No idea why it's titled The Ultimates. There's no connection to the Ultimate Avengers series that came before. If anything it's a continuation of Ewing's Mighty Avengers. Albeit one with a hard sci-fi upgrade and other minor jiggling. A more apt title would be Cosmic Avengers or Avengers in Space. I'm just pleased we're getting more Monica Rambeau and Blue Marvel! And Ms America too. It's a pretty neat little cast. Great art. Great story. Think it's the best team book going at Marvel. Hope Ewing...

[Read as single issues]Captain Marvel, Black Panther, the Blue Marvel, Spectrum, and Miss America cross time and space to save Galactus, explore the Outside, and try to repair the timeline itself in this high-concept Avengers series.Al Ewing is one of my favourite writers in comics at the moment, and The Ultimates is a hell of a good example of why. This is him taking on Jonathan Hickman's mantle as the 'meta-writer', giving interesting commentary on the nature of the Marvel Universe itself, ide...

Does this look, feel, or smell like the Millar/Hitch Ultimates? Only if you’re really, really, REALLY drunk (and probably not even then). Still, this hyper-intellectual, superheroes-of-the-brain approach is a nice change of pace from the “let’s punch it until it explodes” school of bad guy fighting (though, let’s be honest, I really enjoy that school). There’s considerable potential here for a long run of cosmic (or subatomic, depending on the mission) adventures that explore the furthest reache...

Liked the art and basic plotline seems interesting enough. Just to read Galactus origin and more was worth it. Wouldn't mind seeing where this goes.

Even the first page is a blast. Big science-y concepts battered around like they were things ANY definitely science need ever studied in school. And subsequent pages intro a very cool team - Monica Rambeau (who was an awesome character in DeConnick's Captain Marvel), Ms America, Black Panther, and Carol:...who has her Binary powers back!Al Ewing makes comics super-fun, plus he brings cool ideas to play with - like "teleportation brings on hallucinations":The adventures in this book are huge, and...

Finally! Something acknowledges Secret Wars. This answers some questions about why the post Secret Wars universe is the way it is. We also get to spend some rare and exciting time with our cosmic abstracts; eternity, master order, lord chaos, galactus and some surprise guests.Definitely cool. This is about as cosmic as it gets. The art is interesting and not everyone’s cuppa... but I dug it.

I have to admit that when I think of big, cosmic stories at Marvel Jim Starlin comes to mind. Sure there are a few other great cosmic sized stories by other authors (Steve Englehart being another favorite), but Starlin's the go to guy for cosmic. I mean Thanos right? Ok, ok, Jack Kirby created Galactus, the Celestials, the Eternals, the Kree, the Skrull, the Inhumans, the Mircoverse, the Negative Zone, Annihilus, Him (who became Adam Warlock), etc., etc., etc. Sure Kirby trumps Starlin, but ...

When in doubt- just recycle. That's usually the mantra at most comic/movie "thought sessions". Marvel brings back, yet again, the "Ultimates". Originally coming out when the MCU movies started (Captain America, Thor and Iron Man). The first few issues of the Ultimates was actually good. It hard a realistic and gritty edge to it that the other Marvel titles lacked. That being said, one of the things the original Ultimates did wrong was Galactus. In this is newer version, yet again they screw up t...

This is an amazing book and I am SO ANGRY that Civil War II is interrupting it! It only just got started, but what a start, man! The problem is, a bunch of the stuff I was so excited about in the beginning (outlined here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) has led into Civil War II: their solution turned out not to be something cool and sciencey from beyond space and time like the first book suggested it would be, but a turn back in on itself to bite its own tail in the never-ending saga

Space opera alert!!Captain, we’re taking damage to the right frontal lobe!*sigh*Nothing’ll give me a dose of deep-space cosmic brain freeze than a grandiose story that takes place in outer space.The Ultimates are Marvel’s superhero team designated to handle interstellar threats – rifts in the time space continuum……residual crap from Secret Wars……and freaking Galactus.Who the heck are the Ultimates?Black Panther (ruler of Wakanda and coming to a theatre near you sometime in the Winter of 2018. Yo...

The Ultimates have come together to fix the impossible problems in the universe.This comic takes itself too seriously. It's attempting to delve into the mysteries of the Marvel Universe, most notably Galactus himself. It comes across as dull and somewhat pompous to me. They have a solid roster featuring The Black Panther and Captain Marvel, but it doesn't work for me. Little to no actual fighting occurs it's literally talking and some science fiction science throughout the volume.

While, it has to be said, this book has absolutely nothing to do with the previous Ultimates books (it has no characters in common... Hell, it's not even set in the same universe) I'm really enjoying it.Perhaps because I was never a fan of the previous Ultimates books (they tried too hard to be 'grim & gritty' and to shock for the sake of being gratuitously shocking for my tastes) and am therefore not bothered by the arguably valid case of false advertising in the title, I've fully embraced this...

One of the better marvel books I've read this year. I missed out on this when it came out originally and kept hearing it was really good, so I waited for the full first arc to drop on marvel unlimited. It's a semi-follow up to Secret Wars and some of the stuff Hickman was doing in Avengers. Marvel seem content now in having their characters travel the multiverse and omniverse rather naturally, and there's lots of the going on here.The main hook of the book is that the team are trying to fix the

A bit of a slow start, weighed down in lots of dialogue and scholarly discussion. I was ready to move on half way through issue #1, I only have so much time and need to be picky about what I read. But I pushed through a little more and was handsomely rewarded. This book became one of my favorite Marvel stories this year in the last two issues. Great Secret Wars aftermath stuff here!

The Ultimates: Start With the Impossible transports a once-potent brand into the mainstream Marvel Universe.A small team comprising Black Panther, Spectrum, Captain Marvel, Blue Marvel and Ms. America forms to tackle some of the biggest problems in the Marvel Universe. In the opening story, the team “reboots” Galactus, transforming the biggest destructive force in the galaxy. With the fabric of time in disarray, the team travels beyond the edges of reality in an attempt to assess the damage. Alo...

Excellent!As colleagues have said this has nothing to do with the ultimate universe. Thank god!This has a hard hitting and brilliant cast. Some fantastic cosmic developments. If you like cosmic marvel, you MUST READ THIS!

This version of the Ultimates has nothing to do with any of the previous versions. Since the FF has disbanded there isn't any science based team of heroes to deal with metaphysical, sciencey stuff in the Marvel U. The premise of the series isn't a bad idea. Where it goes wrong is the execution. Ewing needs to read a few science books to ground the series in real scientific theory. It's all just, "This works because, well, Science!" Imagine how terrific this book would be if they could bring Neil...

The Ultimates are: Black Panther, Captain Marvel (aka Colonel Carol Danvers - so she demotes herself whenever she becomes a superhero?!), Ms America, Spectrum, The Blue Marvel, and… Galactus?! Together they solve the cosmic problems of the universe no other superhero team supposedly can. The Ultimates is another garbage Al Ewing Marvel comic. Why do they keep putting him on team books? He can’t write them! His New Avengers and Contest of Champions books are terrible and his Ultimates is only mar...

The Ultimates are, apparently, going to be the cosmic team, the one that sorts out problems that aren't just bigger than the Earth, they're bigger than our solar system. Ok, there's a place for that. Marvel has a lot of cosmic level threats just floating around out there. And they deliver right off the bat, with the team's very first mission being to sort out Galactus. Oh. Ok. You guys do that, then. And then they promptly do, in a way that I doubt has ever been tried before. It works, but it al...

I had no idea what I was adding to my TBR other than the fact it was written by the same guy who does the very good Immortal Hulk, Vol. 1: Or is he Both?. This is one of those throwbacks to the wacky 70s and 80s cosmic comics Marvel used to do, where writers dropped acid and created weird shit. None of it makes a lick of sense; didn’t then, doesn’t now. But it’s kooky and odd and gigantic. These things never change the Marvel universe, but they’re fun contemplations on the Big Ideas of time & sp...