thee great one said:
Ummmmm. I wonder if this is still going to happen?
What I think would be a good ongoing title would be a relaunch of Ultimate Team Up but not one that was tied to Spiderman. I keep thinking as I go back and occasionally buy those issues that keeping Spiderman in them was not only unnecessary, but tended to actually detract from the stories from time to time. For example, as good as the Daredevil, Punisher, Spiderman arc was, Spiderman really had nothing to do with it and should not have been included.
I think that this kind of title would be a good way to focus in on those characters - like Ultimate Deadpool - that are favorites but not popular enough to warrent their own series.
The trick to this kind of title, however, is who does the writing. Since - as I envision it - it would be an ongoing series of mini's having the same writer and artist working on it might be difficult, but to pass that duty off to often could quickly reduce the quality of the book...as was seen in the original run. Of course, the bonus part is, if such a comic was done, that focus more on the second stringers, issues of continuity (something that can be very concerning for us comic fans) can be avoided by simply leaving out characters from the other series...i.e. no Spiderman, no X-Men, no FF, no Ultimates.
I could even see this kind of a series having fan participation by having a yearly poll on the Marvel website asking for visitors fav picks. Have a list of every hero Marvel has ever had (minus the ongoings, of course), round up the top 5-10 chosen, hand the assignments to a writer who could then base an arc of so many issues on them.
As I look over what I have just written I realize that this idea is a fairly good, well laid out concept that would, therefore, never be used by Marvel, rejected instead for choices that made no sense to anyone outside their offices, with writing and art so flat and drab one is left wondering what freshmen creative writing and basic art 101 classes are missing students...
But I digress... :wink:
). They'd have been commanded by Dugan (Remember him?) and sent on ops that the US couldn't have an official presence in. The X-Force name was more of a joke by the programs heads on the X-Men. The first arc, wich would have been very self contained as I planned all this out as a mini, would have had the team sent into the UK to plifer files on the brittish super soilder program, then having to take down Elektro after he attemps to escape at the ops end.
