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I think the best way to show respect to what Mark and Bryan (and Andrew, Chris and Paul) did is to be true to the spirit of it. To me that means fresh storytelling and channeling the anxieties and energies of the time. It means letting the world in a little bit. So that’s what we’re doing. Where that Ultimates was channeling post-9/11 paranoia, this one is addressed to that nagging sense that everything’s gone wrong somehow, that things were supposed to be better than this. -- Deniz Camp

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Maybe you become a little bit timid. You don't want to rock the boat too much because you're not sure, and you don't want to call too much attention to yourself, or too much attention to what you're doing, but I think you need to if you want to make a splash, because there's just so many books out there and a lot of them are really good. And so, if you want to compete with that, and if you want your book to get to be read, then you should be kind of fearless about it, and let, if nothing else, let Marvel and DC say no. Again, get caught trying. Let them say no to your ideas. Don't self censor. -- Deniz Camp

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We’re trying to reinvent the whole super team concept for this. -- Deniz Camp

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"We can change the status quo. In fact, the entire purpose of the book is to change the status quo, to change the world. In 616 that would be kind of an empty threat; in the Ultimate universe it’s not only possible, it’s probable (whether they change it for the better or worse is a different story)." - Deniz Camp

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"I would say I’m doing research more about the world around us and trying to draw as much of that as I can in a fictional way, which I think is the core mission statement of really any Ultimate book for me just because of what Mark and Bryan did in the original. It’s not to say that you’re going to see US President Biden in this book or anything like that, but you’re definitely gonna see, like I said, I’m trying to draw from the real world and maybe some lesser known parts of real world history and maybe some very obvious satire of real world issues. So it’s kind of a mix of all those things. So yeah, I would say Planetary and Global Frequency in terms of some of the structure of the book, but the actual substance of the book is the world I see around me." - Deniz Camp

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"I read the original Ultimates and I thought the original Ultimates was a clear response to 9/11 and a satire of American hegemony at the time and so I wanted our Ultimates to be a response to our times. You know, both in conversation with that book, but also just in conversation with the world. So I felt like right now it felt more pregnant to me to take them on as terrorists and people trying to change the status quo for the better as they see it and all the complexity that comes with that. So to me, you know, what does a modern hero look like? It doesn't look like somebody who's trying to maintain the status quo. And so I wanted to channel some of the revolutionary energy that I feel around me and my friends and also the sense of disappointment that I feel kind of permeating everybody that I talk to, everybody that I know with how the world is and everybody has kind of different reasons for that."
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"I would say that Madame Web is such a complex character that I don’t want to introduce her to the Ultimates. I think she has a certain amount of baggage. I don’t have any plans for Madame Web, but I could see that the movie is absolutely mind blowing in one way. So maybe if I see it and I’m inspired by it, you know, it could happen." - Deniz Camp

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In further proof that this is the best version of the Ultimate Universe Ultimates, this issue features an aversion of one of Ultimatum's most infamous scenes!

In a strange contrast, it also features the nearest this series has come to a Millar line.

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superboyprime

'They’re labeled as terrorists and it would be very easy to say, "Well, they’re not actually terrorists, they’re just being labeled as such." But maybe there are things that they do that aren’t great. Or maybe there are things that they do that would genuinely scare people and it’s okay to put that into the work, you know?' - Deniz Camp

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superboyprime

"You will not be able to understand the next phase of the marvel universe without mlutiple copies of these comics." - Deniz Camp

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laughing_tree

The data pages were based directly on the Castle Bravo report, and some of the most egregious things said in the data page were almost word for word things said by those involved in the research. -- Deniz Camp

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"I read the original Ultimates and I thought the original Ultimates was a clear response to 9/11 and a satire of American hegemony at the time and so I wanted our Ultimates to be a response to our times. [...] Part of the book is, well, what does it mean to change the world? And we all want to change the world, but do we all want to change it in the same way? It felt very ripe story wise."
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shakalooloo

Issue one of the new Ultimates series, already with half a page of backstory to catch up with on the title page - not a good jumping-on point.

Here, as with Spider-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp missed out on their super-hero origin stories thanks to the Maker. Instead, they became a married couple running an exterminator business. Six months ago, Tony Stark gave Hank Pym the 'superpowers in a ball' similar to the one he offered Peter Parker, but it was never cracked open...

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