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If you can buy only one Marvel title, let Al Ewing guide the way Review by Aryeh
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Who is this mysterious individual practically carrying Marvel right now? It's Al Ewing. After Jonathan Hickman's stellar Avengers/New Avengers run that changed the fate of Marvel Cosmic forever, how would this act be followed? Well Ultimates is where that happens. If you like Galactus, then you'll be happy because this is a great Galactus story, showing his transformation and history. It's the beginning of the great cosmic mystery of the cosmic jailer which will change the history of the Marvel Multiverse forever and it all starts here (Ultimates: Omniversal comes in two volumes, then get Ultimates2 vol 1 onwards, as Marvel are weird with numbering, but that's the reading order). The Ultimates team are Captain Marvel, Spectrum, Blue Marvel, Black Panther and Ms America. Now I'm not a fan of Ms America at all and I think recent years have not been kind to Captain Marvel's character, but my worries dissipate because Ewing does a great job with them nonetheless. Blue Marvel is a cool character too. Kenneth Rocafort's art is also good. If you can only buy only one Marvel book, then it has to be something by Ewing. So either this, or his New Avengers/USAvengers run. They are the best things put out by Marvel right now and if you want to know what happened after Secret Wars, then this is where you go. If you are further interested in Marvel Cosmic heir achy, then check out this picture guide that I have made to give a rough idea: http://imgur.com/a/mm1xX That should help further increase enjoyment of this. (Posted on 23/05/2017)