In the late ’90s, writers Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar had just planted roots at Marvel and were barely settled down. Bendis once claimed that when he joined Marvel, he believed he was going to write one of, if not the last, Marvel comics ever, following the company’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. However, Marvel had a solution: it needed to ground comics with the modern conception of action movies and television dramas, without any continuity bogging them down. In the following years, this dream was actualized with Brian Michael Bendis’s Ultimate Spider-Man and Mark Millar’s Ultimate X-Men.Instead of simply rebooting the main universe, Marvel believed a much easier starting point for new readers would be an entirely new continuity, disconnected from anything before. The resulting product, the Ultimate Universe—aka Earth-1610–is a mixed bag, but ultimately beloved, experiment. Many parts of it still hold water to this day, notably Miles Morales, but not everything in such an expansive world can be perfect. Many of the books released as part of it were hated, while many were loved; the original five books are still frequently talked about today, with fans having varying opinions on the quality of each one.One thing that is deserving of some credit, however, is the use of Reed Richards. While Reed is downright annoying in much of the book, some writers picked up on this and realized its potential. By the end of the title, he goes full incel, Sue leaves him, and he becomes a villain, eventually becoming the multiversal threat The Maker. Fourteen years after the end of Ultimate Fantastic Four—and twelve after the first appearance of The Maker—Earth-1610’s Reed Richards would create the new Ultimate Universe, Earth-6160, in his image, leading to one of Marvel’s best publishing lines ever.
In the late ’90s, writers Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar had just planted roots at Marvel and were barely settled down. Bendis once claimed that when he joined Marvel, he believed he was going to write one of, if not the last, Marvel comics ever, following the company’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. However, Marvel had a solution: it needed to ground comics with the modern conception of action movies and television dramas, without any continuity bogging them down. In the following years, this dream was actualized with Brian Michael Bendis’s Ultimate Spider-Man and Mark Millar’s Ultimate X-Men.
Instead of simply rebooting the main universe, Marvel believed a much easier starting point for new readers would be an entirely new continuity, disconnected from anything before. The resulting product, the Ultimate Universe—aka Earth-1610–is a mixed bag, but ultimately beloved, experiment. Many parts of it still hold water to this day, notably Miles Morales, but not everything in such an expansive world can be perfect. Many of the books released as part of it were hated, while many were loved; the original five books are still frequently talked about today, with fans having varying opinions on the quality of each one.
One thing that is deserving of some credit, however, is the use of Reed Richards. While Reed is downright annoying in much of the book, some writers picked up on this and realized its potential. By the end of the title, he goes full incel, Sue leaves him, and he becomes a villain, eventually becoming the multiversal threat The Maker. Fourteen years after the end of Ultimate Fantastic Four—and twelve after the first appearance of The Maker—Earth-1610’s Reed Richards would create the new Ultimate Universe, Earth-6160, in his image, leading to one of Marvel’s best publishing lines ever.
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