The blockbuster final chapter of the first era of ULTIMATE X-MEN!The world was on the brink of destruction. Countless heroes died. The X-Men are gone. The true history of the X-Gene has been revealed, and now mutants have been branded as terrorists and are being hunted as criminals. But there is hope — in the form of an unlikely group of young heroes gathered together to save tomorrow. Who, or what, is Ultimate X? And in a world where fear and hatred run rampant, how will the X-Men return? Get ready for the war for mutant liberation, with Kitty Pryde as the figurehead for her people, on a collision course with… Jean Grey! Will the planet be torn apart when the mutant nations of Utopia and Tian clash? Or will that fate come at the hands of the world-eating Galactus?! A cataclysm is coming — for the X-Men and the entire Ultimate Universe! COLLECTING: Ultimate Comics X (2010) #1-5; Ultimate Comics X-Men (2011) #1-33, #18.1; Ultimate Comics Wolverine (2013) #1-4; Cataclysm: Ultimate X-Men (2013) #1-3; Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand (2013) #4-5; material from Ultimate Fallout (2011) #2-6Written by Jeph Loeb, Nick Spencer, Brian Wood, Nathan Edmondson, Cullen Bunn, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Brian Michael Bendis & MorePenciled by Arthur Adams, Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Reilly Brown, Filipe Andrade, Mahmud Asrar, Álvaro Martínez Bueno, David Messina, John Sterling Lucas, Mark Bagley & More
Contributors: (W) Jeph Loeb; Nick Spencer (A) Arthur Adams; Paco Medina (CA) Kaare Andrews
Jeph Loeb is an Emmy Award-nominated and Eisner Award-winning writer/producer. In television, his many credits include Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Heroes, Lost and Smallville; and in film, Teen Wolf and Commando. He has written nearly every major comics icon, including the Avengers, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Batman and Superman. From 2010 to 2019, he was Marvel's executive vice president, head of television, in which role he executive produced multiple series for Netflix, beginning with Daredevil in 2015.Nick Spencer broke into the comic-book industry with Existence 2.0, published by Image in 2009 and slated for adaptation into a feature film by Paramount Pictures. He has since worked on a sequel, Existence 3.0, and the ongoing series Morning Glories and Bedlam for Image, as well as T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents for DC. For Marvel, he wrote Secret Avengers, Iron Man 2.0 and Ultimate Comics X-Men before relaunching Secret Avengers and launching the villain-centric Superior Foes of Spider-Man for Marvel NOW! Spencer brought the comedic-underdog tone of the latter book to the pages of Ant-Man, and then shocked readers by turning the Sentinel of Liberty against the world in the pages of Captain America: Steve Rogers, Captain America: Sam Wilson and the event series Secret Empire.Since his beginnings with Ann Nocenti in Longshot (which earned him a Russ Manning Award), Arthur Adams has most often displayed his distinctive and detail-intensive art in miniseries or one-shots (including several Uncanny X-Men Annuals) — along with brief but memorable stints on Fantastic Four, X-Factor and other titles. He co-created “Jonni Future” for Alan Moore’s Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, and Dark Horse Comics has published his creator-owned Monkeyman and O’Brien. Renowned for cover art at Marvel, DC and elsewhere, Adams has also illustrated trading cards, posters and shirts, among other products; his art can be found in toy design, film advertisements and a series of X-Men-themed Campbell Soup labels. Jeph Loeb’s Hulk series featured a string of issues in which Adams provided interior art.Paco Medina has illustrated a range of Marvel Comics — including New X-Men: Academy X, Captain Marvel, Thor, Venom, Marvel Team-Up, New Mutants and New Warriors, as well as relaunches of Deadpool and X-Men. Firmly established as a Marvel mainstay, Medina has enjoyed lengthy runs on Ultimate Comics X-Men, Nova and Legendary Star-Lord, as well as a major role in the Avengers storyline “No Surrender.”