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Frank Cho’s variant cover for The Ultimates 3 #3
Is she going swimming? Is she going to an awesome rave party? Does she have a date with a stripper dance pole? Did she accidentally say “No more clothes”? Is this Marvel’s way of rewarding me for pre-ordering the whole Ultimates 3 mini? How did they know I’m a sucker for redheads in skimpy scarlet attire? One thing’s for sure, though. Frank Cho draws lovely wimmens.
Hm. The first two Monthly Haul opening images contain Wolverine saying “Comics!” and I swear to God it wasn’t premeditated. Anyhoo, I kind of realized that since I’m doing this monthly comic book reviews thing, I might as well do it the last week of every month. If you noticed, I’m currently doing it the third week, which is sorta weird. So the third installment of Monthly Haul will come after the last Wednesday of January. I’m sure you don’t care, so let’s just go ahead and review some comics.
No, I’m not starting a new blog series about delayed shipments of new comics. I just want to celebrate the first time that I used a no-new-comics day to my advantage. See, I checked with my LCS about the shipment before I went to the mall. I was told the shipment is delayed, but if I make an advance payment for the new comics, I’d get free comics. Cool, right? Not really. First of all, when the clerk told me I’d get “free comics”, she actually meant “a free comic”. Yeah. Singular. What’s worse is that she was pressuring me to pick my free comic since there were a lot of customers and they were about to close shop. I ended up picking The Death of the New Gods #2.
I didn’t get this issue because the first one left me feeling empty inside. It wasn’t horrible, but I felt it wasn’t worth following for 7 more issues. But hey, it’s free. Might as well, right? So anyway, here’s the rest of the stuff that I paid for in advance:
I read a couple of issues of Ultimates 1, but I wasn’t really thrilled with it. Late shipping didn’t help with catching my interest. Madureira on Ultimates 3 isn’t really making me want to pick up this new “season”. The art looks awesome, though.
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That’s a very nice gatefold cover. It’s awesome to see Ultimate Venom and Ultimate Sabretooth together. That’s just badass. I don’t like how Ultimate Thor’s drawn, though. He looks like a giant dwarf from the Lord of the Rings. And what’s up with Ultimate Magneto? Why’s he looking at the camera when there’s an impending clash between his troops and the heroes? That Magneto, so wacky.
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