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I dunno. It's ... slight ... (Oh, sorry, "decompressed") but I'm more impressed (read: shocked) that Millar's showing some depth of characters, finally - I've been rereading, and the Ultimates are assholes but not uniformly so; he's managed to sneak in some character bits in between ripping off the earliest of Ellis Authority Arcs.
Fury & Betty - I don't think that was necessarily to indicate that they've been doinking all along, but he's presented them pretty consistently as having an actual friendship, even if it's mostly a "work friends" situation - Betty thinks her husband's dead, and Fury's always been there to hash things out with. I liked that bit, it showed actual intimacy between the characters, when usually the Authority is all about the Self-destructive Abusive Relationship(tm) and the fact that they're all assholes who hate each other.
"The Great Satan" - shocking, but ignorance is simply a state before enlightenment, and SHOCKING that a COMIC BOOK (filthy, filthy) might actually encourage people to learn something. So don't jump down people's throats for not knowing, it's just the same as all those new words you read and then have to go look up. People didn't know, and discussed the fact that they didn't know, and then found out the significance.
Oh my god. Cap-free issue. That's probably why I enjoyed it.
Tony & Jarvis & 'Tasha: another good character sequence; I like Tony (when not written by Card) because he's generally a spoiled snot-nosed brat genius but he's clearly in the process of re-evaluating his life, and Natasha exploited that. And while Jarvis irks me (dirty old man butler, huh), his interactions can be amusing and I like that once you get past Millar's character-posturing, there -is- an intimacy with Tony, even if it's hidden behind all the irritation.
And I'm betting her itchy implants were fight enhancements. I liked that she begged off so that - what? She could have the pleasure of killing Tony herself? That's intimate in it's own vicious way.
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