Greatest Hitch

The Ultimate Universe is relaunched with Ultimate Invasion

TWO DECADES AFTER he and Mark Millar revolutionised comic book storytelling with The Ultimates in ways that would also later have a major impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bryan Hitch is returning to Marvel’s Ultimate imprint. Teaming up with writer Jonathan Hickman on Ultimate Invasion, he promises that he won’t simply retread old ground.

“You can’t repeat what you have done before,” Hitch tells Red Alert. “Back then, it was a chance to fully rethink and represent those classic characters in the Ultimate Universe and much of that thinking and visual approach was certainly highly influential on the MCU later. But now after both that run 20 years ago and the MCU having a huge influence on comics and the Marvel comics that came afterwards, you have to think about what you can do next, not what you did before.”