The Punisher, Hawkeye, Rhodes & more take down the 'Ghost Rider'. Overall good short stand alone story. Recurring themes of loss and revenge link three major characters well. (Great bargain at $5)

In Marvel‘s Ultimate line of comics, the team called the Ultimates is what a long time fan would consider the traditional Avengers with the likes of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor making up the team. However, the Avengers in this reality are a covert black-ops wet work group that gets the jobs that are too dirty for the more public Ultimates. Since they’re doing the bloody work, Nick Fury needs a bullet-happy maniac on the payroll so naturally he captures Punisher and forces him on the team

In the Ultimate universe, the public team of heroes are The Ultimates. But there is a non-public team now, for real dirty work, and Nick Fury is demoted to running these behind-the-scenes "Avengers". Fury, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and War Machine recruit the Punisher and the First Hulk to attempt to defeat the demonic Ghost Rider.

Wow, sometimes I forgot how silly and stupid Millar dialogue can be. So this is basically a hunt for Ghost Rider. But first the Ultimate Avengers need to do some recruiting. First they take in Punisher after he's killed about 200+ people. Then they get Cash, who in this universe is basically like the first Hulk. All together, Black Widow, Cash, Warmachine, Punisher, and Hawkeye go and try to hunt down Ghost Rider. But soon into it we learn Ghost Rider isn't the real bad guy here. The plot is sim...

When Ultimates can't be seen to take care of a problem, it's time for Nick Fury to call in the black ops team - The Avengers! A story that manages to include the Punisher, Hulk, Ghost Rider and Mephisto! Once again interesting concepts but used to the max. 6 out of 12

For not being very familiar with all the characters of the Marvel world or all of the plot lines that brought me to this book, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily I fell into the story.The art was good. The writing was even better. Definitely a keeper!

Mark Millar returned to the Ultimates to save it from the fiasco that was Ultimatum. Still, I'd rather he made Ultimates 2 his defining moment; he had nothing left to prove by returning to the Marvel Ultimate Universe. His collaboration with Bryan Hitch was career defining and he risked watering down his legacy here. His comeback just isn't as good this time without Hitch. It has none of the cinematic widescreen experience Hitch brought to the table.

A better than average superhero saga by the team of writer Mark Millar and artist Leniul Yu.Things take place in the former Ultimate Universe, an alternate version of the Marvel Universe featuring the same characters but in sometimes different roles and always (at least the books that Millar wrote) grittier, and more violent with a sprinkling of cynicism for seasoning. The Ultimate Avengers are the team assigned to take on the dirtier assignments the more wholesome Ultimates Team would prefer n...

Nick Fury continues recruiting for a new Avengers team, a black ops squad, as an opposite to the Ultimates to do the stuff that would sully their good image. Enter Tyrone Cash, a Hulk-type beast, who apparently taught Banner everything he knew (!) being enormous and hyper-intelligent, and Frank Castle the Punisher, who is "captured" by the new Avengers and suited up in a Punisher/Captain America crossover costume and urged to fight for them. This new team is suddenly called into action when a se...

Nick Fury recruits a new team of black ops Avengers to take down a super-powered killer who is hunting down some of America's wealthiest and most influential men. However, the Avengers find themselves unprepared to face the supernatural power of the Ghost Rider.Millar's Ultimate universe work tends to be characterised by unnecessary violence and characters who are such awful people that it's very hard to get behind them as protagonists. To begin with this book was very much following that mould,...

I'm pretty convinced this was largely a laugh for Millar. He didn't have anything to prove after he left Ultimates 2. So, I feel these series were him making some points at the expense of Marvel. I think that Ultimate Comics: Avengers reads best as a criticism of modern superhero comics books without the nastiness of Kick-Ass/Nemesis.

Finally, a good Ultimates volume without dumb cringe stuff like the previous one. Punisher: Why do I have to wear this stupid costume?Black Widdow: As long as you wear it nobody knows we're fraternizing with the Punisher.*costume has a big Punisher skull logo on the chest and team calls him Punisher in the field*

I hate the regular Ultimates title as it turns good guys into jerks. This one I enjoyed because it takes the anti-hero’s and keeps them jerky. I enjoyed it and will look to read the other books in the series.

The Ultimates, Punisher and Ghost Rider

Yikes. My weak stomach is glad Mark Millar doesn't write an ongoing Punisher book.

While not perfect, and certainly with some things going against it, this particular volume of Mark Millar's Ultimate Avengers still manages to score 3 stars with this reader. Here's my review, broken down in 3 points:The good: (1)The Punisher joins the Avengers (albeit against his will), (2)a scene reminiscent of "The silence of the lambs" in which the Spider trades iformation with the Black Widow, and (3)the way Hawkeye "frees" the Punisher from the Avengers' control. That was cool. Further bac...

In the second volume of Mark Millar's post-Ultimatum Ultimate Avengers series, we get another look at some of the darker characters introduced in Ultimate Comics Avengers Vol. 1: The Next Generation. This time around, the Punisher is recruited to help the team take down the Ultimate Universe version of Ghost Rider.Story - Mark Millar is obviously enjoying spending time on the darker side of the Ultimate Universe. This is a dark, violent tale without much in the way of "pure" heroics or clear lin...

I felt a little let down by this one. After reading Ultimate Comics Avengers: Next Generation I felt like the line was starting to re-gain it's footing after the bubble of shitiness that surrounds Ultimatum. But this volume, as much as I enjoyed reading it, felt too much like a main stream marvel comic. I didn't feel like Ultimate ghost rider or Punisher was all that different from the main stream one, and the inclusion of overtly supernatural beings took away from the realism that was present (...

I would have to say that this storyline was pretty good, as well as the artwork. Seeing the motivations of the Punisher in the Ultimate Universe were done well, considering how his reason for murdering was not altered. Having the Ghost Rider used in the story was done well, though I was ticked off that he wasn't used again after this storyline. The introduction of Tyrone Cash was a nice addition to the team, since he was as bad as the other memebers. The story also provides more insight in regar...