So the cover for the upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man issue showed Magneto with Spidey, Iceman, and Liz (Ultimate Firestar, I guess) charging towards him. I'd really like to see those three, plus Kitty and the Human Torch all trying to throw down with Mister Master of Magnetism to stop him from, I presume, getting his hooks into Liz. I have to say, given Liz' expressed feelings about mutants (assuming she is a mutant, and not the result of genetic tinkering like Sandman or Electro), Mags is going to have a hard sell, trying to convince her to hook up with his mutant supremacist group.
Magneto: Join our noble cause of destroying humanity.
Liz: No! Mutants are gross freaks!
M: *blinks* But you are a mutant, child.
L: Ugh, don't remind me. It's so awful, my life is over.
M: *takes deep breath, squeezes stress reduction ball*
That would probably go for some time, given the writer involved, but I'd hope for at least one panel of Magneto looking flabbergasted at Liz' dislike of her current situation.
If that's what Magneto's going to be up to, as opposed to, say, trying to attack the Triskelion after the damage it sustained during Norman Osborn's most recent escape. Per Ultimate X-Men, one of his followers (Mastermind?) is stuck there, posing as him, and maybe Magneto wouldn't see any reason to leave him stuck there any longer.
But I think it would be kind of nice to see a group of teenage heroes trying to take on what is presumably the greatest villain on Ultimate Earth these days. Remember, Dr. Doom is in the Zombieverse, Osborn's dead (still a little surprised over that ending), Fury is on trial in the Supreme Powerverse, Kingpin's under arrest, and Apocalypse hasn't done anything yet. Other than Magneto and maybe Ultimate Namor, the cupboards are a little bare for serious baddies in the Ultimate Universe. Hmm, maybe it's time for Shocker to up his game a little. There opening is there, if he could just stop losing so easily.
Anyway, I think the battle of those five teen heroes against the big bad would be fun, given the different powers involved, and with all the interpersonal relationships between the good guys. And perhaps Kong or Mary Jane (or both) could play some sort of pivotal role.
I really just want some sort of grand "dogpile on the villain" story, I think. It would be a nice change of pace for Spider-Man, since he's frequently outnumbered, or in the middle of some mess where there are dozen different people involved, and either they're all on separate teams, or they keep switching allegiances (I'm thinking of that fight with Spidey, Shang-Chi, Iron Fist, Moon Knight, Elektra, Hammerhead, and the Black Cat, with the cops outside just waiting for somebody to shoot. That was a crazy fun fight, though). This time he'd actually have numbers on his side, and it wouldn't be seemingly incompetent SHIELD agents for once. Whoo!
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You know, that's a pretty good idea!
Speaking of Nick Fury, does anyone else think that Ultimate Power decided to change its ending halfway through the story, and no one told Bendis? Otherwise, why does Peter go looking for Fury during the Goblin story at all. He's the guy who fingered Fury to the Supremes.
There's a sentence that could be taken badly out of context. :)
sallyp: Thank you. It's good-and-bad with my brain; get this stuff, get the Aunt May=Oedipus stuff. Just never know.
seangreyson: I was wondering about that too. I wonder if it has anything to do without that altercation Bendis and Loeb might have had at the big creative conference a while back. A breakdown in communication between writers, or Loeb deciding to just do what he wants perhaps?
Bendis has said a few things recently (in those one-page interviews Marvel has in the back of their comics now) that make me think he's trying to do as many of the ideas he's had planned as he can before Ultimatum, like it's going to shake things up/wreck everything (depending on one's perspective), which worries me a bit.
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