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One Ultimate Title Gets The Cut! Which Will It Be?

Posted by Testament on 6/5/2008, 4:41 pm
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This is an interview that I found where Quesada says that one of the Ultimte titles will be discontinued! Which Ultimate title do you think should get the axe and why? ULTIMATE REVEALS Marvel E-I-C Joe Quesada drops hints about Ultimate titles 'Origins' and 'Ultimatum'…and the book that gets axed! By Danny Spiegel Posted 06/03/08 Way back in 2001, there was a sequence in Marvel Team-Up #3 where Bruce Banner plaintively and cryptically tells Spider-Man that, "It's all connected…They don't want you to figure it out. They don't want you to know." Well, now it appears they do. And in this case, the Marvel team-up for June, 2008 is Brian Michael Bendis and Jackson Guice, who have combined their talents for Ultimate Origins, a five-issue miniseries that will not only reveal the conspiratorial connection between Nick Fury, Captain America, the super-soldier serum and the Weapon X program, but will also set up the fall's imprint-altering Ultimatim series by Jeph Loeb and David Finch. Here, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada previews the two defining series, talks about the cancellation of one Ultimate title and takes a look back at the line that arguably set the tone for comics in the 21st century. WIZARD: What can you tell us about Ultimate Origins? QUESADA: You're going to learn a lot about how the Ultimate Universe really came to be and many of the mysteries that were planted years ago by our writers, and [there'll be] the most incredible revelation which will cause several characters to rethink their role in the Ultimate Universe and will also put a stake in the sand that will say, "This is what makes the Ultimate Universe different. This is how the origin of a lot of our characters is very, very different than what you would witness in the Marvel Universe." Was this always the plan or did this develop over time? It was a little bit of both. There were definitely some stories we knew we wanted to tell that involved some of our characters and their pasts, and then there were a couple of other layers that were added later on as we started to get more and more involved with the universe. Those hints including that prophetic line in Marvel Team-Up where Bruce Banner says "It's all connected"? Believe me, when we get to that moment [where all is revealed], it literally will be that, "Luke, I'm your father" kind of moment where you go, "Oh my god!" So Darth Vader's gonna be in this, is that what you're saying, Joe? Uh, no. Unfortunately, we tried but we ran into some sort of copyright problems. Lucas really gets tough with that sort of stuff. But, no, it'll be that kind of a moment where you go, "Wow. What does this mean for all these characters and the way that they view themselves and what will they do now?" The beauty of the Ultimate Universe is that it allows us to do things that we could never even consider doing in the Marvel Universe just because we have 40 years of history. But what's also been wonderful about the Ultimate Universe is it really is the road map of what you probably will see in the future of the Marvel Universe [in terms of] the tonality of the books. It's a great place for new readers to come on to our books and learn about the Marvel Universe in a small way. It's only four books a month, and it sets the tempo for what the flavor of Marvel Universe books is going to be like later on. What else should we expect from the Ultimate line of books? Ultimate Origins leads us right into Ultimatum and I can assure you there's going to be a major shake-up of titles and characters. Ultimate [Origins concludes] the end of this year so we're talking probably an unrecognizable Ultimate line, based upon today, in early 2009. And one of the Ultimate series will be canceled, but you can't say which one? I can't tell you because it gives a lot away. It may give away a big ending. But, yes, I mean, you know, some people will miss Ultimate Spider-Man. Some people won't. But will that canceled title come back, though—and we're assuming it's not Ultimate Spider-Man—whichever one it is? No, not in that same iteration. We'll be launching a few new things but the important thing is that we're still keeping the title count to three to four books a month. It's a good buy-in number for the new fan. You can say, "Listen, you pick up these four titles a month and you get a full universe of the highest possible quality." And every once in a while there might be a fifth book here and there as a miniseries that you'll see. Will there be any other miniseries? There is a series of miniseries by a huge creator that will happen in 2009. It's stuff that people have been asking for and really wanna see. And I do anticipate that we'll also finally get the finale of Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk. We have everything but the last script in from Damon [Lindelof] and of course Leinil [Yu] is still working on Secret Invasion so when Leinil's done with that I suspect he might want to finish that series, too. He was having a lot of fun on that. The title Ultimatum almost sounds like a threat, as if you might be saying, "If you don't buy this comic, Brian Bendis will ridicule you in his vicious letter column." Is that how the fans should take it? I will devour a kitten. Maybe several. [Laughs] No, you know, put in whatever you want. "Buy this issue or I fire Brian Bendis off of Ultimate Spider-Man." So if anybody likes that book, there you go. Continuing the trend of mining Hollywood for writers is "Heroes" writer Aron Coleite who's writing an X-Men arc that leads up to Ultimatum. We have been so impressed with Aron as a writer. So much so that Jeph Loeb had to call and yell at me because I had planned to offer Aron more Marvel work. Jeph said—and I'll try to give you the non-expletive version—"I introduced you to Aron because he's one of my best writers on 'Heroes,' so if you take him and put him on more books, it means that his attention won't be fully focused on 'Heroes' and I will have to do horrific things and acts of mutilation upon your body and your loved ones." So that was enough to make me really think twice about offering Aron a tremendous amount of work at Marvel. But I suspect that eventually he'll smarten up and realize that working for me is a much nicer place than working with Jeph Loeb.

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