Marvel’s Final Universe Is Approaching Its Endgame

Since its launch on the prime of 2024, Ultimate Marvel has been working towards a end line that’s quickly approaching.

Days in the past, Marvel teased the alt-universe’s first correct occasion, Ultimate Endgame kicking off in December. Within the comics, the Maker—the evil model of Reed Richards from the unique Final Marvel books—made this new universe with the precise intent of leaving it with none heroes to cease his oppressive regime. Since his imprisonment, numerous heroes have emerged and have been both doing their own thing or deliberately preparing for his eventual return. Whereas Marvel’s conserving specifics underneath wraps for the time being, it launched two teaser photographs that goal to essentially drive dwelling the occasion’s significance and set up a few of its main gamers.

Each covers mimic the teaser and preliminary posters of Avengers: Endgame, which kickstarted the MCU’s present multiverse obsession and closed out the Infinity Saga. The parallels are doubtless intentional, since Marvel’s billing Final Endgame as “the showdown for the destiny of the Final Universe.” However like the films, we’ve absolutely bought extra tales to inform on this world, whether or not the heroes win or lose in opposition to the Maker.

Writers Jonathan Hickman (Final Spider-Man) and Deniz Camp (The Ultimates), and different Final creators will likely be at a San Diego Comedian-Con panel on Saturday, July 26, the place we’ll be taught extra about what’s in retailer for the occasion and presumably the bigger Final line.

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