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Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand Free FREE CATACLYSM: THE ULTIMATES LAST STAND PDF Leonard Kirk,Joshua Hale Fialkov | 440 pages | 10 Jun 2014 | Marvel Comics | 9780785189190 | English | New York, United States Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand ( - ) | Comic Series | Marvel Already have an account with the League of Comic Geeks? Let's get you back to tracking and discussing your comics! Log in Sign up. Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand It. Have It. Read It. Want It. To save a universe, a hero must die! Page Count. Cover Price. Distributor SKU. Brian Michael Bendis. Mark Bagley. Andrew Hennessy. Jason Keith. Cory Petit. Cover Artist. John Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand. Frank Martin. Salvador Larroca. Jesus Aburtov. Steve Rogers Earth Captain America. Bobby Drake Earth Jean Grey Earth Kitty Pryde Earth Monica Chang Earth Reed Richards Earth Marian Carlyle Earth Miles Morales Earth Tony Stark Earth Thor Odinson Earth Ultimate Thor. James Hudson Jr. Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand - The dreaded Galactus has arrived in the Ultimate Universe! With an whole dimension full of new planets for him to devour, the Ultimate heroes must stop Galactus from destroying their entire universe! Unstoppable and insatiable, he decimates the Chitauri With a whole dimension of new planets for him to devour, the Ultimate heroes must stop Galactus from destroying their entire universe! Unstoppable and insatiable, he decimates the Chitauri, the Community Reviews. Community Discussion. Date Purchased. Print Digital Both Media Format. Price Paid. Tags Add. You must be logged in to write a review for this comic. Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand 5. Cataclysm: The Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand Last Stand 4. Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand 3. Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand 2. Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand 1. Forgot your password? Reset it. Don't have an Account? Join Free! Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand #4 Reviews No recent wiki edits to this page. This series was a direct continuation from the Ultimate Comics Ultimates series and the Hunger mini-series. It ran side by side with the Cataclysm: The Ultimates mini-series and was continued into the All-New Ultimates ongoing series, which featured an entirely different team. Translated into Spanish This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Five issue mini-series. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:. 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He pointed that the Ultimate Marvel imprint had always tried to keep the superhero fantasy as grounded as possible, and that he intended to use Galactus to place the characters into a complete unexpected crisis. As the story was set in the space, "Hunger" had no tie-in comics. There were rumors at the time that Marvel would close the Ultimate imprint, which were fueled by the name of the publication and the reunion Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley for the main comic. Bendis and Bagley had started the imprint in with Ultimate Spider-Man. When asked about those rumors, editor Mark Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand simply replied "Let me Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand this, there are some stunning resolutions coming across all the titles! Galactus is displaced into the Ultimate Marvel universe. When he crosses the portal, the Gah Lak Tus swarm senses his energies, and submits Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand him. Mar-Vell dies, attacked by the swarm, but Rick Jones takes his suit and activates a bomb that destroys it. Rick Jones and the remains of the swarm fall into another dimension, and Galactus heads to planet earth, killing Vision in the process. Sensing the reality Galactus hails from, Vision manages to send a cryptic message to Earth, pleading for the Ultimates to ally with Reed Richards before she shuts down. Galactus turns out to be more powerful than the Ultimates and the conventional military; realising the desperation of their situation, the Ultimates ally with the inexperienced Miles Moralesthe traitorous Reed Richards and the outcast X-Men. Tony Stark discovers that he comes from an alternate reality, so Richards and Morales are sent to it to find information. Arriving on Earththey sneak into the Baxter Building and retrieve information about Galactus, who that reality's Richards had defeated before. The two are discovered by Valeria Richardswho recognizes Richards as not her real father, but manage to escape. The Ultimates' plan is set into Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand Kitty Pryde receives the Giant-man serum, so that she can destroy Galactus' machine and attack him while in giant size. They also employ Jean Grey to telepathically read Galactus' strategy, but when he senses them and attacks, Steve Rogers sacrifices himself to buy the Ultimates more time to execute their attack. While Galactus manages to seriously harm Pryde in spite of her intangibility, her sacrifice is ultimately a distraction: Richards opens a portal to the Negative Zoneintending to swallow Galactus into it where he will starve with no energy to feed on. Galactus resists the portal's pull, which threatens Cataclysm: the Ultimates Last Stand tear apart reality if open too long, so Thor sacrifices himself to push Galactus inside; a reluctant Stark and Richards close the portal with Thor still inside. 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