I enjoyed this story, but other than a great beginning and a surprise ending, the rest of the book felt like unnecessary filler material. Looking forward to the rest of the Galactus story though.

Ultimate Six's newby artist joins Warren Ellis to kick-of the Ultimate Galactus event with an ultimate secret, international intrigue that will concern the entire Ultimate universe. Interesting and intriguing, and I'm a loving the Ultimate Vision. 6.5 out of 12

Any time a new character is brought into the fray, the hype level gets raised a hair. Any time a new supervillain is introduced, the hype level gets a boost. Although this had both, the execution with the current roster was okay at best.

Ultimate Marvel does Horror. Kind of in a good way

While the characters involved are experts in their respective fields and work together as a team, there is a distict difference in how they interact with one another compared to their non-ultimate counterparts. They're a great deal colder, more sarcastic, less lovey-dovey-hold-your-hand or 'let me help you, friend.' It's a feature, but it does stand out. Wolverine and Colossus seem distictly underpowered compared to Fury's team.A strange, extraterrestrial signal mentioning the end of the world i...

Reprints Ultimate Nightmare #1-5 (October 2004-February 2005). Jean Grey and Professor X sense the development of a new mutant in Russia as broadcasts begin around the world presenting otherworldly events. With Captain America, Black Widow, Nick Fury, and the Falcon also heading to Russia, the X-Men find themselves in conflict with something otherworldly in Tungusta.Written by Warren Ellis, Ultimate Nightmare was the first part of a trilogy which brought Galactus to the Ultimate universe (or Gah...

I haven't read much of the Ultimates stuff before. This was OK, I guess. I liked some of the stuff, like the secret Soviet super soldier program, the artist they had did a good job with big wide-angle shots, and I liked the Falcon. But a lot of the rest of the time the colors were so dark and murky that it sort of all got lost on the page, and the Ultimate X-Men (mostly Wolverine and Jean Grey in this case) were so massively annoying that I breathed a sigh of relief everytime they weren't on-scr...

Book Info: This collection contains Ultimate Nightmare issues #1-5.ABSOLUTE RATING: {3.5+/5 stars})STANDARDIZED RATING: <4/5 stars>When a large meteor-like object crashes down in Tungusta (i.e. a semi-remote region located in eastern Russia) around a century ago, the radiation given off by the crash site mysteriously mutates all the surrounding vegetation and inflicts severe illness upon expedition crews exposed to the area. Now, years after writing off the event as a freak accident, violent...

This book is the first part of Warren Ellis' Ultimate Galactus trilogy (or Gah-Lak-Tus, or however they spell it) and it's pretty good but not great.The concept and execution actually make for an excellent science fiction/horror story. What it's not is a good superhero story. I actually wish they'd made this a SHIELD tale and left the Ultimates and X-Men out of it completely, at least for this first chapter.Maybe it's because I can't bloody stand the Ultimates and the Ultimate version of the X-M...

Totally awesome. It’s pure sci fi horror. I love the ominous foreshadowing (I’ve always loved ominous foreshadowing,) and it reminds me of the creepier parts of the original Mass Effect trilogy.These Ultimate versions of characters are much more... severe. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it makes me miss the more sympathetic 616 versions.I definitely like the hard-edged grimness at play. Trevor Hairsine is a kickass artist. And, speaking of creators, this is some of my favorite Ennis work. Thi...

A message simultaneously appearing on radios, televisions, computers and cellphones worldwide throws the world into a panic. The message warns of some vague impending doom and seems to be broadcast psychically. Both the Avengers and the X-Men track the signal's origin to an underground complex in the Tunguska region of Siberia. What follows is a story of steadily increasing horrors in darkened passages, the kind of story Warren Ellis is a past master of. Since he's mentioned in the book's title,...

This is the equivalent of watching a terrible sci-fi movie that's at just the right Level Of Awareness to be fun. It's light crossover between part of The Ultimates and part of The Ultimate X-Men is engaging, and the two new characters we're introduced to are excellent additions to The Ultimate Universe.I'm not much of a fan of art that's consistently dark and shadowy for a superhero book, but it totally makes sense for this particular sci-fi/horror/suspense book.I recommend reading it with popc...

Some really awesome things here... and some not so awesome. I loved the revelations of the final issue, but some of the action leading up to it was problematic. The X-Men's motivations seemed flat and the overall style felt dated.I'm really excited to see where this goes!

Warren Ellis comes out of nowhere and writes a great tale set in the Ultimate's universe.A powerful telepathic message is emanating from the middle of Siberia and it seems to be a looping message depicting the end of an alien world whilst repeating the message that something is coming. That something is variously described as a Destroyer of stars, an anti-messiah, a Devourer of worlds, etc.SHIELD deploys General Fury and a hand-picked team of Ultimates (Cap, Widow and Falcon) deploy into Russia

Eh.I'm not sure whose idea it was to re-animate the Cold War for this series, but Warren Ellis wastes many, many opportunities to mock it here. I was especially let down by the battle between Captain America and Captain Soviet Union (who looks kinda cool -- tattered, Red, and buff, with a trash-can shield). At least let that dull sexually ambiguous Cap get slapped around with a little rough-play from Red! Gimme something to feed my kinky socialist fantasies! Nice artwork though, especially consi...

Very cool. Great art and a story about failed experimental Soviet supersoldiers. This is the kind of thing Warren Ellis does better than just about anyone. Also, a showdown between the X-Men and the Ultimates! Looking forward to the next volume...

This whole thing could have been told in one or maybe two issues, but they felt the need to drag it out unnecessarily. The dialogue was messy, the X-Men felt like they did not even need to be there and story-wise there was not much going on. Hopefully the rest of the trilogy will make up for that.

A worldwide transmission from Tunguska causes the Xmen and the Ultimates to investigate

I know that these 5 issues are part of a much larger story but it really didn’t feel like much happened. This could have been 2 issues or 3. I will say that Ellis always does a good job of making me enjoy things that I normally wouldn’t— in this case the Ultimate universe. Everyone in the Ultimate universe is “gritty”, which usually translates to gross (with the exception of Ultimate Spider-Man, of course). But props to Ellis.