Ultimate End #4: Review

Ultimate Bombshell was originally led into a life of crime by her mother, but has since switched to the other side in the Young Ultimates (alongside Cloak and Dagger). Ultimate Spider-Man presumably appears here after Secret Wars #4. There Dr Strange dispersed throughout Battleworld all the characters who had survived in the liferafts from the destruction of the Marvel and Ultimate Earths. Thus he is genuinely from Ultimate Earth, whereas some doubt has been thrown over the origins of the inhabitants of the Manhattan Zone (especially the Marvel ones). Old Man Logan is Wolverine in a dystopian future seen in Wo(2003)#66-72. A fragment of that world is preserved in the Wastelands Zone. In the Old Man Logan tie-in series Logan has broken out of that Zone and discovered the wider Battleworld. Presumably it's that Old Man Logan who has got to Manhattan - and presumably he's significant, even though his series is only classed as a Warzone not a supposedly more important Battleworld. The sequencing of the events in this issue are a bit strange. The 2 Tony's fall out, and suddenly the Marvel and Ultimate heroes are all at each others throats. Mention had already been made of rising tensions, but earlier we have seen them cooperating. Also it is a relatively minor point that Ultimate Iron Man is shown recruiting his army before the Tony-split. But as the Tony-split scene is shown within Valeria's narration it could arguably be a flashback to before the recruitment scene.