{"id":51272,"date":"2015-05-26T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T04:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-marvel-ultimate-universe.html"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T04:50:56","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-marvel-ultimate-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-marvel-ultimate-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of the Marvel Ultimate Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a number aesthetic points I disagree with in the article, but overall a decent history of the creation, rise, and apparently inevitable fall of the Ultimate Universe at Marvel.<\/p>\n

I'll confess I was never a huge UU fan — I read most of the Ultimates, and some Ultimate Thor, and some FF, but never got into the Spider-Man \/ X-Men stuff. I appreciated some of the innovations, disliked others, and overall wasn't so unsatisfied with the mainstream Marvel Universe that I wanted to add a bunch of additional comics to my pull list. Especially since, over time, a lot of the innovations of the UU got pulled over into the primary MU.<\/p>\n

I have some trepidation over the "Secret Wars" event, which feels like the sort of reboot effort DC keeps going through and which the UU allowed Marvel to avoid. But we'll see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe Secret History of Ultimate Marvel, the Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever<\/a><\/span>
\nThis article originally appeared in Vulture. A reboot is a delicate thing. When a once-profitable franchise of characters becomes stale, outdated, or overly complex, there will always be voices calling for the slate to be wiped clean: to take the characters back to their basics, retell their origin stories, make them contemporary. But…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There are a number aesthetic points I disagree with in the article, but overall a decent history of the creation, rise, and apparently inevitable fall of the Ultimate Universe at Marvel. 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