Ultimate End #2

Ultimate End

by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley (Illustrator), Andrew Hennessy (Inker)

The last Ultimates story by the ground-breaking universe's Founding Fathers! The countdown has begun. This is the end of an era; who will survive?

Genres: Comics

20 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 10, 2015

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Thors arrive in force to tell the heroes not to touch the dimensional rift.

Afterward the Ultimate and Marvel Universe Tony Stark team up to figure out the best way to touch the rift because they are Tony Stark and messing with things is what all Tony Starks do.


So I pretty much missed the needed reading in order for this to have much meaning. This is basically an Ultimate Universe send off, but I've barely read anything in the Ultimate Universe. I tried, but when Cable was a future Wolverine who lost his healing factor and Professor X was a perv trying to score with Jean Grey I put it down. I didn't pick up anything with the Ultimate Universe again until Miles Morales so I basically missed the entirety of the Ultimate Universe's life, but unlike a dead beat Dad, I didn't have second thoughts or come back looking to borrow some money from my now rich and/or famous abandoned child.

Anyway... there are two Hulks fighting two which should be interesting. I guess the winner depends on who gets the maddest fastest.

[Solace Winter · Rating 4 out of 5]

YAY! Waaaaay less bickering! This one moves the plot forward and isn't so aggravating, for me at least. It does, however, have a death almost immediately in it. It's hard to be too attached to all of these characters, though. Much better story, but still is lacking something.

[Chris Conley · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a lot of moving parts to this, and it's chaotic. It's good though.

[Brent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice moments here, with great Bendis dialogue and art by Mark Bagley.