Marvel's Ultimate line of comics can be interesting, because they can start fresh with a lot of characters and change up their histories from the norms established 40-60 years ago. Sometimes they just keep them the same, and I say "Well, what's the point, then?" but I still buy the book anyway because I have a real problem. Other times, like this series, they totally change everything and it's awesome. Orson Scott Card, famous sci-fi writer, wrote both volumes of this book, and he changes Iron Man's origin from head of a weapons design firm who uses his genius to save himself and others once he learns the error of his ways to the completely new origin of a kid born with a brain spread throughout his whole body who must wear some kind of bio-armor all the time or he feels non-stop excruciating pain. The best parts of this series are when Card focuses on the viciousness of children, and the other best part of the series is when Andy Kubert is drawing because he is great.RATING: 71%
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Children are pretty vicious. Like sometimes they hit you in the face with their glasses and give you a bloody nose.
I didn't know O.S.C. wrote comics. He sure is one homophobic motherfucker. Check this out:
"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society. The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail. The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community in the polity's ability to provide rules for safe, stable, dependable marriage and family relationships." -Orson Scott DOUCHE! Card
(wikipedia would never misquote anyone, right?)
Well, to be fair, I doubt anybody who threw their glasses at somebody else started the fight, anyway.
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