Ultimate Avengers Vs. New Ultimates #5 Review

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Things seem to be resolved in the big fight between Nick Fury’s Avengers and Carol Danver’s Ultimates.  Danvers is comatose and likely brain dead.  Tony Stark’s brother, Gregory, is now the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.  And he’s just dealt with Fury in the most hostile of ways.  All these things have happened, but at least two of these things aren’t what they appear.

Ultimate Avengers Vs. New Ultimates #5

Thanks to Blade’s vampire powers, the original Hulk, Dr. Banner’s mentor, has been hypnotized and subdued into becoming a normal human again.  He leads Fury and his team to his lab where he keeps his Hulk pills designed to give the user twenty four hours of immense power that he or she could control.  Once they have what they came for, Fury kills the doctor.  Five days later, on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Fury shows strange signs of not being dead.  Soon, he Hulks out.  The rest of his team, also powered up by the Hulk pills surround Gregory Stark, but the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. proves to be a bit too powerful for them with his own gadgets.  It’s revealed that Stark used the smuggled meta-humans as instruments of uprising in North Korea.  Faced with a tough decision, the Ultimates learn the truth about Gregory and join the fray with Fury’s Hulked up team.

This series has certainly been an exciting one.  Mark Millar used four issues to build suspense and it looks like the roller coaster has finally started to head down the hill at top speed.  The true enemy is revealed.  Characters that had some mysterious origins, like the “original” Hulk and “the Spider”, are coming face to face with judgment.  Gregory Stark, as expected, can’t be trusted.  This has gone from an espionage story to one with political implications.  It’s a good, deep story and the type of stuff we’ve been waiting for since the end of Ultimates 2.

As with most penultimate issues of an arc, this issue’s more about setting up the final confrontation between hero and villain.  While not quite as deep as the intrigue we saw in the first four issues, Millar still delivers a very solid story and has me very excited to see how this story will end.  Considering there’s a future for this version of the Avengers, it’s safe to say most of our heroes will remain, but what will happen with S.H.I.E.L.D.?  What’s going to be the perception of the Ultimates?  Will this version of the Avengers still exist with the Ultimates?  These are the questions that I came up with as I finished this issue and it’s really exciting to care this much about Millar’s Ultimate Universe creation again.

A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConsVery nice set up for the final issue of the story. This story as a whole has gotten me really excited for the Ultimates and Ultimate Avengers again.Not quite as intriguing as the first four issues, but if you don't expect too much of that, this issue will treat you really well. Rating85%

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