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) with Dale Eaglesham and later Steve Epting on art. In the storyline "Three", which concluded in "Fantastic Four" #587 (cover date March 2011, published January 26, 2011), the Human Torch appears to die stopping a horde of monsters from the other-dimensional Negative Zone. The series ended with the following issue, #588, and relaunched in March 2011 as simply "FF". The relaunch saw the team assume a new name, the Future Foundation, adopt new black-and-white costumes, and accept longtime ally Spider-Man as a member. In October 2011, with the publication of "FF" #11 (cover-dated Dec. 2011), the "Fantastic Four" series reached