Ultimatum: House Of M Meets World's End?
Owenashi
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In November, Marvel promises to change the face of the Ultimate Marvel-verse forever when Jeph Loeb (currently infamous writer of Hulk and Ultimates 3) teams up with David Finch to produce Ultimatum. While most event mini-series tend to always promise the 'change the face' bit, the fact that Ultimate Spider-Man's the only guaranteed surviving title out of the current Ultimate line tends to give Ultimatum's broom-sweeping status more credence. Here's what we know so far (spoiler-boxed just in case)...
- Magneto's playing the bad-guy for the most part, ticked off after events in Ultimates 3 forced him to cross a name or two off his family's Christmas Card list.
- The villain behind the villain however seems to be Doctor Doom (or at least another Doombot). Considering U-Doom's made completely of metal (either way), winding up Magneto and sending him against the world's heroes in a hopefully take-each-other-out battle works well for him.
- While the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four titles are closing their doors, they'll be going out in connected stories to Ultimatum staring Rogue and The Thing respectively. Both teams seem to be too busy to show up completely as recent events involving drugs made out of the first mutant, the appearance of Agatha Harkness and Hydra, and a look at both teams' future selves have left them somewhat fractured.
- Artist David Finch really needs a more flattering picture for his Wikipedia entry.
- The villain behind the villain however seems to be Doctor Doom (or at least another Doombot). Considering U-Doom's made completely of metal (either way), winding up Magneto and sending him against the world's heroes in a hopefully take-each-other-out battle works well for him.
- While the Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four titles are closing their doors, they'll be going out in connected stories to Ultimatum staring Rogue and The Thing respectively. Both teams seem to be too busy to show up completely as recent events involving drugs made out of the first mutant, the appearance of Agatha Harkness and Hydra, and a look at both teams' future selves have left them somewhat fractured.
- Artist David Finch really needs a more flattering picture for his Wikipedia entry.
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I don't read anything Ultimates related except for occasional USM hardcovers and tpbs I can find discounted so I'm already in the clear.
Man, are you kidding? That's the stupidest tagline I've ever seen.
It's just the generic prattling of a megalomaniac, which is neither badass nor exceptionally stupid in my book, The Book of Taglines and How I Feel About Them.
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(b) I hate the 616 stone Mjolnir....why they introduced that in Ultimates 3 I'll never know. After loving Ultimates 1 and 2, it is so disappointing for 3 to be such a nightmarish mistake.
(c) U.Doom...ugh.
I think I'd buy that. It'd be a great coffee table book.
I'm cautious because of how incredibley terrible Ultimates 3 was
I'm optimistic because I know Bendis and Millar were heavily involved in the planning of this event, and I have a hard time believeing they would let Jeph Loeb completley destroy thier universe.
I was under the impression that Bendis' interaction with the project amounted to him telling Loeb not to fuck up Ultimate Spider-Man too badly, and I figured Millar's too busy with his own little mini-event and all his Hollywood stuff to worry about Loeb fucking up the Ultimate line.
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It's the same guy who wrote the episode "Company Man" which is so much better than every single other episode of Heroes it may as well be a different show.
Are they getting rid of multiple books? I thought it was just 1.
My money is on Ultimate Xmen if it is just one. Boy did that become a clusterfuck after Kirkman came aboard. Ultimate FF isn't really in dire need of a reboot like Ultimate Xmen is, so I wouldn't mind it coming out unscathed. I mean, Ultimates could use a reboot back to right after Ultimates 2, but since its Loeb writing, that isn't going to happen.
I'll probably be checking this out just like I did with Ultimates 3 but I secretly be hating myself for doing so.
Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate FF are both ending
Does that mean they are being "reset"? Or are they just ending the series of both?
It really is a shame because I thought that UFF used to be one of the better books Marvel was putting out.
I'm having a hard time believing that they're going to pair the Ultimate universe down to just 1 book though.
And cinderblock Thor's hammer is stupid.
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Me likey this hammer.
I seriously need to get off my ass and buy up all of the new Thor.
Seriously.
EDIT: Personally I would prefer if the handle was longer so Thor could get a decent 2 handed grip on that bad boy. I love the long handled 2 handed hammer look. It's just more badass.
Seriously do. It's great.
Miller is talking about something big that he's writing for twelve issues. I remember someone say Ultimate Avengers, but I'm not sure.
actually, there's a reason that it's not a two-handed hammer-
basically, as with most things that go wrong in asgard, it happened because loki's a dick.
Ultimates 4 is still coming out, so we have that to look forward too
I'm honestly not sure I could tell you which characters are actually on the X-Men team right now.
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Three of them are: Ultimate Spider-Man (Still by Bendis and Immonen), Ultimate Avengers (By Millar. It's supposed to be, basically, Ultimate Black-Ops) and. . .New Ultimates (By Loeb). Which, I guess, is replacing Ultimates 4.
What the other two are, I have no idea.
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