Why doesn’t Ultimate Punisher just kill Ultimate Kingpin? I’m so confused. I’m additionally confused over Ultimate Daredevil. He’s just rude? Is there any other difference between him and regular Daredevil?
Mark Brooks is the wrong penciller for this comic, just dreadfully wrong. Bendis is doing–as much as he can in Ultimate Spider-Man–a serious superhero crime book and Brooks draws everything like a cartoon. Maybe it’d work if he were better and his style directly engaged the material and the contraction, but he isn’t better and it doesn’t work.
There’s not a lot going on besides Bendis’s plot construction. He shows the four guys coming together, the villain, the dirty cop. It’s actually the Ultimate version of a famous Spider-Man story but without any of the gravitas. Brooks’s art is incapable of gravitas I’m pretty sure.
The issue reads pretty well, I suppose, but it’s completely disposable.
CREDITS
The Death of Captain Jeanne DeWolfe; writer, Brian Michael Bendis; penciller, Mark Brooks; inker, Jaime Mendoza, Mark Morales, Victor Olazaba and Brooks; colorists, Laura Martin and Larry Molinar; letterer, Cory Petit; editors, John Barber and Ralph Macchio; publisher, Marvel Comics.
