Ultimate Origins
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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| Scheduled release date | June 2008 - October 2008 |
| Type | Limited series |
| Scheduled run | issues |
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| Writer(s) | Brian Bendis |
| Artist(s) | Butch Guice |
Ultimate Origins is a comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics, scheduled to be released in June 2008.[1] It falls under Marvel's Ultimate Marvel imprint. It will be written by Brian Bendis and illustrated by Butch Guice. It is intended to be a "chapter in the development of Ultimatum, a crossover event scheduled to begin in September 2008.
Jeph Loeb has stated in an interview with Comic Book Resources: "What Ultimate Origin is going to do is sort of tell us how it all began. ... The Ultimate Universe isn't very old, so this isn't a cosmic story. You're not going to see the birth of a planet. What you'll see is how the superhero community was introduced into the human population. So you'll learn the importance of things like the Super Soldier program, which has been hinted at in Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimates 1 and 2. Now, Brian is going to connect the dots."[2]
[edit] Plot summary
The story opens with Spider-Man confronting a deranged Bruce Banner, who tells Spider-Man in desperation that "it's all connected." General Ross arrives, and despite Spider-Man's attempts to defuse the situation, Banner transforms into the Hulk and escapes.
In 1942, at the Battle of Tenaru, an American super-soldier (a normal GI dressed in a special uniform) rallies his men in the face of a Japanese onslaught. However, the soldier is shot and killed, his blood staining the American flag. A photograph of this image is released around the world, and then-President Roosevelt demands of his advisors a true super-soldier, rather than just one with a special uniform.
A year later, during the invasion of Sicily, three soldiers, (American privates Fisk and Nicholas Fury, and Canadian soldier James Howlett), attempt to loot a house. Military police arrive to arrest them, and all three are subdued. Fisk is grazed by a bullet, while Fury and Howlett, despite the latter's protests that he's Canadian, are shipped of to separate unknown locations.
Fury is selected to be the next test subject for Project Rebirth, as his bloodwork most closely matches that of subject 22, the most successful of the previous test subjects. He is injected with a serum that gives him super-strength, which he uses to free himself and the other prisoners, who then escape. The scientists who were working on him let him escape, deciding that they have all the information that they need for now. Elsewhere, Howlett awakens in a tank of water. He escapes the complex, but is fatally shot as he nears freedom. Miraculously, his lethal wound heals completely and he is recaptured by the program, known as Weapon X. The program's director, Dr. Cornelius, explains that in attempting to create their own super-soldier, Weapon X accidentally discovered a genome that, when genetically altered, grants the subjects various abilities based on the carrier. He refers to these new, altered humans as "mutants," proclaiming that they shall be how humanity survives, and that Howlett is "mutant zero".[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Comic Shop News #1060; October 2007
- ^ Richards, Dave CCI: Ultimate Changes: Loeb Talks "Ultimatum" and Ultimates 3", Comic Book Resources July 28, 2007
- ^ Ultimate Origins #1 (June 2008)
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