
The Ultimates fail to gain major publicity, and the government considers withdrawing the defense budget. Instead, Captain America is revived and offered a place in the Ultimates. research team discovers Captain America frozen in the Arctic and attempts to gain a sample of the serum from his body. Bruce attempts to rekindle their relationship but is constantly spurned and belittled. Betty Ross, Bruce's ex-girlfriend, is appointed as the team's Director of Communications. Bruce Banner is made the new science director, attempting to duplicate the super soldier serum. Thor is offered a position in the Ultimates, but he declines unless the President agrees to triple the funds allocated to environmental issues in the budget. The team, dubbed the Ultimates, includes Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) and scientist couple Hank and Janet Pym ( Giant-Man and the Wasp respectively) and take up residence in the Triskelion, an island laboratory run by S.H.I.E.L.D. establishes a strike force of government-sponsored superheroes when the President of the United States approves a new defense budget to combat the growing risk of the U.S. General Nick Fury of the international peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
THE ULTIMATE TONE VOL.2 SERIES
This miniseries was affected by delays and the artist admits to having to work hard to recover from reputation as a slow artist after his work on the first Ultimates series stating "‘Cause I think people still now see me as an unreliable artist."


The Ultimates debuted in March 2002, and ran for thirteen issues.īryan Hitch describes his Ultimates work as "widescreen, cinematic compositions" and has expressed his interest of translating his work for movies.
