Again within the 2000s, Marvel launched a line of Final Marvel comics that provided then-modern takes on the writer’s premier characters. Whereas the road general finally fell in high quality, two of its strongest books have been Ultimate Spider-Man and its sequel collection, Final Comics: Spider-Man from author Brian Michael Bendis and a wide range of artists comparable to Sara Pichelli, Stuart Immonen, and Mark Bagley. Because the Marvel Cinematic Universe was turning into a gargantuan hit Marvel principally wrote the Final Universe off through the 2015 Secret Wars occasion, with its saving grace Miles Morales (and his supporting cast) being introduced over to the mainline Marvel universe for his eventual MCU reveal.
Whereas the Final Universe has been quietly persisting since then, Marvel’s getting ready to shine a lightweight on it but once more. The Ultimate Invasion collection from Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch is wrapping up subsequent week, and spinning out from that shall be Final Spider-Man from Hickman and Daredevil artist Marco Checchetto. Particulars at current are at the moment scarce, with extra particulars to return from Marvel’s Subsequent Massive Factor panel on October 14 at New York Comedian-Con.
In direction of the Final Universe’s twilight years, Hickman was one of many chief writers: he penned solo miniseries for Thor and Hawkeye, and co-wrote the Final Comics: Fallout occasion with Bendis and Nick Spencer that targeted on the aftermath of Peter Parker’s dying. He’d later go on to jot down a brand new model of The Ultimates, which helped to arrange threads that (finally) paid off in Secret Wars. When he spoke to Entertainment Weekly in February forward of Invasion’s launch, Hickman famous that he and Hitch wished to make the brand new Final comics “inverted from what the unique universe was. We wished this to be…a brand new mind-set about, and having fun with, a brand new model of the Marvel Universe.”
At time of writing, that is the one Final guide we find out about, however we all know extra is coming—Hickman and Stefano Casselli’s Final Universe #1 will assist to set the stage for different Final books to return within the subsequent a number of months. With how massive Hickman revitalized the X-Men and can be introducing a brand new set of cosmic characters within the G.O.D.S. miniseries, it’ll be fascinating to see what he’s helped prepare dinner up for certainly one of Marvel’s most enduring alternate realities.
Tell us within the feedback beneath what you’d prefer to see (or don’t wish to see) within the all-new, all-different, Final Marvel universe that’s coming in 2024.
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