Ultimate Power

Ultimate Power is a nine-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics. It was written by Brian Michael Bendis, J. Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb with art by Greg Land.

The series is a crossover that ties the Supreme Power universe into the Ultimate Marvel universe (which features the Supreme Power versions of Squadron Supreme against The Ultimates, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man).

Why It Ultimately Sucks

 * 1) It is a very disappointing crossover with the Ultimates, the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man teaming up to fight against Supreme Power which feels like a long fight scene in all the issues.
 * 2) The comic starts when the Fantastic Four try to stop a group of female mercenaries called the Serpent Squad who are searching the Serpent Crown, and one of them, Princess Python punches The Thing/ Ben Grimm who has his rock-like skin cracked down to the ground and is in critical condition. As a result, his friend, Mr Fantastic/ Reed Richards starts finding a way to cure Ben by having S.H.I.E.L.D. to help him send advanced data retrieval probes into other dimensions. But is later forgotten.
 * 3) As a result, these probes also accidentally ripped open with the Squadron Supreme, making the sub-plot about curing the Thing is unresolved.
 * 4) Greg Land's art, while passable is wasted with lack of backgrounds, reliance of tracing character's face with their wide open mouths, Thor being taller and more muscular than Spider-Man, having women to have hips sway with their legs split apart and even traced some locations like tracing the headquarters of the USS Enterprise E from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Even so, his art was also been wasted with splash pages that feel like filler which should have been motion lines.
 * 5) *To add insult and injury, his artwork has been traced from other artworks for example:
 * 6) **The Thing's open mouth looks like Pac-Man on every single issue.
 * 7) **Invisible Woman looks kinda like Hannah Montana from her tv show of the same name.
 * 8) **Invisible Woman's open-arms are used from Emma Frost, and Storm.
 * 9) **Hyperion's flight pose is used from Cannonball and Doctor Spectrum.
 * 10) **Scarlet Witch's flight pose is used from Spider-Woman, Storm (which is used again in issue 4's first panel), and Pixie, while her face is changed to Kate Beckinsdale (whom her face is used from the Wasp and Power Princess) to Jennifer Lopez, while her open mouth is used from a blonde woman from the Supreme Power universe, as well as Scarlet Witch's energy attack pose is used from Storm.
 * 11) **Hyperion's open mouth and closed eyes while his head is up is used from Blur.
 * 12) **Cyclops' optic blast attack is used from Namor's.
 * 13) **Arcanna's open mouth is used from Invisible Woman.
 * 14) **Spider-Man's face is used from a stock photo of his own live action movie.
 * 15) **Supreme Power's introduction and their first fight scene is used by the Squadron Supreme.
 * 16) The Ultimates, the X-Men, Hulk and Spider-Man served no purpose about Mr Fantastic using dimensional probes to find a cure for the Thing and the confrontation with the Supreme Power.
 * 17) Misleading title: The title "Ultimate Power", barely focuses about "ultimate power" and is just about the Ultimates, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spider-Man fighting against the Supreme Power and the Squadron Supreme.
 * 18) Some of the issues are all just a fight scene without explaining anything of whats happening.
 * 19) The pacing is very slow and fast.
 * 20) The tone itself is inconsistent as well.
 * 21) Wasted villains like Doctor Doom who is revealed to be a Doom Bot in issue 8 and the Lex Luthor equivalent, Emil Burbank.
 * 22) Incredibly crappy dialogue like the Hulk saying "You look like dinner!"
 * 23) Some grammar errors, like The Thing saying "I Hates Robots", and could have said "hate" instead of "hates", that could have make sense.
 * 24) Some continuity errors like Hyperion blaming Reed for destroying his earth, but it's changed where he blames him for putting his world in danger.
 * 25) Nick Fury, leader of S.H.I.E.L.D., has been flanderized into a generic "mystery" character and main villain of the comic who works for Dr Doom to create those transdimensional probes.
 * 26) Even the mainstream counterparts of the Supreme Power's Squadron Supreme, are sadly shoehorned into this comic and fight their versions along wit the X-Men, The Ultimates, and the Fantastic Four in a misunderstanding.
 * 27) Some of the jokes aren't even funny like Spider-Man trying to spell Mjolnir.
 * 28) The writing is not good at all, and considering it was not onpar to other comics related to their mainstream versions.
 * 29) The ending is disappointing leaving the sub-plot about The Thing being cured is left unresolved by then until Ultimate Enemy and Ultimate Mystery comics.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The Idea of the Ultimates, Fantastic Four, and the X-Men teaming up could have been executed better without the dimensional portal plot thread.