I don’t often rant about comics (…on here anyway), but sweet Jesus have I read some good shit lately.

I’ve really been getting into Marvel’s “Ultimate” imprint lately, which is basically a modern reboot and re-imagining of the classic “Earth-616″ Marvel continuity – which I have always found a bit too… gay for my tastes. Notable exceptions being Runaways, Deadpool (which can actually get pretty gay, at times), Nextwave and those 6 issues of Iron Man that Warren Ellis wrote that one time.

Seriously though, you ever try picking up an X-men book? Yippie yay continuity spaghetti away! Dare I say it, they could probably do with a Crisis or two over on 616.

Awesome as it is, the Ultimate-U pales as might a sun-bleached bone in comparison to the other title I’ve been reading.

You’ve seen Dark Angel, right? For the blissfully ignorant, Jessica Alba portrays a photogenic genetically-engineered super-soldier who escaped from the evil facility that made her and is trying to make her way on a bleak future-earth.

OK, so now imagine that, but replace miss Alba and her equally humanoid brethren with 8-foot tall anthropomorphic Elephants (and other inhabitants of the Serengeti). Also, they were freed from their evil organisation by the UN who then attempted to integrate the “Elephantmen” into society.

It is pretty fucked up.