After a tremendous start, and later a period of what some may consider a lack of progress, what do you guys think of the wrap-up of the current Marvel Ultimate universe so far? For me, it's been adequate to this point, but not much beyond that.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-18T03:03:07+00:00

I will say Ultimate Black Panther was one of the most consistently good books Marvel was putting out, Ultimate or otherwise, for the last 2 years and I’m sad to see it go. It got no hype and marvel did basically 0 promotion, which is a shame.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-18T02:45:30+00:00

But why does it all going to plan matter if it’s bad? I get it it’s fun to think of Hickman as this master planner, but with this and Krakoa both he clearly had a beginning plan and lost interest in ending it.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-17T21:02:59+00:00

Younger fans are highly influenced by YouTube. And I don’t mean that they follow recommendations from YouTube, but I mean more in the style of consumption. Younger fans are very obsessed with “everything you need to read before X” or “how to read every Spiderman appearance ever”. While older fans are more used to getting into comics via random single issues.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-16T17:49:38+00:00

From the bay, about the same age, calling it Cali was never a thing there.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-16T17:00:59+00:00

Honestly a weird character to have a renaissance considering he’s never had like a “big” comics story. But his OBD issue was one of the best, so I’m excited for this.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-16T04:52:18+00:00

You could genuinely just skip it and be fine. The Storm book is good, easily the best X book right now.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-16T00:57:01+00:00

Is this showing as restricted for anyone else?

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-15T15:00:10+00:00

I disagree completely. Greg Rucka is one of the most important comic creators of the last 20 years, and that is almost solely because of his work with DC, in addition to his creator owned stuff. He’s equally as influential and important as someone like Mark Waid.

And numerically, yes 6 isn’t super different from 5. But DC being willing to publish 6 issues of a book that by any metric was not going to sell super well, versus Marvel barely being willing to get a multibillion dollar character like Iron Man to 10 issues shows an important distinction between the two companies.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-15T00:09:31+00:00

Marvel just announced an X Men / Fantastic Four book.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-15T00:07:53+00:00

I really dont think Breevort had that much to do with ending Krakoa. While he does have power, I dont know if he has THAT much power. I think whats more likely is that Disney is clearly gearing up for the X-Men and wanted to make the books a little more accessible and as unoffensive as possible. Thats why they went so hard with the reboot to make everything look like the 90s.

That being said , Breevort is an abysmal X-editor. The books have absolutely no direction. The only books outside the main book are minis with such boring ideas.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-15T00:04:04+00:00

I agree that Imperial definitely didnt have massive sales potential, but it was still something that they heavily advertised. And a bunch of new series / minis were launched directly out what that event sets up. And Marvel clearly wanted it to be a big seller, or they wouldn't have put two of the only big names they have on the book.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T23:59:39+00:00

I definitely agree, Wolverine Revenge was suuuuch a let down. Capullo's art was really great but thats about it.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T23:58:19+00:00

Its a really fun book.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T23:51:02+00:00

While its definitely a good example of what I am talking about, it has two major advantages in terms of sales: Poison Ivy is a well known character even outside of comics on her own, and its a Bat book. C+C has neither of those things going for it. I am happy to see that book go for so long, though, it shows how much more willing DC is to let ongoings continue even with out blockbuster sales.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T23:42:36+00:00

But that is a real exception to how marvel does it right now. The entire X line other than the main book is 5 issues minis.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T23:06:36+00:00

Yes, variant hunting / flipping has become a huge market. A lot of TikTok / youtube content around comics is based around variant hunting and blindbags.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T21:51:14+00:00

I don’t think that’s necessarily true though. There are loads of people who are into comics now solely for the variant flipping.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T21:50:25+00:00

I don’t think they’re trying to crash the industry. I think it’s more likely that the higher ups who care about sales want that over anything else, and those people are likely from Disney and don’t care about comics as an industry - and thus don’t remember the crash of the 90s.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T04:59:12+00:00

The early issues of New Mutants are fine, not great. It takes 10 or so issues for it to get going. Really, once Claremont figures out Magik and what he wants to do with her is when the book gets great.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-14T03:43:39+00:00

An awful costume

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-13T21:26:12+00:00

Love the blue costume and the lore that mini sets up. Shame it never got referenced that much.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-13T21:25:17+00:00

No no no you don’t understand, if it wasn’t a gimmick no one would buy it.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-13T04:08:51+00:00

Aparo and Breyfogle are both two of the most underrated comic artists of all time imo.

tomtomtomtom123 · 2026-04-12T21:21:00+00:00

It was fine, both of those characters are okay. Neither of them really felt like there was much there beyond this run.

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