ultimate Archives

Those Ultimate Titles Cancelled… But Only Briefly
Marvel subscribers have been told… With the upcoming Cataclysm event heading to the Marvel Ultimate Universe, three regular titles will be changing briefly. Ultimate Comics X-Men will become Cataclysm: Ultimate X-Men (for three issues, #1-3) Ultimate Comics Ultimates becomes Cataclysm: Ultimates (for three issues, #1-3) and Ultimate Comics Ultimate Spider-Man becomes Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man (for three issues, #1-3)[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 19th August 2013
And it's worked. So, what have you been reading this week? Oh look… Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week All Ultimate Titles Cancelled In November And Replaced With Catacylsm When Batman Killed The Joker At The End Of The Killing Joke So How Did The Joker Die In The Killing Joke? When Brian Bolland Revealed What Happened Between Batman And The[...]
First Year Of Current Ultimates Volumes At 99 Cents On ComiXology On Friday
What with the Ultimate news today, it looks like Marvel is trying to cushion the blow. From the current volumes, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1-11, Ultimate Comics X-Men #1-11 and Ultimate Comics Ultimates #1-12 will all be 99 cents on ComiXology, tomorrow on Friday. Time to comfort yourselves, folks.   What with the Ultimate news today, it looks like[...]
Rick Jones Gets Time Quaked In Hunger #1
From Blackbeard Ben Grimm to Marvel Zombies to Spider-Man 2099 to the Squadron Supreme. Well, in today's Hunger #1 something similar happens to the Ultimate Rick Jones… How many more of him can any universe take? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently running the following exhibition.   Time Quake! These appeared at the end of the Age[...]
What In The World Is Up With The Ultimate Universe? – Here Comes Cataclysm!
Let's have a solicitation from Marvel for October. CATACLYSM #0.1 CLASSIFIED! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 Okay, and another. Hunger #4 (of 4) JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV (W) LEONARD KIRK (A) Cover by ADI GRANOV THE BEGINNING OF THE END??? • Has RICK JONES failed to stop Earth from destruction? • The death throes of a universe! • A hero reborn? The road to CATACLYSM starts here! 32 PGS./Rated T+[...]
Expect An Ultimate San Diego Comic Con. Possibly.
Well-sourced but reality has a habit of changing… San Diego Comic Con is expected to bring us the Matt Fraction/Inhumans news, as well as a couple of major Ultimate Universe announcements, one of which may see Brian Wood wrapping his Ultimate X-Men run towards the end of the year But if there is some finality to[...]
Spider-Ham Comes To Ultimate Spider-Man… Thanks To Loki
Courtesy of Marvel… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8SrtW6-HWw[/youtube] Get a first look of what's to come at the Marvel Television Presents San Diego Comic-Con panel (Saturday July 14 at 10:30am in Room 6BCF), as Loki gets revenge on Spider-Man by turning him into a pig — AKA Spider-Ham!  Join Head of Marvel TV, Jeph Loeb, for a screening of this never-before-seen hilarious Ultimate Spider-Man episode,[...]
Is This Miles Morales' New Girlfriend?
It's not exactly "Face It Tiger, You Just Hit The Jackpot"… But in the letters pages of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, after readers asked if Miles Morales was getting a girlfriend, the editor replied that this would be happening very soon. But has she already? It's just a glance or two…  but it seems rather opportune[...]
Grace Randolph's Between The Pages – The Ultimate Spider-Man Or The Dregs?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4HcDaBgH4s[/youtube] Disney XD has premiered it's new Marvel animation block of 2012, yet fans are not happy about the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series! Even though this cartoon is written by Brian Michael Bendis and Paul Dini plus the trailer got a ton of views, the show seems to be a different story[...]
Joe Quesada, Joss Whedon And Colossus
Joe Quesada, on defending his decision to publish Spider-Men, when previously he'd said such an Ultimate/616 crossover would mean Marvel was officially out of ideas. Look, one of the things that used to get thrown back at me all the time is, "Dead is dead You said dead is dead." No, that wasn't the entire quote[...]
The First 616/Ultimate Crossover – "A Spider-Man Story That Matters"
The New York Daily News has reported that in June, the touted Spider-Men series from Marvel will be the first official crossover between the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Brian Bendis has long decried such an event, denying that the Ultimate Universe is even an alternate reality to the 616 And getting annoyed by[...]
Once Upon A Time Continues To Plug Ultimate Hulk Vs Wolverine
Vs Wolverine" We've mentioned the appearance of Damon Lindelhof's Ultimate Wolverine And Hulk in the ABC series Once Upon A Time before, as the showrunners also worked on Lost with Damon But this week's episode probably had the biggest plug for it yet, opening with a close up on panel, as well as throwing in John[...]
All Ultimate Marvel Comics To Get Digital Download Code Included
For the last few years, the Ultimate Comics line – initially a line that cost less than the standard Marvel comics line – cost more, the $3.99 price point And it's been quite a point of contention, especially after Brian Bendis assured readers it wouldn't happen with a previous Ultimate Spider-Man relaunch… and it did. The[...]
Look, The Press Have Been Talking About Marvel Too
Such as a certain Ultimate Spider-Man #1, in comic stores tomorrow. All sorts of websites, newspapers and TV shows Including one called "The Coblert Report" Yeah, I know, mote and beam, mote and beam. Of course, there's one they missed out, a certain website that was first to see where this was all going. Of course, it's also[...]
Preview: 6 Pages Of Ultimates 1, 6 Pages Of Ultimate Hawkeye 1…
But USA Today have run the following previews of Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #1 shipping tomorrow and Ultimate Comics Hawkeye #1 shipping next week from Marvel You know, the ones that ship in their polybags to avoid spoilers Enjoy. There doesn't seem to be a corresponding article or anything Not yet But USA Today have[...]
And Finally – Miles Morales On The Cover To Ultimate Spider-Man #1
The "Miles Variant" edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli, coming out in September. The "Miles Variant" edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli, coming out in September. The "Miles Variant" edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli, coming out in September. The "Miles Variant" edition[...]
Will Miles Morales Star In The Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon? (UPDATE: NO)
Being written by Brian Michael Bendis and produced by Marvel Studios, the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon is set to air on Disney XD next year I've mentioned this before but it might be worth repeating Peter Parker does not appear in the footage seen so far He is not mentioned, he is not named, he[...]
Unboxing Ultimate Fallout #4
From a small London city park this morning… the unboxing of Ultimate Fallout #4, featuring the Black/Latino character Miles Morales… and a few other people. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdu7rUFXFg[/youtube] So this issue looks fairly normal… anyone know what the big chase variant thing is? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. [...]
The Power Of A Black Spider-Man
Tonight, it is possible that Marvel will pre-announce the identity of the new Ultimate Spider-Man to the Associated Press, or similar. It is possible he will be a young African American, potentially the Ben Reilly scientist character who has stores the late Peter Parker's DNA and that's certainly what Bleeding Cool has been speculating. But that's all,[...]
Over Analysing Ultimate Spider-Man's Neck
Does  Spider-Man, in this preview for Ultimate Fallout #4 featuring the new Spider-Man, have an African American neck? Could it be heavy shadow or lighting? Or are Marvel just playing silly buggers as usual? Let's find out on Monday when Marvel leak it to the New York Times. Is it or isn't it? It is, isn't[...]
Amazon UK Mini-Glitch: Ultimate Comics Doomsday HC
That Brits may be able to take advantage of. They are listing the complete hardcover compiling Ultimate Comics Doomsday, the Brian Bendis trilogy of Ultimate Enemy, Ultimate Mystery and Ultimate Doom, as if it just the Premiere HC edition of Ultimate Enemy With the price to match. But not the page count, 288, all in. For £14.99[...]
The Great Ultimate Death Of Spider-Man Bait And Switch
The current Ultimate books before the relaunch, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man and Ultimate Comics Ultimates Vs New Avengers have been running a multipart crossover storyline The Death Of Spider-Man Which as everyone knows by now, results in the death of Spider-Man. But it's a crock Or rather the multi-part storyline is, rather At the beginning we saw[...]
A Comic Show – Stop Cancelling Your Comics
We have the death of Ultimate Spider-Man and the prelude, Brightest Day Aftermath: Search For Swamp Thing and an antidote to Subway comics, Batman Gates Of Gotham, Flashpointyness with Flashes, Lois Lane and The Outsider, and Mike's absolute love for GI Joe: Cobra and a message to stop cancelling your comics. Weekly TOP PICKS: 6.22.2011 Top[...]
Marvel Spoils The Death Of Spider-Man In National Press Today
It says something that a story arc in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man and in Ultimates Comics Ultimates Vs New Avengers entitled "The Death Of Spider-Man" needs spoiler space for its concluding episode. But, nevertheless, despite the comic in question, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160 being polybagged when it ships tomorrow, so as not to spoil the surprise,[...]