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Post by moocow on Aug 2, 2011 18:37:29 GMT -5
Miles Morales, a half black, half hispanic teenager is taking over for the late Peter Parker. Marvel released this to the press earlier, a day before issue 4 of Ultimate Fallout comes out which would have revealed that he is the new Spider-Man. So what does everyone think about this? I'm actually really excited for it, I'm glad it's a new character and not someone like Johnny Storm or Flash Thompson, and I'm really looking forward to how he interacts with the characters and why he takes over this role.
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Post by purpleisaaw on Aug 3, 2011 2:48:47 GMT -5
I really really hate this decision. I have read just about every spiderman comic to date and i love the ultimate universe. I think it really freshened up spidey and made his villians alot more fun/exiting. But this is so unneccesary, why do they need to replace Peter? Why this kid? I wouldnt mind a few stories about this kid trying his hand at being a superhero and trying to make up for the gap spidermans "death" left but a full on replacement is just dumb. Peter Parker is spiderman and always will be
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 3, 2011 7:16:12 GMT -5
I really really hate this decision. I have read just about every spiderman comic to date and i love the ultimate universe. I think it really freshened up spidey and made his villians alot more fun/exiting. But this is so unneccesary, why do they need to replace Peter? Why this kid? I wouldnt mind a few stories about this kid trying his hand at being a superhero and trying to make up for the gap spidermans "death" left but a full on replacement is just dumb. Peter Parker is spiderman and always will beYep! Couldn't agree more. I hate the new Spiderman.
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Post by T R W on Aug 3, 2011 9:10:23 GMT -5
I don't really care, because I mostly ignore the beta testing of comics known as the Ultimate Universe, but does he have Spider-Man's powers? How did he get them?
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Post by chumped on Aug 3, 2011 10:43:47 GMT -5
I really really hate this decision. I have read just about every spiderman comic to date and i love the ultimate universe. I think it really freshened up spidey and made his villians alot more fun/exiting. But this is so unneccesary, why do they need to replace Peter? Why this kid? I wouldnt mind a few stories about this kid trying his hand at being a superhero and trying to make up for the gap spidermans "death" left but a full on replacement is just dumb. Peter Parker is spiderman and always will beYep! Couldn't agree more. I hate the new Spiderman. You hate the new Spider-Man and you haven't read a single issue with him in it?
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Post by BCizzle on Aug 3, 2011 13:10:13 GMT -5
I used to love Ultimate Spider-Man, but when those books went to $3.99 I was out of there!
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Aug 3, 2011 15:42:40 GMT -5
I don't really care, because I mostly ignore the beta testing of comics known as the Ultimate Universe, but does he have Spider-Man's powers? How did he get them? This is my question as well. I was sick recently and spent 4 days straight on the couch poring over Ultimate Spiderman. I kind of got hooked. Not gonna lie.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 3, 2011 15:55:27 GMT -5
Yep! Couldn't agree more. I hate the new Spiderman. You hate the new Spider-Man and you haven't read a single issue with him in it? Yep
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Post by moocow on Aug 3, 2011 16:15:53 GMT -5
You hate the new Spider-Man and you haven't read a single issue with him in it? Yep
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 3, 2011 20:47:03 GMT -5
Well, sorry. I'm just not a fan of that sort of thing. I don't want anyone else to be Spiderman as much as I wouldn't want any one else other than Bruce Wayne to be Batman. I guess I'm a stubborn traditionalist when it comes to the identities of my favorite superheroes.
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Post by alwayssunny on Aug 4, 2011 0:21:19 GMT -5
Well, sorry. I'm just not a fan of that sort of thing. I don't want anyone else to be Spiderman as much as I wouldn't want any one else other than Bruce Wayne to be Batman. I guess I'm a stubborn traditionalist when it comes to the identities of my favorite superheroes. Honestly, you cant say anything, after seeing a couple of your post, your new to comics so you cant say anything, there has been hundreds of character changes. HELL Robin has changed and mostly all of the readers enjoyed it. So wait until his debut issue, you've only see a panel of him so chill. And you said you dont want anyone else being Batman, and he currently isnt Bruce Wayne in fact he is Thomas Wayne, if you didnt know Mr. Fanboy.
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Post by purpleisaaw on Aug 4, 2011 3:46:19 GMT -5
I just disagree with the decision, Peter Parker is Spiderman and now spiderman is dead. I would honestly welcome another person/super-person to fill the void that spidermans death left but why is he replacing spiderman? Marvel could have made a new amazing charchter without screwing with the Peter Parker/Spiderman mythos. I wish Marvel just tried to create something rather than simply replace something.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 4, 2011 7:16:19 GMT -5
Well, sorry. I'm just not a fan of that sort of thing. I don't want anyone else to be Spiderman as much as I wouldn't want any one else other than Bruce Wayne to be Batman. I guess I'm a stubborn traditionalist when it comes to the identities of my favorite superheroes. Honestly, you cant say anything, after seeing a couple of your post, your new to comics so you cant say anything, there has been hundreds of character changes. HELL Robin has changed and mostly all of the readers enjoyed it. So wait until his debut issue, you've only see a panel of him so chill. And you said you dont want anyone else being Batman, and he currently isnt Bruce Wayne in fact he is Thomas Wayne, if you didnt know Mr. Fanboy. And you can't say anything either because you're a possible bad trader. See, I can throw things in your face too. And FYI, I'm not new to comics, I'm fairly new to Post Crisis DCU but not Pre Crisis DCU. And I used to love Marvel when I was a kid but was turned off by this whole Ultimates stuff.
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Post by threehgame on Aug 4, 2011 9:33:58 GMT -5
I checked out of the Ultimate Universe right before Ultimatum, and its stuff like this that makes me glad I did. Ben Reilly 2.0 isn't for me.
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Post by T R W on Aug 4, 2011 9:52:21 GMT -5
I checked out of the Ultimate Universe after about the first year.
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Post by chumped on Aug 4, 2011 10:57:13 GMT -5
Well, sorry. I'm just not a fan of that sort of thing. I don't want anyone else to be Spiderman as much as I wouldn't want any one else other than Bruce Wayne to be Batman. I guess I'm a stubborn traditionalist when it comes to the identities of my favorite superheroes. Honestly, you cant say anything, after seeing a couple of your post, your new to comics so you cant say anything, there has been hundreds of character changes. HELL Robin has changed and mostly all of the readers enjoyed it. So wait until his debut issue, you've only see a panel of him so chill. And you said you dont want anyone else being Batman, and he currently isnt Bruce Wayne in fact he is Thomas Wayne, if you didnt know Mr. Fanboy. He's only Thomas Wayne in Flashpoint. Bruce is Batman along with Dick.
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Post by K5 on Aug 4, 2011 15:50:15 GMT -5
i'm completely okay with this, however it doesn't overtly invoke my interest by any means.
this is a classic direction of ultimates: a younger audience still craving a more mature read than the marvel kids lines, who want new elements and content they can relate to. this sums up the ultimates concept almost in itself, to take the marvel universe as it was, but to have consequence. for change to truly occur in the ultimate universe, at near the same rate change occurs in life. from a storytelling point, it makes great sense to have peter die, as almost the key word in the ultimates concept is 'freshness'.
once again though, i won't be particularly interested in reading this. but who cares? it's not aimed for me, let others enjoy it and i think it was a wise move on their part.
it's not like the peter parker of ultimate comics was exactly the same guy from the classic marvel spiderman anyways, by ANY means.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Aug 4, 2011 19:05:03 GMT -5
And FYI, I'm not new to comics, I'm fairly new to Post Crisis DCU but not Pre Crisis DCU. And I used to love Marvel when I was a kid but was turned off by this whole Ultimates stuff. I don't understand that. Marvel didn't touch it's regular universe did it? It just launched a parallel universe.
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Post by threehgame on Aug 5, 2011 0:56:04 GMT -5
And FYI, I'm not new to comics, I'm fairly new to Post Crisis DCU but not Pre Crisis DCU. And I used to love Marvel when I was a kid but was turned off by this whole Ultimates stuff. I don't understand that. Marvel didn't touch it's regular universe did it? It just launched a parallel universe. The Ultimate Universe was created as a parallel universe for new fans to be able to get into a book free of 30 years of continuity (and thanks to the mid to late 90's much of which was a mess) and for old fans to see the characters in a fresh light. Then the creators pissed on it by trying to throw curve balls at the readers and slowly it became a jumble of reader grabbing half-baked story lines and plot holes. In comes Ultimatum to kill off many characters to simplify things (and to allow a full re-boot at some point). Now Marvel is testing out ideas that failed in the mid-90's to see if they will float in the Ultimateverse since they flopped in the Original universe.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 5, 2011 22:53:35 GMT -5
And FYI, I'm not new to comics, I'm fairly new to Post Crisis DCU but not Pre Crisis DCU. And I used to love Marvel when I was a kid but was turned off by this whole Ultimates stuff. I don't understand that. Marvel didn't touch it's regular universe did it? It just launched a parallel universe. IDK, I can't remember. I just remember the Ultimate stuff coming out, me not liking it which led to me giving DC a chance and then making the switch.
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