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Those who have read Ultimate Endgame #1 know that Iron Lad, Spider-Man, Doom, and America all make their way into the city once the barrier finally drops, and they are truly stunned by the grimy and dystopian environment they find themselves in. They are even more stunned to find that The Maker has actually become the city, and it’s a pretty disturbing scene. Camp wanted to make sure that after 2000 years, the city the heroes find wasn’t anything as they would expect, and the same goes for readers.
“I thought with 2,000 years, you know, like something radical had to be different about The Maker. What’s been going on, and you’ll find out what’s exactly what’s been going on in issue two. You see hints of it, but we’ll kind of explain the history of the city in issue two of Endgame,” Camp said. “I knew that everything had to be transformed and I knew, if logically I was expecting, myself as a reader, they had 2,000 years. It was already a super futuristic city. What’s that gonna look like? And it’s not that. And I hope, you know, it’s there for the surprise of it, but it also kind of ties into the thematic arc of the universe and the book that, that maybe The Maker’s utopia isn’t much of a utopia kind of a thing, and you’ll learn more about it as it goes on.”
Ultimate Endgame Rewrites The Book On The Maker
As Camp mentioned, with 2000 years since disappearing behind the barrier, many expected some sort of utopia when the barrier finally came down. As we see in Ultimate Endgame #1, that’s far from the case, but that unexpected change extends to The Maker as well, and the series sets about crafting one of the deadliest and somewhat disturbing takes on the character yet.
