ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #19
BRIAN WOOD (W) • PACO MEDINA (A)
COVER BY DAVE JOHNSON
• An All-New direction for the Ultimate X-Men!
• Kitty tries to lead a new nation of mutants but someone close to her has different plans!
• Brian (DMZ, STAR WARS, X-MEN) Wood’s epic RESERVATION X arc begins here!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #18.1
BRIAN WOOD (W) • FILIPE ANDRADE (A)
COVER BY SARA PICHELLI
• Meet MACH TWO, former Morlock tunnel refugee turned mutant resistance fighter!
• Will she side with Kitty Pryde or become a dangerous new enemy?
• A brave new world for the nation’s surviving mutants starts here!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #18
SAM HUMPHRIES (W) • LUKE ROSS (A)
COVER BY MICHAEL KOMARCK
THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF UNITED WE STAND!
• It’s the Ultimates’ final stand against Hydra on American soil!
• Thor’s startling choice: America or Asgard?
• The last temptation of Captain America with the country in the balance!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #17
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • GABRIEL WALTA (A)
COVER BY SARA PICHELLI
UNITED WE STAND!
• With the nation at war, young Spider-Man heeds the call of Super Hero duty!
• The secret connection between Miles Morales and Spider-Woman revealed? 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

[ a digital painting of Ultimate Janet Van Dyne as the Wasp, standing there with her arms spread to the side. ]

— Jeffrey Spokes

in case you don’t know, things have definitely been going down in the Ultimate universe, starting Divided We Fall. most significantly, Texas has seceded from the Union (who’s surprised) and is proceeding to threaten to attack the rest of the states with its remaining SHIELD bases. the government is collapsing and with Nick Fury inexplicably gone, it seems only one person can change things for the better. 

thoughts? 

[ a black-and-white inked image of Ultimate Gwen Stacy. she’s shot from the side and slouched there, blowing a bubble from chewing gum that looks like Spider-Man’s head. it reads, “Emanuele carlotta!” around her. ]

— Sara Pichelli

Beginning in October, writer Nathan Edmondson and artist Matteo Buffagni team for the four-issue ULTIMATE COMICS IRON MAN limited series sub-titled “Demon in the Armor” and introducing Ultimate Mandarin! 

[ an Instagram photo of Miles Morales as Spider-Man tugging at his mask in black and white. ]

— Sara Pichelli