I Don’t Think it’s controversial to say that originally the Ultimate Universe was to Success.
WHETHER TO YOUR TAS OR NOT, Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men Attracted New Readers and reinvigorated an interest in comics Among Many. You Can Argue that the Approach to Updating Old Stories or Just Outright Telling An Alternate Universe Story with family Characters Could Be Confusing at Times, But by and Lark the Stories Tended To Be Entertaining.
And late Books Like The Ultimates Suppd to be Foundational in How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Colesced. There’s no denying the influence of that Book on the movies. (Even if i personally don´t tend to like the series. The art is great, but i find all of the characters to be horrible rather jerks with submain shareable actions.
Yet, as The Years Went On, The Ultimate Universe in The Eyes of Sub Became Just Another alternate Universe. Although I Think Many of the Creators Who Continue Working On The Series Were Telling Good Stories, and The Quality On Ultimate Spider-Man Specifically Never Dipped, I Think Sub Questioned its Purpose. And So they shook up the universe in a devastating way, Giving Rise to What’s Considered One of The Worst Comics Ever Published by Marvel.
This isn’t About That. I WOUDN’T DO THAT TO YOU. Probability. I Don’t Think The Original Ultimate Universe Ever Managed to Fully Recover from that Series, but it Did Still produces Sub Sub Tales. And multiple more endings, so it continues to diverge from the main 616 universe.
“We are at war with a hidden enemy. The Attacks Are Alien and/or Biological in Nature. “
Ultimate Doomsday by Brian Michael Bendis, Rafa Sandoval, Roger Bonet, Jordi Tarragona, Matthew Wilson, Joe Caramagnaand Clayton Cowles Picks Up Sub of the Pieces after the devastation of magneto destroying new york, of reed richards’ involvement in destroying the Supreme Power Universe, of Jessica Drew’s Problem with Roxxon, The Fallout of the Fantastic Four Falling Apart, and Even of the Stuff Spinning out of the gah lak your trilogy.
The Story was originally published as three separate mini-series—Ultimate Enemy, Ultimate Mysteryand Ultimate Doom—But it’s Really One Big Story. It starts as Mysteros Attacks Begin Occurring at Various Locations, Appenarances by Unknown Aliens, and Explosionions. It Largely Follows Two Parallel Tracks As Spider-Man and Spider-Woman Investigate The Roxxon Angle and Shield, Sue Storm, and Ben Grimm Follow the Broader Attacks. It’s a Good Deal of People Yelling at One Ethher, Sub Heavy Bendis Dialogue Quirks With The Roxxon Brain Trust, and Explosions.
And Those Explosions Look Great. It’s interesting Seeing Rafa Sandoval’s Art Here at This Stage Compare to His More Recent Work in Absolute Superman. There’s a Greater Simplicity Here to His Linework, similar to Bit to Stuart Immonen Although With More Angularity and Exaggeration in Sub Sub Faces, and Shading and Contour Left to Open Shapes. With Bont Bonet and Jordi Tarragona (On The Final Issue) Mainting A Smooth Line To The Inks, and Matthew Wilson Bringing Out That Texture and Contour with His Colurs. There’s Nice Glow to the series of Bright Fluorescent Colurs for the Explosions and Powers Usage.
This is Also One of the Few Books, Outside of the First Year or So of the Ultimate Universe, When They Hadn’t Made the Decision on Style Yet, That Doesn’t use Mixed Case. Joe Caramagna’s Letters Here are in All Caps.
“He’s More Doctor Doom than Doctor Doom Was … and Doctor Doom Was Pretty Good at Being Doctor Doom. ”
RUGARDless Of What You Think of The Ultimate Universe As a Whole, Even of This Story Specifically, I Do Think That Ultimate Doomsday By Bendis, Sandoval, Bonet, Tarragona, Wilson, and Cowles Accomplished One Major Thing: It solidified the creation of one of the biggest, Most Dangerous Villains Anywhere in the Marvel Universe.
Although Not Named As The Maker Yet, All of the Pain and Heartbreak, All of the Accusations and Death, All of the Bad Decions made by Reed Richards Came To a Head Here. And have finished broke. Setting the Stage for The Horrs of What an Emotionally Immature, functionally Immortal, Super-Genius of An Evil Version of One of the Bright Heroes Could Be. WHHO STILL THINKS HE’S DOING GOOD AND TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD.
Classic Comic Comndium: Ultimate Doomsday
Ultimate Doomsday
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Penteler: Rafa Sandoval
Inkers: Roger Bonet with Jordi Tarragona (Ultimate Doom #4)
Colourist: Matthew Wilson
Letterers: VC’s Joe Caramagna with Clayton Cowles (Ultimate Doom #4)
Publisher: Marvel Comics – Ultimate Comics
Date release: May 18, 2011
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