Hello again everyone and welcome to another day of Avenger November! Today we will talk about the history of The Ultimates, but first a bit of background on the Ultimate Universe. Now the Ultimate Universe or Ultimate Marvel is a print of comic books published by Marvel and written Mark Millar with art by Bryan Hitch that features updated and modern versions of the superheroes. It launched with Ultimate Spider-man in 2000 followed by Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates in 2001 and lastly Ultimate Fantastic Four (my personal favorite).

The Ultimate universe takes place in a universe outside of Marvels Earth-616 the characters have reimagined origins which allow new readers to jump right in without needing to know the long histories of the characters, and I must admit often times these origins make more sense and are less convoluted, especially Fantastic Four, but we’ll talk more about that in February. On with the info!

The Ultimates starts with General Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who is now styled to look like Samuel L. Jackson(that’s why he plays him in the movies) who puts together a government sanctioned super team to handle the escalating problem of super-villains and otherworldly threats. This team includes an incredibly insecure Bruce Banner a.k.a. The Hulk, an even drunker and more rambunctious Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man and the scientist couple with the abusive egotistical Hank Pym a.k.a. Giant-Man/Ant-Man and “slutty” Janet Pym(not Van Dyne) aka Wasp. They all are based at S.H.I.E.L.D. facility called the Triskelion.
Bruce is in charge of developing a new super-soldier serum to create a new Captain America (he hadn’t been found at the time) and Hank and Tony are there to help create gear for the team. Later they are joined by a thawed out and more emotional Captain America, a hippie tree hugging yet insanely powerful Thor, the mutants Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch(still the children of Magneto) and special agents Hawkeye and Black Widow. Together they battle the Hulk, aliens, androids, and other evil supers.

Well, I won’t say much more about it now since that’s what the first of 3 comic reviews will be about but stay tuned and the review of The Ultimates Series 1 should be up by tomorrow!

Thanks again for reading
Odd Avenger out