The Ultimates #1 Review

Writer: Al Ewing / Art: Kenneth Rocafort / Marvel This book is black as fuck! My science fiction team black and my command center vibranium UH-UH- YOU CAN’T TELL ME NOTHING! And that atmosphere be so black / people of color! Lawd, we been waiting on this book for the longest and it’s finally here. WE finally got a squad that’s not only powerful, not only a mixture of household names and fan favorites with a cult following, not only where the men are the minority but it’s diverse as all hell! We got Blue Marvel, Black Panther, America “Bawse ass bae” Chavez, Monica Rambeau, and Captain Marvel all on the fucking squad. Come on now, that’s what the fuck I’m talking about. My whole squad full of cats that’ll run a villain’s jays while talking race relations in America, 8th dimension physics, and Netflix original shows. We finally out’chea! We open up with this book having Adam Brashear (Blue Marvel) discussing the new possibilities of the world post Secret Wars. Matter and Anti-Matter are able to coexist in this universe now as Neutronium (you know that’s going to come into play in a big way down the line) which changes everything. We see The Black Panther’s station of operations at the Triskelion which serves as a base of operations for the Wakandan embassy in the U.S. as well as housing Alpha Flight program for defense and the top flight where universal problems get solved before they become cataclysmic problems for Earth. It’s good to see Black Panther running the hell out o…