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Ultimate NightmareA five part mini-series written by Warren Ellis of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, and the Authority fame, after signing an exclusive two-year work-for-hire contract with Marvel, penciled by Trevor Hairsine, noted for working on the Ultimate Six mini-series with fellow true believer Brian Michael Bendis, and inked by Simon Coleby who has previously worked on Marvel UK's Warhead series in the 1990s. The world's communications systems are pulled to a swift stop, the source of which is narrowed to the Tunguska Wasteland in Russia, the site of a comet crash a century ago. Having obviously drawn the attention of such Marvel Universe organizations as international intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and passive mutant rights, private school Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning, home of the X-Men, both send investigative teams simultaneously. S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander Nick Fury assembles a team compromised of himself, the legendary Captain America Steve Rogers, ex-KGB Agent Natasha Romanov AKA the Black Widow, and Sam "Falcon" Wilson. Xavier, or Professor X, sends the bearer of the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey, former government controlled assassin with a swift healing factor and indestructible skeleton, James "Logan" Howlett, better known as Wolverine, and Russian literal man of steel, Piotr "Peter" Rasputin, or Colossus. Held in Marvel's Ultimate continuity, both teams enter the wasteland to discover a forgotten complex of the former Communist Russia unaware of each other's presence. Originally intended to be followed by Ultimate Secret and another Ultimate mini-series, title pending, the final issues were hugely delayed, forcing a delay of several months in Ultimate Secret
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