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T'Challa faces off against Moon Knight in the new Ultimate Black Panther 

- STEPHEN JEWELL

SPINNING OUT OF last year’s Ultimate Invasion and Ultimate  Universe, Marvel is releasing a host of new Ultimate titles, beginning with January’s Ultimate Spider-Man. Ultimate X-Men follows in March, while February sees the debut of Ultimate Black Panther, which according to writer Bryan Hill boasts the broadest canvas of them all.

“This world gives me the opportunity to take some bolder swings and, if nothing else, reboot the tone of the book into an epic,” Hill tells Red Alert, while insisting that his lofty ambitions don’t stem from “a desire to break free of the mythos” of the existing Earth-616 universe.

Hill has drawn inspiration from not only the diverse, nearly 60-year history of