Ultimates 3 #3 (OF 5)
Review by kevsname72:
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Written by JEPH LOEB
Size: 32 Pages
Price: $2.99
I just don't know what happened to Loeb. Is this really the same guy responsible for Daredevil: Yellow? Long Halloween? Catwoman: When in Rome? Why is it that Loeb's writing suffers the further he gets from Tim Sale? This book reminds me of how i felt about his run on Batman. every issue's art is beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that i find myself trying to forgive and ignore poor writing. It feels like he is writing to his artists strengths and not his own.
As far as the art goes, i may be in the minority but i really love Mad's art, he may not be the best storyteller, but his pencils are just incredible. I started reading comics in the early 90s. I started with Jim Lee, fell out for a while, and Joe Mad brought me back. I've stuck by the x-men ever since he left because i really grew to love those characters on his watch. Say what you will about the Lobdell / Mad run on uncanny, it was my first love for a creative team.
Ultimates 3 gives me a weird feeling. On the one hand i'm glad that Joe Mad is working in comics again; But on the other i have to watch one of my once favorite writers go further down the toliet.
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I feel the same way. I love Hush. I love the Tim Sale / Loeb Batman stuff. I was really excited for this series because I really liked the original two Ultimates and figured Loeb would be a good guy to pick it up. Instead its fixed the one problem I actually had with the previous runs, being late, while giving me art, story and characters I can't like.
As for the art, I missed out on Joe Mad's first period, so he doesn't even have the nostalgia angle on me. I'll forgive him issue one, but I still don't dig his art.
Posted by Jazzlawyer on 02/22/08 at 04:29 AM
I completely agree with your review. I never liked Lobdell all that much, but the Lobdell/Mad run on Uncanny was fantastic. Lobdell definitely played to Mad's strengths and gave him wonderful things to draw. The story with Dr. Strange, and Wolverine/Archangel team-up, and the vapor ninjas was particularly fun. I loved that art so much. And I have usually cared much more about the WRITING in comics rather than the art.
Re: Joshua's comment above:
Er, I haven't listened to that podcast, but I hope you don't mean that Loeb is trying to blame this series' problems on Joe Mad's art. Yes, he's not the best "storyteller", but the only real issue with the art was how dark it was colored in issue #1--and that's not Joe's fault. Also I guess there are some continuity errors in regard to how the characters look now vs. how they looked under the Millar/Hitch regime. Again, it would have been nice if Joe had researched this stuff, but this is more the editor's fault for not catching the errors early (in preliminary character sketches) and correcting Joe right away.
Posted by flapjaxx on 02/22/08 at 07:06 AM
No, Loeb was just trying to explain why the art was so dark and to say that Joe Madd's art was getting better with each issue. He wasn't blaming anything on him, and the darkness just seemed to be a printing screwup some where down the line.
Posted by Jazzlawyer on 02/22/08 at 02:32 PM
Nice review, I just listened to a podcast from fanboy radio w/ Loeb as the guest and he said the deal with Joe's first issue of Ultimates 3 was that he was admittedly rusty on drawing comics, but that each
issue was getting better and better.
Posted by Joshua on 02/22/08 at 12:38 AM