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Jonathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch Create Ultimate Invasion for Marvel

Bryan Hitch and Jonathan Hickman are bringing back the Marvel Ultimate Universe with the new Ultimate invasion comic book in June.

Marvel EIC C.B. Cebulski has been teasing a return for the Ultimate Universe at Marvel Comics for some time. And for July we know it will entail Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch on Ultimate Invasion. "Is it time for the Ultimate Universe to make its grand return? The Maker seems to think so, and the Illuminati must form once again to stop him from his plans to destroy—or perhaps rebuild—the universe, with Miles Morales at the center of it all!"  Hitch is best known for drawing The Ultimates, written by Mark Millar, and Jonathan Hickman for writing later versions of  The Ultimates, and the Secret Wars series that brought the Ultimate universe to an end.

The new series, Ultimate Invasion will tell a new story about The Maker and Miles Morales: Spider-Man. Jonathan Hickman is quoted by Entertainment Weekly as saying "I think it's fair to say that both Bryan and I have already put in our time doing Ultimate books, so when Marvel laid this project in front of us, we both knew there needed to be a good reason to revisit the idea of 'Ultimate Comics' beyond telling a cool story or just getting to work together, which is something we've been trying to do for years, So with that in mind, it 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… 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 and we're very excited for everyone to get to read it."

Bryan Hitch added "It's been more than 20 years since I started work on The Ultimates, a project that would have a big impact on my own career and beyond, so when Marvel came to me with the idea of revisiting the Ultimate Universe with the man who so brilliantly and spectacularly destroyed the last one, I was both feet in! Jonathan is a terrific writer of big, sprawling epics and we've talked about working together more than once so for this new Ultimate Universe adventure to unite us is very exciting. I get to bring two decades of new experience as an artist and storyteller to this. It's new, different and familiar. It's big budget, high-concept, widescreen storytelling. I feel right at home."

And from the artwork shown, which will appear in the Avengers book for Free Comic Book Day, it looks as if we are getting an Ultimate Illuminati.

ULTIMATE INVASION #1 (OF 4)
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art and Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Foil Variant Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Colors by ALEX SINCLAIR
On Sale 6/21

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