When I started reading Ultimate X-Men, the only X-Men I knew about were those from the 80s, originally read when they came out with a several-year-gap in Germany, reread in the Essential Tradebacks.
Tomorrow People REALLY bothered me, for it contradicted everything I knew about the X-Men, but after that, it got better. I kind of got used to it.
I actually began to love Ultimate X-Men.
Recently, I began to inform myself on 616 X-Men, and a sudden realization sank into my consciousness:
The Ultimate X-Men are far from original. When I first read about Iceman being on the team, it thrilled me, for I thought he'd been a character totally neglected since the first days. Then I found out, Iceman had been an X-Men again for quite a while in 616. The same with the Phoenix-Force. I'd been waiting for "Ultimate Dark Phoenix Saga" sinde Hellfire & Brimstone. Then I realized that Jean had the Pkoenix Force at her fingertips for years in 616.
The more I read about regular Marvel continuity, the less original Ultimate X-Men seems to get. When they brought in Emma Frost as well at the end of New Mutants, it was too much for me. I want either original Ideas, or concepts from the distant past of the X-Men re-explored. Coming closer and closer to the 616 X-Men is the least thing I want.
What do you think?
Tomorrow People REALLY bothered me, for it contradicted everything I knew about the X-Men, but after that, it got better. I kind of got used to it.
I actually began to love Ultimate X-Men.
Recently, I began to inform myself on 616 X-Men, and a sudden realization sank into my consciousness:
The Ultimate X-Men are far from original. When I first read about Iceman being on the team, it thrilled me, for I thought he'd been a character totally neglected since the first days. Then I found out, Iceman had been an X-Men again for quite a while in 616. The same with the Phoenix-Force. I'd been waiting for "Ultimate Dark Phoenix Saga" sinde Hellfire & Brimstone. Then I realized that Jean had the Pkoenix Force at her fingertips for years in 616.
The more I read about regular Marvel continuity, the less original Ultimate X-Men seems to get. When they brought in Emma Frost as well at the end of New Mutants, it was too much for me. I want either original Ideas, or concepts from the distant past of the X-Men re-explored. Coming closer and closer to the 616 X-Men is the least thing I want.
What do you think?
