Ultimate Marvel by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates (Collected Editions) #1-2

by Jonathan Hickman, Carlos Pacheco (artist), Rafa Sandoval (artist)

Collects Ultimate Thor (2010) #1-4, Ultimate Comics Hawkeye (2011) #1-4, Ultimate Comics Ultimates (2011) #1-12, material from Ultimate Fallout (2011) #2-6.

Thrillingly modern takes on your favorite Ultimate Universe heroes, Jonathan Hickman style! Go back to the beginning to learn the origin of Thor! Ragnarok has descended - but what exactly does Baron Zemo have to do with it all? Armed and dangerous, Clint Barton is tasked with his most perilous mission yet. On the brink of obtaining a serum that will change the course of mutant history, has Hawkeye aimed too high? As the Ultimates struggle to find their place in a changed world, the country's last line of defense may be on its last legs. Can Nick Fury pick up the pieces of his broken team? And can Tony Stark derail Reed Richards' insane scheme to reshape the world in his image?

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Comics Manga

542 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 27, 2012

About the author

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Jérémy Gosselin · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5⭐️

[David Muñoz · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Jirawich Chanon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Aside from the Maker storyline, I couldn’t give a fucking shit about anything else.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Late in almost any alt-comic-universe, the creators decide that they really need to shake things up by catastrophic-level upheavals that they'd never do in the prime Marvel/DC universes. So the New Universe nuked Pittsburgh. Wildstorm did something to create a post-apocalyptic setting. And the Ultimate universe destroyed Europe, messed with Southern Asia, and broke up the US. That's the story of Ultimate Marvel by Jonathan Hickman.

This is basically the post-Millar Ultimates. Besides a one-off historical Thor story that very nicely dovetails into the original Ultimates, the rest of this is the group of Ultimate issues that leads into United We Stand, Divided We Fall. It's a good set of issues. Hickman does a better job of presenting global-level threats than anything but the original Authority, but simultaneously keeps it down to Earth in both the Hawkeye miniseries and with the characters of Thor and Iron Man.

Now the question is, was this an event omnibus or was this a series omnibus? Because Marvel has made a terrible hash of their previously reliable omnibus mapping with a avaricious attempt to double-dip their customers (or really quadruple-dip at this point for those of us who bought single issues and trades), and they're simultaneously refusing to say what their mapping is. It's a mess. Hopefully this volume is not.

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a little difficult to review because it's almost 4 different narratives due to it being a compilation of Hickman's work in Earth 1610.
Ultimate Thor and Ultimate Hawkeye are solid 3 star stories, nothing crazy new but fun stuff. Hawkeye I enjoyed slightly more just because it did wind up being important for the Ultimates issues.
Fallout is hard to rate just because it's like a preview for what's coming after the Death of Spider-Man event which is where I originally read these (and you should totally check out the Ultimate Spider-Man series if you haven't).
Ultimate Comics Ultimates despite being a dumb and confusing name is phenomenal, you get to see the nefarious machinations of the Maker who I think is one of the best recent villains Marvel has and plays into a lot of Hickman's later Marvel work with the Avengers. It's not the full run of the series but it at least ties up everything well so you don't need to continue on if you don't want to. Any Maker content though I'm always going to eat up, just a great character.

[Dean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good work. Makes me want to read through the post ultimatum universe again.
The Thor/defenders stuff in the Loeb Cho series makes this stuff confusing.
When I read the Thor mini, I needed to check the internet for clarification. Ultimate Thor has a confusing history but he's fun.

Ribic is great, Pacheco too, Sandoval is good.

[Niko Dasilva · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5