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I really love how we'll be getting an Ultimate comic every week and, because of Ultimate Fallout and having a closer knit continuity, each issue feels like a new chapter of one big story.
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Spurite Based posted:I really love how we'll be getting an Ultimate comic every week and, because of Ultimate Fallout and having a closer knit continuity, each issue feels like a new chapter of one big story. Gotta agree. I think that this relaunch has been the best and most consistent one this year 
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Sep 30, 2011 13:44
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Deadpool posted:Yes! Very much this. Before what I normally did was buy the singles, then wait until a few arcs were done and sell them on ebay then put that money toward a TPB. I do this with most comics because I just don't like having singles around. The digital thing is going to end up costing me more because I won't be able to sell anything back to get the trades, but it so makes up for it in convenience, time, and space saving. I love digital comics and love that Marvel is pushing the Ultimate books out same day. I'll say it again, though, this only works if Marvel stops favoring certain platforms over others. I still can't read any of my Marvel digital comics on my devices because of ... well, no idea why, they just don't support it for some reason. DC, on the other hand, does. To keep this on topic, though, I did get USM #1 digitally and read it on the web just to read it (I was out of state when it released, no access to my pull list comics) and it was okay.
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Sep 30, 2011 15:05
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Couldn't get my hands on the first issue of the new Ultimate Spider-Man (sold out everywhere), but I bought the second issue yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised. Have all the new Ultimate Comics series given good first impressions? Also, whats the download size for digital comics?
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Sep 30, 2011 15:11
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SpaceMost posted:Couldn't get my hands on the first issue of the new Ultimate Spider-Man (sold out everywhere), but I bought the second issue yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised. I don't know how it works on the portable devices, but on your PC, digital comics are read through your browser; you don't download them.
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Sep 30, 2011 16:30
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Evil Sagan posted:I don't know how it works on the portable devices, but on your PC, digital comics are read through your browser; you don't download them. On portable devices you have to do file management, choose which you want to download and which you don't. You can redownload, though, so it's not a big deal to just nuke the stuff you've already read. Also, there is a digital comics thread, sorry I kept the discussion going here.
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Sep 30, 2011 16:39
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SpaceMost posted:Couldn't get my hands on the first issue of the new Ultimate Spider-Man (sold out everywhere), but I bought the second issue yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised. Marvel comics come out to around 10-20MB when I download them onto my iPad. As for first impressions Ultimates #1 really grabbed me and didn't let go. I've never read a Hickman comic before but after reading Ultimates I'm tempted to go and check out his FF run. X-Men was a bit of a slow starter and mostly seemed to be going over stuff Fallout covered but still, it interested me enough that I'm not going to drop it any time soon. Spiderman on the other hand has some wonderful art but it's just so boring, hoping it picks up soon otherwise I'm just not going to bother with it. What is the overall opinion like for Hawkeye? Is it worth picking up?
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Sep 30, 2011 16:41
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tinkaaberu posted:Marvel comics come out to around 10-20MB when I download them onto my iPad. Hawkeye is very much worth picking up. Already ties into Ultimates and seems like it's going to tie into X-Men as well. And it's only 4 issues, so you really don't have much to lose if for some crazy reason you don't like it. But you will, because it's by Hickman and he never disappoints.
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Sep 30, 2011 19:15
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Hawkeye was pretty good. Doesn't seem particularly inspired, though, and there's a world of difference between what I've read compared to the Ultimates. God, the Ultimates #2 was loving great.
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rugbert posted:Its not, its just the Ultimate version of The World from 616 X-Men Hickman says it's actually Carey's Children of the Vault. 
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Oct 2, 2011 16:50
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I did a re-read of Ultimate Spider-Man before the relaunch and its kind of weird how little fallout there was at the Kingpin getting murdered. Also how anticlimactic it was considering how important the character was to the series for so long.
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Oct 2, 2011 18:41
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muscles like this? posted:I did a re-read of Ultimate Spider-Man before the relaunch and its kind of weird how little fallout there was at the Kingpin getting murdered. Also how anticlimactic it was considering how important the character was to the series for so long. I like how little it matters that Kitty Pryde is a loving murderer.
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Oct 2, 2011 20:34
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The whole post-ultimatum period of ultimate Spiderman feels like a weird mess of loose ends. Like Peter was supposed to die then but someone at the top said "oops, not just yet. Lets stall for time for a few months."
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Oct 2, 2011 20:53
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invalid user posted:I like how little it matters that Kitty Pryde is a loving murderer. When did this happen?
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Oct 2, 2011 21:25
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notthegoatseguy posted:When did this happen? Wasn't it her that picked up and tossed Kingpin out the window?
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Oct 2, 2011 21:30
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invalid user posted:Wasn't it her that picked up and tossed Kingpin out the window? If by Kitty you mean Mysterio then yes.
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Oct 2, 2011 21:33
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Yeah, not sure how you got Kitty out of that.
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Oct 2, 2011 21:49
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I remember red and super strength. Eh, oh well.
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Oct 2, 2011 22:05
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invalid user posted:I remember red and super strength. Eh, oh well. Again, not sure how you got Kitty out of that.
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Oct 2, 2011 23:31
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Sion posted:Again, not sure how you got Kitty out of that. Isn't her new costume essentially the Red Hood? Don't tell me it's brown, I'll cry.
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Oct 2, 2011 23:41
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invalid user posted:Isn't her new costume essentially the Red Hood? Don't tell me it's brown, I'll cry. Her costume is red, but Mysterio's isn't. And she doesn't have super strength. She can only change the density of herself. She also doesn't have laser hands, which is how Kingpin was killed.
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Oct 2, 2011 23:51
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Deadpool posted:Her costume is red, but Mysterio's isn't. And she doesn't have super strength. She can only change the density of herself. She also doesn't have laser hands, which is how Kingpin was killed. It's been a long time since I read the issue, my memory is obviously wrong but I remember her picking him up and tossing him out the window. The only excuse I can give is that I don't remember well because none of it meant much to me *shrug*.
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Oct 3, 2011 00:05
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Look, can we all just agree that invalid user is always wrong and move on? :P
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Oct 3, 2011 00:45
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Sion posted:Look, can we all just agree that invalid user is always wrong and move on? :P I always said you were a great poster. Looks like I was wrong!
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Oct 3, 2011 00:57
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Sion posted:Look, can we all just agree that invalid user is always wrong and move on? :P
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Oct 3, 2011 01:33
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so with the conclusion of Ultimate Fallout: Death of Spider-Man does that mean we will never hear from Mary Jane, Aunt May and Gwen ever again? That's too bad since it seemed like a really rushed way to sweep them all out of the series, also Fury dropping the bomb that he knew Pete's father and had watched him grow up and was grooming and blah blah blah useless fluff that means little now that Peter's DEAD
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Oct 3, 2011 04:56
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Aces High posted:so with the conclusion of Ultimate Fallout: Death of Spider-Man does that mean we will never hear from Mary Jane, Aunt May and Gwen ever again? That's too bad since it seemed like a really rushed way to sweep them all out of the series, also Fury dropping the bomb that he knew Pete's father and had watched him grow up and was grooming and blah blah blah useless fluff that means little now that Peter's DEAD Aunt May is supposed to be in the new Spider-Man in some capacity.
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Oct 3, 2011 05:02
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I am almost positive they will return in a mentor role.
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Oct 3, 2011 06:45
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SpaceMost posted:Couldn't get my hands on the first issue of the new Ultimate Spider-Man (sold out everywhere), but I bought the second issue yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised. Sold out everywhere? wow. My LCS had tonnes of them on the shelves. I got both USM and UXM #1's and I'm keeping them sealed. Not that they'll really ever be worth much.
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Oct 3, 2011 07:21
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I'm positive one of the old cast will give miles petes old webshooters.
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Oct 3, 2011 11:50
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Three Red Lights posted:I'm positive one of the old cast will give miles petes old webshooters. And then Miles' family will be killed by a robber, and Aunt May will adopt him...
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Sleepless Dreamer posted:And then Miles' family will be killed by a robber, and Aunt May will adopt him... Apologies if this has already been posted.  http://www.letsbefriendsagain.com/2011/09/28/when-you-know-whats-coming/ Edit: I really dig Miles's uncle's hat. I don't know why, but I want one.
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Oct 3, 2011 16:44
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Three Red Lights posted:I'm positive one of the old cast will give miles petes old webshooters. If memory serves, wasn't he already web-swinging in Ultimate Fallout? I'm guessing he's got organic shooters. I have a really terrible memory though so I am probably dead wrong
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Oct 3, 2011 16:54
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USM begins before Peter died I think.
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TwoPair posted:If memory serves, wasn't he already web-swinging in Ultimate Fallout? I'm guessing he's got organic shooters. 
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Oct 3, 2011 17:04
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:USM begins before Peter died I think. It does. It says as much at the start. The spider escapes 11 months ago.
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Oct 3, 2011 23:22
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Actually that reminds me, if Miles is 13 at the moment, that means he'll be 14 when Peter dies, possibly almost 15. That's only a few months from when Peter started.
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Mister Roboto posted:Actually that reminds me, if Miles is 13 at the moment, that means he'll be 14 when Peter dies, possibly almost 15. Miles is going into middle school/junior high. I believe the implication is that he'll be thirteen when the story rejoins the current Ultimate timeline.
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Oct 4, 2011 01:25
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I've justs recently started reading Ultimate Xmen, and I'm at around volume five or six. So far it really just feels like the writers are just making a bunch of cameos from the regular universe show up and then leave without causing anything too long-lasting to happen (the Hellfire Club/Pheonix event feeling notably offensive in its unimportance). Does this start to change at all?
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KillerQueen posted:I've justs recently started reading Ultimate Xmen, and I'm at around volume five or six. So far it really just feels like the writers are just making a bunch of cameos from the regular universe show up and then leave without causing anything too long-lasting to happen (the Hellfire Club/Pheonix event feeling notably offensive in its unimportance). Does this start to change at all? Millar's run(1-12, 15-33, and the Ultimate War mini) is largely considered the best and pretty much tells a complete story. Bendis' run kind of focuses on some Wolverine sub-plots that were hinted at some point or another, but doesn't do anything too earth shattering. Brian K Vaughn (46-65) is okay and resolves the Gambit stuff, but kind of sucks. Kirkman and everyone after that is pretty much what you describe: who can we Ultimize this month. So I'd say stop reading after you get through Vaughn's issues. The quality trends down pretty quickly with Kirkman. Starts out okay, but takes a huge nose dive as Loeb's Ultimatum gets closer and closer.
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