{"id":459,"date":"2007-06-12T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=459"},"modified":"2007-06-12T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T22:51:43","slug":"ultra-seven-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/12\/ultra-seven-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra: Seven Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ultra.jpg\" alt=\"Ultra: Seven Days\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>The Luna Brothers<\/strong> (Image)<br \/>\nISBN 1582404836<\/p>\n<p>We live in an age of celebrity. It is ghastly, but it is true. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before the venerable old super-hero genre got the treatment. Ultra is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hello\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the super set, dishing the Goss on the paranormals who live among us, complete with their Agents, Managers, stylists, entourages, trade associations and parasitic tabloid paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p>The concept isn&#8217;t exactly fresh but the creators take it to its considered extreme, by concentrating on a week in the lives of three \u00e2\u20ac\u0153typical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d heroines when they aren&#8217;t world-saving, striving to illuminate the human in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super-human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Sadly, for me at least, the same type of contrived romantic entanglements and stagy, forced comedic set-ups that made me quit <strong>Ally McBeal<\/strong> at the end of season one and makes me immune to soap-operas and reality TV, made this feel like laborious and stilted twinky-fodder.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem is the overly mannered artwork. Perhaps the drab and stilted pictures are intended as a metaphor for the bland, inconsequential subject matter, but the conceit of using \u00e2\u20ac\u0153actual pages from Ultra\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a staging device is overused and the text pages rather than adding insight finally became a chore to read.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an odd quirk that makes us overly interested in how the famous live, who they&#8217;re shagging, what they wear (obviously very little in a book about super-heroines aimed at a comic-book audience) and I&#8217;m sure someone&#8217;s already bought the movie option for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;m-A-Celebrity-Who-Can-Eat-Steel-So-You-Better-Get-Me-Out-Of Here-If-You-Know-What&#8217;s-Good-For-You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m wasting time whining here, but that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>And as for that quirk? I resist it. If we all did, maybe all those celebrities would stop primping for us and get on with their lives, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &amp; \u00c2\u00a9 2005 The Luna Brothers. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By The Luna Brothers (Image) ISBN 1582404836 We live in an age of celebrity. It is ghastly, but it is true. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before the venerable old super-hero genre got the treatment. Ultra is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hello\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the super set, dishing the Goss on the paranormals who live &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/12\/ultra-seven-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ultra: Seven Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-7p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}