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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man/Miles Morales Discussion (SPOILERS)
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That's why we all band together. The last bastion of sanity.
It was brilliantly terrible.
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I liked the Death of Spider-Man arc, the Clone Saga arc wasn't anything to write home about, though. I'm not entirely sure why Zombi references the Clone Saga arc in regards to the DoSM arc, though.
Or maybe he's doing that thing where he acts more pretentious than pregnant celebrities posing nude for black and white photographs. I don't know.
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Really? I'll admit it dropped in quality, but I don't think it was ever THAT bad.
Then again, Once I get invested in a series, I find it really hard to give up on it.
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I thought I was an Ultimate Universe completist too until most of the comics went to **** at the same time.
I genuinely believe that the only time USM has ever been outright BAD was War of the Symbiotes. It's had plenty of mediocre stuff - including the Clone Saga, which not only built itself up only to fizzle out big time BUT ALSO had themes that had been tackled much better in prior arcs - but I dunno, it's always been at least readable. AND it's had lots of highs, especially after Bendis got his second wind (and third, with the Miles stuff).
But I'm like you Cap - once I get invested in the characters, it tends to take a lot to sour me. In fact, I'm generally willing to forgive weak stories so long as the characters are good, so it's entirely possible that I don't consider many of the arcs bad exclusively because I like the people populating them.
But I'm like you Cap - once I get invested in the characters, it tends to take a lot to sour me. In fact, I'm generally willing to forgive weak stories so long as the characters are good, so it's entirely possible that I don't consider many of the arcs bad exclusively because I like the people populating them.
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You just JFK'd me.
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Just call me Oswald.
Just got caught up with this. I feel mostly how I've felt about everything Miles since Uncle Aaron's death: it's well-written and contains very pertinent questions regarding his status as a legacy character, but I think it could do with cutting a few more of the connections to Peter's world. Especially Norman Osborne. His story is done.
This confrontation with Peter is also thematically cool stuff (though my Ultimate Pete wasn't such a jerk
). I thought the "CLONE!" stuff was funny and I really want it to be one. Fingers crossed. My only issue is that this'll ultimately just give Miles more of a complex about being Spider-man and Peter's legacy character when I thought we resolved that, though maybe this is the perfect time for this, I dunno.
The Kate stuff is neat, though maybe needed a bit more buildup, since we barely know the girl. Maybe that'll end up being the point in the end, though, like he decides that he doesn't actually know her well enough to reveal his identity or he does and it backfires. Hoping for the first, honestly, though I dunno how he'd back out of it considering how issue 2 ends.
All in all, I guess what I want from this title after this story is more street-level stuff centered more on Miles and his world.
This confrontation with Peter is also thematically cool stuff (though my Ultimate Pete wasn't such a jerk
). I thought the "CLONE!" stuff was funny and I really want it to be one. Fingers crossed. My only issue is that this'll ultimately just give Miles more of a complex about being Spider-man and Peter's legacy character when I thought we resolved that, though maybe this is the perfect time for this, I dunno.The Kate stuff is neat, though maybe needed a bit more buildup, since we barely know the girl. Maybe that'll end up being the point in the end, though, like he decides that he doesn't actually know her well enough to reveal his identity or he does and it backfires. Hoping for the first, honestly, though I dunno how he'd back out of it considering how issue 2 ends.
All in all, I guess what I want from this title after this story is more street-level stuff centered more on Miles and his world.
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Yeah, the Miles Morales - USM ongoing is the only reliably decent Ultimate title. I enjoy it quite a bit.
This… And believe me, I really want to like this new Ultimates that's out but, this back alley fighting people way under their weight class stuff… just seems lame.
Also, I just read so many pages of this Miles thread… i forgot how much I loved talking about stuff in here with y'all! I'm gonna do better with showing up here to talk about comics and such now hopefully (even though yes, I'm still typing "ultimate central" into the address bar to find the site LoL)
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Synch! Glad to see you posting again.
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Another of the crazy costumes in police station panel!
Cool nod to Hickman's 8 Months story coming up.
Also as expected, people are thinking it's a tease of the UU's fate.
Cool nod to Hickman's 8 Months story coming up.
Also as expected, people are thinking it's a tease of the UU's fate.
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I'd be interested about Maybe-Peter too, if there was any chance it was actually Peter.
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I'm actually reasonably convinced that it is him after the last issue. Norman proved he can't be killed, Peter remembers his past. Seems legit to me. But more to the point, if they really are going to stop publishing the Ultimate line, and they want to bring Miles into the 616, it would be a nice to have Peter and his crew have a happy ending.
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Yeah, after the last issue I agree. Of course, Peter and Norman essentially being impossible to kill strips a lot of tension from the book, since, well, they can't die.
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It could be him. But we still don't know what that item, that Uncle Aaron stole is. And I think that and how it's connected to all this, will be reviled within the next two issues.
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And, I'm sure, who Miles' father is will be important.
Yeeeeah, the fact that it's actually Peter has made me...well, not DROP the book, but certainly move to "other means" of acquisition. Peter coming back to life, the slowly-dwindling members of the Miles-original supporting cast, and the book's refusal to use any new villains is resulting in a book that is far short of its potential, albeit one that is still very readable.
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What did Peter and MJ mean by "she bought it" after Peter talks to Aunt May and the two of them leave together. That was weird.
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MJ clearly knows something is amiss. I wouldn't be surprised if she's in on it.
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meaning what? That he's not actually Peter after all?
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Possibly. There's still that clone and with SHIELD collapsed who knows where that ended up.
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