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| The Ultimates 2 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, Steve Dillon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
Buy New: $50.11
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 246625
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0785121382
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785121381
ASIN: 0785121382
Publication Date: January 9, 2008
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Product Description
This deluxe hardcover collects Ultimates 2 Vol. 1: Gods & Monsters and Ultimates 2 Vol. 2: Grand-Theft America, plus extras. In Gods & Monsters, it's been one year since they stopped an alien invasion, and now things get hard! New members, new costumes and 12 months of gossip to catch up on! Who's getting married? Who's divorced? Who's gone nuts since we last saw them? See Ultimate Hulk and the secret origin of Ultimate Thor, and get a look at the entire Ultimate Universe as drawn by Bryan Hitch! It's guest-stars galore - featuring the X-Men, Daredevil, Captain Britain and even the Defenders! And in Grand-Theft America, Tony and Natasha are on the eve of their wedding - but when Nick Fury makes his move against the mysterious traitor that's been plaguing the team, the Ultimates will never be the same! Also, Captain America and Wasp hit a serious snag in their relationship. Is this the end for the Ultimate Universe's hottest couple? Is this the beginning of the end for the Ultimates? Collects Ultimates 2 1-13 and Ultimates Annual #1.
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It took years to finish, but it was worth the wait. December 22, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A long-standing fact about the "Ultimates" series of comics is that they don't come out with any regularity. While most comics come out every month, the Ultimates came out maybe every six months, maybe not. It was a shame too, because the storytelling here was some of the best in comics today. The idea of the Avengers is redone here with the heroes being flawed and having more adult hangups than the originals. In volume 2, we meet the Ultimate Defenders (a sad shadow of the team we've known for years), we see the downward spiral of Hank Pym's heroic career, the traitor amongst the team is revealed, and the return of the Hulk! Read as a whole here rather than the sporadic story we got from years of waiting for it to end, we see just how powerful and on what a grand scale this story is told on.
There are too many "Wow!" moments in here to include them all (plus I wouldn't want to spoil anything), but seeing Hawkeye cut loose (don't get on his bad side...he gets revenge in creative ways) and watching Quicksilver kill a supervillain at supersonic speed are two incredible moments here. Plus, the Ultimate Captain America disposes of one of the villains in a way our Cap never would have considered. And get ready for the most brutal Hulk/Abomination showdown you've ever seen!
The only slow moment and not really necessary is the Ultimates Annual #1 included here. The solo story with Cap and the Falcon finally teaming is good, but a little out of place with the grand scale of the other story.
Is Thor crazy or really the son of Odin? Would Captain America betray his country? Can Hank Pym ever be trusted again? Get ready for an amazing ride in this collection of stories! Probably the single greatest hardcover collection you'll read this year.
Spectacular is saying it lightly December 27, 2007
Like the first incarnation of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's Ultimates, Ultimates 2 was plagued with delay after delay, and again like the first Ultimates series before it, it was more than worth the wait. Ultimates 2 picks up some time after the events of the first series, with the Ultimates being famous and fighting all of America's dirty, little wars, when suddenly, things start to crumble. It is leaked to the public that Bruce Banner is the Hulk, which results in his trial and execution, Thor warns of a traitor on the team before he is perceived as a threat and taken down, the relationship between Captain America and the Wasp is faltering, a dying Tony "Iron Man" Stark prepares to marry the Black Widow, and disgraced former member Hank Pym attempts to forge ahead on a new career as Ant-Man with a spot on the short-lived Defenders. The story really picks up in the second half of this hardcover collection, as the traitor strikes, the team is separated, and America is under attack; concluding in one of the most superbly detailed battles you will ever come across in comic book form. Mark Millar's story is loaded with well-done twists and turns, and his depictions of Thor and Hawkeye in particular are highlights here. Bryan Hitch's wonderfully detailed art is where Ultimates 2 really shines, as his illustrations are both beautiful and brutal sights to behold. All in all, The Ultimates 2 is an incredibly spectacular and satisfying conclusion to the absolute best of Marvel's Ultimate titles, and if you've never read any of Millar and Hitch's Ultimates work, you have been sadly missing out.
Millar and Hitch create anoter masterpeice January 12, 2008
I wasn't sure if it was possible to top the first Ultimates storyline, but they certainly did with "Ultimates 2." Ultimates 2 takes the team into a fight so huge, even the Norse Gods have to join in!
Ultimately Excellent January 21, 2008
This second in the series picked right off where the first left off as far as quality and storyline are concerned.
Highly recommended.
 Haven't we been here before? February 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Following up something as amazing as The Ultimates, Vol. 1 is a hard act, even with the same creative team on board, but Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch manage to live up to the high standards of the first volume.
There are two main stories going on here, the first being the exposure of the Hulk as a member of the Ultimates team, and the second being the revelation that one of the team may be a traitor.
Once again, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch bring you the superhero movie you've always dreamed of, with tons of action and lots of amazing scenes. Millar makes sure that the characters are more than just one-dimensional muscle freaks, but real people. Between Captain America's lonleyness to Iron Man's chronic self-loathing, all of these characters have a lot of humanity.
I think the best of the characters in this book are Ant-Man/Giant-Man(Harry Pym) and Wasp(Janet Pym). Their relationship is complex and constantly defies expectations. Even though they spend most of the book apart, they have a bond that transcends physical seperation.
The one downside to this book is that it doesn't shock me the way that the first volume did. To be fair, plenty of jaw dropping things happen here, especially in the final 3 or 4 issuse. Lots of surprises, lots of action that keeps going further and further over the top.
But...if you've read volume one you know how far Millar and Hitch can go. You know how crazy it can get. And, knowing that, it is a little less surprising when things start hitting the fan. After volume one, I don't even know if it would have been possible for them to top themselves. They sure did their best, even going almost a year behind schedule to do it, but it still lacks the surprise that it had the first time.
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