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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book?  Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:01 pm |
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:50 pm |
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Lurv da Ultimates.
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Jamie McCrimmon
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:00 pm |
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MY VISION IS IMPAIRED! I CANNOT SEE!
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Ultimates. USM is a lot of fun, but it's covering ground which has been covered better elsewhere. The Ultimates is hardly unique or devastatingly original either, of course, but it handles that sort of material better than I've seen it done anywhere else. I even prefer it to Ellis' Authority, from which it nicked many of its best ideas.
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Eric W.H. Taft
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:04 pm |
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Ultimate FF is the line's fourth ongoing title. For most of its run it has been better than Ultimate X-men.
Choosing between USM and Ultimates is hard because I consider them two different things. Ultimates is a finite story with a beginning, middle and end. USM is an ongoing. Sort of look at them with a different set of standards.
I like both a lot.
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Jamie McCrimmon
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:07 pm |
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MY VISION IS IMPAIRED! I CANNOT SEE!
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Eric W.H. Taft wrote: Choosing between USM and Ultimates is hard because I consider them two different things. Ultimates is a finite story with a beginning, middle and end. USM is an ongoing. Sort of look at them with a different set of standards.
I like both a lot. I agree with this. However, with a few exceptions I tend to much prefer self-contained stories to ongoing comics. So, that's another reason Ultimates has the edge, for me.
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Frank L. Sisko
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:59 pm |
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Emissary to the Prophets
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Spidey's the only one I've stuck with since the beginning.
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Jeff
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:34 pm |
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The Modfather; Wizard of WAN
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Stephane Garrelie
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:13 am |
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Ultimate Spider-Man. That's where i first saw Bendis and i thought he was to become one of my favorite writers. I wanted him on the mainstream books. I was wrong.
So wrong.
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Mr Smith
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:39 am |
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Weeeeeee!
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Ultimates for me.
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Stephane Garrelie
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:40 am |
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Ultimate Impaler 
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Mr Smith
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:51 pm |
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Weeeeeee!
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I don't think it could get any more grim and gritty! 
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Ross
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:35 pm |
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Not in Continuity
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Spidey. Hate the personalities on the Ultimates.
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Linda
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:38 am |
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Helpful Librarian
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Bump for our newer members.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:41 am |
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I gotta go with Ultimates. Spidey was good and X-Men had its moments, but Ultimates for the win.
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Monk
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:43 am |
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Jamie McCrimmon wrote: Ultimates. USM is a lot of fun, but it's covering ground which has been covered better elsewhere. The Ultimates is hardly unique or devastatingly original either, of course, but it handles that sort of material better than I've seen it done anywhere else. I even prefer it to Ellis' Authority, from which it nicked many of its best ideas. This is exactly the opposite of what I was just going to post. Voted for Ultimate Spider-Man as I think it's pretty stellar throughout, while over time I've come to feel that The Ultimates is just the Avengers smooshed with the Authority, but not as good (though I do like Millar's take on Cap and Thor).
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Monk
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:44 am |
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Bubbles
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:49 am |
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Or we just missed this thread first time around. One or the other.
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Kid Nemo
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:00 am |
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Hen Teaser
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Ultimate Spider-Man (and the Ultimate line in general) is a mixed bag;for each thing I like,there's something I don't like.
Ultimate X-Men started out well,then became just a standard issue X-book.
Someone said The Ultimates should've been titled The Unlikables.What a bunch of pricks.Great art,though.
Ultimate FF was dull at first,then got good when Mike Carey got on.
Nice idea behind the line;take the flagship characters,update 'em,scrape off the rust,but you have to wonder why Marvel couldn't just do that with the regular titles.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:19 am |
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Yes most of the Ultimates were not particularly likable, but that was part of their charm.
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Monk
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:20 am |
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Simon
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Post subject: Best Ultimate Book? Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:23 am |
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