BNP At Home: Ultimates Edition

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates (2011) Writer: Jonathan Hickman / Artist: Esad Ribic / Marvel Comics

Let’s take it back to the original Ultimates team from Earth-1610, aka the Ultimate Universe. Now, if you’re wondering why I don’t recommend the first few volumes of the Ultimates, that’s because the team doesn’t really need much introduction. This version is a lot like the Avengers. Also, no one should have to read Ultimates 3 … no one. No, I’m here to bring you the Ultimate Comics version of the Ultimates at their best against their best villain – The Maker. The Maker is one of the best recent Marvel villains to date. So good that the evil doppelganger of Reed Richards is one of the few characters from the Ultimate universe to survive its end and make it over to Earth-616 proper. Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates is a trip. It also helps that the first two volumes are written by the excellent Jonathan Hickman and drawn to an epic scale by Esad Ribic. So you can expect the scope to be expansive and even if you’re only in it for the first 6 or so issues, you get to see why the Maker is top 10 Marvel bad guy material. Mighty Avengers (2013) Writer: Al Ewing / Artist: Greg Land / Marvel Comics

Let’s call Al Ewing’s Mighty Avengers a prelude to the main Marvel Universe’s Ultimates, featuring two major heroes that eventually go on to join the team. Both Adam Bradshaw (Blue Marvel) and Monica Rambeau (Spectrum) are reintroduced to readers who are less familiar with them, making Might…