Posted by Shazam Man
on 12/14/2008, 8:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Why the Ultimate Universe failed."
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No wonder U. Spider Man was the only one that seemed to stay true to it's 'ulitmate' roots. The new artist/writer combo seems to be staying true to that vision as well. (I'm a little behind. I only get the tpb's when they're released)
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: 3. It became too much like the 616
: Universe. After the Annihilus story in the
: UFF, the stories hardly differed at all from
: the mainstream stories. That goes for the
: Ultimates as well. U3 might as well have
: been the Avengers. Ult X-Men started
: looking too familiar after the Hellfire Club
: saga.
:
: After the original creators of the books
: moved on, you began to run into a complete
: lack of creative vision for the line in
: those who assumed the creative reins. Loeb,
: to mention but the worst offender, flat-out
: said he wasn't interested in following up on
: the sorts of stories so far featured in
: ULTIMATES--as he put it, he just wanted to
: do continuity-light Avengers stories. This
: is why the book that stayed good the
: longest--ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN--is the one in
: which the original creators stayed with the
: book for the longest.
:
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