Ultimates 2 12 (SPOILERS)

[Jonathan]

A quick summary:

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Hulk smashes the Dynamo robots. Abdul al-Rahman fights Cap. Al-Rahman claims he wants a fair fight. The Abomination tackles the Hulk. The Abomination berates the Hulk for not being as smart as he is. Hurricane whips up on Hawkeye. Her comments during the beating snap Quicksilver back into action. Quicksilver grabs Hurricane and takes her so fast she disintegrates while giving her a lecture about what REAL speed is. The fight moves so fast that Hawkeye doesn't even know it took place, so after it's over he just sees Quicksilver standing there and so he yells at Quicksilver for not doing anything. :D Cap and Al-Rahman continue to fight. Fury, Betty, and Wanda join the fight. Captain Britain and the European Super Soldiers walk right into the middle of things, disguised as civilians. Captain Britain's dressed like Clark Kent, I thought that was cute. They get the jump on the Liberator foot soldiers and free the FF and X-Men. The Hulk's beating on the Abomination, asking him all kinds of questions in the process. "How many legs does spiders got? Can you tell Hulk the formula for COCA-COLA?" Awesome. :) Introducing: Giant-Girl! Swarm gets squished by Janet. :) Crimson Dynamo gets incinerated by a very drunk Tony Stark in a VERY big Iron Man 6. Iron Man 6 is a huge warship, not armor. Hulk rips the Abomination's arms off, then decapitates the Abomination as the Abomination's crying about losing. The Liberators are going down hard, so Pym orders his robots to turn on the Liberators. Pym: "It's, uh, time to let them realize we were INFILTRATING the Liberators!" Ultron: "What? SERIOUSLY?" :) Cap's pounding on Al-Rahman, so Al-Rahman cheats and uses Liberator footsoldiers to take down Cap. Cap's about to lose his head - until the Hulk uses Cap's shield to slice of Al-Rahman's hands. Cap drive's Al-Rahman's blade through his heart. The Ultimate Universe heroes unite and kick some ass. Fight seems over. Fury: "According to Tony, New York is secure.... That said, he DID sound kinda drunk and seemed to be SINGING while he was shooting things." :b But then...then the crap hits the fan. Loki's pissed at losing, so he reveals himself and prepares to destory the world. All seems lost... ...until the Scarlet Witch increases the odds that somebody who could "kick Loki's ass" would show up. Enter: Thor, fully healed, armed, and ready to fight. To be concluded.

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Best issue yet, hands-down.

[Expletive Deleted]

I liked the issue quite a bit, too. Hitch makes violence and mayhem so very pretty.

That said . . . Millar busts out another pissed off Thor cliffhanger?

[SMKSPY]

Another great issue as usual...now just six months until the conclusion.

[Jonathan]

Something I just realized:

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Perun doesn't appear at all in issue 12. I suppose he was probably left out so that he could have a showdown with Thor in issue 13.

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I liked the issue quite a bit, too. Hitch makes violence and mayhem so very pretty.

Heh, I expected this issue to be extremely violent - but I didn't expect

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so many of the the Liberators to die so horribly. I figured one or two might just get knocked unconscious, or even run away. But good grief - Swarm's crushed flat, Al-Rahman and the Abomination are in pieces, and Tony will probably puke more post-battle than what's left of Hurricane and the Dynamo. :p

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Another great issue as usual...now just six months until the conclusion.

Maybe, as a gift for all the previous issues' delays, Marvel will push issue 13's release date up a bit. Sure. Maybe. ;)

[Devil May Care]

Something that I only caught after re-reading...

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Somewhere along the line, they found a way to have clothing increase when Giant-Man formula us utilzed (Janet is still in a mega-sized costume when she grows).

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[oldscool]

Something that I only caught after re-reading...

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Somewhere along the line, they found a way to have clothing increase when Giant-Man formula us utilzed (Janet is still in a mega-sized costume when she grows).

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yes but

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her costume shrinks when she dous too so id asume the same tech makes it go the other way.

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[sherlockbones]

no, the costume thingie was part of the "reality" approach in ultimates. that is why pym was butt naked in issue 6

[Jonathan]

Speaking of Janet:

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When the hell did she get that growth serum from Hank, anyway? She was just carrying it with her since issue 9? Hank might've met with her and warned her about the Liberators' attack very soon before it happened. Remember, she does appear distressed about something in issue 9, right before the attack. I assumed she was just distraught over Cap, but....

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[Deus ex Chris]

This was a great issue, but am I the only one who felt bad for spoilers:

Al-Rahman?

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Thor

end of spoilers better be super-rectified next issue, and with that ending, it seems that it will, so I'm content.

[Devil May Care]

yes but


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her costume shrinks when she dous too so id asume the same tech makes it go the other way.

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Exactly as sherlock said, size changes in the Ulti-verse only apply to bodies, unless something came out that I missed. Is costume-changing even spoilerific? Must the spoil tags be used here?

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[Beast]

Yeah, but didn't Wasp's costume always shrank when she did. I assume it's the nature of her mutant powers. So perhaps the same abilities that caused her costume to shrink, caused it to grow?

[Tony Starkz]

The mayhem and chaos of this issue are on par if not greater than #9.

Let's not worry about the lack of Thor,#13 is another 38 page monster.

[Devil May Care]

Yeah, but didn't Wasp's costume always shrank when she did. I assume it's the nature of her mutant powers. So perhaps the same abilities that caused her costume to shrink, caused it to grow?

Not always. In the first Ultimates run, she and Hank always popped naked when they size-shifted. Hank did in the "Ultimate Six" run, too.

[Jonathan]

SPOILERS AHEAD!

This was a great issue, but am I the only one who felt bad for spoilers:

Al-Rahman?

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I kinda felt sorry for him...up until Cap beat him fair and square and was going to allow him to surrender, and al-Rahman went against his word and called in the Liberator footsolders to bail him out. :evilangry

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Yeah, but didn't Wasp's costume always shrank when she did. I assume it's the nature of her mutant powers. So perhaps the same abilities that caused her costume to shrink, caused it to grow?

Her costume shrank with her with, but her normal clothes never did, so I don't think her powers allow anything to change size with her. I'd say her size-changing costume was just one of the many new technologies developed between volumes.

I don't have the first Ultimates Annual onhand to check, but IIRC, wasn't there some talk of new super-costumes in it?

[Zengei]

I really liked this issue, loved the scene with Quicksilver and all the other little humorous moments.