Interesting to realize that 9/11 was almost nine years ago, and it still bothers me to see images of skyscrapers in New York being blown up.Apparently it doesn't bother writer Brian Bendis, though, 'cause he blows up several buildings in the first issue of the Ultimate Enemy mini-series. (I suppose we can be relieved that he's not picking on Chicago again, like in Siege.)
So this story is easy to summarize: we check in on several of the survivors from the Ultimatum (ptooey) series. They witness some kind of giant spore-monster destroying buildings they are in (or near), but they're not sure what the creature is - which is only fair, because the reader also has no idea what's happening.
Near the end, a mysterious (and mostly unseen) figure shows up, says a few cryptic words, and destroys another building.
However, we can be glad that, unlike Ultimatum (ptooey), there have been no gruesome deaths so far. It's really too soon to pass judgment on this story, because we've barely been introduced to the cast so far.
The art by Rafa Sandoval and Roger Bonet has a nice fluid feel to it, with lots of energy but not a lot of variety to the "shots" - it's all medium and wide shots, and almost all from the same angle. But there's a lot of potential there.
If I gave out "Incomplete" grades, this issue would get one, since it barely gets started when we run out of pages. This one could go either way right now.
But we don't give out "I's," so for this issue:
Grade: B-
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