Geekscape Comics: Ultimate Comics ‘Divided We Fall’ Is THE Event To Read This Summer
The Ultimate Universe was launched in 2000 with Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men in 2001, The Ultimates in 2002 and finally Ultimate Fantastic Four. These books had some of the best artists and writers that Marvel had to offer. The Ultimate imprint received praise for releasing some of the best stories at the time with fantastic artwork to accompany them. That is up until one major event…Ultimatum. Many people were burned and ultimate-ly disappointed by Ultimatum (yes…the pun was intended) and the imprint lost many readers afterwards. The story received mostly negative reviews and was even called “the ultimate nightmare” by IGN’s Jesse Schedeen.
However the current Ultimate Comics imprint is currently some of the best comics Marvel is putting out. There are three titles at the moment, Ultimate Comics: Ultimates, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man and Ultimate Comics: X-Men with an Ultimate Comics: Iron Man mini-series on the way. Not only do these books have a current roster of amazing artists and writers (Sam Humphries recent issue of Ultimates that is on stands now was phenomenal) but they have a great storyline starting by the name of Divided We Fall. If you’re looking to read a storyline this summer, this is the story to read. The events leading up to this have been going on for months now some starting all the way back to Ultimate Fallout. The map below gives you just a small idea of what is currently going on in the Ultimate books.
Focusing on three central characters — Kitty Pryde, Captain America and Miles Morales — “Divided We Fall” is anchored by writers Brian Wood (Ultimate Comics X-Men), Sam Humphries (Ultimate Comics Ultimates) and Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Comics Spider-Man) and sees the rise of a new villain who plunges the Ultimate Universe into chaos, as The Ultimates are pitted against S.H.I.E.L.D. On top of that, Marvel is promoting that Cap will make a fateful “decision” during the course of the story; one that has never been done in a superhero comic.
It’s been stressed that this is not a typical cross-over but rather a concurrent event that will affect each of the Ultimate Comics line’s three titles in different ways. The event started recently with Ultimate Comics: X-Men #14 and this weeks Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #13, which sees the return of Captain America who has been MIA since Ultimate Fallout. If you decide to go back and catch up, it may be difficult to buy some of the individual issues but The Death Of Spider-Man, Ultimate Fallout, Ultimate Comics X: Origins and volume one of most of the books is available in trade form with volume two of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man out now and the rest hitting shelves soon.This is shaping up to be the comic event of the summer and if you aren’t reading it you are definitely missing out because it has started off strong and left us fans wanting more and wanting it now. Divided We Fall continues next week in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #13!
