2008-01-02 superheroes with ego's

I love all heroe based fantasy-sci-fi. I would like to say this book was all about action but it was more like a meeting at westminster but slightly more back biting. You can see a lot of the ultimates internal politics/conflicts andcharacter develop and after reading both dc comics marvel comics offerings of fiction novels though and graphic novels i became attracted to another superheroe team book. I like both the avengers and JLA and can see many similarities in team structure and conflicts of interest. After tomorrow's men, the novel b4 this one i was looking forward to another action packed book and hopefully not focusing so heavily on iron man this time around. While there is plenty of action but mainly at the end of this book it gets drowned out by difference of views and conflicts of interest. You start to see how really different iron man/captain america are and while a team they will never really work as a real team should, and this is pretty much true with the whole team. It really gives you a good idea why civil war was to happen, and how anybody can spend time with tony stark ie iron man without slapping his arrogance out of him i dont know. the story is pretty well described above but i feel far to much time was focused within the ultimates rather than the enemies they face but it was entertaining nevertheless. If you like the comics or heroic fantasy its worth raeding, but to my mind tomorrow's men was a much superior novel and this was no where near as good as some of the novels offered by marvel at the moment!