Ultimate Endgame #3 – How Do You Fight Everything?

The Maker is free, and Doom is on his mind. Ultimate Endgame #3 marks the halfway point of the Ultimate Endgame story from Deniz Camp and Jonas Scharf, and this team isn’t pulling any punches. After seeing the horror that the Maker has become in issue #2, we begin to see the plans to try and defeat the Maker begin to unfold in issue #3.

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Creative Team

Writer: Deniz Camp
Artists: Jonas Scharf, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson
Colorist: Edgar Delgado and Terry Dodson
Letterer: Cory Petit
Cover Artist: Mark Brooks

Writing

Holy smokes, what an issue. Right from the jump, Deniz Camp gets into it. The foreshadowing near the beginning still makes this issue no less heart-wrenching. The Ultimate Universe has been great, and I really love the work that Camp is doing to bring everyone’s worlds together. The fact that Camp is successfully weaving together the Ultimate stories, but doing it in a way that the heart and spirit of each author’s stories remain with their characters, is refreshing.

I found myself leaning closer and closer to the words every time I read a new bubble. This issue kept me right on my toes with big reveals, last-minute saves, and amazing action. It’s not often that a story brings me to tears, but after Ultimate Endgame #3, I find myself in that position for the second time in the Ultimate series alone.

Art

What an amazing issue of art. I love that the art teams are broken down to “inside the dome” and “outside the dome”. Whether we are talking about inside the dome or outside of it, the art was spectacular for this issue.

Outside of the dome, Terry and Rachel Dodson did beautiful work telling the stories of various members of the Ultimate universe through their art. We get some really beautiful poster-worthy art in this issue from this team.

Not to be outdone, Jonas Scharf takes the art to another level inside the dome. With lots of big reveals, action sequences, and a dark menagerie of images from the darkest depths of the Maker’s mind, Scharf assists Camp in telling the story of those inside the dome perfectly.

Final Thoughts

What an amazing issue. This issue puts its foot on the panel from the first panel until the last. You reach the last panel feeling like you need to go back because you must have missed something. Surely the things you just read happening didn’t happen, you tell yourself. This issue is an edge-of-your-seat rollercoaster ride from beginning to end and a testament to the amazing synergy this creative team has with each other.

Overall Grade: 10/10

Until next time, may your pulls be magical and your multiverse remain stable.