Geekscape Comics: Something Big Is Going Down In ‘Ultimate Comics The Ultimates’

At this year’s Marvel Ultimate Comics panel at San Diego Comic-Con we were shown a number of covers for upcoming issues with issue number 16 of Ultimate Comics Ultimates blacked out. They assured us something big was about to go down. Well, it seems that The Washington Post has revealed a very massive spoiler by showing the cover for issue number 16 and keep in mind 15 doesn’t hit shelves until tomorrow. Recently in the Ultimate Comics line during the Divided We Fall storyline, we have seen America destroyed, ripped apart into warring groups of states, and just general anarchy all over the map. In the most recent issue of Ultimate Comics X-Men we saw the beginning of United We Stand which will see a major event occur in the next two issue’s of Ultimate Comics The Ultimates.

Yup, you’re seeing this right. Captain America is going to become the President Of The United States.

“We wanted to dramatize an extreme version of what we see in America today,” Ultimates writer Sam Humphries says. “In the face of all [this] divisiveness, what do we have in common? What does it mean to be an American? What can we agree on? And what makes America the place that it is?”

And what are the consequences, Humphries asks, of “the nation dissolving in front of our eyes?”

“This is a United States that’s being torn asunder by special interest groups — by opportunists looking to divide and conquer,” Marvel Entertainment Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso says in an exclusive to The Washington Post. “This is a metaphor for what goes on in real life, but on steroids.”

Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #15 is on sale tomorrow and will definitely be an issue you want to pick up.