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Ultimate Farewell Variant Covers Celebrate the Icons of the New Ultimate Universe

Marvel’s new Ultimate Universe may be coming to an end, but its unforgettable characters and bold storytelling will leave a lasting impact on the Marvel mythos! This April, just ahead of the final issue of Ultimate Endgame, the conclusive saga of the Ultimate Universe, fans can celebrate the line with 24 Ultimate Farewell Variant Covers.

Adorning various main universe Marvel titles, the covers spotlight the greatest heroes and most epic moments from all five acclaimed Ultimate series. The collection is drawn by today’s top artists, including those who brought the universe to life like Peach Momoko and David Messina alongside superstar Marvel talent offering their own fresh takes on the universe that ignited the industry!

A two-year project told in real time, the Ultimate Universe was a first-of-its-kind line of storytelling that quickly became history in the making! Following its groundbreaking, can’t-miss conclusion, it’ll be able to be enjoyed from beginning to end as a complete, interconnected, and deeply rewarding saga for generations to come!

Check out 14 Ultimate Farewell Variant Covers and preorder them at your local comic shop today.

  • VENOM #256 DOALY ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY DOALY – 75960621330625641
  • X-MEN #28 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO – 75960620920002841
  • AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #26 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY R.B. SILVA – 75960621001502641
  • BLACK CAT #9 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY PERE PEREZ – 75960621252100931
  • IRON MAN #4 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE – 75960621491400451
  • MORTAL THOR #9 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY SERGIO DÁVILA – 75960621284200931
  • UNCANNY X-MEN #26 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO – 75960620917002631
  • WEB OF VENOM #1 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY NETHO DIAZ – 75960621601700171 
  • WOLVERINE #18 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY DOMENICO CARBONE – 75960620841801831
  • IMPERIAL GUARDIANS #2 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY STEFANO CASELLI – 75960621101200221
  • INFERNAL HULK #6 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY VON RANDAL – 75960621361000621
  • MAGIK & COLOSSUS #3 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY MEGHAN HETRICK – 75960621452500331
  • STORM: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANT #3 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY BETSY COLA – 75960621445700331
  • AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #27 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY DAVID MESSINA – 75960621001502751
  • AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: SPIDER-VERSITY #1 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY JUAN FRIGERI– 75960621577500141
  • CAPTAIN AMERICA #9 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO – 75960621146300931
  • MARC SPECTOR: MOON KNIGHT #3 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO – 75960621496900331
  • WOLVERINE #19 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY STEFANO CASELLI – 75960620841801931
  • CAPTAIN AMERICA #10 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY TBD ARTIST – 75960621146301031
  • DAREDEVIL #2 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY CARLOS NIETO – 75960621282800231
  • DEADLY HANDS OF K’UN-LUN #3 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY ALEX LINS – 75960621359700321
  • PLANET SHE-HULK #6 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY MATEUS MANHANINI – 75960621102900621
  • UNCANNY X-MEN #27 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO – 75960620917002731
  • FANTASTIC FOUR #10 ULTIMATE FAREWELL VARIANT COVER BY TBD ARTIST – 75960621122701041

Ultimate Universe #1 delivers the Ultimate launch we’ve been hoping for

Ultimate Universe #1

After the worlds-shaking conclusion of Ultimate Invasion, a new team of heroes bands together to save the future! Ultimate Universe #1 kicks off a new series focused on the fallout of Ultimate Invasion and in many ways washing away that bump in the road.

Ultimate Universe #1 has a team of Iron Lad and Doom attempting to right the changes to the world that the Maker has made. It’s an interesting concept overall, something that feels a bit fresh and new in some ways, though been done before elsewhere. To right those changes, they need a team and first up is breaking out Thor who has been imprisoned for something. From there, we get some solid action and an interesting direction that really makes this debut stand out.

I’ll admit, Ultimate Invasion was a letdown. The Ultimate Universe has been teased for some time, and while that series had some good ideas, it overall felt rushed and unfocused. Thankfully, Ultimate Universe #1 is much more focused with some concepts from writer Jonathan Hickman that feel interesting and new and creates actual stakes in the game beyond saving the world.

This new team of heroes threaten to shake up the status-quo which Hickman focused so much on in the lead up series. If successful, they will have pulled the power from various groups and individuals who rule over their region. There’s something very fantasy about it all and delivers a different angle to approach this new Ultimate Universe from than just superheroes getting their powers and the fallout from that.

The art by Stefano Caselli is great. With color by David Curiel and Joe Caramagna, the comic has a level of energy about it that pops from the page. It has a look that feels a bit like it’d fit right into the previous Ultimate line of comics but at the same time stands on its won. Caselli and the team nail the key moments creating memorable visuals that create the excitement the comic is going for.

Ultimate Universe #1 is a solid start of the new Ultimate Universe. It ends things in a very interesting spot and position that again has echoes of some other stories but really shakes things up moving forward. While Ultimate Invasion had my excitement for what’s to come diminished, Ultimate Universe #1 gets that excitement right back to where it was. Here’s hoping this is the real sign up what’s to come.

Story: Jonathan Hickman Art: Stefano Caselli
Color: David Curiel Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review


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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Faceless and the Family #1

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Almost Dead #1 (Ablaze) – After having an accident on her way home to visit her family, Sara Walker awakens to find that the world has changed. Now she must travel up the Eastern Seaboard, using suppressed survival skills she learned as a child, in hopes of reuniting with her loved ones in the midst of a viral pandemic that has turned humans into monsters.

Blood Commandment #1 (Image Comics) – Living an isolated life in a shadowed valley surrounded by mountains and a thick forest, a father and son are terrorized by a dangerous supernatural presence. Only the father’s dark secrets can save them…or damn their souls for all eternity!

Count Dante #4 (Scout Comics) – The series has done an amazing job of balancing fact and fiction in the world of martial arts and based on a true story.

Dying Days #1 (Red 5 Comics) – It’s the ultimate race against time! When “The Aging” starts, people are aging at a rapid rate. Can the cause and solution be found, before it’s too late?

Faceless and the Family #1 (Oni Press) – Matt Lesniewski’s art alone will suck you in.

A Haunting on Mars #1 (Scout Comics) – Mars is a wasteland: A dead colony, founded by a dead billionaire, holding darkness and secrets within. Secrets which Echo Team are sent to uncover. A hacker. A psionic. An empath. A soldier. And their corpo loyalist leader. They’ve crashed far from the LZ and their sanity’s already unraveling!

It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1 (Marvel) – The first issue was really cute and a lot of fun and we’re hoping for more of that.

Ranger Academy #2 (BOOM! Studios) – The first issue was a lot of fun with a familiar concept of an outsider arriving at a school. In this case, it’s one dealing with the Power Rangers.

Red Light #1 (AWA Studios) – Get ready for a red-hot futuristic erotic thriller that sits at the intersection of sex and tech!

Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (DC Comics) – It should be fun to revisit this classic period with the creators behind it.

Savage Red Sonja #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) – Tasked with retrieving a long-hidden gem from a crumbled, ancient kingdom, the She-Devil With a Sword is traveling alone through a dangerous wasteland when fate intervenes, and her solo adventure is sidetracked by a wayward prince and his bride as they try desperately to escape from fearsome desert bandits – only to be attacked by a monstrous beast from beneath the sands!

Space Between #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Two individuals from two different social castes meet aboard an interstellar ark.

Spider-Boy #1 (Marvel) – We haven’t paid too much attention to the character, but we’re intrigued to see where the long game goes with him.

Stories of the Islands (Holiday House) – In Stories of the Islands, debut graphic novelist Clar Angkasa takes three folk tales from her childhood in Indonesia and gives them back to the girl characters, following their hopes, dreams, and journeys for independence from malevolent forces-both natural and unnatural.

Traveling to Mars #9 (Ablaze) – One of the best comics on the market right now.

Ultimate Universe #1 (Marvel) – While the recent limited series left us unimpressed, this first issue is actually solid and more of what we were looking for.

Unnatural Order #1 (Vault Comics) – After the fall of the Britons and the Roman invasion of Hibernia, the captive known only as the Druid is released, sending a darkness across the world…an age of horrors, of fire and entrails.

White Widow #1 (Marvel) – Yelena Belova gets the spotlight!