At last, the moment that we Ultra fnas have been waiting for is finally here as Marvel, who brought us the Avengers and X-Men, finally unveils all the information and character designs for the upcoming project with Tsuburaya Productions, The Rise Of Ultraman comic book series!

Revealed at the recent C2E2 by C.B. Cebulski and is set to be released this year, Marvel's The Rise Of Ultraman is written by Mat Groom and Kyle Higgins and and penciled by Francisco Manna, will revisit the story of the first generation of Ultra warriors starting from the showa era with Shin Hayata and the first Ultraman as the lead. Check-out the character designs for the SSSP members below.

"Kyle Higgins - A few years ago, thanks to my time on Power Rangers, I was able to discover and learn more about tokusatsu. With its wildly different conventions and inspirations, tokusatsu — and Ultraman in particular — has been a huge source of joy for me. It’s a genre so ripe with possibilities, even down to what we conceive of in the structure of Super Hero storytelling. It’s both an honor and a privilege to bring Ultraman to Marvel."

"Mat Groom - Monsters in fiction have been embodying all that is dark and scary in our world for as long as we’ve been telling stories. But I don’t think anybody understood the immense scale of our most pressing problems quite like Eiji Tsuburaya. He imagined the darkness looming overhead as tall as skyscrapers— alien and unknowable and ANGRY. But he also imagined us being able to stand up to those monsters, by rising above our worst impulses and embracing a nobler way of being. He imagined ULTRAMAN. What does that mean in this complex, contradictory world of lies? We’re going to find out…"


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Source: August Ragone