David Blue
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I buy only trade paperbacks. I buy all Ultimate Fantastic Four trades as soon as I see them, because that's what I love, and I buy Galactus too because that's a Fantastic Four villian.
My best friend loves The Ultimates and Ultimate Iron Man. I gave the first a chance, liked it, and now buy it, but at a much lower priority than Ultimate Fantastic Four. I don't buy Ultimate Iron Man because I haven't seen a trade to buy. I don't read it, because I intend to buy one trade to see if I like it, and I don't want to get spoiled.
For the rest:
Ultimate Spider-Man was an old series before I even heard of the Ultimate line. It looks OK but is not of great interest to me. The cost to have a complete collection of this semi-interesting, semi-attractive character would be high.
Ultimate X-Men again is an old series, too far advanced to get on board with cheaply, and from what I see of the characters I don't like them.
Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is based on Frank Miller versions of the characters I don't like. That is, I liked them when Frank Miller did them, but they don't extend beyond those stories.
The characters are too few and too inward-looking. Daredevil has sexual tension with Elektra, a character I find morally unworthy and boring. There is very little that Elektra can do except repeat the same sex tease and chop-socky poses over and over, because her spirit is not generous enough, she is not noble enough ever really to be more than that - and she's so much in the red at the bank of karma it doesn't matter anyway. There is Bullseye who amounts to even less, and I disliked the movie version of the character and the Ultimate version has no appeal at all to me. There are a few other people wandering around, but they amount to nothing. If they did, they would show up how little that version of Daredevil amounts to. It's a barren world, and it has so little potential ever to grow. So I would have no interest in that even if it was up and running as a series again.
(shrug) These are my impressions anyway.
My best friend loves The Ultimates and Ultimate Iron Man. I gave the first a chance, liked it, and now buy it, but at a much lower priority than Ultimate Fantastic Four. I don't buy Ultimate Iron Man because I haven't seen a trade to buy. I don't read it, because I intend to buy one trade to see if I like it, and I don't want to get spoiled.
For the rest:
Ultimate Spider-Man was an old series before I even heard of the Ultimate line. It looks OK but is not of great interest to me. The cost to have a complete collection of this semi-interesting, semi-attractive character would be high.
Ultimate X-Men again is an old series, too far advanced to get on board with cheaply, and from what I see of the characters I don't like them.
Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is based on Frank Miller versions of the characters I don't like. That is, I liked them when Frank Miller did them, but they don't extend beyond those stories.
The characters are too few and too inward-looking. Daredevil has sexual tension with Elektra, a character I find morally unworthy and boring. There is very little that Elektra can do except repeat the same sex tease and chop-socky poses over and over, because her spirit is not generous enough, she is not noble enough ever really to be more than that - and she's so much in the red at the bank of karma it doesn't matter anyway. There is Bullseye who amounts to even less, and I disliked the movie version of the character and the Ultimate version has no appeal at all to me. There are a few other people wandering around, but they amount to nothing. If they did, they would show up how little that version of Daredevil amounts to. It's a barren world, and it has so little potential ever to grow. So I would have no interest in that even if it was up and running as a series again.
(shrug) These are my impressions anyway.
