{"id":5389,"date":"2016-01-30T18:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2016-01-30T18:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:23:34","slug":"ultimate-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5391 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/510TQ731k4L-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"510TQ731k4L\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/510TQ731k4L-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/510TQ731k4L.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>Well, I am straight up disappointed by the <del>ultimate<\/del> <a title=\"Ultimate End by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Ultimate-End-Secret-Wars-Battleworld\/dp\/0785198903\/\" target=\"_blank\">final novel<\/a> in Marvel&#8217;s Ultimate continuity. See, the other\u00a0times there have been big crossover events, I&#8217;ve read all of the affiliated books (in publication order, natch) because they were crossed over in, y&#8217;know, the same publication line. Whereas Secret Wars is a crossover among multiple Marvel continuities, none of which I am current on other than this one.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that I was reading a sideline on the main story, without any context for what was supposed to be going on. I&#8217;m not saying there wasn&#8217;t any emotional impact; Bendis knows his job. But when I don&#8217;t know why things are happening[1], it&#8217;s hard to get involved enough to really <em>get it<\/em>. So, that was lame.<\/p>\n<p>Bright side: I&#8217;m only 37 years behind on catching up with the other continuities so I can reread this with the proper context! So I&#8217;ve got that going for me, which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Example: An army of Thors flying around enforcing God&#8217;s will. Um&#8230; what? Why? Who? So, yep. Also, the entire final issue was predicated on something a character learned in a different book. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am straight up disappointed by the ultimate final novel in Marvel&#8217;s Ultimate continuity. See, the other\u00a0times there have been big crossover events, I&#8217;ve read all of the affiliated books (in publication order, natch) because they were crossed over in, y&#8217;know, the same publication line. Whereas Secret Wars is a crossover among multiple Marvel [&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-5389","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\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}