- Ultimate Elektra
Supercbbox| title = Ultimate Elektra
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caption = Cover to Ultimate Elektra #1. Art bySalvador Larroca .
schedule = monthly
format =Limited series
publisher =Marvel Comics
date = August 2004 to December 2004
issues = 5
main_char_team = Elektra Natchios
Matt MurdockFoggy Nelson
Benjamin Poindexter
writers =Mike Carey
artists =Salvador Larroca
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creators ="Ultimate Elektra" is a five-issue
comic book limited series , which serves as a follow-up to "Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra ". Both were published byMarvel Comics under theUltimate Marvel imprint. "Devil's Due" is written byMike Carey , with pencils bySalvador Larroca .Plot Summary
The mini-series begins shortly after its
prequel , withMatt Murdock andElektra Natchios in their freshman year atColumbia University .Elektra can only stand by as her father makes a deal with his cousins, Paul and Leonder, who are in
organized crime , so that he can rebuild the family's laundromat. Paul and Leonder hope to launder the money earned from theircriminal life, but their book keeper Kenneth Cullen has turned state's evidence. Elektra Natchios makes a bargain with her cousins, she will recover the evidence in return for her father's financial freedom. She fakes being a call girl so that she can recover the evidence, just in time to see Kenneth Cullen killed by Benjamin Poindexter (Ultimate Bullseye) who was sent by the Kingpin.Reception and Sales History
The first issue of Ultimate Elektra was ranked 16 in the August 2004 period with pre-order sales of 68,340. [cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5713.html| title=Top 300 Comics--August 2004| publisher=icv2.com| accessdate=2008-07-09] This was lower than its prequel with
Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra 's first issues sale of 77,050. [cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1988.html| title=Top 300 Comics--November 2002| publisher=icv2.com| accessdate=2008-07-09] The final issue #5 dropped in ranking to 35 with pre-order sales of 40,856. [cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/6291.html| title=Top 300 Comics--December 2004| publisher=icv2.com| accessdate=2008-07-09]Zeb Aslam from comixfan.com rated the series 3.5 out of 5. The writing is considerd "pretty lackluster and average at best" and that the writer Carey is using an "accepted formula" without taking any risks. The artwork was praised however "some panels the figures appear distorted". [cite web | last = Aslam | first = Zeb | url=http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?p=885198 | title=Ultimate Elektra #1 Review | publisher=comixfan.com | accessdate=2008-07-21]
Collected Edition
ee also
*"Elektra"
*"Daredevil"
*"Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra "References
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