Saints be praised, Miles Morales lives! In an article with the Associated Press, Marvel has revealed that the Ultimate Universe will continue beyond the current Cataclsym storyline, and it will be re-branded in April as Ultimate Marvel NOW!

The line will continue with three comics:

1. ‘Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man’ written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by David Marquez. The book is going to be about Miles’ continuing struggles as Spider-Man in the new post-Cataclysm world.

Said Bendis:

“You can look at this as kind of his Bar Mitzvah of sorts and, now, he has to take the reins of Spider-Man under the new world he finds himself in. His entire life as a human being has changed.”

2. ‘All-New Ultimates’ written by Michel Fiffe and drawn by Amilcar Pinna.

This book will feature Miles and a team of young superheroes trying to pick up the pieces after whatever happens to the regular Ultimates. Along with Spidey, the team will feature Cloak, Dagger, Kitty Pryde, Black Widow and Bombshell. So it looks like the little team Bendis has been building in Ultimate Spider-Man will get to live on after all! I’m very excited. Hopefully Fiffe can write them as good as Bendis.

3. ‘Ultimate FF’ written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Mario Guevara. This book will be the Future Foundation, not the Fantastic Four. It will feature four of the world’s smartest people, including Sue Storm and Tony Stark, as well as a fifth, psychopathic genius – which probably means Reed Richards.

Those are the new titles coming out of Cataclysm. Based on the article, it appears that something monumentally tragic is going to befall the Ultimates, leading to this change in lineups.

Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso said this:

“Once again, we’re destroying something and building something new, but there’s an end game in sight,” he said of the move, noting that Marvel’s so-called Ultimate universe has always been noted by readers, writers and artists and editors for its “elasticity” and experimentation.

“We created the line to take chances,” he said.

“Dead is dead,” he said, so don’t expect any miraculous resurrections. “The long and short of it is this: The Ultimate (universe) benefits from a good, old kick in the butt.”

My guess is that Captain America is probably going to sacrifice himself to save the day in Cataclysm, along with a few other characters. That would definitely warrant the ‘dead is dead’ declaration, not to mention a shakeup to the Ultimates themselves. It also appears that Spider-Woman might die too, which would be a crying shame. She’s one of my absolute favorites!

But I like what I’m seeing here. I might even start reading All-New Ultimates when it comes out!

What do you guys and gals think? Let me hear it in the comments!