ThatOneGuy
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we had a thread going on this at the old forum and it seemed interesting enough to continue here...
in case no one read the letters page of ultimate spidey 54, someone wrote in asking about ultimate infinity gauntlet and ultimate onslaught :roll: and brian michael bendis said "millar has something huge coming in december."
i think we can count out ultimate nightmare, since it is coming in august and is by warren ellis.
UltimateE said:Brian Michael Bendis confirmed on his message board that Mark Millar is planning a new Ultimate miniseries for next year and said it's a "really a great idea." Bendis said he's got Secret War next year and another "big thing," alluding to not having any special Ultimate projects going on (and possibly why he's now not co-writing Ult. X-Men 46-49).
Any thoughts or hopes on what this might be? Could we be getting another Ultimate-ized character?
UltimateE said:Spoiler space!
The Wizard preview for the Ultimate titles in 2004 says that in Ultimates vol. 2 the first arc (2 issues) deals with the trial of the Incredible Hulk. At first I thought that meant Banner was going to jail, but of course that's not necessarily the case. If he is exonerated or pardoned or something he could be let back into society, especially if he ends up saving the world in Ultimates #13.
cqb101 said:It would be cool if this big project turned out to be an Ultimate Galactus mini with the FF, and SIlver Surfer or something.
UltimateE said:This is clipped from Mark Millar's interview at Silver Bullet from 1/15/04 at http://silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/107419514831683.htm
TIM: Are you ever afraid that the next Ultimate series is going to be one too many, and that the concept may be close to running its course?
MILLAR: Are you kidding? Each one launches bigger than the last. Spidey did around 65K, X-Men did around 140K, The Ultimates did 175K and now Fantastic Four has ram-raided the 200K barrier. The minute they start to go down is when the bubble has burst, but the honest truth is that people seem to be getting a little more into the Ultimate stuff all the time. Since it launched in 2000, it's been the most profitable line of books in the entire industry and a consistent group of top ten sellers. I have one other Ultimate book I need to do, by the way. It'll be close to a year away, but it's the one book I've done which I think might break the 300K barrier. I started putting notes together on the plane back from New York last month.
MARKISAN: Can you reveal any further details on the "one other Ultimate book" that you need to do?
MILLAR: Ultimate Ultimate line. It completely trashes these three years of confusing continuity and restarts the whole thing over to attract a brand new audience.
MARKISAN: Interesting.. as you say, the Ultimate line keeps growing and drawing in more readers each year. But how will the line continue to remain fresh down the road? As the universe expands, obviously a whole new continuity is being developed. How will Marvel, and the writers on the Ultimate books, ensure continuity with the line and avoid problems like say, the regular Marvel universe books have generated?
MILLAR: I love this question because the answer is so simple; the Ultimate line will always be 40 years less complicated than the Marvel Universe because it's 40 years younger. It's a very important tool for reeling in new readers and, once we've got them, we can get them hooked on more refined, hardcore product. I don't just mean Marvel, of course. I know people whose first comic was Ultimate X-Men and now they're reading Wanted, Global Frequency and all that stuff, and this pleases me enormously. We're essentially drug-dealers who give you some cheap hits until you're hooked and, before you know it, you're killing people for money to buy crack.
UltimateE said:that one guy said:unless...he is doing something about all the weirdness that is ultimate marvel team-up... :shock:
That's the only thing I can think of that would need to be addressed, is all the references to the Fantastic 4 and Reed Richards. The Fantastic 4 were referenced in Ultimates #2 I think it was, plus in Ultimate Six the collars that the five villains wore were based on the "Richards gene nullifier."
Also should be interesting to see if they address the claims in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9 that Reed invented CDs, joysticks, surround sound stereo, MTV2, Twinkies, boxer shorts, rack & pinion steering, etc.
TrueBlue said:Hello ...Just thought I'd chime in on what I've heard.
Mark Millar has claimed in the past that he plans on doing something more with Charles Xavier's son Proteus in the future. Proteus is a very powerful mutant who you might remember from earlier in Ultimate X-Men (around issue #15 or so). He can project himself into other people's bodies. Now of course since Millar is no longer writing Ultimate X-Men he couldn't bring Proteus back there, so if he is still going to do it a mini would be next, since I don't think he'd bring him into Ultimates. He also had some kind of plans for Rogue, although I'm not sure what exactly.
Brian Michael Bendis is not involved in this project AFAIK but has claimed that Geldoff from the X-Men crossover arc in Ultimate Spiderman would be involved in some very big events in the Ultimate universe. He is, as you know, from Latveria, and by the time this crossover take place Ultimate Fantastic 4 will be established, including Doom/Victor Van Damme...so if Doom takes hold of Latveria and maybe starts getting into genetic warfare, maybe the Ultimates get involved, enlist other Ultimate heroes (even the X-Men)...well you can see where I'm going with this. ;-)
in case no one read the letters page of ultimate spidey 54, someone wrote in asking about ultimate infinity gauntlet and ultimate onslaught :roll: and brian michael bendis said "millar has something huge coming in december."
i think we can count out ultimate nightmare, since it is coming in august and is by warren ellis.