Concluding the Ultimate Galactus trilogy, Ultimate Extinction finally brings us the arrival of the traveling destructive force known as Gah Lak Tus, its Heralds, and quite possibly the end of humankind in the galaxy. As previously, the main hallmark of the book is that new characters[1] are produced only to be minimally utilized. To their credit, most of the characters that appeared in the earlier volumes return for this one, but that causes even more of a mish-mash feeling than the “Ultimate Universe is pulling together” feeling they were undoubtedly attempting to evoke. All in all, Ultimate Galactus was a decent story that was hampered by being told too fast for the amount of story that wanted to be told.

[1] That is, new Ultimate characters that I might have heard of if I had read deeper into the original continuity.