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<blockquote data-quote="GiantInThePlayground" data-source="post: 751576" data-attributes="member: 8416"><p>All I can say is that I never owned or read a single issue of any Spider-Man book until Ultimate Spider-Man, and I only tried that because Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Alias) is a comic writing god. But I like it and I don't have to worry about buying all these old trade paperbacks and compilations and wading through thousands of pages of B&W "Essential Spider-Man" reprints to find out the history. So the Ultimate idea worked enough to get me to read a character that I had never read before, which I think was its point. BTW, I never read Avengers either, but I get Ultimates every month (well, every month that it comes out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> ). Primarily because I hate coming in halfway through a story, and with books that stretch back to the 60's, I will ALWAYS be halfway in the middle of one story or another.</p><p></p><p>As a comic fan who didn't start reading until I was in my 20's, I don't have the attachment to the old stories others might. Hopefully you can see that while Ultimatizing might be not be the best solution for long-time fans, it is a good idea for attracting new ones. And if comic book companies don't attract new and younger fans, they will likely die off in the next generation or two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GiantInThePlayground, post: 751576, member: 8416"] All I can say is that I never owned or read a single issue of any Spider-Man book until Ultimate Spider-Man, and I only tried that because Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Alias) is a comic writing god. But I like it and I don't have to worry about buying all these old trade paperbacks and compilations and wading through thousands of pages of B&W "Essential Spider-Man" reprints to find out the history. So the Ultimate idea worked enough to get me to read a character that I had never read before, which I think was its point. BTW, I never read Avengers either, but I get Ultimates every month (well, every month that it comes out :mad: ). Primarily because I hate coming in halfway through a story, and with books that stretch back to the 60's, I will ALWAYS be halfway in the middle of one story or another. As a comic fan who didn't start reading until I was in my 20's, I don't have the attachment to the old stories others might. Hopefully you can see that while Ultimatizing might be not be the best solution for long-time fans, it is a good idea for attracting new ones. And if comic book companies don't attract new and younger fans, they will likely die off in the next generation or two. [/QUOTE]
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