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MARK MILLAR TALKS 'ULTIMATE AVENGERS'
| | The super-scribe dishes on his return to the Ultimate U in 2009! | | | By Steve Sunu | | Posted 11/10/2008 | |  | |  Mark Millar comes home to the Ultimate Universe in early 2009 when he and an artist to be determined launch Ultimate Avengers. Here, the super-scribe dishes on what to expect from his latest offering. | | 
WIZARD: How does it feel coming back to the Ultimate Universe to write Ultimate Avengers?
It's great because this feels like a step up, because this book, Ultimate Avengers, is the daddy of the Ultimate Universe. The idea behind the book is that I can play with all the toys. If I want to have a storyline where you have the Ultimates teaming up with the Ultimate Fantastic Four or Ultimate Spider-Man appearing with the Ultimate X-Men, I can do it in this book. It feels like everything I liked about doing the Ultimates, plus all the other characters I wanted to play with, too, so that's a nice feeling. Plus, there's also the idea that I feel other people have been playing with my toys for a couple years now and I want to play with the toys again. I'm watching kind of jealously and it's great to get my hands back on them. As I said to Jeph Loeb, you'd better watch out—the sheriff's back in town.
Which "toy" are you most looking forward to getting your hands back on?
Undoubtedly Captain America and Iron Man. The only two I miss most, I really, really loved writing both of those characters, and I found while I was doing the Ultimates, I actually loved each character so much that they kind of jostled for space in the comic. I could've written a 17-page Captain America scene, but I had to make sure that I had room to do Ultimate Thor or Ultimate Hulk or something. So I really miss those characters and I was surprised how much I missed them when I stopped writing them. It seemed like a long time that I was writing them, five and a half years, but it was only 26 issues, so I had so many things I wanted to say with them. It's lovely to get a chance to get some of those other ideas out there now.
As one of the first major architects of the Ultimate Universe, how do you feel in retrospect about its eight-year history?
I think that the quality control in the Ultimate Universe has been incredible. In the eight years the line has been running, I really admire the fact that Marvel didn't cash in too much on it. There weren't all these spinoff titles starring Ultimate Black Widow or whatever. They've managed to keep it tight and keep it to the best books they can and keep the creative teams as good as possible. It hasn't always been brilliant—in some cases there's been poor writing and sometimes there's been poor artwork—but I'd say that generally when you look at those eight years, the Ultimate line has, comic for comic, been the strongest thing in the industry over that period. The chances of picking up a bad Ultimate title over the last eight years has been much slimmer than picking up a bad book from any other company.
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