Mass Movement Magazine

Ultimate Avengers 2: Crime And Punishment – Mark Millar, Lenil Francis Yu (Marvel / Panini)
So, if you’re Mark Millar how do up the ante on ‘The Next Generation’, and come back stronger, faster and better than before? You know, like the Six Million Dollar Man, not a bionic cybernetic government agent, but he comic equivalent that’s set in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. Mark Millar, being Mark Millar, unleashes the Ghost Rider to seek vengeance on the men who murdered him and his girlfriend twenty years previously, a Satanic biker cult who in return for the sacrifice of Johnny Blaze, were granted wealth, power and all the things that mere mortal men can only dream about. America, and the American government, take a dim view of rich folks being murdered by bike riding, chain toting, fiery skulled demon from the depths of Hell – especially when Vice President is up to his neck in all kinds of Devilish mayhem, and so send Nick Fury’s Black Op’s team to eradicate the Ghost Rider. Having recruited The Punisher (captured by Captain America following a failed hit on a Russian Crime Lord) and the ‘first’ Hulk (one of Banner’s mentors, like Ice-T on a ten ton daily dose steroids with a penchant for violence, violence, violence and more violence. Oh, and he like the ladies as well) to his team, Fury let’s them loose on the world, and in a six issue mini-series filled glorious orgy of action, violence (yup, there’s that world again), revenge, the odd double cross and Lucifer, with every detail and more captured by Lenil Francis Yu, Millar delivers once again. The Avengers go Black Op’s, and it’s about damn time…Tim Mass Movement