Image: Dike Ruan/Marvel The new Ultimate Universe has an intriguing start behind it: what if classic Marvel heroes like Spider-Man and Black Panther have only just stepped into their heroic identities? Instead of coming into heroism naturally, Tony Stark (aka Iron Lad) has been tracking down persons of interest and jump starting them into the … Read more
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
Image: Mark Brooks & Richard Isanove/Marvel Comics Marvel Comics likes to use either of the two big yearly Comic-Cons to reveal their big plans for the following year. 2023’s been an eventful time for the publisher, and that momentum will be continuing throughout 2024 in some big ways—mainly as it pertains to the X-Men and … Read more
Image: Mark Bagley/Marvel Comics Back in the 2000s, Marvel released a line of Ultimate Marvel comics that offered then-modern takes on the publisher’s premier characters. While the line overall eventually fell in quality, two of its strongest books were Ultimate Spider-Man and its sequel series, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man from writer Brian Michael Bendis and a … Read more