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Cataclysm: The Ultimates Last Stand is a 5 issue mini-series written by Bendis and drawn by Bagley

Coming to you live from San Diego Comic Con, in room 6DE, Big things are happening in the Ultimate Universe and hopefully, we'll get some big reveals. The panel starts at 12:30, San Diego time.

12:30 - Here we go. There starting us off with some videos. First was Agents of SHIELD. Next is Avengers Assemble for Disney XD. Then a little clip promoting Infinity, that Thanos mini-series. Axel Alonso is on the stage. Brian Michael Bendis is here. Joshua Hale Fialkov is here as well. Steve Wacker is here as well.

12:35- Bendis on Ultimate Spider-Man. Spider-man puts the suit back on. He'll take on Roxxon, who has been creating all these super-powered beings. They're going to take the fight to Roxxon. Ultimate Taskmaster will appear.

12:40- Ultimate Comics X-Men up. Axel says they're thrilled to have writer Brian Wood on board. "He writes characters authentically." Fialkov on Ultimates: "I wanted to do the craziest thing possible...so my pitch for the story arc was Hulk with two Infinity Gauntlets." Fialkov discusses the Dark Ultimates and how using their intelligence, they have been fixing the world's problems. "The book is a battle of wits between Reed Richards and Tony Stark... Reed Richards won that battle by cutting off the top of Tony Stark's head."

2:45- Fialkov on HUNGER, which has the 616 Galactus in the Ultimate universe, which is happening in July, according to the powerpoint. Fialkov: "The story starts with Galactus coming through. I've been a big fan of the cosmic universe." Adi Granov is doing the covers. They are incredibly pretty. Axel: "Who's going to survive and what is going to survive?" Leonard Kirk is doing the art on this book. ANNOUNCMENT: Cataclysm: The Ultimates Last Stand. Bendis and Bagley are working on it and it's a 5 issue mini-series. It involves Galactus coming to Earth. It will come out in November of this year. Bendis: "It breaks open the barriers between the Ultimate universe and the regular universe. The Ultimate characters have to find a way to defeat Galactus or sacrifice their world to save the others." It's going to have huge changes on the Ultimate Universe.

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12:50 - Bendis says this new mini-series IS the sequel to SPIDER-MEN. It will party follow what happened in SPIDER-MEN.

12:55 - Question time... Will we see the Ultimate version of The One Above All? Bendis says there are no plans, but it's interesting. Bendis says there are other books, like in Infinity, that will feature some lesser used characters. At the end of Spider-Men, we see Peter look up Miles Morales, will we see what happens? Bendis says yes. Is Mark Bagley leaving Fantastic Four for this? Nope. Why doesn't the Hunger have a an Ultimate brand on it? Bendis says they didn't want to spoil it. Fialkov says it affects both universes. Would Miles get his own 616 universe book? Bendis says read Cataclysm. There's always a chance.

1:00- When is Peter Parker coming back to Ult? Bendis says he's dead, but there is a 200 issue coming out of Ultimate Spider-Man very soon. Cataclysm sounds very final. Will there be a future for the Ultimate universe? The panel says read Cataclysm. Prepare the rumor mongering on the internet!

1:05- The panel, mainly Bendis, is talking about starting the Ultimate Universe and how it came about. There's no way they'll get rid of the whole universe... That's my opinion, based on how they're talking about. Is there a plan to give the Ultimates a breather? There's always so much going on? Can they get a vacation or a baseball league? Lots of giggling. Will we see Johnny in Ulimates? Fialkov says he loves the Fantastic Four and Ult FF. He really wants to bring them back. "I'm doing everything I can to put them front and center in the Ultimate Universe."

1:10- Bendis on killing Miles' mother. "Miles hadn't had his Uncle Ben moment yet." Plans to create expand Miles' rogues gallery? Yes. Bombshell is coming back. Ult Taskmaster. New characters. Miles needs to beat Norman Osborn. Bendis says he'll create brand new villains.

:20- Do you think it's time Miles gets "Superior?" Asker thanks everyone for Miles and Ultimate Spider-Man. Kid asks if they're going to reboot the Ultimate universe. Axel says no, it's not broken and doesn't need a reboot. The kid asking wants new characters. Bendis says he just saw Thor 2, and the kid's mind was blown. Cue laughs and chuckles.

1:25- Last question: Any Ultimate video games coming out? Bendis says there was one for Xbox. There's the Marvel MMO which Bendis wrote. There's some Ultimate stuff in there. Bendis says he loves games and wants to see a "kick-ass game." Panel is over.

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Comments

  • Mr_CosmicMr_Cosmic Posts: 3,200
    Cataclysm is what I thought I was getting when I preordered Hunger.
  • yeah this is unneeded also I am not a Bagley fan. It is impossible to know what side of bendis you are getting.
  • Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    I hadn't realized when I preordered Hunger that it was part of the Ultimate Marvel line or I would have passed it by; I thought it was an epilogue of sorts to Age Of Ultron. Guess I'm stuck with it now.
  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131
    So I guess the rumors are that this will be the Ultimate Universe's swan song. But no one is stating the obvious: with Bendis writing it so there will never be an ending!

    **Badump chee**
  • SolitaireRoseSolitaireRose Posts: 1,445
    It really does, doesn't it? It seems to me that since Ultimatum, the air has left the balloon on the Ultimate Universe (of course that's also when the books jumped to $4 each). I have still like Ultimate Spidey, but the rest of the line seems to have dropped off the map.
  • PeterPeter Posts: 470
    Mr_Cosmic said:

    Cataclysm is what I thought I was getting when I preordered Hunger.

    This. Although I didn't pre-order, I think you, me, and many many others thought the same thing.

  • David_DDavid_D Posts: 3,884
    edited July 2013
    Mr_Cosmic said:

    Cataclysm is what I thought I was getting when I preordered Hunger.

    You mean when you pre-ordered this (how Hunger #1 was solicited):
    AGE OF ULTRON #10 U.C.
    CLASSIFIED (W) • CLASSIFIED (A/C)
    32 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ ...$3.99
    You thought it would be about the end of the Ultimate Universe? You must have had a decoder ring ;)
  • Chuck_MelvilleChuck_Melville Posts: 3,003
    David_D said:

    Mr_Cosmic said:

    Cataclysm is what I thought I was getting when I preordered Hunger.

    You mean when you pre-ordered this (how Hunger #1 was solicited):
    AGE OF ULTRON #10 U.C.
    CLASSIFIED (W) • CLASSIFIED (A/C)
    32 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ ...$3.99
    You thought it would be about the end of the Ultimate Universe? You must have had a decoder ring ;)

    Yeah, that's why I thought it was a AOU sequel; I never saw anything about the Ultimate universe in that solicitation.
  • David_DDavid_D Posts: 3,884

    David_D said:

    Mr_Cosmic said:

    Cataclysm is what I thought I was getting when I preordered Hunger.

    You mean when you pre-ordered this (how Hunger #1 was solicited):
    AGE OF ULTRON #10 U.C.
    CLASSIFIED (W) • CLASSIFIED (A/C)
    32 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ ...$3.99
    You thought it would be about the end of the Ultimate Universe? You must have had a decoder ring ;)
    Yeah, that's why I thought it was a AOU sequel; I never saw anything about the Ultimate universe in that solicitation.


    Sure, since that would have spoiled where it was going. Galactus going into the Ultimate Universe is part of the fallout from AofU. It may not be the fallout you might have predicted back in May when you were 7 or 8 issues into AofU and doing your ordering, but do you feel that they somehow promised it wouldn't be what it ended up being? Especially given that all you got was a number and "classified"?

  • Mr_CosmicMr_Cosmic Posts: 3,200
    No, I should clarify. I thought it was originally an AoU tie in but then I learned it was about Galactus in the Ultimate U. I'm not a fan of the Ultimate U and the idea of Galactus eating it's earth made me happy. Now I find out the actual battle with the Earth and its heroes takes place in a different mini...disappointing.
  • David_DDavid_D Posts: 3,884
    edited July 2013
    Mr_Cosmic said:

    No, I should clarify. I thought it was originally an AoU tie in but then I learned it was about Galactus in the Ultimate U. I'm not a fan of the Ultimate U and the idea of Galactus eating it's earth made me happy. Now I find out the actual battle with the Earth and its heroes takes place in a different mini...disappointing.

    Got it. To be fair, though, it is an Age of Ultron tie-in (or, being one of the tie-ins after the last issue, a fallout from it). But I get what you are saying- the Age of Ultron fell out in a different direction than you wanted it to.
  • The story as a whole was messy, this was talked about in detail in that recent CGS episode. There are a lot of great Marvel comics to read that are completely disconnected from the event.
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