The Ultimates came together to safeguard the world from the biggest threats in the Marvel cosmos — and then Civil War II happened, some people got hit in the face with a chair and, eventually, the Ultimates disbanded. But the threats they faced never went away, and now they’re back in action… with a few twists.
Ultimates² #1 cover by Travel Foreman
Ultimates² is the continuation of the brilliant Ultimates series that kicked off last year from Al Ewing, Travel Foreman, Dan Brown and Joe Sabino. It’s pretty much all about the former Ultimates members — Monica Rambeau, Captain Marvel, America Chavez, Blue Marvel and Black Panther — trying to get on with their post-Ultimates lives, only for them each to discover they’re individually being plagued by dreams of… well:
The literal screams of the universe? Well, specifically, the screams of the imprisoned Eternity, the vastly powerful cosmic entity that is part of the fabric of Marvel’s multiverse. That seems like it’s a bad thing.
It’s bad enough that Black Panther is trying to get the band back together, meeting with Carol incognito in an attempt to unite the Ultimates team after he was responsible for tearing them apart. Carol doesn’t take that too well, but before they can disagree with each other, a bigger problem reveals itself: Long time Blue Marvel antagonist Anti-Man, who has already captured Blue Marvel and Monica and quickly makes short work of Carol and T’Challa.
Poor T’Challa. It turns out that Anti-Man isn’t conducting a nefarious plot, but bringing all the heroes together to meet his new boss — and theirs…
Remember that time, way back when Ultimates kicked off, when Galactus was turned from an evil world-eater into the Lifebringer, a benevolent being who enriched desolate worlds with life? Well, now he’s the big boss behind the Ultimates, and wants to turn them into his heralds (as he did Anti-Man) and task them with finding out who’s imprisoned Eternity. Captain Marvel is rightly sceptical that the destroyer of thousands of worlds is now seemingly a good guy, and initially refuses to fight for him, before it’s revealed that they won’t be lead by Galactus in the field.
Step forth America Chavez, the new leader of the Ultimates. Things are about to get very interesting, off in the far flung reaches of the Marvel cosmic!
[Marvel via CBR]
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4 responses to “Marvel’s Big Cosmic Superteam Has A Wild New Boss”
Oh christ that horrendous artwork.
What the hell is going on with Marvel these days? Great movies but their comics have sure gone to hell…
The art in Ultimates is actually really good, especially when compared to art on some other books (like All-New Wolverine currently, which has gone seriously downhill in the art quality stakes after David Lopez left).
eg: https://thetaylornetworkofpodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/all-new-wolverine-13-preview-2.jpg
*shudder*
It looks like Ant Man (or maybe just the artist) has been playing too much Destiny and/or Warframe with that outfit. Some of the art is ok, the final pic of America Chavez is great! But Galactus gets a big NOPE. Super-Sayan looking armour with a lovely, eggy colour palette *blerg* and that head, wow! Its kinda like the Emperor from original Empire Strikes (with those messed up eyes) and a generic transformer had a really ugly child. Could be a really fun read though, i dont mind an occasional out there, cosmic/space opera-ish story now n then.
So uh… what’s between the shackled guy’s hands?