Sadly this isn’t the worst blind date she’s ever been on.
Ultraverse Premiere #6
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (August, 1994)
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
Why are so many anthology comics coming into my rotation at the same time lately? If you missed yesterday’s update in the Jake & Leon post, the website I’ve been using for the Monday Ultraverse comic reviews is down and I haven’t been able to find a new copy of Prototype #13 online. (This comic is a flipbook with that one.) I only use those sites because I doubt Marvel cares, if Disney even knows they technically own the Ultraverse characters when Marvel decided to buy Malibu Comics for the computer coloring process that is probably obsolete in 2026.
So we’re just looking at the anthology on one side of the book. Hopefully after my birthday break it will be back up or I’ll have another option.
Iron Clad: “Days Of Summer Glory”
WRITER: Mark Paniccia | PENCILER: Brian O’Connell | INKERS: Larry Welch & Scott Reed | COLORING: Tim Divar & Foodhammer! with Tabatha Martin
While Iron Clad does stop a bank robbery the focus of the story in on Spencer and his thinking about the events of that day. He goes over the guard getting on him for the ricocheted bullet, and Spencer takes it under decent consideration while still remembering he saved people that day. Wondering about his future, he calls him mom, but his father (who we’re told is kind of judgmental about his life decisions) gets on as well and tells him that whatever else he’s proud of his son just as a news report alerts our hero to a fire. More people to save.
I really like this story. It’s a short story but one that gives our hero a chance to be heroic and still contemplate as an Ultra superhero. I hope he has his own comic at some point because I’ve like these previous shorts in this title.
Lady Killer: “Design For Living”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek | PENCILER: Kris Renkewitz | INKER: Jeff Albrecht | COLOR: Mickey Rose & Foodhammer!
Continued from the previous issue. This chapter is really short as it’s just Elena deciding whether to join the guy going after Hunt because she’s not familiar with the forest to just leave, join with one or the other, or stand between them. I assume she’s doing to rescue the guy’s daughter. Maybe they should have waited and given this story a Lady Killer special issue or something.
Flood: “The Eye Has It”
WRITER: Tom Mason | PENCILER: Brock L. Hor Jr. | INKERS: Moose Bauman & Scott Reed | COLORING: Tim Duvar & Violent Hues with Emily Yoder
Another really short story, but clearly setting up something. In a previous story, a girl doused by wetware (I admittedly can’t remember the specifics of the story) during a flood was taken to Ultratech to be treated, not that anybody told the new owner. A mechanical eye comes out of the quickly aging girl in this story as she examines her own history before the eye is spotted. Even Prototype, and I’m assuming this brings up events in the flipside issue I now really wish I could have read first because I think I just got spoiled, gets involved. The eye manages to retract into the girl and nobody makes the connection. Is her Ultra codename going to be “Flood”? Will it refer to something else? Curious to see what comes of this.
Pixx: “Candid Pixx”
WRITER: Gerald Jones | PENCILER: Brock L. Hor Jr. | INKER: Jim Sanders III | COLORING: Tim Duvar & Violent Hues with Emily Yoder
Contrary stops in at her academy and even though it’s a temp stop Pixx is hoping to meet her fellow students…until they turn out to be jerks and Pixx uses her illusions to mess with them in turn. I don’t think Pixx every got to use her powers in the Ultraforce cartoon before she died, but I hope she lasts longer in the comic. I kind of like her.
overall
Some of the stories are shorter than I would have liked but I enjoyed all of them. I just want to reduce the anthology count in my reading a bit.
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