New Ultimate Edit Week 1: Day Four
March 10th, 2010 by Gavok | Tags: black knight, captain america, defenders, hawkeye, hela, hellcat, iron man, jeph loeb, luke cage, new ultimates, son of satan, thor, ultimate edit, ultimates, valkyrie, zardaWhat happened on Day Three? Let’s see, the duo of Hawkeye and Iron Man were doing pretty badly against the Defenders until Captain America showed up with what seemed to be Xena Warrior Princess and the Glamazon Beth Phoenix. They turn the tide and start whipping some Defender tail. A tail that Hellcat surprisingly does not have. During all this, Zarda punches Luke Cage in the nuts and prevents the possibility of Ultimate Danielle Cage.
We move forward.
Here is a quick cutting room floor panel. The expression on his face sells it so well:
Thanks to ManiacClown for the Thor dialogue. Speaking of Thor, I only noticed during the editing, but Frank Cho snuck in some uncensored bare breasts on that page. I blacked it out, but in the original spread you can see it in-between the panel of Thor sitting on the throne and the panel of Hela unmasking. I guess Frank Cho is to boobs as Leinil Yu is to Howard the Duck.
More bare breasts tomorrow, but these will be the comic book hair-draped-over-the-nipples kind.
I remember that punch from Zarda; it didn’t look like a ‘nad-punch to me.
I’d look again, but I’m unable to view the pix on my phone anymore. This site seems to like Palm Pre less and less.
by West March 10th, 2010 at 04:24 --reply“I guess Frank Cho is to boobs as Leinil Yu is to Howard the Duck.”
That is the best sentence I will read all day.
by PMMJ March 10th, 2010 at 04:27 --replyYu sticking Howard in fight scenes never fails to amuse me.
by Endless Mike March 10th, 2010 at 05:51 --replyMario reference just slayed me XD
also was the 3rd page as completely incomprehensible as it is in the parody?
by Nathan March 10th, 2010 at 08:41 --replyI would’ve gone with the MST3K reference. Something that geeky can trump anything.
by Jason March 10th, 2010 at 09:09 --reply@Nathan
by wonthan March 10th, 2010 at 11:43 --replyNo, it’s completely comprehensible but actually stupider. short version
Thor: I want back to Valkyrie.
Hela: Impregnate me and you will.
There seems to be another breast next to Hela’s last sentence.
by Adam Farrar March 10th, 2010 at 12:56 --replyMan, Loeb really likes to push the incest doesn’t he?
by LurkerWithout March 10th, 2010 at 13:47 --reply@LurkerWithout: Thor and Hela aren’t related.
by david brothers March 10th, 2010 at 14:01 --replyIn ultimate universe Loki’s and Thor’s father is Odin (unlike the 616 version in which Loki’s adopted) and Hela is Loki’s daughter (or at least no other explanation has been offered yet).
by wonthan March 10th, 2010 at 14:47 --reply@LurkerWithout: To be fair Wanda and Pietro were still really creepy in GOOD Ultimates.
@wonthan: I figured they just took the basics of Norse mythology they didn’t mess with as read
by Nathan March 10th, 2010 at 15:01 --replyThe way I figure it, Zarda just straight up shattered her axe when she attacked Luke Cage’s Power Man. You can’t see it because of a wizard.
by Steven March 10th, 2010 at 15:27 --replyIm not fussed for not seeing it, but why go to the effort to blacking it out?
Prudishness?
I havent seen violence and swearing get edited out.
by TobyS March 11th, 2010 at 17:43 --reply@TobyS: We aren’t having this debate.
by david brothers March 11th, 2010 at 17:54 --replyThe answer is really simple: because I felt like it.
Also, we haven’t had any real explicit swearing in any of the Ultimate Edits outside of the All-Star Batman and Robin sloppy censoring gag way back.
by Gavok March 11th, 2010 at 20:30 --replyI’m just catching up on this Ultimate Edit, but I was really surprised at the Adventure Time reference. Hilarious!
by rizzo March 12th, 2010 at 09:50 --reply