Posted by jay on 4/3/2008, 1:21 am, in reply to "Should the Ultimate Universe just end? "
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: Ultimatum seems to be intended to be a shot
: of adrenaline in the Ultimate Universe to
: keep it alive, but does anyone even care.
: Also, since it is being written by Loeb
: whose work at Marvel at least from online
: reviews has mostly been considered subpar
: with it even get anyone interested? Should
: the Ultimate universe be written off as a
: neat experiment that just went sour? Or can
: it still exist with the main MU?
It didn't really "go sour"; it was abandoned by Marvel. ULTIMATE POWER was a touchstone in UU history, because it marked a bold declaration that, instead of even trying to continue the groundbreaking work that had built the line, Marvel was simply going to milk the various Ultimate franchises, which were losing their original creators, for whatever quick bucks they could squeeze out of them before the whole thing collapsed. I hate to read something as great as ULTIMATE HUMAN and say there is no hope (UH should have been ULTIMATES 3), but there's no denying that the line's flagship has been torpedoed, and is sinking fast (it sells in spite of Loeb's best efforts and because of the cult of Joe Mad, which, honestly, really needs to go away--the '90s ended, and they sucked when they were happening). And there's nothing on the horizon to take its place.
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