Ultimates 2 #2 Review

Writer: Al Ewing / Artist: Travel Foreman / Marvel Comics On everything I retweet, I fucking promise you that Al Ewing is out here trying to fuck up your favorite writer’s list. Off the strength of the fucking opening page of this series Al Ewing stay slipping in backstory and character development through dialogue. Ewing is so good at it that you don’t even notice when it’s happening, it’s never long and drawn out. It’s as simple as Blue Marvel recounting Christmas time from his childhood.

I need Ewing to be kept in suspended animation because this man’s my fave and I can’t have him being on some problematic shit down the line. Once he finishes the masterpiece that is Ultimates I may have to give’em that suspended animation Bucky sleep or Han Solo carbonite bath. Ewing has been building up each member of this team since Mighty Avengers, Captain America & The Mighty Avengers, and Volume One of Ultimates. We’re now seeing this team at it’s best, working in the shadows, which is a problem for Carol Danvers due to the very public fallout the team had during Civil War II. That fallout though seems really just a pawn that they could move in silence, like the real g in lasagna. Their moving under Galcatus’ call and under America Chavez’ watch this time around and I fucking love it. Now we’re seeing America Chavez, who has been dealing with the multiverse the longest, in a clear-cut leadership role in the field. Ewing is literally world-building a world outside of the world, as…