{"id":5021,"date":"2015-03-27T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2015-12-06T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T00:37:10","slug":"all-new-ultimates-no-gods-no-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"All-New Ultimates: No Gods, No Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/51MeEMpGe1L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/51MeEMpGe1L.jpg\" alt=\"51MeEMpGe1L\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/51MeEMpGe1L.jpg 325w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/51MeEMpGe1L-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>Back when I ordered this book, and every time between then and when it arrived and I started reading it earlier this week, I thought the title was a reference to one of the first Ultimates books, <a title=\"My review of The Ultimates 2: Gods and Monsters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=465\" target=\"_blank\">Gods and Monsters<\/a>, from nearly\u00a0ten years ago now. But as of cracking the cover open, I have realized that the title of the book is actually <a title=\"All-New Ultimates Volume 2: No Gods, No Masters by Michael Fiffe, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-New-Ultimates-Volume-Gods-Monsters\/dp\/0785154280\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Gods, No Masters<\/a>, which is a completely different title. Apparently it&#8217;s a reference to a political book about anarchism? I don&#8217;t see a particular parallel here, but maybe I would if I&#8217;d read the other book.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know the street level gang war the teenaged Ultimates were fighting \/ trying to clean up <a title=\"My review of All-New Ultimates: Power for Power\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4809\" target=\"_blank\">last time<\/a>? This is the conclusion to that storyline. Which means, yes more irrelevant third-or-lower tier &#8220;super&#8221; villains, yes more Roxxon intrigue. Also, some of the art was all scribbly and lame, but only some of it. Still, though, the character evolutions among some of our heroes has made the pair of books retroactively worth the price of admission after all.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, that may not be true. Spoiler alert based on news reporting of happenings at Marvel. But, the thing is, most of these characters and in fact the Ultimate universe in general may be coming to an end when it collides somehow or other with the regular continuity. Can&#8217;t blame the current authors who have been pushing things forward that everything since <a title=\"My review of Cataclysm: The Ultimates\u2019 Last Stand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4570\" target=\"_blank\">Galactus<\/a> has been basically a meaningless placeholder. But it&#8217;s damn disappointing nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I ordered this book, and every time between then and when it arrived and I started reading it earlier this week, I thought the title was a reference to one of the first Ultimates books, Gods and Monsters, from nearly\u00a0ten years ago now. But as of cracking the cover open, I have realized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,22,40],"class_list":["post-5021","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\/5021","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=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}