The long-running Marvel Ultimate Universe is concluding, and the story begins its final chapter with the first issue of Ultimate Endgame. This issue sets the stage by showing events unfolding across the globe right before access is granted to The Maker’s city. But that’s just the beginning – the real story happens inside the city. ComicBook recently spoke with writer Deniz Camp about the surprising discovery the heroes make once they breach the city walls.
As a huge comic book fan, I was completely blown away by what happened in Ultimate Endgame #1. Once the barrier fell, seeing Iron Lad, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, and America arrive in that city was incredible – it was so gritty and bleak, nothing like they expected! But the real shocker was discovering The Maker had become the city itself. It was genuinely disturbing! The writer, Camp, really wanted to subvert expectations, making sure that after two millennia, this place was totally unrecognizable, both to the heroes and to us readers, and he absolutely nailed it.
“I thought with 2,000 years, you know, like something radical had to be different about The Maker. What’s been going on, and you’ll find out what’s exactly what’s been going on in issue two. You see hints of it, but we’ll kind of explain the history of the city in issue two of Endgame,” Camp said. “I knew that everything had to be transformed and I knew, if logically I was expecting, myself as a reader, they had 2,000 years. It was already a super futuristic city. What’s that gonna look like? And it’s not that. And I hope, you know, it’s there for the surprise of it, but it also kind of ties into the thematic arc of the universe and the book that, that maybe The Maker’s utopia isn’t much of a utopia kind of a thing, and you’ll learn more about it as it goes on.”
Ultimate Endgame Rewrites The Book On The Maker
As Camp pointed out, after being hidden for two thousand years, people anticipated a perfect world when the barrier finally fell. However, as shown in Ultimate Endgame #1, reality is very different. This unexpected shift also applies to The Maker, and the series is presenting a particularly dangerous and unsettling version of the character.
Camp wanted to significantly update The Maker, feeling that his long history and unconventional nature called for a fresh approach. He started this even in flashback scenes by highlighting the character’s adaptability – his ‘Reed Richards-ness’ – and drawing inspiration from earlier, successful runs, particularly one by Fialkov and Giandomenico. He specifically wanted to recapture the unsettling, ‘goopy’ and body horror aspects of that run, which he believes are key to the character’s appeal.
The city has become The Maker, and with a dangerous army under his control, completing this mission just got much harder. It was already a long shot, but now the heroes will be fortunate to even approach their objective.
Ultimate Endgame #1 is in comic stores now.
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