#ultimate doctor doom

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The ratastic four

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The man without a home. The lonely god.

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Tony & Reed looking at what they were supposed to become.

Ultimates (2024) #1

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testing my twitter audience bc i dont actually want that many people around

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exclusive club for college freaks that blew themselves up conducting a science experiment (invite-only)

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Tony Stark Ultimates #1 | Official Trailer 

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The Ultimates #4 cover by Francesco Mobili and Frank Martin

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Ultimates (2024-) #1

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the ultimates #1

i’ll admit so far i don’t really understand what’s going on

is he like fabricating their backstories???

AUGH THIS HURT MY SOUL A LIL i love every version of tony stark so so much. i still cant even tell what’s fully happening but i do know im invested im sucked in

HE LOOKS AWESOME

he’s so real

HES SO LAME

TONYYYYYYY AAAAAAAAAAA

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Ultimates #1

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ULTIMATES #4

Written by DENIZ CAMP

Art by PHIL NOTO

Cover by DIKE RUAN

On Sale 9/4

The fate of the Ultimate Fantastic Four! Doom’s years of torture at the hands of the Maker finally catch up to him in this secret history of the real Reed Richards! And tensions rise among the Ultimates when Doom might be more fixated on recreating the life he should have had than the life he’s got… Featuring art by guest artist Phil Noto!

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what’s he up to?

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Slight spoilers from Ultimates #1 today, but we know that they know about the 616 and the Fantastic Four that exists there, we still haven't seen the character we were introduced to as Reed without armor or mask at all yet, but I still think that's either Victor taking up Reed’s name bc the Maker somehow replaced them, or a combination of them both somehow, maybe similar to what we saw in Zdarsky's Doom 2099 one-shot?

Or... what if Reed is in the armor system itself, somehow? What if Victor refuses to be parted from him, or something happened to his physical self and the suit (Reed) is carrying on in his name while also acting as life support?

I know Hickman likes to "blend" these two sometimes, I feel like he heavily subscribes to Chris Claremont's "two sides of the same coin" notion with them, so really there's no telling but it's driving me up the wall to not know 😅

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Ultimates (2024) #1

OHMYGODDD Ultimates #1 was fantastic! I have so many thoughts that I had to turn it into a post lol.

Poor Steve 😂 I'm very interested to see Steve's journey, though, because he's now the captain of a country that doesn't exist. How is he going to navigate that? I'm also looking forward to Steve and Tony's dynamic in this universe because Tony's a kid, which changes things a lot. He's a kid with the burden of the world on his shoulders, trying to undo everything that the Maker did, and Steve knows that as well. Plus, if they know about all the events on Earth-616, they also know about Civil War. I hope it's brought into the conversation soon.

NOOO IS CAROL DEAD?? MY GIRL This is brutal as a Captain Marvel and Hawkeye fan. Spider-Man is thriving for now (surprising, I know), but Carol is probably dead, and Clint has given up being Hawkeye. But even Spider-Man was near rejection as Peter was thinking about giving up until his daughter convinced him to be Spider-Man. The Maker really fucked up this universe, huh. I'd love for a certain archer to find the uniform and take up the Hawkeye mantle and then Clint to get inspired by Kate in this universe. I think it'd be a fun twist, especially since Tony also mentioned that they can find near-perfect substitutes. He eventually realized his mistake later on the issue, but I really do think Kate could have a big role to play.

Hehe, a fun little wink to Tony eventually becoming Kang the Conquerer.

This version of Tony is so interesting to me because he’s a kid, and making him the center of all this works very well because of it, especially his relationships with Reed and Steve. Reed is more pragmatic and cold, while Steve is idealistic, and seeing both of them influence Tony is fantastic. Tony himself is more idealistic than his 616 version because he’s much younger. Steve grounds the two and makes Tony and Reed understand that whatever they're doing isn't an experiment but a revolution.

While I love all the other characters, the standout in this issue for me was Hank Pym, which I didn't expect. He knows what kind of person he turned to be on Earth-616 and he doesn't want to turn out that way. I think that's a very compelling story arc.

Ahh, I love this. What Steve says is right; Hank can choose to be different. It's also interesting if we compare Peter and Hank because, in Ultimate Spider-Man, we're told that Peter always felt that something was missing from his life, and then he learned the truth about what the Maker did and became Spider-Man, which fulfilled his life. On the other hand, Hank was happy running an extermination business with his wife. (How Janet went from rich heiress to this is also something I'm wondering). Hank was happy, but now he's being told he was supposed to become Ant-Man, create Ultron, and hit his wife, whom he loves more than anything. I felt bad for him, honestly.

616 Tony should say this to his father, too lol. But this part is probably my favorite part of the issue because of the insight it gives us into Tony's mind, who is the center of the new Ultimate universe. As I've mentioned many times, Tony is a teenager in a world run by fascists, a world that his father was complicit in making. He's angry at Howard, but he also loves him. I think an argument could be made about Tony representing today's generation that's also dealing with the effects of (poor) decisions made by our parents and grandparents, and feeling the anger from it. "It's quite a mess you made, Dad. And now we have to clean it up. What choice do we have?" "If there's any hope of fixing things...it won't be enough to be as good as the heroes of that simpler world. We'll have to be better. I don't know what that looks like yet. But we're going to figure it out." "You were the smartest man in the world. You should've known better. And that is failure.”

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