Ultimate X-Men truce with Nick Fury and The Ultimates, who have been both their best benefactors ("New Mutants" arc) and worst enemies ("Ultimate War") in the past. The Ultimate Fantastic Four have met the X-Men in "Ultimate X4" and the teams are generally on positive terms. "Ultimate X-Men" has been collected in the following trade paperbacks: "Ultimate X-Men" also has been collected in the following hardcovers: 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
Fantastic Four (comic book) Reed and Sue to join that team after Engelhart had written them out of "Fantastic Four". Yet by "The Avengers" #300, where they were scheduled to join the team, Simonson was told the characters were returning to "Fantastic Four". This led to Simonson quitting "The Avengers" after that issue. Shortly afterward, he was offered the job of writing "Fantastic Four". Having already prepared a number of stories involving the Avengers with Reed and Sue in the lineup, he then rewrote these for "Fantastic Four". Simonson later recalled that working on "Fantastic Four" allowed him the latitude to use original Avengers