- Joined
- Jan 16, 2019
You're right, except the Ultimate line was garbage. It was basically them cannibalizing their old, good stories, except as re-imagined by a 3edgy5u 11-year-old. With SEX! and GORE! and BLACKJACK! (OK, forget the blackjack.) However good the idea may have been, these companies absolutely refuse to leave their comfort zone when it comes to the stories they'll tell, especially when it's so easy to crib off Stan Lee and Chris Claremont instead of actually writing something new. (Though part of the trouble is that the mythos is part of so many of the titles- are the X-Men still the X-Men if they don't really have any of the same stories as the X-Men we all know and love? Marvel doesn't think so.)
Also, let's not forget that it was the Ultimate universe where Mr.Fantastic became a villain, mostly because Sue Storm told him to fuck off and that she didn't wanna marry him.