As for Marvel Zombies and Squadron Supreme books being included on the timeline, its because they're considered alternate universes to the Ultimate universe. Hence the italics. I consider them as separate realities to the Ultimate universe, obviously, but still part of the same multi-verse. And since a fair portion of Ultimate Fantastic Four arcs take place in alternate realities of the Ultimate universe, logic dictates (at least to me) that if I were to include those, I also had to include the Marvel Zombies stories (especially, since they tie directly into the UFF arcs by Millar) and Squadron Supreme/Supreme Power books (which Ultimate Power has now tied to the Ultimate-verse--however terrible the story has been thus far, and how much of a continuity mess its made). Simple as that.
I'm still on the fence about the upcoming Black Panther issues, which apparently cross into the Zombie-verse, but I'm hoping against hope that there's some indicator of it not being the same zombie-verse from UFF. Maybe its the 616's own version, where the Zombie Wolverine that showed up in Exiles came from (and that one wasn't the same as the Wolverine from Marvel Zombies, due to the Exiles version not having the power cosmic).
Thats my hope. As I said, everything marked with a "*" is tentatively placed, and could be moved, broken up by page number, or even removed entirely from the timeline if its established it doesn't fit into Ultimate continuity.
Either way, it's implied she left the team while Xavier is still "alive," which would mean she somehow joins it again prior to his "death." I don't wnat to speak for DIrishB (too much), but I think he's just waiting for some sort of confirmation before juggling things around in a way that would seem frankly impossible to do.
Pretty much. Just when I thought Bendis and Kirkman might have worked out in tandem Kitty and Peter's break-up situation, and their respective stories, we get the newest issue of USM which throws it all to hell again.
*sigh*
Anyway, I'm waiting to see what further info we get from both titles on the status of both (their relationship in UXM, Kitty's membership on the team in both titles, etc) before making any more changes.
Currently, I'm just assuming Kitty didn't want to talk about Xavier's death for some reason with Peter, and by some amazing stroke of luck he hadn't heard about it on the news.
Of course, the newest issue of UXM showed Xavier's still alive, so its entirely possible that sometime very soon Xavier comes back to the present and re-forms the X-Men, and Kitty rejoins the team...only to leave again and start going to the same school Peter Parker does...?
I'm not sure which choice Occam's Razor favors in this situation. Both are far-fetched, and I'm obviously over-thinking this whole continuity thing...but **** it, its what I do.
