Marvel Announces Civil War II Digital Prequel Ulysses
By D. Goodman
Marvel has announced that Ulysses, the Inhuman at the center of this summer’s Civil War II, will star in his own digital comic prequel.
If you headed to your local comic book store last weekend for Free Comic Book Day, then you no doubt grabbed the Civil War II book that helps to set up this summer’s big Marvel event.
And no, I sure as hell didn’t see that coming either.
Right smack dab in the middle of the whole conflict is a new Inhuman named Ulysses. He has the power to see into the future and his arrival could change the entire dynamic of the Marvel Universe. It is a power that Iron Man and Captain Marvel are willing to go to war over to see that it is used the way they see fit.
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Readers got a glimpse of Ulysses and what he can do in the FCBD Civil War II one-shot but no doubt came away with more questions than answers.
Such as who exactly is Ulysses and where did he come from?
Those are the questions that Al Ewing, Karl Kesel and Jefte Paolo are going to try to answer in Civil War II: Ulysses #1, an all-new digital Marvel Infinite Comic debuting this June.
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In terms of what Ulysses has to do with Civil War II and why readers should care, Ewing answered that very question while talking with Blastr.com.
"“He’s the cause of it all! Essentially, the war is over whether or not the heroes should be using his powers, and what for.“But in order to even get to that part, he has to learn how to use his abilities, which is where our Infinite Comic comes in. It’s a prequel of sorts; we’re following Ulysses as he’s taken to the Tower of Wisdom — a sort of Inhuman temple of learning, for want of a better term — to be trained by Karnak, whose Inhuman ability is to see the flaw in all things. Karnak’s training methods might be more than Ulysses can handle, though.”"
Civil War II: Ulysses #1 arrives on digital devices this June and in print the following August. Civil War II #0 arrives in comic shops everywhere on May 18.