Ultimate Extinction #5 - Marvel

Another Marvel-ous book by writer extraodinaire Warren Ellis, and the magnificent pencils of Brandon Peterson. I've always liked Brandon, but not one of my favorites. But with this story, you have got to check out the art. Fantastic pencils, fantastic shading, outstanding details. Clearly the best I've ever seen from him. It's an Ultimate story about Gah Lak Tus coming to our earth, or the Ultimate earth. We see the Ultimate Vision, Silver Surfer, Mar-Vel, and throw in the Ultimate Fantastic Four, X-Men and Ultimates. Stir it up and have Warren Ellis write it, and you have history in the making. And how do we defeat Gah Lak Tus? With the power of our thoughts. "Above us is death. But it's a stupid, fearful death. And it's afraid of us. It's scared of us because we make things. Because we love. Because we imagine. Because we wonder what's next." "It cannot get close to us because our humanity makes it afraid. Give us your thoughts. Think of making things. Think of who you love. Your ideas, your fantasies, your ambitions. Each of those thoughts is a bullet. And we have the gun." Then after the cannon is fired, Xavier's thoughts are, "Contact. Remember me Gah Lak Tus? I've brought six billion of my friends to meet you." Then as Gah Lak Tus convulses in horror over us touching it, Reed Richards has accessed a baby universe. "A vast space of volatile gases, waiting for its Big Bang." "We're dropping the world's biggest H-bomb through the gate and detonating it there. Then we're going to fire the Big Bang from a baby universe through the gate at Gah Lak Tus." Then as it speeds away, they download the Ultimate Vision with the plans and technology of how they beat it, and send it racing through space after it so, hopefully, they can stop Gah Lak Tus from doing the same to some other unsuspecting race. I bet that's going to piss him, it, off. Who else but Warren Ellis could come up with this stuff? I know that this is a broad all-consuming remark, but if you want a well written book that makes you think, buy anything that Warren Ellis has written. You won't be disappointed. This was a fantastic Mini-series. And, as with all Ultimate books, it leaves you asking, "what's next?"