Dr.Strangefate
He Sees You When You're Sleeping. He Knows When Yo
While all my Ultimate Comics are sleeping in boxes in Milwaukee, I decided to pick up the first two "Ultimate Collections" of Millar's run on UXM... And *******, does it piss me off... I don't mean to say that the comic itself angers me... It just reminds me of all the potential this series really pissed away.
Those few issues where its mostly them talking about Xavier's Dream, from when he talked to the brainwiped Magneto, to Kitty joining the school... They really had me caught... I think the Hellfire storyline was a bit much, but aside from that one instance, virtually everything in this series screamed for the potential for something truly great...
And it went on to prove that Ultimate X-Men has lost its central idea, the thing that gave the book real momentum... Basically, they were making the world a better place, a more advanced thinking society... They were living the various stages of Charles Xavier's plan...
Bendis was the first one to start to **** it up, by cluttering up the book with too many new characters too quickly. Vaughan did a good clean-up job, and did the only work on the book that matched the original Millar material... But then came Kirkman and now Coleite... Before those last two, even the most unnecessary stuff worked, it could have been pushed aside or made stronger, but for the most part it worked fine. It's amazing to think of how much has been destroyed just in the last 32 issues... Depressing, actually. I have no idea how i would fix this book if i had the chance...
I honestly think that if Millar had for some reason decided to write this book in longevity, We'd be closer to that goal now. Trials and tribulations would have prevented themselves... But we would have seen moments like Magneto finally coming round to teach at the Xavier Institute (yes, even after Return of the King and Ultimate War and ALL of that)... Real progress, real story development...
And now... The potential isn't even there anymore. All the bull**** that they've piled on that title the last few years, even when the bull**** wasn't necessarily poorly written (I think the Cable stuff was interesting enough, and well-written, but still bull****), its just erased hundreds of directions this series could have been taken.
Now we've got Ultimatum, and 616 Magneto sitting in 616 Asteroid M, ready to destroy the world... Not to make it a better place. Just because he's grumpy.
It's bull****. It's horrible.
I can't believe they destroyed the Ultimate Universe. It really was special... It really captured the hearts of these characters and brought them into the present like nothing ever before. They started a new movement of comics, and participated in what I still consider to be probably the best period of comic books in my lifetime (2000-2004 or 05)...
I can't believe its really gone... Wanting to write Ultimate X-Men made me want to become a writer.
God, what a waste.
Those few issues where its mostly them talking about Xavier's Dream, from when he talked to the brainwiped Magneto, to Kitty joining the school... They really had me caught... I think the Hellfire storyline was a bit much, but aside from that one instance, virtually everything in this series screamed for the potential for something truly great...
And it went on to prove that Ultimate X-Men has lost its central idea, the thing that gave the book real momentum... Basically, they were making the world a better place, a more advanced thinking society... They were living the various stages of Charles Xavier's plan...
Bendis was the first one to start to **** it up, by cluttering up the book with too many new characters too quickly. Vaughan did a good clean-up job, and did the only work on the book that matched the original Millar material... But then came Kirkman and now Coleite... Before those last two, even the most unnecessary stuff worked, it could have been pushed aside or made stronger, but for the most part it worked fine. It's amazing to think of how much has been destroyed just in the last 32 issues... Depressing, actually. I have no idea how i would fix this book if i had the chance...
I honestly think that if Millar had for some reason decided to write this book in longevity, We'd be closer to that goal now. Trials and tribulations would have prevented themselves... But we would have seen moments like Magneto finally coming round to teach at the Xavier Institute (yes, even after Return of the King and Ultimate War and ALL of that)... Real progress, real story development...
And now... The potential isn't even there anymore. All the bull**** that they've piled on that title the last few years, even when the bull**** wasn't necessarily poorly written (I think the Cable stuff was interesting enough, and well-written, but still bull****), its just erased hundreds of directions this series could have been taken.
Now we've got Ultimatum, and 616 Magneto sitting in 616 Asteroid M, ready to destroy the world... Not to make it a better place. Just because he's grumpy.
It's bull****. It's horrible.
I can't believe they destroyed the Ultimate Universe. It really was special... It really captured the hearts of these characters and brought them into the present like nothing ever before. They started a new movement of comics, and participated in what I still consider to be probably the best period of comic books in my lifetime (2000-2004 or 05)...
I can't believe its really gone... Wanting to write Ultimate X-Men made me want to become a writer.
God, what a waste.