The government uses Bolivar Trask to create mutant hunting robots called Sentinels. Also Magneto and his Brotherhood make demands over the news. Meanwhile Beast, Storm, and Colossus are recruited by a teenage girl named Jean Grey, a member of the mutant team X-Men. After meeting Professor Charles Xavier, the team goes to recruit Bobby Drake but is interrupted by a Sentinel attack. The Sentinels have been deployed in order to eliminate the mutant 'threat' but they are swiftly defeated. At the same time, within the Savage Land, Magneto finds and enlists the help of Wolverine asking him to kill Xavier and the X-Men.

The perfect comic book for X-Men movie fans! The day after X2 - the highly anticipated sequel to the X-Men movie - opens, new readers can get in on the ground floor of the X-Men's comic book adventures. In this new offering of the always-in demand Ultimate X-Men #1, moviegoers will be introduced to the comics' version of their favorite film characters - Wolverine, Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm - and the team's conflict with their arch-nemesis, Magneto.