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Ultimate Spider-Thread!
Bob The Monkey
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So, after a brief question about the series that got answered in three posts, it seems a shame to let the thread go useless and die. So I present...
The Ultimate Spider-Man Thread!
Except I won't be able to read it, because I haven't finished reading it yet.
Thwip!
The Ultimate Spider-Man Thread!
Except I won't be able to read it, because I haven't finished reading it yet.
Thwip!
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What the hell, guys?
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #10, involved Spidey and Man-Thing chasing the Lizard through sewers.
Rock on!
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=214152
Are you talking about Ultimate Fantastic Four? The same one that sells about 70,000 copies a month or more? The one that has sold out a few times and had to get reprints? Or are you referring to some other Ultimate FF that sells 1500? Maybe the trades only? The individual issues sell more then enough.
Good riddance. Had a fucking fantastic (tee hee) start but I can't stand the current bland story telling and emotionless/traced art.
I could only see this book surviving if it gets an entirely new creative team.
edit: dammit I knew it was too good to be true.
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Actually, I feel exactly the other way. The first couple arcs were so bland, but once Millar and land got on, it took off (in my opinion). The art is a bit static, but so evocative I think it really suits the tone of the book.
There's a new creative team coming on after this arc that seem to have some interesting ideas too, so we'll see how things go from here.
I read the first trade, and other than some of the early scenes with Reed (I especially liked Baby Reed 'discovering' hair) I found it pretty mediocre. I guess I could give it a chance?
I've read a few of the Ultimate Spider-Man trades, and I enjoyed it to a reasonable amount. I need to get some more but I'm too damn cheap.
Gof, that was so retarded.
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what? Mark Bagley is awesome! His art wasn't awesome in Amazing, but it was serviceable. He's much better now, though.
Ya he is alot better then he was back then, the only problem I have with his USM stuff is the ugly baggy clothes he draws on Peter recently.
Steam: Noai
Warframe: Fairwoods
Pete doen't want to show off his sexy spider-muscles.
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Ultimate Marvel Team-Up was great, I think Bendis is a lot better at doing short arcs than long ones. Mostly because the long arcs have about the same amount of story, he just stretches it two or three extra issues.
I was looking through my trades for examples and realized #4 of USM collects issues 22-26 and #5 collects issues 28-32, what happens in issue 27?
It just wasn't enough to get me interested.
It must have been a misprint on the back of the book then, because that definately happens in the trade. Which just further proves my point about Bendis dragging things out, that whole arc should have been maybe four issues instead of six. But we are talking about a book that took four issues to do the origin when Stan Lee did it in one. I suppose it's probably how he copes with the fact that he writes half the comics Marvel publishes.
In regards ot it not being different enough from 616, I think the point was a re-imagining like the Ultimates, or to a lesser extent Ultimate X-Men, were. But rather to take Spider-man back to his origin of being this highschool boy who has all these fantastic powers. 616 Peter Parker hasn't been a teenager since the late 60's early 70's. Whereas Ultimate Peter Parker has been fifteen for the entire run so far.
For some reason, I really love the way they hooked up Spider-man and Shadowcat. I mean, it makes perfect sense, you have a guy who worries all the time about getting his family in danger, so why not date another super-hero?
Speaking of, I figured at first the Spider-Woman was Shadowcat in a new costume, trying to get closer to Pete or something, but I dunno how she would've mimicked the powers.
Sticking to walls makes total sense with her phasing powers(just stay phased into them by like a half centimeter with her hands and feet), but yeah, super-strength...
As for "who is spider-girl", a friend and I have narrowed it down to [spoiler:c6b52a127d]a clone of MJ or the Gwen clone. Odds are on cloned MJ, mostly because Spider-girl was at the warehouse, she has about the same hair color, and because of the way she was talking to Peter.[/spoiler:c6b52a127d] I'm not really sure why everyone thought the issue was confusing. To me, there wasn't much to get confused over, since not that much of significance was revealed. It mostly seemed like a bunch of "holy shit wtf" moments.
[spoiler:dd6fed0628]Actually, I pegged the spiderwoman as a female clone of Peter. She denied being MJ, the warehosue was important to her (it's where Uncle Ben's killer hid, if I remember), and just the way she talked had a very Spiderman-y vibe. The whole "we didn't deserve this" thing seems to lean that way too.
I'd say the warehouse being important to spiderwoman at least rules out Gwen, though it does still leave the MJ option open.
As a random aside, my money is on the clone-Peter trying to give MJ his abilities. Since they care for each other, but she's unable to keep up with him without powers, give her some. Then he doesn't have to protect her, she can protect herself.
It has the nice spin of being a drastic departure from 616 continuity while still keeping internally logical. It also opens up some interesting story ideas (comics could use a realisitic super powered couple) and gets rid of the complaints people have about the 616 Peter/MJ relationship (that being together doesn't add any new story options).
It's really out there, but it'd be a hell of a read.[/spoiler:dd6fed0628]
I pretty much had the same theory. A lot of people do. It'd be surprising if they didn't go that way.
Holy shit, that was cool.
So...who makes your costumes?
[spoiler:7b29412758] I agree with the female clone theory because as near as I can tell she has brown hair, like Peter, and not red or blonde like MJ and Gwen. As for the other clones plans for MJ, I just read it has the clone being insane and keeping MJ safe in a cage where he always knows where she'll be. [/spoiler:7b29412758]
The first Annual is one of my favorite comics ever.
"Oh good...The army is here...for me to save."
While I agree with the female peter (as the cloned embryo could "easily" be fertilized with an X chromosone to make it female), the hair would not be a dead give away. That could easily be Gwen as she could end up with brown hair instead of blonde if she was cloned.
*Ehem* And I add my vote to the "Female clone of Peter" camp.
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Pete: "I talked to MJ."
Kitty: "OMG my life is over!"
Oh, and color me intrigued by "a bunch of us."