Ultimate Avengers: Red Skull and the new Black Widow

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

This is from Wizard #213's article on Millar's Ultimate Avengers.

Comments

[frell.insanejournal.com]

Osama? Uh, what?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

"Illegitimate son"

. . .

It's just tiresome.

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

 

[moneyless_jew.insanejournal.com]

Oh, are we still hating everything Millar does? Okay.

Well, I don't hate this. Civil War was lazy-ass work by him but his Ultimates is generally solid.

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

...What?

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

My question was, "Why the fuck would Millar spoiler this in goddamned Wizard?"

LAME!

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

You know what really, REALLY bugs me about this?

That Red Skull isn't even ... a Nazi. At most he's one of those inbred redneck wannabe Neo-Nazis.

PLEASE let the REAL RED SKULL come by and kill his ass for taking the name. What the fuck is that, really? He looks more like Edward Norton's character in American History X than a real menace.

[silicone_soul.insanejournal.com]

I look at that design of Red Skull, and all I can think of is this>/a>. (http://www.crimerant.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/curtis.jpg)

[statham1986.insanejournal.com]

WOW! LOOK EVERYONE, It's Mark Millar trying to be stupidly provocative again!

In anyone else's hands, even Bendis', I know the idea of the Red Skull being Cap's own son would be handled pretty well, but as is, it just feels ridiculous and you know the Skull will just be this ridiculous, almost pantomine villain.

I do like the idea of Nick Fury, the badass Ultimate version who has taken shit off of no-one, so far, being ordered around and have his ass kicked by his wife, but I just take such an issue in the fact that there's been zero foreshadowing of this. If Millar had this in mind all along and didn't plan it in say, the last six months, we would've at least gotten some decent references to it, like Fury at least asking if his ex was okay during the two finales of Ultimates and Ultimates 2..

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Someone get me a strong, sturdy desk. My forehead wants to make sweet love to it.

Fail.

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

aww.

i was hoping they'd end up retroactively calling that kleiser guy the Red Skrull. Just 'cause that would be funny.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

I might appreciate some of these ideas in a new universe. THe UU has been going for a while now, though. So, NO!

[ninjapeps.insanejournal.com]

all I care about is that Millar's writing the Ultimates again.

[arilou_skiff.insanejournal.com]

I don't mind this.

Millar being "stupidly provocative" is OKAY in the Ultimate Universe I think. It works. I can enjoy it.

Now, if he'd just keep his dirty hands of 616 I'd be a happy camper.