Writer Chris Condon

Artist Alessandro Cappuccio

Color Artist Bryan Valenza

Letterer VC’s Travis Lanham

Regular Cover Alessandro Cappuccio & Frank Martin

Variant Francesco Manna & Mattia Iacono

Final Issue!

We get Magik continuing her origin story.  One day on Earth equals one week in Ultimate Limbo.  When she went missing, her father was utterly broken.  Colossus, on the other hand, was determined to find her.  When he couldn’t, he assumed she was taken by dark forces. 

Magik had become a Dark Child, which is just cool to work all of her monikers into this story.

I love so much that Colossus took care of her, she wasn’t a monster to him, but his sister.  Also, sleeping is such a great cure for so many ails. 

Balga Castle, E.R. 

Logan and Jean Grey are trying to find a way into Limbo.  A find a person who can open and they both enter it.  They locate the missing people, and Jean starts getting them all to safety.  Logan is going to head off by himself to confront Magik.  He comes across a dreamscape, and sees Colossus chopping wood. 

Logan finds Magik sleeping on her bed, with her giant souldsword out.  A younger Illyana shows up with her little teddy bear. 

Little Yana wants Logan to read her a story, just one story.  My heart is breaking reading these pages.

I love so much that Logan, the killer that he is, still read her a story.  There’s always time for one last story. 

But!  He didn’t forget what Magik did to him, with the mind control, turning him into the Ultimate Winter Soldier.  Logan kills Magik. 

Jean rescues Logan, and they are ready now for Ultimate Endgame 5.

So this new Ultimate Universe killed both Katherine Pryde and Magik.  We never got Lockheed introduced, or even teased.  I would love to say this is me being done with the Ultimate Universe, but I can’t as I already preordered Ultimate Endgame 4 & 5, and I’ve been searching every panel for Magik, but that’s not going to be necessary anymore. 

I imagine we might see them as characters we lost along the way.  I also preordered Ultimate Finale, and the first issue of the Miles Morales Ultimate Reborn miniseries, but I am definitely done with this Ultimate Universe.  All of my enthusiasm for it is gone. 

It is nice that with four bonus issues, we got Magik’s origin story, and also, her last story.