King Aquababy is kind of an asshole

[schmevil]

Absolute power corrupts even babies absolutely.



Aquapeople: just horrible.





Love the funeral wreath in the title. Classy.





Fire trolls. Avatars of comics fans? Hmm.

Oh, and then there's this Aquaman redesign by Katie Cook



This was part of a Project Rooftop series

Comments

[schmevil]

My brother has decided that Ult Thor is the One True Thor. He's a hard drinking warrior with a mix of traditional and progressive attitudes, and godly in the sense of his being focused on the actual bigger picture.

[valtyr]

I cracked the hell up when Thor was all "Not helping unless you double the foreign aid budget, boo." In Ultimate Six he's with the team just to hang out, or something, because Cap keeps saying "Thor, will you - " and he's "No." He was so original a take on Thor, I loved it. :/

[stubbleupdate]

What should the reading list for Ultimate Thor be?

I;ve only read Ultimate Thor and Ultimate Secret

[valtyr]

Hm, well. His intro is in Ultimates, of course, where they establish his character and he has several cool moments. He has a major storyline in Ultimates 2 including a big set-piece battle. He's a bit part in Ultimate Six, but a fun one. He's in the ensemble in Ultimate War, and fights Ultimate Storm. I don't recall him being in Ultimate Origins, Ultimate Gah Lak Tus, Ultimate Human or Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine at all. He's in Ultimate Power, Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum, but Loeb... wrote him oddly. Almost as if he hadn't read any Ultimates and just pasted in 616 Thor. In New Ultimates Loeb appears to have noticed the massive OOCness, and the plot of the series is basically Fixing It Through Epic Retcon And Exposition. It's a very odd story. He's not in Ultimate Avengers. In Ultimate Avengers vs New Ultimates, old-style Thor appears to be back, with no reference to the Loeb shenanigans.

He briefly appears in Ult X-Men at a party - just a panel or two - and in Ult Fantastic Four he comes to Johnny Storm's birthday party, again just a panel or two. I haven't read much of Ultimate Spider-Man, but in #150 he tells a story of when Spider-Man helped him out, and it's suggested he mentor Spider-Man a bit, which I'm really hoping to see. That's all I recall off the top of my head.

Is Ultimate Thor good? I'm tradewaiting right now, and Ultimate Thor+Jonathan Hickman is making me all hopeful.

[stubbleupdate]

He's in Ultimate Secret. He does the "You, military industrial complex girl, bring us beer" to Danvers.

Ultimate Thor is alright. It stretches itself quite thin by having three different timelines going on. There's some very good bits in there though.

[valtyr]

Oh, of course. He and Tony escort the Fantasti-car to the Triskelion, too. Another bit part, then.

[stubbleupdate]

Oh, Christ, I forgot Millar's President Thor stuff. That's horrible, and not just because of Land's art.

Is Ultimate War an X-men storyline? Amazon suggests that it might be.

[valtyr]

Oh man, I think I blocked that out! That was weird.

Ultimate War is an X-Men/Ultimates crossover, pretty sure it was a mini. In the same vein, Ultimate Six is a Spider-Man crossover mini.

[valtyr]

Oh, and don't touch the Ultimate Captain America mini. The only reasons to read that are a) you hate Ult Cap and want to see him written as a complete asshole* and then brutally abused b) you want to see lovingly drawn depictions of Cap in chains on his knees.

*How bad? Well, it's 'longing for the depth and complexity Mark Millar brings to the character' bad. No, really. That bad.