Lark...total lark...nothing serious found here...

It's been too long since Marvel and DC tied into the comedy full time. I was a big fan and a regular reader of the Justice League Insternational comedy-fest, and I haven't seen that kind of unabashed fun being had in a series in a long time, but Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol 2 shows what a blast can be had in reading something with a spirit of comedy. The artwork is atrocious at times - lord, the FF issue that opens things is comedically badly drawn - but it works because of the tones of the stories. The comedy of Peter Parker being told the four plot devices...er, rules of the Bazter Building right out front just so he can obviously break them later and set off the entire issue, the idea that the Krulls come out of the dimension willy-nilly running over the Marvel offices. It's good stuff. The Man-Thins issue is horrible, especially next to the very light tone of the other two stories that follow (X-Men meet Peter Parker and friends at a mall, no costumes, just teenagers chatting and Spider-Man meets Dr. Strange or his son or something), so I'm just going to discount that one serious issue and say that the fun had in the rest of this collection is worth the read.