The New Ultimate Marvel is About to Explode With New Heroes and Villains

Marvel’s relaunched mentation of the Ultimate Universe has been going beardown betwixt its existent quartet of titles. Between Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Black Panther, the line’s writers and artists person been gradually sketching caller alternate versions connected classical characters. But present that the books each astir fractional a twelvemonth oregon much into beingness and person acceptable up their main formed good enough, it’s clip to widen the nett conscionable a spot and adhd much folks into the mix.

To wit, Marvel’s solicitations for the period of September highlights the Ultimate line’s incoming arrivals. The biggest comes courtesy of Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man #9, which introduces a caller incarnation of the Sinister Six led by Kingpin and featuring Mr. Negative, Kraven, Mysterio, Black Cat (here Walter Hardy alternatively than his girl Felicia) and Mole Man. Yep, really, the recurring Fantastic Four baddie who’s had immoderate (but not many) tangles with Spider-Man successful the main universe. Peter’s got to contend each six of them and the instrumentality of Tony Stark, who gave him his powers successful the debut contented of Ultimate Spider-Man.

Speaking of Stark, the 4th contented of The Ultimates from Deniz Camp and impermanent creator Phil Noto volition upwind backmost the timepiece to supply an root communicative connected Doom. Recall that here, he’s really the caller mentation of Reed Richards who was tortured by the Maker, an evil variant of Reed from the archetypal Ultimate Marvel. From the screen beneath and ominous solicit tease of Reed becoming “fixated connected the beingness helium should have,” Camp and Noto look to beryllium giving a look astatine this universe’s presently absent Fantastic Four, thing antecedently hinted astatine successful the debut issue.

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Finally, Peach Momoko’s Ultimate X-Men #7 will present a marque caller teen miss mentation of Psylocke looking to assistance Armor and her friends successful their existent struggle. And implicit successful Ultimate Black Panther #8, Bryan Hill and Stefano Casselli are going to afloat bring successful Moon Knight; the Ultimate mentation of the quality are 2 men named Khonshu and Ra who tin bash the fusion creation into a azygous being that T’Challa and Storm person to combat with portion Killmonger and Okoye are tasked with uncovering much allies. The solicit makes a large woody retired of the enigma idiosyncratic the duo travel across, truthful look guardant to different quality to participate the fray.

There’s a batch of characters coming to the Ultimate Marvel universe, which makes their arrivals each the much awesome successful the restraint connected hand. Both Marvel and DC thin to motorboat caller initiatives with 5 oregon six comics, and that Ultimate Marvel hasn’t expanded yet with caller books oregon adjacent a multi-comic lawsuit is surprising, and it helps the 4 titles connected manus consciousness adjacent much peculiar than the caller Ultimate Universe already does. Who knows however agelong that’ll last, but it ain’t nothing, and colour america funny to spot who and what these books bring successful next.

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