{"id":4752,"date":"2014-11-20T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2014-11-20T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:12:11","slug":"ultimate-ff-strangest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4752","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate FF: Strangest Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"81hWGc63i3L\"<\/a>The newest wave of Ultimate books is finally here! Which is to say, they dropped within a week or so of the site coming back up, and despite there being three of them already, that’s just a timing issue and I’m not nearly as far behind as it sounds. Unlike if you were to be talking about Brust or Rothfuss or King or Butcher, to name a few twitches I’ve had lately.<\/p>\n

Strangest Ever<\/a> is certainly a book that lives up to its title. It’s not the Fantastic Four like you’d think (unless you’ve been following these plotlines, in which case you’d think that’s entirely ridiculous). Instead, it’s the Future Foundation, which is basically Tony Stark’s and Sue Storm’s brainchild to defend the planet against extra-dimensional incursions of the type that came so close to wiping out all life, a book or so ago<\/a>. And that’s a good idea, as far as it goes. It’s just that it seemed to turn into an excuse to trot out every bizarre event that has ever happened in the Marvel multiverse. It turns out I have limits?<\/p>\n

But that’s a matter of taste, which I accept. It’s not objective truth, like the fact that nobody wants to see a purple Iron Man. And it’s not something that clearly should be<\/em> objective truth, like that nobody wants to see dead people come back. The whole Ultimate thing up until now has been so good about that, and okay, they had a really good excuse this time. They earn credit with\u00a0me for not having used, much less overused, this excuse. But the reason why<\/em> they have that credit is that they don’t do it. The whole thing makes me skeptical, is all I’m saying.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my point is this: I look forward to seeing someone take the reins on the new era soon, and I especially thank my stars that Bendis has stuck around. Someone give him the reins, yo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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