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Ultimate Nightmare is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Warren Ellis of...

Ultimate Nightmare is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Warren Ellis of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, and The Authority fame, after signing an exclusive two-year work-for-hire contract with Marvel Comics). Issues 1, 2, 4 and 5 were penciled by Trevor Hairsine noted for working on the Ultimate Six limited series with Brian Michael Bendis), and inked by Simon Coleby who has previously worked on Marvel UK's Warhead series in the 1990s. The third issue was drawn by Steve Epting. This is the first part of the Ultimate Gah-Lak-Tus trilogy. This series is followed by Ultimate Secret, and then concluded in Ultimate Extinction. About this miniseries writer Warren Ellis wrote (at his column Streaming: part 12, at ''The Pulse'' in 2004) that "Ultimate Nightmare was originally intended as a set-up for a big Ultimate-line event that Mark Millar was going to do. Mark, however, has had health issues for some time, and that and his workload led to him bowing out and me once again being asked to step in and help out. And then, while I was getting into Nightmare, Joe Quesada had the idea of turning this event into a trilogy. (...) So I needed to come up with a credible second