excuse to make a little bit more delay by reading a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}