Ultimates 2 #6 Review

Writer: Al Ewing / Artist: Travel Foreman / Marvel Comics I’m upset I even have to take the time to write this review and tell you how good this issue is. You should already know, Al Ewing is straight flames on the track. Travel Foreman? Straight flames in the booth. We got a running joke for those of us that review comics that Jonathan Hickman is the god of world building; if Hickman put south a new project, I wait eight months so I can read straight through that shit and cut the wait time. I’m saying right now, it needs to be known that Al Ewing isn’t a world builder, this guy is a universe builder. We finally discovered who the jailer of eternity is last week and it’s none other that the first iteration of the universe, The First Firmament. Ewing gives us a detailed origin story of the First Firmament and it plays out beautifully, detailing how the creation of life changed everything for the First Firmament (for the worse, apparently), the origin of the celestials, the split between the celestials we know and the dark celestials, the war between the two species, the creation of the celestials we know from present day, and then how Eternity got caught slipping during its rebirth into the 8th’s iteration of the universe (or, put simply, post-Secret War [2015]).

Rodstvow is revealed to be one of the dark celestials and as we saw Galactus is reverted to a feral form of his old self, hosting a hunger that’ll literally consume everything. Ewing really has shit looking horrible …