Ultimate Comics

Marvel Comics announced this week an ambitious and comprehensive plan to reintroduce its Ultimate Comics line to new readers and lapsed fans. Once known for its high profile creators and truly epic and unpredictable storylines, the fever around the Ultimate line has cooled in recent years...

As is their wont, the good people at Marvel Comics have chosen to promote a high priority initiative by spoiling its ending in a popular newspaper. In this case, that initiative is the "Death of Spider-Man" storyline presently running through the publisher's Ultimate Comics Spider-Man and Ultimate Comics Avengers vs...

Blink and you'll miss it. In a recent preview and press release sent to journalists, Marvel dropped in a quick mention that the "Ultimate Comics Captain America #1 hits stores and the Marvel Comics app on January 5th!" The simultaneous print and digital release of the comic by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney wasn't a big announcement, but maybe it should have been...