New Chapter for Ultimate Comics Centers on Clash Between The Maker, Miles Morales
Seven years after Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe came to an end in the Secret Wars event, the characters are rising again in a new four-issue miniseries, Ultimate Invasion, by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Bryan Hitch. The first issue will go on sale on June 21, 2023, with regular and foil variant covers by Hitch.
Marvel brought the Ultimate Universe to an end in 2015 with the Secret Wars event (see “Marvel Plans ‘Ultimate End’”). The new miniseries will start with The Maker’s attempt to bring back the Ultimate Universe, with the Illuminati reuniting to stop him, and Miles Morales in the thick of it.
“[Revisiting the idea of Ultimate Comics] couldn’t be replicating or revisiting what Bryan did in the original Ultimates — creating a streamlined, modernized version that would eventually become the spine of the MCU, and it certainly couldn’t be what I did, which was a final chapter of a pre-existing universe,” Hickman said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “We also thought the very idea of Ultimate Comics needed to be inverted from what the original universe was — we wanted this to be something that could really only exist in the comic space: a new way of thinking about, and enjoying, a new version of the Marvel Universe. I’m pretty happy to say that it feels like we’ve accomplished those things…”
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