Ultimate Comics: X is a limited series from Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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 written by Jeph Loeb

Jeph Loeb

Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the NBC TV show Heroes from its...

 with pencils by Art Adams

Art Adams

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, originally planned as an ongoing bi-monthly series.

The story picks up after the events in Ultimatum and serves as a quasi-sequel/spin-off of Ultimate X-Men

Ultimate X-Men

Ultimate X-Men is a superhero comic book series that was published by Marvel Comics from 2001 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running X-Men comic book franchise as part of its Ultimate Marvel imprint...

. Originally scheduled to be published bi-monthly, alternating months with Loeb's other Ultimate title Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates

Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates

Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates is a comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics that began in March 2010 as part of Marvel's "Ultimate Comics" imprint. The series was written by Jeph Loeb, writer of Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum...

, X suffered from long repeated delays, and became instead a prologue to the upcoming Ultimate Comics: X-Men

Ultimate Comics: X-Men

Ultimate Comics: X-Men is an ongoing monthly comic book series published by Marvel Comics that made its debut in September 2011 as part of the second re-launch of Ultimate Marvel...

.

Characters

• Jimmy Hudson: The son of Wolverine
  Ultimate Wolverine
  Ultimate Wolverine is an alternative version of Wolverine who appears in comics containing stories set in the Ultimate Marvel universe. He first appears in Ultimate X-Men #1 and was created by Mark Millar and Adam Kubert.-Early years:...
  
  , and adopted son of the Hudsons. He has a healing factor
  Healing factor
  A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate...
  
   and retractable claws, which he is able to cover with organic metal, much like Colossus.
• Karen Grant/Jean Grey: A former member of the X-Men, Jean assumes the name of Karen Grant.
• Derek Morgan: A young mutant from Chicago. He is able to fly by growing a pair of birdlike wings which can be retracted. When he grows his wings out, his eyes turn red, his fingernails grow into talons, and his canine teeth appear to become sharp.
• Theodore "Teddy" Allan: Theodore "Teddy" Allan is the son of The Blob
  Blob (comics)
  The Blob is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an adversary of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #3 ....
  
   and brother of Liz Allen. He inherited his fathers powers, such as his voracious super appetite and his extremely strong skin and layers of fat.
• Liz Allen/Firestar: Spider-Man's
  Ultimate Spider-Man
  Ultimate Spider-Man was a superhero comic book series that was published by Marvel Comics from 2000 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Spider-Man comic book franchise as part of its Ultimate Marvel imprint...
  
   former classmate who vanished to Southern California after Ultimatum.
• Hulk/Bruce Banner - first introduced to the series in the fifth and final issue of the series.
• Victor Creed/Sabertooth - has a personal vendetta against Jimmy, and viciously attacks him late at night.

Collected Edition

Title	Material collected	ISBN
Ultimate Comics X: Origins	Ultimate Comics: X #1-5	ISBN 0-7851-4014-X

External links

• Ultimate Comics X #1 Review, IGN
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