{"id":582,"date":"2014-01-10T01:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T09:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:18:48","slug":"with-world-altering-events-in-play-marvel-sees-big-changes-for-its-ultimate-universe-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/10\/with-world-altering-events-in-play-marvel-sees-big-changes-for-its-ultimate-universe-line\/","title":{"rendered":"With world altering events in play, Marvel sees big changes for its ‘Ultimate universe’ line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s the end of the world for Marvel\u2019s Ultimate universe, but it\u2019s a beginning, too.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years after its creation by Marvel Entertainment as a modern, grittier and contemporary take on Marvel\u2019s characters, the publisher is pushing forward with new efforts to reinvigorate its universe where the dead remain so and disaster, discord and ultimately redemption and rebirth are among the events that keep readers coming back issue after issue.<\/p>\n

What it means for characters like Miles Morales; members of the FF (Future Foundation, not Fantastic Four); and the All New Ultimates, including Black Widow, Kitty Pryde, Bombshell and Cloak and Dagger, will unfold beginning in April as the events of the soon-to-end \u201cCataclysm\u201d mini-series runs its course.<\/p>\n

Writer Brian Michael Bendis is tight-lipped about the end but said this week that it ends with great cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re able to win the day, but at great sacrifice, a sacrifice that is so huge that it changes the entire landscape,\u201d said Bendis. \u201cIt creates a place that demands a fresh start from everyone who surveys it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move is part of Marvel Entertainment\u2019s relaunching of its Ultimate universe that starts in April under the banner Ultimate Marvel NOW!<\/p>\n

Editor-in-chief Axel Alonso called it the opportunity to tear down the existing universe to make it better.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, we\u2019re destroying something and building something new, but there\u2019s an end game in sight,\u201d he said of the move, noting that Marvel\u2019s so-called Ultimate universe has always been noted by readers, writers and artists and editors for its \u201celasticity\u201d and experimentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe created the line to take chances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDead is dead,\u201d he said, so don\u2019t expect any miraculous resurrections. \u201cThe long and short of it is this: The Ultimate (universe) benefits from a good, old kick in the butt.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a chance for other characters to take larger roles in place of long-standing ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve been following Brian Bendis and David Marquez\u2019s \u2018Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, you know that Miles Morales has had to grow up fast,\u201d said editor Mark Paniccia. \u201cIn \u2018All-New Ultimates,\u2019 we\u2019ll see this eclectic group of super-powered teens step up, live fast and maybe even die hard\u201d in the new series written by Michel Fiffe and drawn by Amilcar Pinna.<\/p>\n

Bendis said Morales, who took up the Spider-Man mantle after the death of Peter Parker, is among those characters who finds himself in new territory, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can look at this as kind of his Bar Mitzvah of sorts and, now, he has to take the reins of Spider-Man under the new world he finds himself in,\u201d he said of the upcoming \u201cMiles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man\u201d series drawn by Marquez.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis entire life as a human being has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For others, the change is going to be rapid, and unexpected, said Joshua Hale Fialkov, writer of \u201cUltimate FF,\u201d a team book drawn by Mario Guevara focusing on several core members that make up the Future Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a team of geniuses, four of the smartest people in the Ultimate universe,\u201d he said, of the core that includes Sue Storm and Tony Stark, among others. \u201cAnd we\u2019re missing one, and that one happens to be a psychopath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fialkov called the titles an opportunity for Marvel and readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a pretty big responsibility with this universe. No. 1., it has been a gateway for people back into films and we want to be innovative, doing things different with these characters that you cannot get anywhere else.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at the opportunity \u2018Cataclysm\u2019 gave us to reset the board,\u201d he said, \u201cand do some really cool stuff with the characters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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