When the Ultimate Marvel line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel’s heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, died, and was quietly reborn—but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what shaping that rebirth … Read more
Image: Marco Checchetto/Marvel Comics The original incarnation of Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe lived (and basically died) on Ultimate Spider-Man. Brian Michael Bendis’ run on that book with a number of artists including Mark Bagley, Sara Pichelli and plenty more was so consistent that it remained a bright spot among the larger messiness of its home … Read more
There’ve been lots of variations of Marvel’s Spider-Man through the years, notably in live-action. One that you simply won’t find out about launched in 1973, and since it’s turning 50 years previous in November, a brand new documentary is aiming to shed some gentle on the cult movie. This Week’s Toys Are Straight From a … Read more