Sometimes I think I cut Marvel too much slack and carry on reading titles that suck in the belief that they "will turn a corner" somewhere down the line.But sometimes you have to just hold your hands up and say "enough is enough" and Ultimates 3, issue 5, pushed just the right buttons to make me see red.
The end of Jeph Loeb and Joe Madureira's first story arc on the title was an even more ugly, messy and confusing affair than the start with long sequences where I didn't have a clue what was happening and, worse, didn't care.
Even the last minute appearance of my favourite villains failed to lift this out of the mire.
The days of Millar and Hitch are long gone and the Ultimate universe's formally definitive, flagship, tone-setting title has collapsed under a mountain of its own self-importance.
Of course, I shall keep picking up issues of The Ultimates because I am sure this tragic waste of great characters cannot continue for too long before some head honcho at Marvel drags Loeb and Madueira away and replaces them with a more fan-friendly pairing.
Usually it is wrong to criticise a comic (or book or movie) for "what it is not", but for The Ultimates what it isn't is "good".
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